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Question about linksys wrt54g antenna ports.

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cross6

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Can they be used at the same time? I know with dd-wrt I can specify one, the other, or both.


What I want to do is cover a narrow, but LONG hall. What I was thinking was if I could hook a directional panel antenna to each jack and put them back to back. Would that work?

Or does the wrt54g only pick the antenna with the best reception and use that?


 
If using any kind of directional antenna you really only use a single antenna.

If you put these patch antennas back to back, aiming in different directions you will most likely get very poor results.

Diversity antennas (using both ports) are meant to cover the same area only. This is to overcome multipath distortion, where the signal bounces off of different objects - the radio can then use math via the two received signals to get a better approximation of the original.

In otherwords, just do it right and use a single patch antenna.
 
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