> I'm majoring in IT so I know a bit or 2 about wifi.
Real-life radio-frequency signal propagation has zero to do with the ones and zeroes and everything to do with wavelength and atmospheric conditions. IF you are aiming your career at the telephony/mobile-wireless world, I recommend you spend a significant amount of time hanging out with some amateur radio operators on mountaintops. Find out how atmospheric inversions can intercept signals and carry them far, far away from their intended targets. Calculate a few space-diversity microwave paths and then build them and record signal strength through many seasons of various weather phenomena. THEN you can actually say with gravitas, that you know how a given wavelength/frequency will propagate through a given terrain under specified weather conditions. Until then, you're still just a backchannel guy.