Increase Wifi Range The Wireless Wifi Antenna
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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