i got what i wanted Hawking Tech HAI15SC :very satisifed with improved performance with home wireless network (not G, only B). This weekend was a test with three simultaneous users in the house. I was able to maintain my subscription streaming audio service to my laptop for the first time, two rooms and three walls away from the router. At that end of the house signal quality was always below 50% to two different laptops. With the amplifer, signal strength and quality of signal were consistently above 70% and close...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by iowasteve can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | iowasteve | | Review Date: | 10/25/2004 | | User Location: | iowa | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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pay no attention Pay no attention to the negative reviews of this product. RF links are all about math and the gain of this antenna produces a directed signal that is hundreds of times stronger that what you get out of one of those standard wifi omni antennas. The people frowning on it are likely trying to use a radio link in an environment where rf is just not feasible.
For the record, it improved the signal strength on my point to point from around 35% to around 90%.
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/16/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Rip it apart! This is a "deconstructive" review of Hawking's corner reflector. Basically I took it apart so you don't have to! BTW - I am an RF engineer, so I apologize if it gets too technical.
First let me provide a explanation of what a "corner reflector antenna" is. A corner reflector antenna is a very simple, but high gain type of antenna. It consists of a dipole antenna (a dipole is just a straight piece of wire cut in a precise way) and behind the dipole is an angled metal screen or plate wh...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/09/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
97% (45 of 46) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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This thing is awesome !
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/18/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
87% (27 of 31) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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No noticable improvement over standard antenna. Do not buy this to extend the wireless range in your house. It might help in a large auditorium or hall, where there is a uninterrupted line of site but it does not have much effect in a building with interior walls.
I have a remote bedroom, about 20 feet away from where I have my wireless router, which isn't that far. This bedroom was an addition so some of the interior walls used to be exterior walls. I get a very weak signal from the wireless router to this room, using the standa...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by kireviewer can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | kireviewer | | Review Date: | 09/16/2004 | | User Location: | Sunnyvale, Ca United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
62% (17 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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no incremental improvement over standard d-link antenna looks and sounds like a nice product. I removed the tiny antenna from my d-link 524 router and plugged the hi-gain corner antenna in and pointed it directly at my powerbook in a room I had been getting ok but not great reception. result: no discernable improvement in reception strength or quality of transmission. amazon accepted return but at my shipping expense as item was not defective.
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by M. A Arias "migdoc" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | M. A Arias "migdoc" | | Review Date: | 07/27/2004 | | User Location: | Redondo Beach, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
46% (6 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Hi-Gain 15dBi Corner Antenna Compliant with both, 802.11b and 802.11g wireless standards, the HAI15SC increases the antenna strength of standard wireless devices (i.e. access points, workgroup bridges, network adapters) from the 2dBi industry standard to a powerful 15dBi. This indoor Wi-Fi antenna solution offers a corner mount design (to optimize wireless coverage) and a gain level of 15dBi. HAI15SC is an affordable, easy-to-install upgrade (simply unscrew the original antenna and screw in the Hawking Hi-Gain Wi-Fi Antenn...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by smtp67 can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | smtp67 | | Review Date: | 02/09/2004 | | User Location: | Virginia Beach, VA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
28% (12 of 42) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Not much success with indoor range Although your mileage may vary, the Hawking directional antenna did not work very well for my situation.I needed a way to extend the range of my wireless network inside my house. I wanted to get reception one floor below and many rooms over from the location of my wireless access point. After connecting the Hawking corner antenna to my D-Link DI-614+ access point, I hardly gained any range - although throughput may have increased a little. I would highly recommend a repeater instead, such...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by "mture2" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | "mture2" | | Review Date: | 03/02/2004 | | User Location: | Portland, OR USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
20% (2 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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No gain Tech Level:
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This user purchased this item from Newegg
Comments: After extensive testing, using a spectrum analyzer and a tracking generator in a test range, I found that this antenna at best is dB better than the average antenna that comes with a WiFi access point. This matches tests made with laptop comparing signal strengths of this antenna as compared with a standard WiFi vertical antenna.
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com] | | Newegg.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | N/A | | Review Date: | 08/18/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
5% (1 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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minus two stars already I haven't gotten it yet. I ordered it on October 9th. I clicked "ships in 3-5 business days", the next day I got my e-mail receipt.
The scheduled delivery date is October 20th. I realize that I made the purchase late Saturday night, so I figure take away Sunday, that give 3-5 business days for it to get to my house by Friday.
Maybe I'm doing my math wrong but I calculate October 20th to be 11 days after the date of order. Maybe I'm doing my math wrong, but 11 days is not th...
[Hawking HAI15SC HIGAIN DIRECTIONAL CORNER CORNER 15DB 2.4GHZ PC/APPLE review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 10/11/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
3% (1 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |