This wireless calculator can be used in the installation of radio and wireless systems. WiFi signal strength reduces with distance of the transmitter from the receiver. To understand the reasons for the free space path loss, it is possible to imagine a signal spreading out from a transmitter. It will move away from the source spreading out in the form of a sphere. As it does so, the surface area of the sphere increases. As this will follow the law of the conservation of energy, matter cannot be created or destroyed, as the surface area of the sphere increases, so the intensity of the signal must decrease.
To get an estimate what a signal level might be over a particular distance, simply select the WIFI channel you are interested in. Enter the EIRP, effective radiated power of your wifi device transmitter. Enter the distance involved. Then hit the Calculate button.
This is a theoretical signal loss in free space, once you have obstructions, the signal strength will be different. The actual signal level received by the wifi receiver will depend on the gain (or loss) of its antenna).
Although the free space loss seems to indicate that the signal level loss is frequency dependent, the attenuation provided by the distance travelled in space is not dependent upon the frequency. This is constant.
The reason for the frequency dependence is that the calculation contains two effects:
As one constituent of the path loss calculation is frequency dependent, this means that there is a frequency dependency within the complete calculation.
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