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Ericmpls
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Oct 04, 2015

Increase Wifi Hot Spot Reception

Going to start camping every other week next summer. I plan to work from my camp site and will need internet access on my laptop.There is a Sprint Hot spot tower not far from the camp ground.I used to be a Ham General class operator(60 ft tower, beams , rotors) At my camp site I'll be using a Sprint NetGear zing modem to pick up sprint hot spots with my laptop..
I plan on putting up a 20 ft pvc pipe with a Hawking 15 db omni antenna and running a coax cable from antenna to the Sprint modem.

My question is will a wifi booster also help in addition to the antenna? From my internet research so far I don't see how it will help since my laptop will be pulling the signal from my Sprint modem only a couple feet from the laptop

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