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Nighthawk XR700: Antenna Upgrades and Replacements
Hello, friends! So I am a professional engineering scientist, but I do electronics repairs in my free time to pick up cash here and there, and sometimes even pick up sweet equipment people just give ...
domiluci wrote:With any other router, this would be an easy blow-and-go fix; you'd just give whoever a link to a compatible RP-SMA dual-band antenna and they could replace it themselves.
These designs require long RF cables in the box (attenuation), an RP-SMA connector (adding even more attenuation). While the loss can be overcome on the transmission path by putting up more power, the loss does weaken the receiver signal quality.
domiluci wrote:Plus they'd likely add some signal gain in the process with a higher gain aftermarket antenna set.
This is the key reason why vendors are going away from removable RP-SMA antennas: Regulations do not allow this, because these devices are already operating very near to the allowed emitted power.