The router signal is received at the client antenna.My question is simple, I want to know if the client and router signal meet at the shortest distance between the two or does the Wifi signal meets wherever its transmitted and strongest ? I have attached an illustration, is it model A or model B?
The router signal is received at the client antenna.
The client signal is received at the router antenna.
The signals usually travel through material like walls.
(The signals do not meet... they may cross/pass each other, but not meet.)
OE
I see...while I don't understand radio waves it seem like coverage would be much wider if the signals could talk where they meet the strongest. Of course, I don't assume I know more than radio scientist world wide and they have thought of this already but the technology for this method does not exist.@L&LD It does NOT depend. A signal must reach a receiver's antenna or it is not seen by the STA. Effective signal power can be affected by the things you cite. But a transmitted signal must be detected AT the receiver.
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of course it exists - known as radio (rf) repeaters and are used for many slices of the DC to daylight (slang) frequency spectrum... simplex, half-duplex and full duplex modals apply as well as gov (in the u.s., fcc) licensing of course... your wireless router 'toy' is licensed... rf is point to point until a repeater is applied with the earliest natural repeater being our ionosphere... there's no conditional meeting in the middle...<snip>...I don't assume I know more than radio scientist world wide and they have thought of this already but the technology for this method does not exist.
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