Why so secrative on the mixer type?
So you are trying to say this AP violates the laws of physics. You placed it under the stage and not only can it transmit through all these obstructions it also has a perfectly symmetric return path the covers the parking lot?
There is no radio that violates line of site. You have to get the antenna up above the crowd so the MW level signals are not absorbed by the audience. If the antenna is built into the A/P then that goes up on the pole that can be strapped to truss, sent up on a small mic or light stand. You get the idea.
Yeah, sorry, that post was way over-thought and is a topic that is probably meaningless at this point to most folks.
It's a Soundcraft UI16, not a Presonus one, on Presonus' forums
This unit on its own has very weak WiFi. At the ranges I'm testing the TP-Link router to, the mixer's own wifi is long gone. It's good that it has its own wifi for diagnosing issues (mostly in how it handles networking), but it's not very useful beyond that. Those are my only complaints about this unit...
The TP-Link unit goes further than the bluetooth connection on 5ghz, which is a band more easily absorbed by walls, so the range is good, but not physics breaking. The 2.4Ghz of course goes much further, but part of the point of using the TP-Link was for the 5Ghz band. Mainly, I needed more stable hardware and software. I'd say the range is similar if not slightly better than the Cisco AP which is on the ceiling of my office where I was testing this.
The one with the giant antennas and overpowered radios (
not intended for the US market) sent wifi across the parking lot. Was this unit even legal to operate? It actually might not have been. If it was dual band I might not have even bothered with replacing it. My theory is that it's higher power than normal (what it's sold/marketed as) and has a very high input gain, along with the high gain antennas. Strangely, it dropped more if I was closer to it... Perhaps being close to it overloaded the front end? Pure speculation on that, just from experience with SDR based walkie-talkies being desensitized to the point of being nonfunctional by having the transmitter too close. I can't say that's a problem I've had with wireless routers before...
I do realize that "parking lot" is a more impressive term than it should be, it conjures thoughts of acres of pavement, when the reality is I'm talking about an additional ~150-200 feet outside of the walls of the building. I apologize for being misleading.. This is a good deal further than the Cisco AP on the ceiling reaches.
I was writing and it hit me that attaching an AP to the back/top of a speaker is a way better idea in every regard and I don't know why I didn't think of it before.
It was probably stated already and I just missed it, but everything I read has been about putting the AP on its own stand, which I wanted to avoid. I can paint an AP matte black and no one would see it on the back or top of a black speaker cabinet, and the speaker being on a stand would put the AP up high.
Part of my problem is I do need this to be somewhat discrete, hence shoving it under the stage, but if the speaker needs to be out there anyway, why not have the AP on top of it?
I think the next part in this is having it so my "LAN" port on the patch bay has a power injector behind it so I can run an ethernet cord parallel to a speaker line and have the AP on the back of the speaker.
