Hy I bought a cheap Yagi wifi antenna need some help cause the previous owner broke it and tried to fix it red neck styleā¦ It didnāt work ā¦ I hope I would be able to add a picture here is a breaf description anyway itās the cheapest brand you can find online the main element is formed into an oval shaped metal ring and here comes my question where should I solder the middle wire ? On one end ? On the other ? Should I pass it throu the (hollow) metal ring and weld it back to himself ? I have seen people build Yagies with similar ovaly shaped rings and they made the cable pass through half the ring and weld it there the problem is that my ring is shaped exactly like a C it doesnāt have a second gap in the middle of the left part ā¦ (Here=>C) English is not my first language hope itās good enough to be understood ask if not šš»
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j4k3@lemmy.world āØ5ā© āØweeksā© ago
Look up Andrew McNeil on YouTube if you can. He has lots of content and examples. www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqwzhcFOsoFFh33Uy8rAgQ
Without a vector network analyzer with the bandwidth for 2.4/5.8 GHz to tune the signal frequency well, you are poking around in the dark when it comes to real performance.
Iāve built some antennas including a one for WiFi. It made a small difference for awhile, but it turned out there is an error of some kind in the OpenWRT kernel or in the hardware design of the device. It took me a long time to isolate the problem. The router was unable to transition between the 2.4 and 5.8 bands smoothly and was causing problems. I actually get better range and performance by disabling the 2.4 GHz radio entirely. My issue of the bad 2.4 radio is probably unrelated to whatever youāre dealing with, but it is something to think about and maybe test out if youāre trying to improve router performance.
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DNOS@lemmy.ml āØ5ā© āØweeksā© ago
Iām considering this possibility as one of the most likely nowā¦ I have an Alfa wifi adapter and I have already tried 5or 6 antennas and I never seen a performance boost ā¦ no matter how big the antenna I connectā¦ Yeah some of them were hand made but I made sure to be preciseā¦ Hereās the link ā¦ Itās not my antenna itās an identical one taken from the internet (the Alfa adapter is not the one I have ā¦ Mine is 2.4/5.8 and thatās exactly why you had problems I guess ā¦ )
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