In Reply to: Mesh Network Routers - Lack of Antennas ?............... posted by Cut-Throat on July 21, 2018 at 15:31:45:
presumably you are talking about 802.11s? not that it matters.
I think the idea with mesh is to rely less on reception from massive coverage area of a single routers output and make up for it with more nodes of smaller coverage footprints.
In general, as frequency goes up, antenna length can go down. It is the physics of shorter wavelengths...it takes a shorter length of dipole to have a significant portion of a standing wave at a higher frequency. I'm guessing most of the consumer grade router antennas are quarter wave, but that isn't required. Quarter wave gets used alot since it radiates very well and gets pretty good range bang for the buck if you can put up with the things sticking up. You could go shorter and expect less coverage if you planned to fill in the gaps with more repeating nodes as in a mesh.
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