MyWireless/Sentech Antenna

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sach70

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Wonder if any1 can assist: My signal strength is not 2 great and I'm wondering what the general experiences are with the patch antennas that Sentech/MyWireless advertise.

I see the prices range from approx R300 to R2000 (??) Are any of these antennas worth the money. (Effective) I don't want to spend a lot of money for a 1db gain.
 
You can use virtually any 2.4ghz WiFi antenna and it will do the job. The patch antennae that NoWire sells are pretty useless generally. Miro sells a pigtail (connector cable) for the modems that will connect to virtually any WiFi antenna. I've had good service from the 40cm dish: http://www.miro.co.za/ --> Wireless -->Sentech MyWireless --> Dish
 
Poynting sell a very nice yagi with 12 dB gain which you get for R198 (wholesale).
They will also make up the cable and connector for you.
I recently got a Yagi, about 6 meters cable and a connector from them for R460 for doing some tests with and the little yagi worked great.
Otherwise as Rodent says, any WiFi 2,4 gig antenna works well.
Vodacom and MTN use 2.4 gig panels for their backhauls and they too work very well.
I'm using one of them atm.
 
Patch antenna

I bought a patch antenna - completely useless - Eventually took a long pringles can, made a hole near the bottom and pushed the modem's antenna through it. I then used the patch antenna as a support to stop the pringles can from flopping down.

My modem with the pringles can on it quadrupled my signal strength and always worked. The patch antenna sometimes worked, but mostly was useless.
With the pringles can - my signal went from 2% (without it) to roughly 9% (with it).

I have since "upgraded" to a 3m pole with the dual direction external antenna - cost me about R 2,000 - but since Sentech is the only service provider that gives us more than 3GB Bandwidth without me having to take a
2nd bond on my house to pay for it - it was worth the money.
 
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