Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:35:54 -0500, Michael Coslo

No one in their right mind is going to be running that much power -
being line of sight, at those frequencies, there isn't any point.

Most of the Wi-Fi installations are setup to go through walls where
power is helpful. Not exactly line of sight. Some of the outdoor

But. The alligator syndrome gets nailed every time here, although with
some dB recovered due to better receive front ends. But still doesn't
overcome the 30 to 100mW coupled to negative gain antennas on the link
back to the AP.

The semi-exception that I know of, as of about 2 years ago when my
ex-employer ISP that did (somewhat successfully) muni wifi, was testing
and eventually installed, Go Networks APs. They were the only ones at
the time that could use 20W ERP because they were phased array antenna
APs. And they mapped the vector vs MAC address so it knew the best
antenna angle to your PC.

tom
K0TAR