If I were making a link to another site which required more than a residential grade wifi repeater, I would use a ubiquity 2. You need line of sight and if it is close you could use a 5ghz radio instead. Those radios with the antenna in question will easily span a 3 mile gap if line of sight is possible. Have some obstructions? Try a mhz radio link from the same manufacturer.
The 2. Assign an ip, set up wpa and whitelist, Aim them at one another and you are up and running. If you set them up in bridge mode, network devices wont see the bridge as a separate network.
The lan is extended. Do I install this at the router end or the recieving end a half mile away with clear line of sight? If you want that long of range, you'll need to use two with one at each end. A client won't have enough power to send all the way back otherwise, and vice versa. Does the antenna need to be outside, or could it be pointing at the site through a window? This antenna is line of sight. Through a window will be OK but the glass will reduce some of the signal.
It should pickup the signal from Starbucks but again what is the distance, depends on how far "across the street" really is. What is the connector on the antenna the one that the other end of the N-connector is connected to? There is no connector on that end of the coax. It is attached directly to the folded dipole element.
I don't have internet, wifi, or satellite tv and live way out in the country. This is meant to be placed outside, correct? I can share my signal by mounting this atop parents house ft away, running coax from yagi to modem? This is overkill for '. At that range you will have to be pretty spot on as this is very directional. I would look into dish's IMO. If you do decide to go with this, while it is great at transmitting, receiving is not its strong suit.
Will need a powerful transmitter on the far end also. As far as connecting to your modem. If you have line of sight or slightly distorted. I would look into some UB nanostations or the equivalent. Hi, I need to extend wifi down to my dock with is about ft away. Will this work if I use a signal booster inside of the house with router?
I don't think ft going work. This one work for me within ft using alfa 36NH usb card with mw power. I like the 25dbi parabolic antenna better. The parabolic antenna , I can pick up free wifi from ft. But the speed was not fast, maybe mbs. I've been using this for an xfinity hotspot and it works great! But does anyone know a beter os for a router? I've been using linuxmint and keeps going. What type of connector does it use? Can anyone provide good close-up photo of actual connector at end of cable connected to antenna?
This antenna is to extend the access point to strengthen the signal to the laptop. Brings signal to the laptop not the laptop pulling the signal. I need to extend signal feet will this work and do I need a receiving antenna on the receiving end? Some sort of receiving antenna is required. Do I need a signal booster between this and my router? I'm getting a low signal at about feet.
Wifi is polarized, try turning the spikes a quarter turn. If they're flat, make em up and down, or vice versa. If you look at the front of the antenna change it from to or vice versa. Hope this helps. It will. So i buy this antenna. What kind of unit am i suppose to hook it to?
Apparently not a regular wifi router. I'm new at this. I want to use the antenna with my laptop which has an internal wifi and a network adapter. Can I plug in and use directly? The antenna uses coax cable. Mine is plugged into a wifi extender that feeds from my router. What else do i need different from the antenna and the cable and router? I have not set it up yet as I have been so busy. I suspect it can be directly hooked up to a router or a computer wifi card but I have not attempted this yet.
To connect to the alfa you need rp-sma and type N male to connect to the antenna. The shorter the cable the better the signal will be. Would I plug this into a router which re-broadcasts the wifi throughout a motorhome? Hello, I have a yagi wifi antenna, what kind of cable and router do I need to use it? Is picking up about 27 signals at this time Live in a motorhome, antenna is about 12 ft, mounted outside.
It is only an antenna. It has a connector that connects to a radio, like the Ubiquiti Bullet radio. My access point is ft away. I do have decent line of sight. Is this range possible with this antenna? It is possible with a few variables decreasing your odds. How directional is the base station? Is the line of sight completely clear or partially obstructed? How congested are the WiFi channels where this will be located?
The yagi wifi that I have comes with a cable like a mini coaxial cable female end, what kind of cable or plug do I need to connect it to the yagi? Can this be held by hand, or does it have to be mounted? If held by hand in the middle , would that affect the signal? Would not know about holding it, very light weight though. Hi, my router is a pepwave surf-on-the-go. What do you connect the Yagi wi-fi antenna to?
And how do you know what direction to point it to, if you have no visible cell or wi-fi towers? As you turn the antenna you will see access points come in and out as it is a directional antenna.
We used two of these in conjunction with Alpha USB adapters offshore to share internet from platform to platform right at a mile away with no problems. Remember though, there is always that monster named line of sight. You can also use these with the M2 bullet, the only bad thing is that the M2 is. I am interested in mounting this antenna on my RV batwing and then using existing tv cable to get signal into the coach.
Will this work? I'm not pleased with this. Its like adding an anvil to connect a flower. They are 2 different antennas for 2 different uses. And 2 completely different frequency ranges. Can anyone provide good close-up photo of actual connector?
The most essential point in printing the template is getting the correct scale. In the attached zip file below, are three png picture files. The antenna is longer than an Letter sized or A4 sized paper.
So you have to print the template in two parts labeled part1 and part2 in the zip file. I have also included the full sized unsplit template if your printer can handle large enough paper. You will notice vertical bars crossing the horizontal line. The vertical bars represent the Yagi "elements" which will be made from paperclips.
