TP542 Dual-Band (13dBi) Outdoor Directional Panel Antenna (2.4GHz & 5GHz WiFi) Wireless Network Signal (Pole Mast Mount) Weatherproof High-Gain Long-Range (w/N-Female Connector)

Bravo TUPAVCO !! This antenna gives an excellent directional boost to 2.4 and 5GHz WiFi Signals. I have amateur and commercial FCC radio licenses and have purchased and built many antennas over the years. This is a nicely built and performing antenna. At WiFi frequencies exact antenna, connector and cable tolerances must be maintained. I'm using it as part of a 5GHz band WiFi Wireless Bridge from my garage to the house. This antenna is outside on the garage as seen in the photos. My wireless bridge router will also give 2.4GHz WiFi access through the bridge as well as to the ethernet connection ports. The signal increase was as advertised. On the 5GHz band (channel 153) my signal improved from -70dBm to - 50dBm using the Android version of the WiFi Analytics app by Netgear. In other words, the signal went from poor to excellent. As a result of the stronger signal the network speed increased from 100Mbps to 700Mbps . This compares the signal with standard omni-directional antennas vs with the TUPAVCO directional antenna replacing one of the omni antennas at the bridge side of the network. Although I didn't test the actual 2.4 band increase, it gave a significantly stronger signal on my cell phone WiFi through the wireless bridge. I'm very pleased with this considering the 50 foot distance and an outside wall with a glass sliding door between the host and bridge routers. The technical specifications provided in the box are impressive and backed by solid performance. The radome and housing are sturdy and weather-proof. It should last for many years. The hardware appears to be stainless steel with nuts, washers, lock washers, U-clamp, and bracket provided. The N-connector on the back is mounted solidly to the rear plate. The connecting cable is NOT provided - the kit only includes the antenna and mounting hardware , which is very reasonably priced for the excellent build quality and performance. I needed a 10 foot cable which will have some moderate signal loss. At 5GHz the coax cable must be as short as possible - and good quality - or the antenna gain will be lost in the cable. This is a specialized antenna that is highly recommended to those who need a directional gain antenna.

Like many others, I have my wireless router and modem in the garage of the main house. My office is across the driveway (150 feet or so), and my wifi signal had to go through 2 garage doors and simply was unreliable. In my office building I have a repeater. Both the router and repeater are Amped Wireless products (good stuff). I attached the new antenna to one channel of my repeater and the results were amazing. This was the easy and cheap solution that I hoped to find. Both the 2.4 Ghz and 5.0 Ghz channels are performing wonderfully. I don't know if adding another one of these antennas to the router side would further help, but I might just give it a try. UPDATE: I added the second antenna so now I have one attached to the extender (remote repeater) and one to the wireless router. My link is solid with download speeds of 60 Mbps and upload speeds of 6 Mbps. The remote antenna is connected with a one meter cable, on the router side I used a 25 foot cable. I was concerned that the longer cable might degrade the performance, but it did not.

I bought this antenna to use in my RV parked out at a rural lake property I'm building a house on until I can get hard wired broadband. I have two neighbors broadcasting wifi nodes from 350 and 200 ft away. There are only very light trees obstructing line of sight but it won't even detect the access node. I can however "see" these nodes with my phone's wifi, just have to move slightly closer to connect with decent signal strength. If I setup a wifi hotspot with my phone nearby this antenna works very well. I suspect that the coax cable I purchased separately is too small, doesn't have the requisite cross section to support a hi gain antenna without diminishing the standing wave ratio. The solution would be custom to fabricate thicker coax by soldering the correct connectors on. So I will look in to buying those. And next week I will go out and see how far away it will pick up my phone's signal, and edit this review afterwards. There is also the issue of grounding, which it is not at this time. But otherwise, my experience is that the antenna itself is seldom the problem with performance issues. Same with trees, unless they are numerous. I believe I can make this work but for now am only giving it two stars. Edit 20 Mar 2023: the seller has issued me a full refund. Additionally, I moved phone 50ft away and this antenna had a diminished but serviceable signal. But at 100 ft away it dropped to almost nothing. This is unfortunate but I am made whole by the seller. Would buy again it I had some assurance the product performed as claimed.

Is better than the 9db from same company, but is not better than the tp-link 2.4ghz , my router is a 2.4 and 5.8 but working better with tp-link antenna, tested individually and even have the 3 antennas at same time but wasn't the best to all of my wireless stuff,.

In actual fact, I would give this antenna 4-1/2 stars. Everything about the antenna is perfect and it works great for my purposes- getting a wifi signal into a "faraday cage" metal shop building. I'm withholding 1/2 star because the mounting "muffler clamp" that comes with it is huge- designed for such a large mast that it ran out of threads before adequately tightening around my 1" (mast). The antenna is so light that a heavy mast isn't necessary. Apart from that, it does everything I hoped for, and at 150 ft. or so from the source repeater, it doesn't seem all that directional, so setup was easy.

