placement of 3 cards on a PC box

[Jim Thompson]

40dB of loss in the first meter.

You don't even have a meter.

Don't bother.

On Apr 20, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Mustafa C. Kuscu wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>       I would like to have 3 802.11b cards on my hostap box. I don't
>    know about the interference issues with the 802.11b PCMCIA cards
>    with internal antennae, especially if the cards are placed very
>    close to each other. For instance, consider the figure below where
>    an empty slot separates each neighbor. Would the interference be
>    so bad, because of the small separation between the cards (and their
>    orientations with respect to each other), even if the cards operate 
> on
>    channels 1,6,11? What other physical configurations do you 
> recommend?
> 	Thanks -- Mustafa
>
>
> (best viewed with courier font)
>                           +----------------+
>                           |linux box (rear)|
>                           |    __          |
>                           |  ,'  `-.       |
>                           |.'       \      |
>                           ||        |      |
>                           | `.    ,'       |
>                           |   `--'         |
>                           |                |
>     802.11 card (pcmcia)  | +--XXXXXXXX-+  |
>                           | +--........-+  |  empty slot
>     802.11 card (pcmcia)  | +--XXXXXXXX-+  |
>                           | +--........-+  |  empty slot
>     802.11 card (pcmcia)  | +--XXXXXXXX-+  |
>                           | +--........-+  |
>                           | +--........-+  |
>                           |                |
>                           +----------------+
>
>
>
>
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