Hello guys,
I am a wireless networks enthousiast and I really like mesh networks. I found this website by searching on how to build my own antennas (though I do not have radiowave knowledge, I am pretty good at building staff). This is my 1st post on this amazing forum and I have red almost all posts but I am not really sure if I have found what I need (too many information), so I am writting this post in order to get some help from people that have better knowledge than me.
I own several Meraki MR16 APs flashed with OpenWRT firmware and I would like to create a mesh network and provide free wifi to the people living in my village. The concept is to combine 2 MR16 on each place, 1 for mesh networking (backhaul) and 1 as AP. There are several houses over 1km away and for that I would like to use high gain omni and directional antennas
The MR16 has 2 small dual band omni antennas
Ideally what I need is 2 MIMO Dual Band (2x2:2) antennas (1 omni and 1 directional) but at least for omni I don't even know if it is possible.
for sure I need the antennas to be dualband and able to controll polarisation in order to avoid interference
So, any suggestions please?