I have a question on the diversity mode use in the AP, using version 1.0.0, as we tried an experiment which failed for some reason. One thought was the diversity mode and having two different sources coming into the one AP at the same time. We should of had about a -60dBm signal strength from the mountain top

The setup was as follows:

AP #1 was on a mountain about 3 miles away from AP #2 with a 16dBi antenna and xmit level +19dBm

AP #2 top of a building, 24dBi antenna on one port and 2dBi antenna horiz on second port and xmit level +19dBm

AP #3 was 50' behind AP #2, (2) 2dBi antennas horizontal and xmit level was +10dBm.

We used AP #3 to monitor AP #2 looking at mountain top AP #1. A couple of times we seen AP #1 connect and then go away. In reading the article from Cisco on diversity antennas and how the diversity mode worked and from the example of the golf course it says that what we were seeing was our AP #3 taking control over AP #2 and could not see AP #1.

Link to article http://www.hotarc.org/hsmm-mesh/articles/multipath_and_diversity_mode.pdf

I cannot claim to be an antenna guru, but from reading the book "Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking", (p272); Diversity can interfere with reception when the antennas are not matching. Success sending, but failure receiving, is not unexpected. Two solutions suggested in the book include: 1. hacking the hardware to eliminate Diversity, or 2. turning off Diversity using nvram commands. The latter is recommended, because it is reversible.

I am still trying to determine how to access the router to send the nvram commands after setup, as the standard SSH port seems unavailable under version 1.0.0.  Anybody have any success?

All ports to talk TO the node are doubled.
HTTP= 8080
SSH=2222

This is from back when NAT mode was default, if you wanted to have a server BEHIND the node, you would want to port-forward 80/22/etc, so we use the doubled ports IN the node.

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