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Originally Posted by Lyndon  If you omni is 30 feet above the ground maybe your signal is above you. Remember that high gain antennas focus the signal into a more narrow plane and your omni is sending the signal out as a horizontal pancake shape. Have you tried it further away with line of sight? Try the antenna at ground level with just the pigtail. We have a 15dbi omni and it can connect with a laptop with internal wifi at 1km. Hope this helps  |
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Lyndon:
I connected this 15dbi antenna directly to the pigtail. The pigtail uses LMR200 1.5feet cable with quality N connector and RP-SMA.
I kept the antenna on desk such that the tip of antenna got support from wall to stand vertical [I assume this was wrong way however], still same signal quality.
Noticed one thing, the signal is stronger when I move my laptop closer to AP or pigtail. Much stronger than I move it cloes to 15dbi omni.
Replaced the pigtail, same result.
Has it something to do with antenna diversity? I hacked this DWL-2100AP and noticed one PCB antenna (my guess, horizontally polarized) and another one is this external antenna. A diversity switch is located, too, just before the traces of these antennas.
However, there is no option offered by dlink to switch between antenna.
Also, some claim that this antenna is not meant for DWL-2100AP. Unless otherwise, I claim it to be utter bull. Because, this antenna is supported by DWL-2000AP as per antenna specs, and their is NO difference between 2000 and 2100 except that 2100 is it's sucessor.