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no Repeater mode? RAX49 routers (house-to-house wifi)
I'm a lucky man. Got two houses on a street located 500 feet apart. Been shooting a Wi-Fi beam from house #1 downhill to house #2 for many years now; just bought TWO Nighthawks to "upgrade" my system...
as I stated in initial posting, I have been sending wifi house-to-house successfully for years. Now that being said, I am "helping" a bit with low-loss, minimal-length cables connected to high-DBI-gain external, directional antennae aimed directly between point A & B. I've even experimented with 4 watt and 5 watt amplifiers.
However the new RAX 49 is sending a decent signal down the hill, with NO amplification devices added. It helps that there is not a single tree or shrub in the way of line-of-sight connectivity.
As I want to have Ethernet connected devices AND Wifi signal in house #2 it seems that Bridge is not an option.
oops typo. 4 watt and 8 watt amplifiers. not 5 watt.