I made an array of 4 of these in 40 degree sectors to cover a campus of 7 cabins down in a canyon. These are connected to a Netgear AC1900 gaming router which is fed by a Viasat modem. I used these to upgrade from the prior mismatched set of 2.4 GHz antennas. There was nothing wrong with the 2 Amped Wireless 2.4 GHz 14 DBi antennas, but the 2 Cushcraft 9DBi antennas we're not up to the task. My first install of the antenna array placed the (Port4) -90 degree sector too close to the building and that attenuated the signal too much. I then mounted all 4 antennas onto a spare satellite dish mast I had, after which they worked terrifically. The surprise was that the cabin Port4 (Cushcraft antenna) was not even visable to the user. I turned out they were living off of the reflection from an adjact cabin with metal siding and was receiving it's signal from the sector on Port3. However, now they can see its signal directly and they report they get a 5 gigahertz signal they've never seen before! (At almost half strength) A quick word about data speed. Our satellite modem on its best day will only provide ~20mbps, so we really don't have a need for 5 GHz. However over the long distance, the noise and drop out rates will slow your typical 400mbps link speeds. Again no problem, except when our canyon is full of guests. And everyone shows up with their pads, phones and computers; they need to spread out or everyone slows down. In my cabin campus scenario above I also added range extenders in the farthest locations which resolved any of the last connection issues. Set up problems: I almost returned these antennas, but on my second round of installation I discovered one of the original cables' RF connector fell off in my hand. Yes I bought new cables to use with these antennas, but I was doing better or worse? A/B testing. I also discovered a brand new router I was trying to impliment had no-output on a particular critical channel I was trying to test. You can imagine during my A/B testing how this was impacting my results until I discovered the issue. On final cleanup of the installation, I also replaced the many ethernet cables that were at play. One goes off to a weather station, another goes off to a camera, etc. I am an RF engineer, and have professionally tested hundreds if not thousands of antennas in RF anacoic chambers and outdoor ranges. Before we could test any antenna we had to be sure every component inserted into the RF path was tested by itself be sure they were good. This is why I did the A/B testing, and why you should too! If you have a bad day with this antenna, be sure it's not something else contributing to the problem. I hope this review helps you understand and reduces your frustration if you have any. In closing, this antenna Kicks Butt!

Bought this because my WiFi repeater is both 2.4 & 5.8 GHz and it is located a good distance, through walls, from the cable modem. While the WiFi repeater does work ok, I wanted a better signal. The antenna seemed to make no difference in signal strength. I checked the cable and it was fine, which told me that the antenna was probably faulty. I returned it and bought a different one.

I live in an apartment across the street from a university building that has Eduroam hotspots. I could *almost* get an OK connection with the stock antennas that came with my Asus PCIE network card (PCE-AC56), but it was not strong enough to be able to stream video, and would often drop. With this antenna, I'm able to get a connection that is good enough to - most of the time - reliably stream videos or play (online) multiplayer video games. I'm quite satisfied with the performance of this antenna. Note that my network card has two antenna ports (MIMO?), but I'm only using this antenna (I disconnected the stock antennas so I have one free antenna port right now). I may get another one of these antennas to try and improve signal strength and speed even more. One last note (more of a software thing) - I had to use a third-party program to specify which Eduroam access point to connect to, since there were many routers with that SSID within range. I used NetSetMan Pro, which is free for non-commercial use. TL;DR: I think that this antenna will work well for people who are right on the edge of being able to connect to a WiFi network, and don't have control of the network they want to connect to. If you have control of the WiFi router you want to connect to, using two of these (one at the router and one at your computer) might give better results.

I installed the antenna outdoors with 5m cable. In my Asus router I replaced one of the three antennas. Signal strength is -35db in one meter distance of the antenna, and -50db in 10 meter distance. I am very satisfied.

I tried a TP link box, but it only seemed to amplify the issues; if reception was bad, it would drop out more, and if good, it would be really good, until it wasn't. I located the park wifi antennas, and mounted the Tupavco just below my weather station on the same mast. Had to get a 15 ft extension & adapter, but my current computer box has two antenna ports, so I just screwed it in directly. Aiming to the park antenna, and it now allows consistent full speed wifi, and I forget the last time I had a dropout of signal, and almost always due to the vpn, not the signal. Speeds are roughly 10x previous. I also got an inline gas lightning arrestor... just in case. Super happy.

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This is a must for people that wants to share wifi or extend their wifi for access. The range is you need to buy the cable that connects to your router! I wish i would.of.know but its all good it was my fault!!

I've tested a few antennas and this one was the most expensive but it also performed well. I still got around -75 dbi at around 400 feet with some minor shrubs in path but mostly line of sight.