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Summary: This thing is awesome !
Review: Although your mileage may vary, the Hawking directional antenna did not work very well for my situation.I needed a way to extend the range of my wireless network inside my house. I wanted to get reception one floor below and many rooms over from the location of my wireless access point. After connecting the Hawking corner antenna to my D-Link DI-614+ access point, I hardly gained any range - although throughput may have increased a little. I would highly recommend a repeater instead, such as the D-Link DWL-800AP+. It's a little more expensive (~$68) but you get so much more bang for your buck. A repeater is a smart little box full of electronics vs. the little bit of metal and plastic you get with the antenna. I am happily using the network downstairs in my home at high speeds with the D-Link repeater and no Hawking directional antenna. (My laptop is a 17" Apple PowerBook with built-in WiFi and it works great with D-Link)
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Summary: Not much success with indoor range
Review: Although your mileage may vary, the Hawking directional antenna did not work very well for my situation. I needed a way to extend the range of my wireless network inside my house. I wanted to get reception one floor below and many rooms over from the location of my wireless access point. After connecting the Hawking corner antenna to my D-Link DI-614+ access point, I hardly gained any range - although throughput may have increased a little. I would highly recommend a repeater instead, such as the D-Link DWL-800AP+. It's a little more expensive (~$68) but you get so much more bang for your buck. A repeater is a smart little box full of electronics vs. the little bit of metal and plastic you get with the antenna. I am happily using the network downstairs in my home at high speeds with the D-Link repeater and no Hawking directional antenna. (My laptop is a 17" Apple PowerBook with built-in WiFi and it works great with D-Link)
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Summary: No noticable improvement over standard antenna.
Review: Do not buy this to extend the wireless range in your house. It might help in a large auditorium or hall, where there is a uninterrupted line of site but it does not have much effect in a building with interior walls.
I have a remote bedroom, about 20 feet away from where I have my wireless router, which isn't that far. This bedroom was an addition so some of the interior walls used to be exterior walls. I get a very weak signal from the wireless router to this room, using the standard 2dBi antenna that comes with it.
I tried this Hawking 15dBi antenna and did not see any noticeable improvement in the signal to the remote bedroom. Also, it did not improve signal between floors. I tried moving the antenna around in the room where I have the router, but that did not seem to have any impact either.
To improve LAN access across your house you have several choices (but this antenna is not one of them):
-Centrally locate your wireless router (it is hard for me to do, because of the wiring in my house).
-Rewire your house with CAT5 cable (yeah, sure).
-Buy these ethernet networking systems that use the electric wires in the house for networking. You just plug the units into an electric socket and hook up your computer through a CAT5 cable (it will cost at least $100, you cannot roam freely around and these systems are slower than the wireless LAN)
-Buy a repeater and put it somewhere in the middle of the house. For the repeater, all you need to do is supply power. It doesn't need any special wiring.
I went the repeater route. The problem with repeaters is that there currently are no universal repeaters. You need to buy a repeater that matches with the router you have. I bought a Buffalo router and repeater. The concept was great and it worked very well when it worked. But, my system is not reliable, and I have had to send the router back for repair.
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Summary: This thing is awesome !
Review: I have no idea what the person writing the review above was talking about. I had exactly the opposite experience with both products. I put the HAI15SC on a D-Link DI-624 802.11 G/B wireless router and saw a huge improvement !! I'm using three Apple Powerbooks with airport cards - the D-link is a great wireless router but the signal was pretty weak in our house (lot of walls). Put the HAI15SC in and the signal strength increased significantly in the entire house. Rooms that had not signal were now able to get small signal. Highly recommended ! Friends who bought this also experienced a benefit. On the other hand I did buy the D Link DWL G800AP repeater - went through 2 of them in fact - and neither of them worked. I returned them both after weeks of trying to get them to work and some 16 calls to D Link tech support. D Link tech support finally admitted that they were not sure why they did not work - it was a new product and maybe had problems. Take a pass on the D Link repeater and try the antenna - its a lot cheaper. The D Link repeaters do NOT work - they drop signal. Trust me - I tried have set up several networks. Been through three wireless routers, three antennas (I'm big on buying, trying, returning if it does not perform.) The HAI15SC works very well.
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Summary: no incremental improvement over standard d-link antenna
Review: looks and sounds like a nice product. I removed the tiny antenna from my d-link 524 router and plugged the hi-gain corner antenna in and pointed it directly at my powerbook in a room I had been getting ok but not great reception. result: no discernable improvement in reception strength or quality of transmission. amazon accepted return but at my shipping expense as item was not defective.
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Summary: this is 15dbi gain...
Review: received this antenna from amazon.com, install on same location where I used 6dbi antenna
the signal has 1 bar increase on windows
then, I check the prism settings for MN710
the percentage has 10-16 point increase over hawking 6dbi omni antenna
and now, the signal is good enough
since the antenna is located on the edge of the house, that the signal still can sweep across the whole house
this is a good buy
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