Has anyone tried a similar abomination? The main node I use has a 2dBi antenna. A 5dBi antenna performs worse for connecting to most of the nodes in my vicinity. It does however connect to some nodes further away. So I decided to try adding a separate 5dBi node. That way devices close by could choose to route via either node, whichever seems better. Or traffic could jump between the two taking local traffic from the 2dBi node and beaming it further via the 5dBi node at the expense of an extra hop. Thoughts, experiences?
I concur, do not use REPEATER/ROUTER roles unless you know what you're doing (have a very high mast, hill, high building roof, etc. read the doc) as it's very likely you'd be harming the network instead of helping. Using a device configured as CLIENT/CLIENT_BASE extends the network without risking harm.