I’m also not really understand why we do that.
Sure it is nice to use the same antenna on each connection.
But it feels wrong to use a 3-band capable antenna on a port, which delivers just 6 Ghz.
If someone would argue that this are wifi 7 recommandations. Thats okay … but without it, I’m undecided what antenna to choose …
Plz can you share the links for these antennas with cables (if its required)
I appreciate if there’s link on AliExpress or international shop
Thank you again
Thank you soo much for your buyers guide!
I bought myself 8 Joymax TWX-614XRS3B antennas (6 in the router and 2 in the client), in the 6GHz range I got +4-5dBi, in the 5GHz range +5-6dBi.
I would like to ask for your advice - I decided to buy a 5G modem and the question of antennas is, Chat GPT recommends Taoglas GW.52.A153, they are also in the guide, is this a good solution for 5G Cellular?
I also don’t understand what connector this Taoglas antenna has, SMA Male or SMA Female. Digikey says Male, but all the photos say Female. (I need SMA Female, SMA without pin in antenna)
My results with Joymax TWX (RAX120v2 for reference as a powerful AP)
SUMMARY IN BRIEF:
1 wall without MLO:
2.4 GHz: -38dbm TWX/ -34dbm ALI - I'll double check, terrible result
5GHz: -46dbm TRX/ -52dbm ALI
RAX120v2 -34dbm 2.4GHz/ -44dbm 5GHz
2 walls without MLO
2.4 GHz: -43dbm TWX/ -45dbm ALI
5GHz: -55dbm TRX/ -58dbm ALI
RAX120v2 - -39dbm 2.4GHz/ -56dbm 5GHz
2 walls without MLO on WIndows 11
2.4 GHz: -44dbm TWX/ -48dbm ALI
5GHz: -51dbm TRX/ -60dbm ALI
6GHz: -56dbm TRX/ -60dbm ALI
RAX120v2 - -41dbm 2.4GHz/ -51dbm 5GHz
Hello, why is the signal range so bad, even 2.4 does not penetrate the wall, as a result, the device with 6 antennas loses to mikrotik hap ac2 without antennas, what is the problem? In standard antennas R4-NIC-BE14? Maybe I connected them according to the wrong scheme? I connected the near ones to the near ones, the far ones to the far ones. I do not believe that even with standard antennas this device should lose to hap ac 2.
@PentiumB are you by any chance limited to 6/7dBm? If yes have a look at [Banana BPI-R4] all related to MTK-SDK - #442 by Rahzadan - Community Builds, Projects & Packages - OpenWrt Forum or wifi txpower value is very low · Issue #17489 · openwrt/openwrt · GitHub
Hello. Yes, that’s true, I’m limited to 6/7 dBm. I read a long post on github, but I don’t understand how I could solve this. It talks about some patches, but doesn’t describe the installation process or the finished image. Can you please help me?
There are several images build by other people in the OpenWRT Forum. Building an image can be very fiddly but there are some instructions there on how to go about it.