Does anyone understand antenna db gain?
Looking to buy a better magnetic mount antenna for a Wilson Sleek cellular booster cradle. This is for the truck, I have a fixed on the rv. The one the booster came with produces very little if any ga...
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One way to look at it is an increase of 3.0DB is double the gain...
In regards to the cellphone however reading the gain indicated by the number of bars is not a exact reading. Yes the more bars you have is great but probably no way one can come up with how many DB's this is to make changes...
I use the older WILSON CRADLE for my VERIZON MIFI unit with a 3GB dataplan and it really helps keeping enough signal inside our Truck,RV or in and around the RV to keep the WIFI going to all of WIFI Enabled devices. My Antenna is the taller one with a coil in it.... I think my bigger savings grace is being on the VERIZON TOWERS. This setup works very well everywhere we go. Hard to find an area where the VERIZON doesn't work for us.
I normally keep either the cellphone or the MIFI unit sitting in the WILSON CRADLE when driving. The WILSON CRADLE only provides a PASSIVE connection to the CELLPHONE or MIFI unit and I think the specs says they have to be with a couple of inches to work properly. When I have the VERIZON MIFI sitting in the cradle my DROID CELLPHONE is sitting in its holder just a few inches to the side of the cradle. It never drops any signals sitting there when going don the road so I suspect it is being fed by the cradle as well...
Ive been thinking about upgrading my MIFI unit to VERIZON JET PACK that would support a little better downstreaming. My current MIFI is grandfathered and the low $27 a month cost per is hard to give up haha... The WIFI footprint generated is based only on a 56K signal which being used with my tablets to downstream some TV Programs falls into the problem of not having enough throughput to keep the buffer full to keep the downstream video always going. Alot of starts and stops as you watch the generated video.
My older DROID X does have MOBILE WIFI capability but every time I try to use whenever I down the TV PROGRAMS it is diverts to VERIZON and says I don't have the right plan to support it. I do have unlimited DATAPLAN however so who knows what that means... Someone told I needed to ROOT my DROID X but that is illegal I guess... Too old to do any of that stuff... I can always watch DVDs when we in travel mode.
Roy Ken
In regards to the cellphone however reading the gain indicated by the number of bars is not a exact reading. Yes the more bars you have is great but probably no way one can come up with how many DB's this is to make changes...
I use the older WILSON CRADLE for my VERIZON MIFI unit with a 3GB dataplan and it really helps keeping enough signal inside our Truck,RV or in and around the RV to keep the WIFI going to all of WIFI Enabled devices. My Antenna is the taller one with a coil in it.... I think my bigger savings grace is being on the VERIZON TOWERS. This setup works very well everywhere we go. Hard to find an area where the VERIZON doesn't work for us.
I normally keep either the cellphone or the MIFI unit sitting in the WILSON CRADLE when driving. The WILSON CRADLE only provides a PASSIVE connection to the CELLPHONE or MIFI unit and I think the specs says they have to be with a couple of inches to work properly. When I have the VERIZON MIFI sitting in the cradle my DROID CELLPHONE is sitting in its holder just a few inches to the side of the cradle. It never drops any signals sitting there when going don the road so I suspect it is being fed by the cradle as well...
Ive been thinking about upgrading my MIFI unit to VERIZON JET PACK that would support a little better downstreaming. My current MIFI is grandfathered and the low $27 a month cost per is hard to give up haha... The WIFI footprint generated is based only on a 56K signal which being used with my tablets to downstream some TV Programs falls into the problem of not having enough throughput to keep the buffer full to keep the downstream video always going. Alot of starts and stops as you watch the generated video.
My older DROID X does have MOBILE WIFI capability but every time I try to use whenever I down the TV PROGRAMS it is diverts to VERIZON and says I don't have the right plan to support it. I do have unlimited DATAPLAN however so who knows what that means... Someone told I needed to ROOT my DROID X but that is illegal I guess... Too old to do any of that stuff... I can always watch DVDs when we in travel mode.
Roy Ken
