I am testing two consumer grade WiFi AP and if I believed specifications AP1 should be more powerful than AP2, but from the first tests I made that is not true.
Unfortunately both the AP manufacturer does not provide a serious complete datasheet (remember we are talking about consumer grade, low-budget devices).
I also tried to analyze the spectrum and switch channels but the result does not change.
Is there a way to really measure the antenna strength and plot an antenna radiation pattern?
Thanks
EDIT: Performed tests.
- WiFi scan with Android App
- WiFi scan with Windows laptop
- WiFi scan with MacBook
- WiFi scan with 2.4 CPE
EDIT2: AP1 does have two, big, detachable antennas weather AP2 does only have one, small, fixed one.
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, beam forming may be used which may not be easy to measure. Are you sure you're interested in "the signal strength" or would it not be more helpful to measure net throughput. I support @MichaelKjörling if you will.