Replacing stick antennas with Yagi?
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:55 am
Hi,
I have a KuWFI mobile hotspot that has stick antennas - two for cellular connections, two for WiFi.
Here's a link to the item in case it is important.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VS ... UTF8&psc=1
I'm 13 miles from the nearest (only) tower, signal strength tends to be between -115 and -120. The KuWFI is a vast improvement over what I was using before - a standard cigarette-pack sized mobile hotspot, which almost always would not connect. With the KuWFI I can usually connect, but just sometimes with very low speeds.
I'd like to improve that and am considering replacing the stick antennas with better antennas.
KuWFI offers one option
https://www.kuwfi.com/products/kuwfi-4g ... on-cup-111
but it is omidirectional. I don't need that - there's only one tower, I'd like to focus on it.
The KuWFI antenna has two connectors at the end of it, presumably to connect to each of the cellular antenna inputs on the device.
If I were to instead buy two separate Yagi antennas, has anyone tried this and knows how it works? Is it necessary to have two antennas (one for each input) or would it be workable to replace one of the sticks with a Yagi and leave the other stick as is? Or would that just create more problems?
Thanks,
Todd
I have a KuWFI mobile hotspot that has stick antennas - two for cellular connections, two for WiFi.
Here's a link to the item in case it is important.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VS ... UTF8&psc=1
I'm 13 miles from the nearest (only) tower, signal strength tends to be between -115 and -120. The KuWFI is a vast improvement over what I was using before - a standard cigarette-pack sized mobile hotspot, which almost always would not connect. With the KuWFI I can usually connect, but just sometimes with very low speeds.
I'd like to improve that and am considering replacing the stick antennas with better antennas.
KuWFI offers one option
https://www.kuwfi.com/products/kuwfi-4g ... on-cup-111
but it is omidirectional. I don't need that - there's only one tower, I'd like to focus on it.
The KuWFI antenna has two connectors at the end of it, presumably to connect to each of the cellular antenna inputs on the device.
If I were to instead buy two separate Yagi antennas, has anyone tried this and knows how it works? Is it necessary to have two antennas (one for each input) or would it be workable to replace one of the sticks with a Yagi and leave the other stick as is? Or would that just create more problems?
Thanks,
Todd