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WAX610
I have 5 access points in my house and they work OK but they do not provide much coverage outside. It may be because this house is brick/masonry construction. For instance my Ring door bell barely registers and my Tesla in the drive cannot connect.
I would like to purchase a compatible device to extend the range outdoors. I have a glass conservatory in front of the house that would allow me to connect it indoors if there is some kind of antenna or something to project coverage.
I am in the EU (Netherlands). Thanks for any guidance.
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The possible coverage is set by the standards, especially the max allowed TX power. No "magic" possible.
Thank you for your kind help!
Do you know if there is any device I can buy from Netgear that will be compatible with the WAX610 access points and can provide a more powerful signal?
I think the coverage may be limited because my units are all indoors and I have a masonry house. I do have a glass structure for plants with an access point in it.
So the easiest install for me would be one that has a signal that can penetrate through glass. A second option would be an outdoor unit.
There seems to be a misunderstandings how wireless connecitons - no matter if we talk of Wi Fi, or if we talk of mobile "phone" and device networks.
As I mentoned before, a modern Wi-Fi AP does use about 95..99% of the allowed transmission power, on 2.4 GHz, on 5 GHz, and where available on 6 GHz, or even 60 GHz band. Very different, especially battery powered devices like mo
There are transmiters on both sides of the connection, not just on the wireless access point - being the mobile phone (on all industry standard technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, ... even on on wired connecitons like xDSL on copper pairs, on any kind of power line communication, even on fiber links.
A modern mobile phone base station is in a range of about 50....250 W or more, while a mobile phone is in the 100 mW to peak 1 W.
The ability to establish a two way communication does not only depend on the high power of the base station, there is much more.
Glas can be very tricky. For some resons train operators are laser "stitching" train windows, to allow mobile network communication passing to and from the train inside.
-Kurt.
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