I'm out camping right now and we brought an evdo card.... unfortunatly we have no EVDO signal available and all we have a a really low signal RTT network (about -106db).
Luckly we made this beautiful antenna
As horrible as that looks it takes us from -106db to around -91db. Our download speed also increased from around 6kbps to 16kbps .
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Again proving that SOME antenna is better than none at all?
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Re: Camping
that it was, it wasn't too fun trying to browse the interwebs with two people and 6kbs of bandwidth lol
i think it took me all of 5 min to make that antenna
i think it took me all of 5 min to make that antenna
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Re: Camping
we actually had two designs the first one was longer and thinner, and didn't work too well, also the wind up in the mountains wasn't helping too much with a tall thin antenna
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Re: Camping
@pferlandpferland wrote:we actually had two designs the first one was longer and thinner, and didn't work too well, also the wind up in the mountains wasn't helping too much with a tall thin antenna
Take a look at this ( its not expensive ) but will give you a good gain.
> hxxp://www.jetztfunkts.de/pi11/pi12/pd71.html
Sorry don't know if live links are aloud here, just fill in the xx with tt
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Re: Camping
links are allowed. no xx required
Unfortunately the evdo used in that picture was not ours, so we no longer have that adapter. (At least phils last job was good for something...lol....gave us internet for 2 weeks)
Unfortunately the evdo used in that picture was not ours, so we no longer have that adapter. (At least phils last job was good for something...lol....gave us internet for 2 weeks)
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That would be very nice for WiFi, I wonder if it would work at the EVDO freqs tho, seeing how they are closer to 1Ghz and that antenna is rated for 2.412GHz ~ 2.484GHz
I need to get an external card that has a connector for an external antenna.
I need to get an external card that has a connector for an external antenna.
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