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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 ha...
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.
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
The question was "can I seperate 2 antennas to one zone (inside) and 2 antennas to the other (outside)
There is no option in the web-GUI of the WND930 where you could specify any of the 4 external antennas to be in one zone (either inside zone or outside zone). The best option is to place the WND930 with external antennas to a place where its in the middle of the indoor and outdoor premises. Then, create a wireless network for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Yes. There is mo place to specify it not in GUE nor over SSH.
But if I dont need those 2 networks separated, and they can share SSID, channel whatever?
What I say it - theoretically nothing stops it wrom working. I'll split the power obviously. But that's a fair traidoff.
I can not put it in the middle. As I mentioned earlier it's a sound stage. A metal hangar with an exelent grounding on every side.
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