XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: rmblayrrroy@nlnet.nl   
      
   Rod Speed  actually wrote:   
      
   > Nar, its pretty decent, very little is visible on apple devices, still   
   > only a total of maybe 6 visible on the most sensitive androids.   
      
   See this picture I just snapped for you in my basement.   
   https://s26.postimg.org/hwz0upjwp/accesspoint.jpg   
      
   It's doing almost exactly what you want to do.   
      
   The only difference is that it's not my main router (I have three routers   
   spread throughout the house so this router is an old Linksys WRT54G acting   
   as a wired repeater).   
      
   But other than the fact it's not my main router, what I have set up in that   
   picture is EXACTLY what you plan on doing. Notice I have both a 2.4GHZ   
   access point (the smaller nanobeam) and a 5GHz access point (the larger   
   Rocketdish) connected to the router, where you'll only have one 2.4 GHz   
   access point.   
      
   You might ask WHY I plopped all those radios down there, and the reason is   
   very simple and has all to do with Android versus Apple devices.   
      
   There are multiple walls downstairs, and with the Linksys WRT54G router,   
   the Android devices never had a problem but the iOS devices (mostly iPads   
   and one iPhone 6) just couldn't get any decent signal back to the router.   
      
   So I popped in those two dishes, and from then on, the iDevices were plenty   
   happy. I never bothered installing them because they're really not an   
   inside solution, so I just propped them up pointing in the same direction   
   so the people in the far room (separated by a thick concrete wall) would   
   have not only the Android devices working (which were fine with the Linksys   
   WRT54G router 2.4GHz access point), but also those crappy iDevices which   
   now are plenty happy with an 18dBi and 30dBi antenna beaming signal at them   
   and receiving their puny signal.   
      
   It's a mixmash. But it's EXACTLY what you want to do.   
      
   The only difference is I'm going 50 feet through thick concrete walls to   
   the Android and iDevices, and you're going 150 feet through the outside air   
   to those Android and iDevices.   
      
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