Describe herein is an apparatus for inclusion in a station of a wireless
network, and a method implemented in a station of a wireless network. The method
includes wirelessly receiving data via each of a plurality of antennas, the data
corresponding to a packet of information transmitted from a remote station, sampling
the received data corresponding to the received packet to form data samples for
each of the antennas, and determining a measure of signal quality from samples
of the received data for each of the antennas. The method further includes selecting
one of the plurality of receive antennas as the antenna for receiving from the
remote station according to the determined measure of signal quality.
