I bought this antenna to see if it would provide at least a decent enough connection with campground hotspots. I paired this with some good WiFi (n male to n female?) cable and a Alfa AWUSO36NH High Gain USB Wireless G / N Long-Rang WiFi Network Adapter, and I have been very pleased with this set up.
At one campground I was about 125 yards from their router which was inside of their building. Couldn’t connect with my laptop, but had full signals with the antenna propped on a picnic table and pointed towards the office.
At a campground in Tok, Alaska, I was quite a distance (about 250 yards?) from their router, and was told that there was no internet signal in my section. I sat up the antenna on the ground, pointed it towards where I thought the office was, and got a decent enough signal through many rows of trees and through other campers. If I had the antenna higher I’m sure I could have streamed video. I told the manager the next morning that I was able to connect. She was surprised and asked how. I just said that I had a directional antenna 😉.
Another time, in Canada, a campground had a very, very, weak signal from only about 30 yards away. I put the antenna on top of my travel trailer’s slide out, aimed it towards the office, and had a full signal. I watched a NetFlix movie that night.
I’ve even used the antenna with it sitting inside on my camper table, pointed at a campground office or a Walmart, and had excellent results.
There are many more examples, but one final example is a test I did before taking the antenna out on the road. I lived in a mobile home park by a bay and was the 3rd lot from the water. Across a small section of the bay is a peninsula with a city park. I went there and hooked up the antenna, aimed it towards where I thought my mobile home was (about 300 yards away), and, across the water, and through some mobile homes, I was able to connect to my router That was inside my mobile home and I was able to stream video.
So... I’ve had very good luck with this antenna, and I would buy it again. Things I don’t like is that it’s large and bulky. But that’s why it’s so damn good. When it comes to antennas, size matters. As does the antenna gain, which this one is 24 dbi. And use the best and shortest amount of cable you can get and afford; you get what you pay for here. You’ll also need a network adapter, and I highly recommend an Alfa AWUSO36NH High Gain USB Wireless G / N Long-Rang WiFi Network Adapter. Don’t forget to purchase a cable adapter for connecting your WiFi cable to the network adapter. I’m looking to devise a mast for the antenna for traveling, and/or a tripod.
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First thing first. This antenna is perfect for doing lots of illegal things, I mean that's why your buying it right? You want to login to the Starbucks wifi while you are a 1/2 mile away so that legally they cant prove anything. Don't forget to change your mac address and if you mount this to a welding jack and the wind is blowing 40 mph, its going to break when it falls.Por la federales: For the record I have a shop built inside a cargo trailer that I wanted to keep in my backyard and certain frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum (like wifi) had issues penetrating the aluminum walls of the trailer. I used this to get the wifi from my house. At no point did I google how to modify the country settings on my wifi driver to easily exceed the modest 500mw of power that the FCC has graciously allowed us.
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Strong and does what its paid to do
Reviewed in Canada on November 12, 2013