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I have been doing some research on what settings would most optimize my Cisco aironets. One of my major questions has been should I run one or two dipole antenna and what should the setting be. My first thought it why not just use one antenna because the way the aironets work is they can only send and receive from one antenna at a time and the two antennas are only a couple inches apart. So put one antenna on and switch the send and receive power to only go out the one antenna. Well I found out why you need two antennas, it is because with one antenna when the signal reflects off of things it can leave you with micro pockets of no signal. Apparently when you have these two antennas spaces that little amount apart either one or the other antenna will cover all of those micro pockets. When you have two antennas to need to have them on diversity settings on both send and receive. The reason to have only one antenna is when you put a high gain antenna on for great distance of coverage. Then make sure to change your antenna settings to send and receive only out that antenna. Any questions of comments on this topic are quite welcome.