If I may butt in here.... perhaps you can also shed some light on a problem I am having?
I have WHR-HP 54g, and some omnidirectional SMC 10db high gain antennas.
I have several buildings that I am trying to get a stronger signal to, but hooking up the antenna and then measuring the signal (using standard windows tool and also wifi tools on Blackberry) doesn't seem to produce any extra transmit strength, in fact less in one case.
Do you have any comments you might add that could help me?
Cables I have tested are of varying length, one is 40 ft but I also tried one that is less than 3 feet, and I was testing outside in direct line of site. Got about 50 feet from the unit and got less signal than an identical unirt further away!