Yeah... you'll lose 4db on the AP's RX side, but in some cases the the CPE TX power can be increased to compensate, so actual performance should be pretty much the same.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:54 PM Daniel White <dwh...@atheral.com> wrote: > You also assuming the CPE is in the main lobe (and that lobe shape isn't > different between the sectors). > > Antenna Gain > TX Power Gain. Not only because it is bi-directional but > there are plenty of benefits to increasing antenna gain and not TX power. > > But as Adam said... a dB is a dB > > [image: photograph] > Daniel White > Co-Founder & Managing Director of Operations > phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 > direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 > Adam Moffett wrote on 6/12/20 11:22: > > A db is a db, but an antenna works in both directions and tx power only > works in the tx direction. > > So they'll perform the same in one direction only. > > > On 6/12/2020 1:20 PM, Josh wrote: > > If you have two ptmp antennas with the same sector width and same model ap > attached to them, and one antenna is 4 db less gain then the other. If > additional 4db of transmit power is applied to the lower gain antenna, > would the two sectors perform roughly the same? Is one db of radio transmit > power truly equivalent 1 db of antenna gain, or is there more to it? > > > > Josh Heide > Operations Manager > 209-838-1221 | velociter.net > j...@velociter.net > 1525 2nd Street, Escalon, CA 95320 > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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