[Olsr-users] G1 / Linksys WRT demo

[marc fawzi]

> <<
> Remember: Wi-Fi is two-ways. So if you are "high" power on the sender, so
> must be the clients.
>
>>

What I'm not clear about is if the signal from the phone could be made more
detectable to te WRT if the WRT is preceded by a 2-way signal booster (i.e.
a "booster" for outgoing signal and an "amplifier" for incoming signal).
Unless I'm missing something, this should extend the distance the phone can
be from the given WRT without having to boost/amplify the outgoing/incoming
signal on the phone itself.  This maybe more easily accomplished by using a
passive extender antenna but inserting an active amplifier/booster between
the WRT and a passive extender antenna should extend the range even further,
no? I guess what I want to know is if having an active wifi signal
amplifier/booster between the WRT and a passive extender antenna would
extend the distance the phone can be from the WRT more than using a passive
extender antenna alone? I've never done this before, so the question is not
rhetorical and I could be missing something.

<<

> But - in general it makes *much* more sense to have whispering / quiet
> senders but very good and directional antennas. It makes more sense for
> Wi-Fi to have lots of quiet devices distributed all over the neighborhood.
>
> >>

This makes sense. So scratch the tower strategy.

We would just use lots of WRTs distributed throughout the neighborhood with
passive extender antennae -- and possibly active 2-way signal
amplifier/booster per each, if the latter can actually work...? (same
question from above)
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