Hawking HiGain Directional Corner Antenna, indoor, 15dBi - HAI15SC
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Hawking Technology's HAI15SC, 2.4GHz Hi-Gain Wireless Corner Antenna, boosts your wireless signal strength from 2dBi (standard) to 15dBi! A large problem with many wireless networks is the poor coverage area of standard Wireless networks. Hawking solves this problem with a Hi-Gain antenna that attaches directly to the external antenna connector of your Wireless Access Point or Wireless Network Adapter. By increasing the strength of your external wireless antenna, your Wireless… Product details and pricing info |
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36 Customer Reviews Posted
- minus two stars already
- I haven't gotten it yet. I ordered it on October 9th. I clicked "ships in 3-5 business days", the next day I got my e-mail receipt.
The scheduled delivery date is October 20th. I realize that I made the purchase late Saturday night, so I figure take away Sunday, that give 3-5 business days for it to get to my house by Friday.
Maybe I'm doing my math wrong but I calculate October 20th to be 11 days after the date of order. Maybe I'm doing my math wrong, but 11 days is not the same as 3-5 days.
I'm writing this on the third business day, and I enter my tracking number and all I get is "Carrier notified to pick up package".
Guess what? If you had told me it was going to take that long, I would have bought it from somewhere else. - 2006-10-12, 1 of 27 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- pay no attention
- Pay no attention to the negative reviews of this product. RF links are all about math and the gain of this antenna produces a directed signal that is hundreds of times stronger that what you get out of one of those standard wifi omni antennas. The people frowning on it are likely trying to use a radio link in an environment where rf is just not feasible.
For the record, it improved the signal strength on my point to point from around 35% to around 90%. - 2006-06-16, 14 of 14 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Flawless neighborhood solution
- My extended family shares broadband over 3 houses using bridges/routers. The most distant (<750') had a poor/slow link until I installed this antenna. Speedtest became comparable to hardwired. This product is directional and only appropriate for point to point applications.
- 2006-03-03, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Don't waste your money
- Don't be fooled into thinking that this antenna is going to help in any situation other than a very large room. I'm not sure how much this antenna would be even over the standard antenna.
I set this antenna up with my Hawking router and found it couldn't even pass through a few drywall walls without losing most of the singal. My linksys router did just as well, if not better than this antenna.
Also the mount for this antenna is a bracket which you can only mount into a corner, and you have to use double-sided tape to attach the antenna to the bracket. - 2005-09-01, 7 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Didn't help at all
- In 90% of the areas I compared signal strength, and actually decreased it in some. In a spot of two I did get a 5%-10% increase in signal strength. I'm sure there's a use for this device somewhere out there, perhaps, as someone else noted, in an auditorium. I can't fathom it being of any use in a home though,
- 2005-06-12, 5 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
