Need to get a LR WiFi Antenna. Just wondering which ones /g uses and/or recommends. I have been rifling through Amazon reviews for the past 2 hours but I can't seem to make a decision. I figured /g would have some insight. Would love to hear your opinions.
FYI, I live 10 min outside of Philly. So there are lots of trees and other stuff that could interfere with one that requires a clear line of sight. Is there anything else I should be wary of when purchasing?
Best Long Range Wifi Antenna
Noah Brooks
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Cameron Powell
You are retarded and you dont understand how wifi works.
Go read a book.
Liam Taylor
This
Jonathan Ortiz
/thread bye op
Jaxon Sullivan
>You are retarded and you dont understand how wifi works.
not op, but why do you think so?
Levi Garcia
>but why do you think so?
Because he thinks a 'long range' Wi-Fi antenna will work.
Gabriel Cox
The size of an antenna has absolutely nothing to do with transmission distance.
Matthew Powell
enjoy your cancer
Alexander Green
Of course it does. If the antenna was as long as the transmission distance he'd have basically a direct connection :^
Daniel Diaz
>mfw when can't say >using the smiley with a carat nose because there's no goddamn smile
Camden Cruz
^
Juan Ross
I wish wifi had longer range. There are two parks within a mile of where I live and it would be super neat if I could be sitting at the park using my home wireless network.
Angel Myers
>increasing the attack surface of an already insecure medium
WOW
Ayden Ross
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Dominic Hill
>it would be super neat if I could be sitting at the park using my home wireless network.
>my home wireless network.
parser: my homeless network
Liam Wright
directional dish antenna will get you a few kilometers
Jacob Williams
I have one of those!
Brandon Watson
2 x ubiquiti nanostations
Dominic Garcia
I am a networker here but I am unsure on some information here.
Does power and a good antenna not boost weak signals? If wireless is a wave could you not boost the DB of the antenna and not pick up distant signals from how far your range in reaching?
I mean I have seen 2km boosters so you could pick up about 600 meters of wireless signals - solid objects (thus why 2km is never true in real life).
Explain a little more so I am set straight
Asher Nguyen
what does?
Henry Sanchez
Power + antenna.
The higher you push energy through your antenna the longer the range.
However, the clean signal determines on how easy it is for signals to be generated and pushed. So distance is power and usable signal is the type of antenna design.
Brody Green
>The size of an antenna has absolutely nothing to do with transmission distance.
pretty sure a big ass parabolic antenna would help smartass
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Carson Morgan
build one.
Ryder Ortiz
Isaac Davis
What the actual fuck are you planning sir?
Chase Price
Yaggi.
Jacob Hall
Yes yagi antenne works well
Christian Smith
I have the Yagi antenna pic related and it's shit. Bought this one and damn it gets 3x more wifis. But is from China maybe you find it from your country. It's has Ralink chipset and works on Linux out of the box. It also supports monitor mode.
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Brandon Hall
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Eli Martinez
well if you don't have line of sight then you are shit outta luck.
You might try a circularly polarizad antenna as that tends to punch through vegetation better
Kayden Bell
The reason why people are calling you stupid (I hope they actually understand why and are not just circlejerking)
Is because you better have some good aim. You're going to pick up a lot more than just the AP you want, even with a directional antenna. That means you might get a good signal, but your speeds might be complete trash. If there aren't that many APs in your area, you can try this out. Not only that, but the amount of cable loss you're going to get at 2.4ghz with a jumper you can actually aim with... not even worth the money.
Aaron Green
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Grayson Murphy
however.. if it is your own network you're trying to connect to, get a pair of nanostations and call it a day.
Charles Allen
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Lincoln Nguyen
i have a chinese yagi and is ok,
but yours i think is better,
also take in cound the wats of the card
remember to put atleast 2m from where you are and if posible on top.
Camden Johnson
Is war driving with that stuff even a thing anymore? Not even sure WEP is able to be enabled in most modern routers. I've only ever seen dudes with GPS trackers and small antennas connected to raspberry PIs for location logging.
Jason Wright
you can just use your phone now, alot easier
Liam Hall
A directional antenna could help though.
