Hawking Technology Hi-Gain Dual-Band 9dBI Directional Antenna Kit (HD9DP)

From my testing, this thing appears to be horizontally polarized, which isn't clearly stated anywhere that I can tell. While conditions vary, this means you will probably get better performance by rotating it 90 degrees (as if you are wall mounting) than having it oriented with the base at the top or bottom the way it is shown in the product photo.I'm a little disappointed--even with the antenna pointed in the right direction, I'm not actually getting better performance than I did with some Eightwood 6dbi omni antennas that are much cheaper (and have a longer cable). This is more sensitive to where it is located in the room. I think it's possible to get better performance than high gain omni antennas, but for most people, I'd recommend going with omni's instead. Considering how sensitive this antenna is to positioning and aiming, I really wish they had given us a cable that's a few feet longer.

My first Hawking product and likely my last. This HD9DP antenna has nice design (case and mount in a single panel package) but it doesnt even perform as well as the little omni-directional antennas that came with my device. I've tried everything, multiple tests with multiple antennas and I really wanted to like this Hawking but the only thing to like about it is the case w/ adjustable mount.I have 3 antenna setups at the moment, I have the two dipole antennas that ships with the Alfa AWUS036ACH and I have two dual band Alfa panel antennas (APA-M25) and I also have this Hawking HD9DP.I definitely know what I am doing when it comes to long range wifi and this antenna is more like a novelty than anything, it is just a very poor performer and it always wants to default to G or N and to get this antenna to actually use the AC channel you will have to manually put your device into wireless AC only mode.I would say this Hawking HD9DP doesnt even perform at 40% of the performance of the Alfa M25 antennas and that is under optimal conditions with no obstructions.I will be comparing the Alfa M25 panels to the (Ubiquiti UMA-D) next. I am curious to know if the little Alfa panels can outperform an Enterprise Solution antenna such as from Ubiquiti.Don't waste your time with this one... I expected better from such a seemingly reputable company such as Hawking Technologies.

I bought this to extend the range of my Actiontec wireless hdmi TV transmitter. I installed 2 sma connectors to the Actiontec transmitter and hooked up this antenna. I did not see much improvement. I cut down the length of the antenna's wires to about 18" and when I connected it I saw that the signal strength on the Actiontec receiver had doubled. I guess Hawking's use of RG174 cable was not a great idea as it has a lot of loss at 5 Ghz a low loss cable would be much better. But other that that it worked and extended the range of my Actiontec transmitter. For more range you could probably install one on Actiontec's receiver.

Attached to the inside window of my house, its given my router enough range to reach the end of my property, about 150 yards away, with a throughput good enough to support a couple of remote wifi cameras at 1080p resolution.It is a directional antenna, so there's no signal outside of its directional cone (about 60 degrees up/down left/right)its ideal use is to increase the performance of marginal devices, so if you have a device a long way away and it connects but is very slow, then use this and you'll get a pretty decent throughput and no more random drops.

This is a decent antenna. I have not actually measured the antenna gain, or input impedance, or radiation pattern and I am not going to . Plugging my WIFI router into boosted the signal enough to max the bars on my phone anywhere in my house. I am using it for both 5.8GHz and 2.4GHz and the signal looks good on both. This is a good antenna to use if you are going to put it at one end of yr house. Good directionality. I have been an antenna design engineer in the past and I don't think I could have designed a better one very quicker easier or cheaper.

the performance was very poor. it is directional but, what is not made clear is that the antenna is both horizontal and vertically polarized. I can only guess that they are adding the horizontal and vertical gain to come up with their figures. in practical use, the strongest received signal straight in the direction of the antenna is just 1/2 the strength of a standard 3dbi antenna. id avoid this unless all you looking for is to block off-angle signals and you don't care about gain at all.

Greatly improved my network connection.This sounds silly but it would be very easy to make a mistake and have it facing the wrong way, so be careful not to make that mistake.

Really impressed with this antenna, our office is little odd shaped and I was not sure buying a directional antenna would be the best option but this is working much better than the old omni directional.

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