The horizontal line is the backbone of the antenna which will be build out of popsicle sticks. You will also notice numbers next to the elements. These numbers are in pairs.
The first number is the length of the element in millimeters. The second number, is the distance from the start of the diagram to the element, in millimeters. Measure the size and position of a couple of elements on each prints. If your measurements match the numbers on the diagrams, then your print is to scale and you may proceed.
Accuracy need not to be tight for the antenna to perform well. Now superimpose both prints, until they match at around element 10 or 11, and tack them together with scotch tape or white glue.
You have to trim the paper clips with a nibbler or plier to fit the vertical bars "elements". This is fairly straight forward. Lay the paper clip on the template's element and mark the ends with a marker.
Snip at the marking. Make sure that each element fits correctly the length of the bar on the diagram. Fix the elements in place with crazy glue. Leave element 2 for later.
This is the element that connects to the electronics and is called "the driven element" as in being driven by electronics. The backbone holds the shape of the antenna. I just cut pieces of popsicle sticks and fit them between the gaps of the elements. I used white glue to fix them in place.
Start from element 15 backward. When you arrive to element 2 move on to the next step. The "driven element" in a Yagi antenna, is usually the second one from the start. It is a broken loop and not a straight wire. A loop of wire resonates at a specific radio frequency depending on its dimensions. The dimensions of the driven element in this antenna is set at 2. It just happens that its about the size of a common big paper clip. You need to clip the paperclip so that it loops around and meet in the center but the end not touching, leaving a gap see photo.
Fix it in place with crazy glue and build the back bone around it. When all the elements and sticks are in place, reinforce the antenna with another layer of popsicle sticks. Glue full lengthed popsicle sticks on top of the antenna. The antenna should become mechanically stiff. Then rip the paper template of the antenna.
This is the most difficult part and depends on the electronic hardware you have. The basic idea is that you need to solder a wire between the WiFi board's RF output and the driven element of the yagi antenna. Those with external antennae, like mine, are easier to connect because you are just replacing the external whip antenna with the Yagi.
Those with internal antenna may need to have their on-board strip antenna modified as illustrated in the pictures here. You need to slightly experiment in this case. I have tried soldering a coax to my board's antenna connectors and the two ends of the yagi's active element loop but it did not work in my case.
I have no explanations why that did not work, but other DIYers that have built Yagi antennae connected their antenna in this manner. In my case, I just connected a single thin strand of copper wire between the active element of the strip antenna and one end of the loop of the driven element. Please read the annotations of the pictures for more details. The performance was pretty spectacular for this easy to build antenna. I was able to see the WiFi of a hotel that was 2 miles away from my home.
The most difficult part was connecting the antenna to the USB modem. Okay well I read through the entire post and I saw many things that made a lot of sense, also saw a lot of unnecessary flaming, but I do have a few comments to make. Right off the bat the one individual that asked about having his modem in the basement with a rotating antenna on the roof needs a reality check. Take the dongle apart and connect a USB extension cable to it and mount it directly on the antenna assembly.
Paper clips vs copper, at this frequency it's not going to make much difference, however the specific model was generated using 14awg copper. Someone said glue it all to cardboard then cover it with more cardboard actually a strong and stable design, original author said build around popsicle sticks wooden , both are subject to absorbing moisture from the air and either can have a poor dielectric constant, I would suggest some kind of plastic they make popsicles with plastic sticks.
The lengths of the elements, the spacing between them, and keeping them all in the same plane and parallel to each other is the most important consideration.
If you use the folded dipole make sure the folded part is perpendicular to the plane of the rest of the antenna and use ohm twin lead to connect to the dongle, but your SWR will probably be much higher, reducing your effective gain and possibly resulting in early failure of the dongle.
Horizontal vs vertical, after you have your antenna connected and have connected to some network you can try rotating it about its horizontal axis to see if you can get a better aspect on the other antenna more bars. All in all though good job to Biotele, it's cheap, it's easy, and if done right will provide excellent results. I did not build this antenna, but I built 2 antennae very similar before reading this post, My son and I live almost 2 miles apart and either of us can stream p movies from the other's house during a thunderstorm.
Reply 1 year ago. Was the setup with your son line of sight, or was there any foliage between you? Was this able to extend the original wifi network to the second location? Reply 6 years ago on Introduction. Reply 7 years ago on Introduction. Thanks upon this project. For my recommendation, I would advise you to use a usb to Ethernet adapter then feed your router with Ethernet as usual. I'm a ham radio operator and have build many yagi antennas and am going to build this one. Here's a suggestion.
Then you do not need to print out the guide. Also realize there are factors outside your control so getting accuracy to about 1 mm is good enough for element spacing and length.
If you aren't that accurate, it will just decrease the gain some, but the antenna will still work much better than an omnidirectional one. Question 1 year ago. I still dont get where to put the wires on the natena I have USB wifi with external port for antena, I have the coaxial cable Bit did not see ani diagram where to solder them on the antena..
May be I miss something because of poor english, so please someone to help with a simple diagram on Paint. PS This looks exactly like an oldschool external TV antena.
If I use one wouldnt be better?! Question 1 year ago on Step 4. Question 2 years ago on Step 2. As others have pointed out, the impedance matching is done poorly and not even explained properly.
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