Increase WiFi Range The Wireless WiFi Antenna
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Design
The average Wireless WiFI antenna is omni directional, this means that the WiFi
antenna gives the same range from 360% around the antenna for example
Other Types
Other WiFi antenna types include directional
narrow beam and directional wide beam.
Narrow beam antennas offer greater distance or range, but with far narrower
directional coverage than an omni directional type of WiFi antenna.
  
Omni Directional
Directional Narrow Beam Directional Wide Beam
Increasing Range
Just about all laptops today come with
built in WiFi cards, this is also means the wireless WiFi antenna is also built
in to a certain degree, regardless of whether it is a mini-pci internal WiFi
card, a USB or PCMCIA type. Although we can increase range slightly by tuning
the WiFi cards settings such as setting to no power saving or maximum power,
these changes will only allow marginal range increases. To be able to increase
the range significantly we need to be able to install a better aerial with some
form of range booster unit which can help to increase WiFi range by more than
50%.
Range Statistics
Did you know
everything that surrounds your WiFi network attributes to loss or range, this
includes microwaves, walls, even under or over floor metal piping, which in turn
leads to lower speeds and performance, even to the point of preventing
connections or allocation of IP addressing.
It is generally known that older style buildings have thicker denser walls that
will cause more WiFi problems than newer constructions
Range increasing tips
Add a WiFi antenna booster to your router
or WiFi device, it's not possible on your device, why not add a WiFi shroud such
as the Tritium Flatenna.
Adding WiFi repeaters can be a false
economy due to the single unit sending and receiving network packets from both
router and nodes, this in turn can actually half network performance.
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