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The exclusive Hawking Directional Dish Antenna utilizes innovative RF dish reflection technology to obtain the strongest signal possible when transmitting and receiving Wi-Fi signals. By combining dish antenna technology with the latest wirelessstandards, the Directional Dish 2.4GHz 802.11b and 802.11g compatible Wi-Fi antenna is capable of extending the distance of your wireless device up to 250%.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hawking Hi-Gain Wireless-G USB Dish Adapter,
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This review is from: Higain Directional Dish Antenna 8DBI Sma Tnc (Personal Computers)
The Hawking USB Dish Adapter has worked very well for me. The setup was simple and straight forward. Windows XP did not find the driver in its approved list, big surprise, but it loaded and installed fine and did not interfere with other applications. If you are using a notebook, with built-in WiFi, make sure it is disabled before using your Hawking. Access to the Hawking wireless network connection is best achieved from the "Start" menu using the "connect to" function. I spend a good deal of time in my RV and often the signal strength in RV parks is poor, this little dish antenna always pulls in the weak signals. The ability to monitor the source and signal strength in real time is a welcome bonus. At home the USB Dish Adapter easily pulls in WiFi signals that are several hundred yards away; often connecting to sources that my notebook WiFi can't even register.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
no more testing...,
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This review is from: Higain Directional Dish Antenna 8DBI Sma Tnc (Personal Computers)
I bought this primarily because I was sick and tired of paying for truck stop WiFI and having an intermittent signal at best. I haven't had much chance to test it yet, although from what I've done with it, I am still optimistic(usually a good thing!). Right now, I have this antenna wired through an EnGenious adaptor, and a 16 foot USB repeater. With this combination, I can put the antenna anywhere in or on my truck, so it is definitely much more versatile than my laptops internal hardware. My first experience with this antenna was in a residential area, and it picked up more signals than any of the 3 laptops we were testing against. Most of these signals were stronger, but a few were noticeably weaker. About half of the signals found were boosted by @2 to 3 bars on my signal scanner. Tonight, I am at a busy truck stop somewhere north of Las Vegas, and my internal antenna seems to be holding a better signal. Guess the ultimate test for me will be when i spend an evening at the truck stops in Ontario California where its bloody hard to hold a signal for 5 minutes!
For those of you who are as impulsive as I am, beware that this is an SMA wired antenna ONLY. This unit is not a WiFI adaptor whatsoever, and is primarily useful for a home pc! If you are using a laptop and are looking for an "on the go" antenna, make sure you order the USB model. It costs @55 dollars on Amazon, but that is much cheaper than trying to make this model USB compatible. UPDATE: 2 years too late Unfortunately, I didn't have much of a chance to do any followup testing of this product, I was only able to use it for a little over a week. During that time, I did use it at several truck stops and hotel hotspots. In general, it did seem to perform better than the internal antennas in my laptops did, but there were a couple of places where this completely missed the mark. Unfortunately, after about a week and a half or two of use, this was destroyed (alongside everything else I owned) in an accident.
5.0 out of 5 stars
No brainer.,
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This review is from: Higain Directional Dish Antenna 8DBI Sma Tnc (Personal Computers)
Product is incredibly powerful for its size and will amply boost any regular sma based usb wifi dongle significantly. Package arrived the same day as the earliest estimated delivery. I have had the product nearly a year now and have used it in many different situations(large apt buildings, suburbs, outdoors amid a widespread neighborhood in texas.... The device boosts a pc and will turn your laptop into a mobile free wifi locator basically :) point the dish and watch the numbers... walk this way or that and basically ''ping'' again...its strong enough to lock on to one directionally and very easily pinpoint where the broadcast is coming from :p BEWARE IF U HAVE KIDS. ITS ''CUTE'' AND QUICKLY ATTRACTS THEM IN MY EXPERIENCES. IT WILL GET DROOL IN IT AND BE USELESS AS SOON AS U LOOK AWAY. I almost lost it to a kid once....pulled it from under his face just as he let a super drop go :p close call but the antenna survived unscated^.^
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