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External Wifi Antenna Experiment and Results



  • Here's some information about using an external IPX antenna. I am using a junk antenna I got off an old router and had some good results. I'd venture to guess I'd get better results with a longer antenna mounted vertically rather than glued to the bottom.

    https://github.com/pjobson/onion_omega2p_experiments/blob/master/docs/external_antenna.md

    I got a decent speed increase using speedtest-cli after adding the external antenna.

    Before external antenna.

    root@Omega-ADBD:/tmp# ./speedtest-cli
    Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
    Testing from Verizon Fios (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)...
    Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
    Selecting best server based on ping...
    Hosted by Shentel Service Company (Ashburn, VA) [7.69 km]: 21.32 ms
    Testing download speed..........
    Download: 10.16 Mbit/s
    Testing upload speed..........
    Upload: 11.48 Mbit/s
    

    After external antenna.

    root@Omega-ADBD:/tmp# ./speedtest-cli
    Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
    Testing from Verizon Fios (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)...
    Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
    Selecting best server based on ping...
    Hosted by GigeNET (Ashburn, VA) [7.69 km]: 24.893 ms
    Testing download speed..........
    Download: 16.73 Mbit/s
    Testing upload speed..........
    Upload: 10.14 Mbit/s


  • @Paul-Jobson When I was testing several external antennas on Omega2 I had best results by cutting the connection to the on-board chip antenna - with RF two in-series antennas is not better than one!


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