Better Wireless Internet Equipment or Omnidirectional antenna?

Question

Should I get better equipment or an antenna. I currently have the Hawking 54g wireless router and an Airlink101 card. The router cost $30, and the card $10, maybe I made a mistake and should have spent at least $100-200 on equipment, I dont know better but I figured it would work.

The problem is the signal is sporadic, it comes and goes as it pleases.

Answer 1

I've not heard of Hawking before. I'd do some Google searches on reviews of that model to see what other have to say about it; however, as you have alluded to -- you get what you pay for.

You also may have interference problems from cordless phones that use 2.4GHz range or neighbors on your same WiFi channel.

Annorax64

Answer 2

Hawking is actually a good router they just aren't the most well known. If you have intermittent signals it is probably because of the signal levels. There are indeed routers made with higher outputs and perhaps better connection just as there are high power cards. But linksys, dlink, hawking all have the same output unless you buy higher power gear.

Now all that being said, if your signal is good closer to the router, just get a better antenna for the router. Antennas are critical to good signal delivery. The more gain (measured in db) the more signal they will deliver. (3db in antenna gain = twice the signal) So if the antenna that came with your router is a 2 db antenna and you change it out to a 5 db antenna you will find your usable range has nearly doubled. (I'm going to ignore noise for right now.) Change your antenna to 8db and you have doubled your range again.

If your signal is intermittant even when you are starring at the router, it has a problem and needs to be fixed. *you may want to just try a different channel to be sure it isn't interferance if you are on channel 1 try 11 etc.

So try a better antenna. If that still doesn't cover your house, shoot the salesman (just kidding!!)

Answer 3

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