Richard, The Cisco 1200 802.11a Radio comes with its own captured antenna. You cannot use a 2.4ghz antenna with a 5 ghz radio. [ye cannot change the laws of physics!] They operate on different wavelengths. You need to use 5ghz antennas with um. Now, part of the 802.11a specification is that you're limited [forced] to use the antenna that comes with the radio. It's pretty neat how it works, you plug the card into the front of the unit and if you have the antenna pointing at a 90 degree angle (the AP is mounted on the ceiling or tabletop) it performs as an omni-directional antenna. If you fold the antenna down flat (AP mounted on the wall), it turns itself into a directional patch antenna. Take a look at the images I've attached. That should help 'splain it. Any further questions, don't hesitate to axe. Joel -----Original Message----- From: Richard T Nechanicky [mailto:v0key at yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:01 AM To: joel at helgeson.com Subject: RE: [TCWUG] Cisco AP1200 Joel, Thanks for the response...I am not sure what the point was of that guy proving he could hijack yahoo mail... Anyhow, I just got the 1200 a couple days ago and like it a lot...it has quite a bit more juice (100mW) versus the 30mW my ap340 kicks out. Regardless, I do have a question for you since you are obviously in the know with Cisco...with regards to adding the 802.11a radio down the road (I wonder how much $$ it will be), can we integrate a 5GHZ antenna with a 2.4GHZ on the same unit? For example make one of the radios (802.11a) your primary and use the right antenna connector and then the left will be dedicated to 802.11b...am I looking at this correctly or am I truly missing the boat...? Thanks for your time, Rich --- "Joel R. Helgeson" <joel at helgeson.com> wrote: > To answer your question, there isn't one available > yet. It's still in > development/testing. It should be released by Cisco > by the end of this > year. > > Joel > > -----Original Message----- > From: tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org > [mailto:tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org] On > Behalf Of Richard T Nechanicky > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:30 PM > To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org > Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Cisco AP1200 > > Anyone know how or where to purchase the 802.11a > radio > for this unit? > > THX... > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 11a-Card.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 8023 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020712/f2b2ff6f/11a-Card.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 1200AP.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 10300 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020712/f2b2ff6f/1200AP.jpg
