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Dj_Scott

Aspirant

Jan 28, 2017

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Splitting WND930 antennas between indoor and outdoor.

Hi!

Question.

I have a bunch of 30X30 sound stages (a metal hangar).

Need to provide internet inside and outside.

Solid connection to up to 20-50 clients.

I want to mount WND930 inside the hangar using it's internal antennas to provide Wi-Fi inside.

And exted external antennas to outside and use these to provide Wi-Fi outside.

Does this make any sense? I'm truing to save an extra acsess point for to locations.

Can I split 2 external antennas 2,5 GHz and 5 GHz inside and 2 outside. Will this work?

Wat's it's outside range in countryside? 2 antennas 4 antennas?

Thank you!

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Dj_Scott
Feb 13, 2017
Sorry. I can not acsept it as a solution. Beacause nether thre solution notr the explanation why in is "impossible" was provided. And even if it was - you where wrong in the first place. As for the acseptable solution - I went ahead and bought WND930 and tested the seperate antenna placement.
And guess what - it worked. Antennas seperated in to two zones work perfectly!

BTW the final call was to switch the intire operation to Cisco. Just so you know.

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DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 30, 2017
Hi Dj_Scott,

Welcome to the community! :)

The internal and external antennas of the WND930 cannot be used at the same time. The possible setup that I can suggest are the following:

a. 2.4GHz / 5GHz Point-to-Point Wireless Bridging using internal antennas - This requires 2 WND930 and this will give approximately a 1 mile / 0.75 mile wireless range (2.4GHz / 5GHz respectively). Of course, the 2 WND930 should be within line-of-sight to each other. Kindly read pages 37-39 of the WND930 reference manual here on how to set up Point-to-Point Wireless Bridge.

b. 2.4GHz / 5GHz Standalone access point using external antennas - Since its standalone, it just requires 1 WND930 and this will give approximately 1500 feet / 1000 feet (2.4GHz / 5GHz respectively) wireless range. Kindly read pages 24-25 of the WND930 reference manual here on how to connect external antennas and select the external antenna option via the web-GUI of the WND930.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team
- Dj_Scott
  Aspirant
  Jan 30, 2017
  The question was "can I seperate 2 antennas to one zone (inside) and 2 antennas to the other (outside)
  - DaneA
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jan 31, 2017
    Dj_Scott,
    
    I believe the set-up that you want is not possible.
    
    Regards,
    
    DaneA
    
    NETGEAR Community Team
Dj_Scott
Aspirant
Jan 31, 2017
Looking at this router specs I see only 2 bands it operates on.
What's these antennas actually are?

2 antennas 2,4 GHz
2 antennas 5 GHz

If I seperate the antennas like this:
One 2,4 GHz and one 5 GHz antennas inside and
one 2,4 GHz and one 5 GHz antennas outside.

It should wirk. From what I know Wi-Fi tranivers are duplex. So there is no TX-RX destinguished antennas.