superdog
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| Re: 2.4gHz WLAN Segment through a bit of foliage? said by slipstream1  :I would not fool with the Linksys stuff. Go buy 2 of the $96.00 High Gain Antennas sub $100 CPE's and use that stuff. You may even try one of his units with a integrated panel antenna. I would also try and use 45 degree polarity instead of vertical or horizontal, as some say it seems to work a little better thru trees?. I think I would be more worried about issues from the lake then the trees?, as water can create some pretty crazy multipathing issues, especially when the lake is choppy, as each one of those little waves creates a surface to reflect RF, causing not only Your intended signal, but a bunch of reflected ones also. To give You a simple example of this, have You ever noticed when driving in Your car and You stop at the red light, Your FM radio starts acting up?, and then after You move forward a foot or two, it starts to come in clear again> This happens because the intended signal and a reflected one hit the antenna or radio at the same time, causing them to cancel each other out, and when You move forward, You move out of the reflected signal, and the radio starts to come in clear again.
Newer radios use this chaos to their advantage(OFDM), but OFDM is only available in 802.11G and 802.11A radios, and 802.11b radios just puke and die because their receivers can not handle the mess. 
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