Asus WL-ANT-157 Antenna

Helpful tip: The side with the ASUS logo is the back, so the side without the logo should be what points in the direction you want your signal to be strongest.Note: I found significant increases in throughput, connection, and stability using this antenna. HOWEVER: I have a three floors and my router is on the third floor, not ideal for everyone in the family, but great for me (muahahaha). I replaced the middle antennae of my ASUS RT-AC68U with this one and I found that the range of my router dropped a fair bit. Both the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz can still be caught down on the first floor, but I used to get much better signal strength down there. It is still functional, but I can see this range drop being a deal breaker for some.Anyways, for everything in front of this antennae, expect to see a nice boost in performance! For everyone else using the same router, they will get left out of the fun.

Works as advertised. Not a "miracle" as some people think when adding antennas. It does not boost the output on the router. When aiming two of these towards a range extender, it went from 2/5 bars signal strength on the 5GHz network to 5/5 bars, increasing throughput tremendously to the range extender and attached devices on the extender.Using with an Asus RT-AC66U router, and Netgear AC1200 range extender - extender receiving in 5Ghz, and transmitting to clients in 2.4Ghz mode.

Every high gain WiFi antenna being sold on Amazon seems to have many of negative reviews made by people who apparently can not understand that these antennas have to be _aimed_. Or they expected dramatic results and didn't get them. Or they both didn't aim it and expected it to allow their WiFi to penetrate a solid concrete wall or something.This antenna absolutely does work. What it's good for is boosting the signal to a far corner of your house where your WiFi connection is spotty and unreliable so that it becomes solid. Don't expect it to be able to raise an area that's getting no reception all the way to solid reception. It's effect is not that strong. Basically, an antenna like this will kick up the signal a notch or two in the direction is it pointed._AND_ it will diminish your router's signal a little in every other direction besides the way that it is pointing. This is not an amplified antenna. It's not increasing the overall broadcast power (which would be illegal because it's limited by FCC regulations). You use directional antennas like this to direct your router's signal in directions that need to be strengthened by sacrificing directions that don't.This is why many reviewers complain that they tried a high gain antenna, and it diminished their WiFi reception rather than strengthening it. They've got the antenna pointed away from their WiFi client! The antenna is doing exactly what it's supposed to do!This behavior can be very useful because you often can't place your WiFi router at the very center of your house. So the near end of the house gets much more signal than it needs, and the far end of the house gets spotty reception. Use this directional antenna to sacrifice some of the signal to the near end so that you can cast more signal to the far end instead.Aim the non-logo side of this antenna toward areas you're trying to strengthen. This is only a moderately high gain antenna, so it strengthens a fairly wide arc mildly. It added one bar within its arc for me, which was enough to make a considerable difference in WiFi connection quality.

In past few months I've tried several products in order to solve wireless coverage problem. It's highly likely you are looking at this page and asking yourself: should I get this or maybe some other advertised antennas? Like this 9 dBi:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMJI9TA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DMJI9TA&linkCode=as2&tag=codeproject-20&linkId=IOBXQKBKD3N2DRE3ASUS antenna is 5 dBi / 7 dBi... other product is 3 antennas with 9 dBi. Surely that's better? But other product has lower review rating, and most reviews are not detailed - one liners with - this works great, this doesn't work. What to do, oh what to do?Well, here is how you should decide:1. You need to understand that this ASUS antenna is directional. Meaning, it'll work great in scenarios where you need to boost coverage in CERTAIN area. BUT, that certain area can't be behind like 3-4 walls. It also depends on what material was used for building walls we are talking about. This is why some people report that antenna is great, and some are having problems.2. Products like 9 dBi antenna that I've linked are good in scenarios where you need to boost existing coverage in ALL directions. However, considering layout of most houses, you are quite likely having trouble in one area - you wouldn't benefit from small increase of your existing wireless coverage. Meaning, if you already have signal in certain area, but it's 50% and you would want it to be 100% - it's quite likely those 9dBi antennas would help you.HOWEVER, what I found in practice is that for MOST people NEITHER antenna is good enough. The area where they want WiFi has like -70 dBi signal strenght and they want it to be -15 dBi. So, instead of spending $20+ on antenna, you should buy Wireless extender like NETGEAR EX6100 AC750:http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00HHRP11C/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=codeproject-20&linkId=VE2G4KUT5UZFBFOHNow, Wireless Extenders have a bad name because people don't understand a simple fact about them: they SPLIT the band. One half of traffic goes on communication to router and one half of traffic goes on communication to connected devices. HOWEVER, this is easily solvable, let me elaborate:1. Most important - you need QUALITY extender. This is why I linked NETGEAR EX6100 AC750. AC750 protocol (theoretically) supports speeds up to 750 MBit on both 2.4 & 5 GHz ranges. You have N150 extenders for $20 dollars, like NETGEAR WN1000RP N150 for example:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGB342/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008GGB342&linkCode=as2&tag=codeproject-20&linkId=JOSRT4S44J4PBUNLBut with extender like that you only have 2.4 GHz range. 150 Mbit is theoretical speed, so likely you are looking at 75 Mbit. That's split - so in the end it's highly likely that in BEST CASE SCENARIO you'll end up with 30 Mbit link on your connected device (~3MB/s).So, what you should do is buy REFURBISHED NETGEAR EX6100 AC750 for just $40. Devices like this are highly unlikely to malfunction - because of low heat generation and no mechanical parts. If they work within 90 days (refurbished guarantee period)... it's highly likely they'll work for years without problems.2. Now, when you have quality extender like EX6100, what you can do is use one band (5 GHz) to communicate with router and other band (2.4 GHz) to communicate with devices. Netgear calls this "FastLane Technology" and you can use either band in this mode - if you have newer devices, use 2.4 GHz for router communication; this will probably allow you to place extender further away from router. And then, near extender, WiFi devices on 5 GHz will work great.3. Finally, EX6100 supports AP mode in which you connect it to router with LAN cable. If you don't mind the work that comes with laying out LAN cable, this mode will give you MAX possible speeds on both 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz. This is how professional WiFi networks are built. Whenever you need to expand WiFi coverage, you just connect more extenders with LAN cables, setup extender to clone SSID and WiFi password - job done.This is shaping up to be pretty lengthy review. So, instead of me keeping on with the babbling, let's stop here and if you have specific questions feel free to post comment. I'll try to come back with a good answer. And, if this review helped you, I would appreciate marking it as helpful. Good luck with increasing your WiFi coverage! ;)

Increased the wifi range in my house by 5 foot and better bandwidth also

Seller offered great service. Everything as described but no performance inprovemnt for my environment.I can't blame it on the product but stock configuration was the same.High concrete area with tons of wifi interference form neighbors.Looks good though..

great

This product only has a scanty description on the company website, but is supposed to be a no-frills 5 dBi/7 dBi dual-band antenna. That means it is supposed to increase signal power 3 to 5 times. For me, it means that a computer tucked in the basement can now receive stably from a router on the main floor at the opposite end of a 25-foot house with wooden flooring. Because the 5 GHz connection has less interference, it works quite well now, even on 1 or 2 "bars". My 2.4 GHz connection is now at "4 bars" (up from 3). This is a modest performance gain, but may be enough for some. At longer ranges, or through tougher materials, expect a less significant impact.

Purchased these to try and increase the range of my asus rt-ac66u. These make a negligible difference in range. I figured it wouldn't work wonders but was pretty disappointed at the ineffectiveness. You are better off buying a cheaper router, putting ddwrt on it and using it as a repeater/bridge(it will increase latency though)