Extended Wireless Router for Church

[ChenalValleyChurch]

Our church has three buildings, the middle one is our administration office where our internet access point is.  The buildings on the side where built without any wiring.  I want to be able to have a campus wide wireless network that covers all three buildings.  The wireless router I currently have installed works great in the middle building but only partly covers the other two buildings.  I need a solution that can handle all three buildings.

In looking at the Cisco products, it seems the WAP4410N would be a great router for the middle building and then I could use a wireless extender to complete the coverage in each of the other two buildings.  Some questions:

1.  Can I use the HGA9N antenna on the WAP4410N router?  How much would that increase my coverage?

2.  What extender is recommended?

Thank You!

Haley Wilson

Chenal Valley Church

Little Rock, AR

[erosamples]

My company used WAP4410N. It is a really great equipment but I am not sure if you can use a HGA9N antenna with it.

[David Hornstein]

Hi Mark and Haley

I was pleasantly surprised when i first  saw that the antennas on the WAP4410N were detachable.  My first thought was,  can I replace the antennas with 'higher gain' antennas. 

I asked that question of a the wireless Product Manager, and he said absolutely not and he went into a discussion regarding balanced received and transmitted signal, benefits of MIMO, internal reflect of transmitted wireless signal ....bla bla bla. 

If you are going to spend some money on a potential antenna purchase, is there any way you can spend some money on just buying another access point to extend the service ?

regards Dave