Carter Mitchell
? Not OP, but you guys are stupid.
He never said anything about antenna size. He just want to increase the distance with which he can pick up wireless signals.
>The size of an antenna has absolutely nothing to do with transmission distance.
No, but a directional antenna will increase the distance in one direction and decreases in the other.
>At longer distances LoS will be your biggest obstacle. Other than that there isn't much you should worry about.
>Coax leaks 2.4 GHz, so try to minimize coax usage.
>Instead of buying one, make a cantenna. Fun diy project.
Parker Clark
>you can just use your phone now, alot easier
the point of war driving was cp
best not to do that on your phone
Benjamin Sanchez
>the point of war driving was cp
Oh was it, you fucking pedophile?
Easton Thompson
wardriving is just logging the ssid / security / gps you tool
your phone does not connect to the ap
Jaxson Adams
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Brandon Sullivan
How bad is it if I'm off by a millimeter for every measurement? My hands and tools are rather imprecise. Should I bother trying to build one?
Benjamin Lopez
Where do you think you are?
Cooper Cooper
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>The size of an antenna has absolutely nothing to do with transmission distance.
This is true i have foot long yagi that outperform those yardstick size ones.
Caleb Gray
comfy looking setup
Eli Allen
Pretty bad.
That being said, I made one using measurements converted to inch/16ths, and some elements did not align well.
But element length is most important, and element width, just use 14ga copper wire
Gabriel Reed
That's because they're chink made garbage and constructed badly. The parasitic elements are all spaced wrong for the wavelength they need to operate at. Size does matter in that a Yagi will more elements will have better gain thus longer range but a much narrower beam width making it harder to tune.
Jaxson Roberts
>What the actual fuck are you planning sir?
I'm guessing he's a part of the Philly MeshNet Initiative
Links to software for mesh-networking
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Josiah Long
>WEP
Haven't you heard of the Pixiewps exploit? Comcast still hasn't patch all of their routers.
James Foster
>No, but a directional antenna will increase the distance in one direction and decreases in the other.
Using directional antennas for web browsing is equally retarded and is clearly not what the OP was talking about you stupid faggot. Stop trying to play with semantics to win a pointless argument.
Christian Lewis
>yea but if you change the shape and function!
Which has nothing to do with size jackass
Brandon Johnson
It won't make a huge difference but it will affect gain. Yagi's are rather difficult to build anyway. Unless you really need the long range go for a biquad or cantenna instead. There simpler to construct and still perform very well, better than any shit of ebay. I made mine pretty half-assed but it still works very well.
This guy has tonnes of videos on how to build various antennas with household items. You just need to source the connectors and possibly copper wire.
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If you don't want to make it yourself then you can just buy one ready made.
Noah Wright
Yes, a GOOD antenna does help with signal clarity, but neither a LARGE nor a GOOD antenna will help with signal range.
The range of the signal will always be determined by a variety of factors including amplitude, frequency, interference, signal noise, etc.
You would get more range from increasing your TX power than you would with some massive meme antenna from amazon, but you'd still have a shitty signal because of noise.
Liam Thomas
Get your head out of your ass, where did I even imply OP will use it to browse?
I have no idea what OP is planning to do with it, but I'm still correct with what I said.
Blake Gray
And grass is green.
And the sky is blue.
And 2 + 2 = 4
All of which is completely irrelevant because that is not what the OP asked for you moron.
Michael Cook
So doing some math here.
If you get a 2000mw capable wireless adapter, and force it to output the full 2 watts.
Then couple that to a 23dbd yagi... With the shortest cable for no line loss...
That's 650 watts of dirrectional EIRP.
The average home router is omni directional and about 4 watts of EIRP...
Am I going in the right direction with this? Or is there a law of diminishing returns somewhere? The fcc limits are 152w ERP, which is still pretty decent.
Levi Taylor
The right direction to get an FCC van through your wall, sure.
Mason Lopez
As long as it doesn't affect anyone else, it's probably fine.
Plus they will just see a consumer USB radio, and a consumer antenna, and give you a slap on the wrist and a don't do it again.
Regardless, that's how it works right? Clearer signal, higher throughput?