On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:36:36 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > note thats 5 miles in open space. > > you said the router is in the middle of the house, what all is between > it and your 'BBQ' ? The Negear N600 router is in the middle of the house, and it's only about 18 dBi and, I think, about 5 dBm for about 23 dB in toto. (I haven't looked up the spec in a while though.) The NanoBridge M2 is pointed *at* the house, and has to go through two walls to get to the router, but, it has an 18 dBi antenna coupled to a 23 dBm transmitter with a sensitivity in the -90 dBm range. Assuming the numbers are close to correct (I do realize the manufacturers lie about this stuff), that's 23 dB versus 41 dB, which is a whoppingly huge difference of 18 dB. Since every 3 dB is a doubling of the signal strength, that's 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 64 times the signal strength of the Netgear home broadband router (which is admittedly rather anemic). That's a lot of signal, so, I'm *not* at all worried about going a few hundred feet, and through a couple of walls.