placement of 3 cards on a PC box

[Jim Thompson]

It will work as long as your antennas are low-gain (toward each other).

You'll still have some degradation of range though.


On Apr 22, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Christopher Dobbs wrote:

>  Having done this before, If you use external antani and locate the 
> antani about 3ft from eachother, it works most of the time.
>
>  My config was:
>  3 x 100mW PCMCIA PRISM2.5 Cards (on Channels 1,4,10 each at 2mbit)
>  HostAP v0.0.1
>  Costom AP Server Program
>
>  Contact me off list for more information.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Dobbs
> Eracew Computer Services
> http://www.eracew.net/
>
>  Brad Langhorst wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:59, 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?
>
> i think you should use 3 external antennae for such a setup
> (or at least 2...) but have never tried it.
>
> brad
>
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