High Gain Antenna
 

Has anyone used or have experience with the use of high gain antenna over the basic antenna supplied with routers? I'm looking at setting a set of the high gain ones for my wrt54gs as the signal is not very good around the house due to it being an old house with pretty solid walls.

I got a wrt54gs which is running dd-wrt firmware and a matched wmp54gs speedboost card so i would have expcted performance to be better than it is, connects at 36meg on a good day and downloads at ~10megs, so half of the speed i should be getting.

Will a set of these http://www.wifi-antennas.co.uk/index...&product_id=15 improve the signal by much or are do you think they would be a waste of money

Re: High Gain Antenna
 

I suspect that will only make a little difference. What aerial do you have already?

Have a look round this place:
http://www.solwise.co.uk/
They have lots of good information.

I have experience of their NET-WL-ANT-015ON (or something very similar) on the end of ~10m of their very fat cable. This allows coverage of a whole factory.

I also have experience of one of these on a mag-mount and a short piece of very thin cable.
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/Computer+...sp?sku=CS12466
Frankly, it makes very little difference to the reception.

If you want something that works every time then I'd look for something like the first solution.

Re: High Gain Antenna
 

its curently on the stanrd antenna that come with the router and wireless card

will take a look at the links when i get time, cheers

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directional 3rd party ones are your better bet, but again remember the higher the dBi the better, its generally worked out as, for every extra 3 dBi, you get almost twice the distance on line of site, and around a 3rd extra power inside.

these seem to work fine for me on one end, if you put one one each end (assuming a router and a single PC/laptop) and point them at each other then you will get far better power levels
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/87...l#post34259377

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you can also buy or make yourself a simple wireless reflector and place them on your current wireless router arials and point them in the direction you want to go.

i also find all wireless routers iv had, are best positionad as high up on your room/building as possible for best coverage, i for instance have mine upstairs and the downstairs PCs seem to get a far better power rating that way rather than when the routers on the same ground level.

if you have steel reinforced concreate floors then it might be a problem, but its far easyer for radio to travel through plasterboard and wood floors, than brick walls.

http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

i had a URL for some very nice and cheap commercial set of small wireless router reflectors but cant seem to find it right now so just use some card and a coke can as per the above for cheap ;)

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"I have experience of their NET-WL-ANT-015ON (or something very similar) on the end of ~10m of their very fat cable. This allows coverage of a whole factory."

given the cost of that 30foot+ lowloss cable plus the big dBi loss you get from the pigtail (the bit that converts from the big end cable connector to the small wireless card connector) it sounds like you would have been better and cheaper just puting the wireless router with the high gain arials up there, and running a RJ45 Ethernet cable+ cheap POE converter down to your PC.

Re: High Gain Antenna
 

In dd-wrt, have you tried setting the "afterburner" option to on? Have you also tried upping the Xmit power?

Re: High Gain Antenna
 

i have been running at 80xmit power since i put ther firmware o na few months ago

afterburner has always been enabled