These are some more of my older hacks/mods. Sometimes radio equipment works better when you add a bigger antenna ;) not that the FCC would approve. This is a $9 802.11BGN adaptor I picked up from Ebay. In its factory form the performance was crap.  802.11n RT2870 adapter mod. Now has a pigtail with RP-SMA connector.   This shows that a better driver and a few tweaks can boost your performance. Yet another PCMCIA card with a RP-SMA connector and a 9dBi antenna I added.    Replaced the internal antenna in my JasJar. This was only a temp mod as decided it was not that practical, But the performance was great. The pigtails performs better then the default internal ant. The RSSI of of my local AP was -50 with internal ant. -70 with internal ant removed. -50 with just the pigtail and -29 with a 9dbi omni attached.  This was one of my first PDA wireless mods, The performance gain was so great it is what started this whole thing. The SanDisk wireless card went from having a range of 15m to a range of over 500meters. And if used my 1watt amp I would detect so many networks the software would crash. It would also make my brain tingle and the taps arc (not to mention the FCC get very unhappy with me).  Not even Bluetooth is safe. This one was good you use in combination with my Bluetooth headphones. |
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External Antennasposted Jan 21, 2011 3:10 AM by robert sturzbecher |