Client has a home router but also wants to serve a workshop just outside her router’s range. I was thinking of just replacing the router with an RB751 and hooking up a directional antenna to the external MMCX jack.
I’m asking to see what particular model antenna people like and have used in the past for this purpose – a modest SOHO directional antenna, hopefully with a compatible connector.
Thanks.
If you are stuck on using the directional antenna I would just use an SXTG-2HnD. But you might be better off setting up a pair of 751Gs and making one a repeater and setting it in her shop. Without seeing everything or knowing more about the layout it is hard to tell.
We use these all the time with 433AHs and R52s.
http://www.streakwave.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=PA58-19&eq=&Tp=
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Check this out http://www.wireless-instruments.com/en/produkty/17/9/antennas-5ghz/single-polarity/directional/wibox-pa-5-20.html
I have used dual polarity antennas from WiBOX, but I have have spoken with WISPs who used single polarity.
Nice design.
The WiBOX looks very nice, but is a router enclosure, plus it doesn’t seem to be available in the US. I was looking for something more on the order of a dumb directional antenna capable of plugging into the provided MMCX jack in the RB751. In other words, this level of product:
As it turns out, after viewing this client’s physical layout, the distance and layout requirement is more demanding than I expected, so I’m going to go with StationTik box at the remote site containing an RB411 PTP unit plus an additional radio card to run a small local omni. Thanks for your help.