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Posted: **Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:25 am**

Hi All,

I've noticed that the antenna range becomes not more than 10 meters when ESP is in AP_STA mode.
(In the STA only mode, antenna range is about 300 meters)

Did somebody measured range in AP_STA mode?

Is there a way to increase the range in that setup?

(I'm using PCB antenna)

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:18 am**

Nobody tested it?

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:41 pm**

I want to but I have not had the time yet. I hope that you are wrong. If not then I hope it will be an easy fix. It would suck if this was how it had to be.

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:51 pm**

Are you sure your board actually reaches 300m with the on-board (PCB) antenna?

I find that a bit hard to believe; even 100m would be impressive in my opinion (though 25-50m would sound more real to me, depending on the circumstances).

Andreas Spiess did a few small range tests in the beginning of 2016:

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