>>> I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an >>> expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher >>> expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to >>> yours, and they used to use a book to balance it at an angle to try & get >>> reception. This was between offices on adjacent floors, almost one right >>> above the other (surely less than 20' sideways). >> >> ... >> Can you recommend a specialist supplier, especially in the US? > > I had to google for recommendations to pass on to you, but found: > > I've had great results mesh networking with 15dbi omnis > available from http://www.wlanparts.com. With line of > sight I can connect to these from over 1/2 mile a way with > my laptop. Watch your transmit power as with high gain > antennas its easy to venture in to illegal power levels. > See: http://www.rflinx.com/help/calculations/ Remember high > transmit powers only increase range if both ends increase > their power. In most cases increasing power does little > good at just one end of the link. > <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=35766#p35766> > > Indeed wlanparts.com would appear to be the kind of folks I had in mind > (they look to me like the kind of people you could email for advice - if you > were to email them the question you originally posted to this list, maybe > they could suggest a replacement?) but it might also be worth searching > openwrt.org & it's forum for aerial or antenna and take a look at few more > of the results there (i.e google "aerial or antenna site:openwrt.org" will > include the forums). > > Stroller.
Thanks a lot, plenty of info there. - Grant
