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Topic: New antennas for WRT160NL

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I have one working WRT160NL with 10.03.1-RC4 with the original 2db antennas. I have some antennas here, 9db and 16db. They fit, but when I changes out the antennas on the router with these pairs the network quality drops dramaticly. I quess there is some settings I have to change. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

You have to know high dbi antennas has small spread angle but large signal radius while low dbi antenna has large angle spread and small signal radius.
Try angling the antenna to correct the signal.

(Last edited by alphasparc on 18 Sep 2011, 16:20)

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