This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.

  • lurch (he/him)
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    35 days ago

    An antenna can absolutely send and receive at the same time. It’s called duplex .

    • @forrgott@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      Oh, I should clarify; this is more than send and receive - there’s some amount of network routing involved with being a Wi-Fi extender or relay or whatever.

      What I probably meant to say is one antenna cannot send/receive simultaneously on more than one network.

      But, yes, duh, thank you for calling me out on that one!