BOOST FOR SPEED PACKAGE (3 in 1 WiFi Antenna Kit - 2.4GHz 802.11b/g WiFi Antenna with USB Adapor Kit

Average customer rating: 5.0

Great buy for use in variety of situations!

BOOST FOR SPEED PACKAGE (3 in 1 WiFi Antenna Kit - 2.4GHz 802.11b/g WiFi Antenna with USB Adapor Kit

Manufacturer: WiFi World
Product Group: CE
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ASIN: B000HWB94W

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Package Contents: TurboTenna 007GT antenna 1 unit 6FT RF cable with connectors 1 unit Tripod stand 1 unit Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S PCMCIA card 1 unit User guide 1 unit Practical Advise: The Wardriving package is intended for road warriors who drive around looking for hotspots and wireless networks. Most WiFi devices available in the market offer a gain of 15dBm (or 25mW), which could do a pretty good job if you are close to an access point nearby, but hardly capably of maintaining a wireless connection from blocks away or sometimes even just opposite the road. The TurboTenna 007GT is a +12dBi directional antenna with a beam width of 30 degrees capable of picking up the WiFi signals from a remote spot. You may scan the signals by slowly changing the beaming direction until you capture the cluster of SSID with the strongest and stable signals. The lower diagram shows that 23 SSIDs were captured by the TurboTenna at channels 1, 4, 5 , 6, 10 and 11, an excellent accomplishment for a low-cost high performance antenna. The green SSID indicates a pretty good signal strength for stable connection; yellow gets a bit speed bump yet still stable; both orange and grey are borderline that needs a bit of steering to get a working connection. If your Centrino laptop or PCMCIA adapter does not support an external antenna, don't worry! The Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S 54/ 125MHz* High Speed Mode PCMCIA card is one of the few in the market that does, and it works as good as the 802.11b Orinoco Gold card with a TurboTenna 007GT but runs faster on its 54/125MHz High Speed Mode. The Wardriving package consists of a TurboTenna 007GT with a tripod, a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54S 802.11b/g PCMCIA card and a 6Ft LMR-100A RF cable. Other sizes and types of pigtails and RF cables are available. Setup is simple, you can install the Buffalo card to your laptop

Customer Reviews:

Great buy for use in variety of situations!.......2007-04-26

I recently bought this product and found it very useful. The overall setup and assembly is easy. The user guides are easy to read and understand. The claim of the 12db gain is accurate and with proper tweaking of the BUFFALO wireless PMCIA adapter you can further improve your wireless signals overall.

Software was easy to install and begin using right away. However, the wireless client manager software is not supported by windows Vista! So, it was a bit frustrating trying to utilize the kit on that platform. But on XP the system performs flawlessly in returning an excellent connection from your wireless access point. I was able to pull in multiple AP's and SSID's within a couple mile radius just from the directional orientation of the antenna.

The adapter cable that goes from the antenna to the PMCIA card is a little short. But for on-the-go use and mobility with a laptop the employment of the kit is just right. Hands down... I give this package two thumbs up.

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