[kismac] Re: USB 802.11 adapters

  • From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:03:25 +0100

At 3:15 PM -0800 2004/01/30, David Reid wrote:

 I'm planning to do AMC->MMCX+MMCX->N-Type pigtail so i don't have the
 N-Type connector hanging out of the case when i'm not using the external
 antenna.

You'll probably lose something like 2-3 dB per connector interface. That would make the external antenna pretty useless, unless it got way more than 6-9 dB of gain.

You really, really want to minimize the cable run length, as well as the number of connectors involved. Trust me.

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