High gain wifi antennas

[BudgieSmuggler88]

Does anyone have any recommendations for high gain wifi antennas?

 

I am trying to get a signal from one Linksys RE6500 wifi range extender to another RE6500 wifi range extender at a large distance. Unfortunately I purchased the range extenders before Linksys offered the high gain model and I am looking to increase the range of the range extenders. I am trying to get internet from my parent's house to their lake pavilion. The lake pavilion extender is seeing the network, but can't connect.

[GDRRiley]

get something like this if you need the high range. 

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Ebay is where I've bought mine. Keep in mind that they get more directional the higher the gain, so positioning them will be more important. The signal comes off of them like this:

 

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You'll have a larger dead zone above or below the antenna the higher the gain.

[BudgieSmuggler88]

Thanks for the feedback!

 

@GDRRiley, as much as I lust after some Ubiquiti antennas, it isn't in the budget.

 

@iamdarkyoshi, Thanks for the info about aligning dipole antennas. I would be curious to hear how the antennas you purchased from eBay are working for you and if you would recommend them.

 

After a little digging, I went with these 9 dBi  antennas from Amazon. While they didn't make any discernable difference at my parent's house, I have noticed better signal reception at other locations on the edge of good WiFi signal. For only $15 USD for 3 antennas, I would recommend them for any future "Handy Tech under $100".

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, BudgieSmuggler88 said:

@iamdarkyoshi, Thanks for the info about aligning dipole antennas. I would be curious to hear how the antennas you purchased from eBay are working for you and if you would recommend them

They're on a pretty crap router, but they almost doubled the usable distance of it. It used to just have internal antennas, I ended up drilling holes in the chassis to mount the new ones.

[AJJaxNet]

44 minutes ago, BudgieSmuggler88 said:

@GDRRiley, as much as I lust after some Ubiquiti antennas, it isn't in the budget.

Depending on the performance you need, you could get a 100Mbps ubiquiti bridge for ~100$ (https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Litebeam-Wireless-LBE-M5-23-US/dp/B015GWT42G/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1529039052&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=litebeam&dpPl=1&dpID=41LSj7GirLL&ref=plSrch)

 

For 20$ more you can get 400Mbps with the AC version.

[Pixel5]

it sounds more like you need a directional wifi antenna or ready made system.

 

i use two TP link CPE210, they are aimed at each other for maximum bandwidth/signal strength and on the end where my parents garden is i have connected a regular Wifi AP via cable.

 

we get a stable 100mbit/s connection because thats the maximum the LAN ports can handle on the CPE210 and it was very easy and cheap to setup.