USB Wireless Antennas or USB range Extender Antennas
USB Antennas
- No RF cables or connectors needed.
- No RF cables means no RF loss.
- Very economical. Around $130 -$150 inc GST ( depending on antenna size) . Includes grid antenna, WG111 wireless adaptor, 5 metre passive USB lead. Antennas alone are $77 - $88 (inc GST)
- Quick installation.
- Waterproof plastic housing for outdoor use
- Up to 5 metres of USB cable can be used.
- 15 metres using active USB extension cables. (see note below)
- Ideal for caravans, boats, apartment balconies, etc where the 5 metre USB limit is acceptable.
- Can be used in Horizontal or Vertical Polarisation.
- Antennas suit Netgear WG111 USB and equivalent wireless
adaptors which can be used in infrastructure or ad-hoc mode for point to point applications
See: Relevant Products
Note: We have found that both Netgear and TP-Link USB wireless adaptors will work with active 5 metre USB leads but the TP-Link type take less current, causing less problems and will work with a total lead length of 15 mtres. One passive 5 metre extension + two 5 mtre active extensions.
Note that the active USB leads still draw their power from the USB port and that no power packs etc are needed. For a pic, and details, of an active 5 metre lead, click on the relevant products link above.
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Connecting to puddle.net.au with a small USB grid antenna.
A distance of approximately 2.5km from basestation
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Customer Testimonial
Peter,
Your a bloody genius! This USB Antenna works very well.
I'm in real trouble up there with APs, with the 3 backups failing.. However, tonight upon arriving over at the other house, embedded deeping 200m away in thick bush, I can hear the main AP, but cannot attach using inbuilt wifi. However, the USB attaches and receives at 11Mb. Uplink is around 2Mb... Oh, the stats aren't reporing correctly in the screen... I think.
Interesting, the USB on its own out of the dish works, but does drop packets occassionally.
So far, I'm impressed!
Results below
C:\temp>ping -n 10 -l 16000 10.0.15.1
Pinging 10.0.15.1 with 16000 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=95ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=470ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=94ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=94ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=94ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=95ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=489ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=95ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=95ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.15.1: bytes=16000 time=95ms TTL=64
Kind Regards,
Paul Thompson