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TERK WF-O Omni-Directional WiFi Antenna | List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $12.39

| Brand: Terk Binding: Electronics Release Date: 2007-04-01
Features: - Increases the effective range of your router and allows you to have wireless service wherever you need it
- Better wireless reception with faster Internet speeds and increased transit rates
- Easy installation with wall or surface mount options simply replaces your existing antenna
- Dual band works with 2.4 GHZ or 5.8 GHZ systems with multi-band for 802.11 a b g n routers or Apple Airport
- Gold connectors for best signal and comes with TNC SMA adapter for maximum flexibility
Improved signal strength by 300% [Posted on 2008-06-21] Since my NetGear WLAN router comes with a fixed antenna, I chose to replace the small antenna on the desktop side with this antenna.
When the antenna that was supplied with the PCI-card was used, the average bandwidth used to be around 5.5 Mbps and the Smart Wizard that came with the card used to indicate a signal strength of 2 out of 8. Wireless connection completely failing was a common occurence.
When the TERK antenna was installed, with the sharper side facing the wireless router, speed improved to around 36 Mbps and signal strength to 5 out of 8.
The real surprise came when I rotated the antenna 90 degrees so that the flat surface of the antenna was facing the wireles antenna. Now the bandwidth improved to 55 Mbps and signal improved to 6 out of 8.
Wireless connection does not drop anymore.
Deducting 1 star since the product is not omni-directional as indicated :-)
Great little antenna! [Posted on 2008-07-23] My husband was getting a weak signal and sometimes no signal at all on his HP desktop with the very basic external antenna that came with it. Plugged this Terk WF-O antenna in it's place and now he's getting an excellent signal that doesn't cut out. No software to install, just plug it in. I'd give it 5 stars, except that it's cable is very short and we're going to have to buy an extender.
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