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brandss · 10-31-2020, 10:45 AM

I have a Wifiranger Denali Router on the roof and roughly 4 feet away I have the weboost trucker antenna. Both of these are no more than 5 feet away from the electronics cabinet.

I'm wondering if I have the router and antenna on the roof too close to each other and also too close to the electronics cabinet. Any thoughts appreciated.

creativepart · 10-31-2020, 10:48 AM

I doubt you'll have any issues with the Weboost and the WFR they operate on totally different frequencies. The issue you need to be aware of is the distance from the Weboost outside antenna and the Weboost inside antenna. If those are too close you can get feedback between the two antennas and it can disrupt the boosting process.

None of that applies to the WFR router inside and the WFR rooftop antenna/router.

docj · 10-31-2020, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by creativepart

I doubt you'll have any issues with the Weboost and the WFR they operate on totally different frequencies. The issue you need to be aware of is the distance from the Weboost outside antenna and the Weboost inside antenna. If those are too close you can get feedback between the two antennas and it can disrupt the boosting process.

Although I generally agree with your conclusion, there are a number of cellular bands up around 1..7-1.9GHz which isn't all that far from the primary WiFi band at ~2.4 GHz.

creativepart · 10-31-2020, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by docj

Although I generally agree with your conclusion, there are a number of cellular bands up around 1..7-1.9GHz which isn't all that far from the primary WiFi band at ~2.4 GHz.

That may be but... they are designed to not interfere with each other. So, they should not be a problem. In fact, cellular bands can and do many times co-exist inside the router along with the WiFi bands in cellular enabled WiFi routers.