Customer Reviews

Hawking RP-SMA TO RJ-SMA ( HAC7SS )

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This is a tough, thin (~3.5 mm) all white extension cable to move your router or PCI card SMA thread ['g' or 'a'] wireless antenna up to 2.13m (6 foot) away from your PC or router. Being white it is very unobtrusive. I use it with the tall chubby DWL 50AT SMA antenna (Hawking etc. make similar) that is a direct replacement for the tiddly SMA one that comes with D-Link, and other, routers and PCI cards. This cable has a standard SMA (one male/one female) fitting, so it easily fits in between the antenna socket and antenna. All fittings are gold plated.

Using a simple signal strength meter I found the strongest nearby signal location to the PC. To do this you need something like the Kensington 'WIFI Finder Plus' that has a 6 LED strength meter. Using this Hawking antenna extension cable I have now put the wireless antenna 4ft above the PC monitor where the signal is very strong at 4 LEDs (dropping to 2 LEDs occasionally) compared to zero to 1 LEDS at the back of the PC. I now have a 54 Mbps (full strength/fastest speed) wireless network all the time with few drop-outs. So if your wireless network isn't running at full speed or frequently drops out, try some high gain antennas, a WIFI strength meter and one or two of these Hawking extension cables. It's a lot cheaper and easier than re-investing in new MIMO or Pre-N hardware.

I bought my Hawking extension lead from an Amazon reseller and it arrived promptly. D-link make a similar SMA extension lead to this and it is available on Amazon, but was a bit more expensive. This one worked very well for me though, is well made, and was very good buy as it was going cheap.

as far as I know, this is the only such antenna extension cable for indoors. Works great if your wireless card/antenna is in back of the PC, down on the floor or in one of those lousy enclosed desk compartments -- you can use this to move the antenna up to top of desk where it has a chance of getting signal.

you need it if you want to get the antina away from your desktop computer. but you need at least two of them!

I replaced the omni-directional antenna that came with my ActionTec (FiOS) router with a 9dBi SMA OMNI-Directional High-Gain Screw-On Swivel Antenna for Linksys .... Using the unscientific measure of "number of bars" as measured by my iPhone, every reading in my house either stayed the same or improved by one. Since there are only three bars total that is, in my mind, a big improvement.

I thought I could further improve things by moving the antenna from the back of the router which is on the floor behind a TV to the top of the TV. I did that with this cable and some duct tape (to hold the base of the antenna to the upper back of the TV). In that case things went back to the level of the original antenna. Apparently whatever benefit there was from moving the antenna to what I thought was a better location was more than offset by the loss introduced from the additional wire and connector.

Bottom line: Adding this cable will introduce some signal loss. Signal strength will be improved only if the loss of loss gained by moving your antenna more than offsets the loss added by the cable.

it did the job that i was wanting it to do..others products i tried failed..so i gave this a 4 stars..

The cable is what you are looking for, if you are looking for the small connector type. They either don't have names for small or large connector types for antenna, or else they are not telling us. So I took it on faith from the picture. Lo and behold it was correct. So just be sure you need the small connector and not the slightly larger one, and you should be ok. Hey, maybe that is what SMA stands for in RJ-SMA?!

I was using a USB cable as an extension, but this cable provides a much better signal. I needed the extension to use the hotels wi-fi across the street.

The MI424WR-GEN2 provided with my Verizon FIOS account has weird wall-mounting slots in the back, which force you (that is, if you want to use them) to install the device with the antenna upside down. The signal propagation is terrible, worse with the metal studs in my condo.

With this cable I was able to quickly relocate the antenna to a better location. Unscrew the antenna, screw-in the cable and the antenna and done. Reception within the condo is much better, there are no more dead spots, and places that already had coverage now show a full signal instead of a lousy bar or two.

There's no downside. I definitely recommend this to anyone that has a compatible router sitting in a less than optimal spot.

The Hawking is a sweet way to get the signal you need without any effort. Instructions are very clear! Unless you have a very short length <2ft from your input pci or router, be VERY SURE you also get the extension cable. It is needed in 95% of any installation and gives you 7 feet to work with. Get it from amazon

If you have a router with a wireless setup that uses an screw on antenna, this product will move the antenna so you can get better reception. Caution, many router have internal antennas and can not use this product