External Wifi Antenna Experiment and Results
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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/sAfter 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
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@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!
