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A very interesting discussion. I found the EPNT-2 disappointing because for a purely directional user, the omni is basically a support gimmick sleeping on the side offering no other benefits. Looks like I'll have to get the XPOL-24 for a proper 4x4 directional if I want an upgrade over my XPOL-2. With that said, do you know if the EPNT-2 contains the "completely redesigned on the inside" upgrade that exists in the XPOL-2 *V3* ?
Thanks. trying to get an M6 setup and worried i was gonna damage the connectors. Now if I can just figure out how to use the cellular / wifi offload feature. Way too complicated.
thx for the video. i didn't understand the whole discussion of antennas towards the end of the video. something about 4 antennas with 2 of them being routed inside or outside? completely lost me the there.
Hi David, Thanks so much for your content. I’ve watched so many.. Im trying to decide if getting a cel fi go gen 4 will assist (i think it will - but does it need its own antenna or can i use my current XPOL2? Problem: Modern house; double glazed windows, metal roof - rubbish voice clarity inside home. Will work but lots of drop outs and impossible on some days to have efficient/ meaningful conversations. My current house tech; XPOL 2, Nighthawk M5 (connected via pig tails and XPOL cables) via Telstra 5G (Signal Strength at Nighthawk is 3 bars or 4 at best) Ethernet Cat6 wall outlets in all rooms and some rooms have netgear AP’s connected to a net gear unmanaged switch - Wifi calling is still rubbish though. 18-20 connected devices. Wanting to add a few POE security cameras in the future. What would you consider my current priority is? Get Celfi unit and a splitter and suitable internal antenna inside the house to improve voice and share the existing MIMO2 antenna? If this didn’t really improve the situation due to to much ‘demand’ would installing a MIMO4 antenna be a wise option (to improve the data to the home AND voice to the home) or just lash out on a suitable antenna to suit the celfi and have them both as independent. Lastly if the MIMO4 antenna was recommended - am i doing my setup a dis-service if i kept the Nitehawk M5. Should I look at upgrading to something Teltonika. Hope all that makes sense. Look forward to your advice.
Hi. Informative video showing real world use. Thanks. I do have a question - Would it be possible to power this unit via a battery so it can be used more mobile. I do live streaming and it would be good to have something like this is areas whee signal isn't as good.
I love the tech but still there are very few products on the market. I was looking for a WiFi Halow smartphone (in addition to it's 2.4/5GHz antenna) but no such thing has been created as of yet.
Im setting up to run my house off a Netgear nighthawk M6, I live in Melbournes West and my nearest 4G/5G Optus antenna is about 950m away in direct line of sight from the roof of my house. I have been told by Optus my house does not qualify for one of their 5G modem packages but as an Electrician I believe I can accomplish just as fast speeds as their set up by putting something together of my own. For this setup which antenna would you recommend me purchasing taking into account everything you said in the clip? I'm going to assume its the MIMO-4-17 but is there another antenna you believe might be better suited to my situation? Thanks 👍
If anyone rolled out AI for engineering, or specifically antenna engineering, it wouldn't be a general purpose chat bot. These 'AIs' can get quite specialised depending on how they're trained. Whether anyone will create such a tool or not will depend on economics of whether it's worth pooling resources into the creation of AI assistant tool for this niche target. Assuming they do decide to do it, it would be great for those well established within the field, not so great for others. The boring work has to raise the demand for antenna engineers. When you bring in extra automation, productivity increases as, for the sake of example, every 1 engineer can do the job of 2. I don't know the economics of how much $$$ goes into engineer salaries when doing an antenna project, but if it's significant, then short-term you'd expect there to be more projects as every engineer would get the job done faster - meaning less money spent on salaries. Long-term, if we're assuming the antenna demand stops growing (as enough are built such that any new ones are experiencing diminishing returns), then the salaries in this field will likely reduce for anyone but the most experienced engineers due to there being more applicants per position open than before. It would also get more difficult for the newcomers to squeeze into the field. I wonder where would the replaced antenna engineers go? Would they go from the roles of doing the design to the roles of hands-on maintenance of existing antennas? Or are there other engineering fields to which the knowledge and skills they have would easily transfer?
WOW, wonderful objective... like the way made... interesting idea. Remain only one thing... HOW TO ASK CORRECTLY... TO DESCRIBE correctly... for sure we have to made a way, leaving IA to enter in the field of this objective... a discussion for example, searching for existing "papers", then ask to hypothesize, deduce, improvements... look at the results... then verify the results, then writing the results continue... in fact, in this way and only in this way I solved, and I built things and circuits that otherwise I would not have dreamed. I often find myself with solutions that maybe I had under my nose, simple, effective, but I didn’t see them... If then, you want to find a way to make an IA respond in "absurd" way well, it gets simple...
You'd probably get better performance from a model that was more specifically trained on RF engineering text. I'm not aware of such a thing, but there are open source models that could potentially be fine tuned on more RF engineering textbooks and papers to improve performance. ChatGPT has decent understanding of various sciences, but often falls short once you get too specialized. The image generation is really built more for making pretty pictures than engineering diagrams. I'm not aware of any publicly available image generation or engineering diagram generation that would be accurate for something like this, but it hardly means it is not possible if someone was so inclined to design it. Since the engineering and math is well understood its probably easier to write a more traditional software package to do the design at this time. We've had programs to do that for decades of course, and they'd be significantly more compute efficient that using giant generalized AI models running on millions of dollars of hardware. You might try looking into Nvidia RAN and Nvidia Aerial. developer.nvidia.com/gtc/2020/video/s22009-vid docs.nvidia.com/aerial/index.html Much of this is just GPU acceleration of the math rather than "AI", though. Codifying the problems is a good start, though, and generative AI may help improve the ability to search the possible space of solutions for complex problems.
Engineers and programmers without talent will be replaced.The smart ones are always going to be ahead of AI, because AI is a tool and not a person with interests.
ok you should of built it and then designed a (got ai) to make a better improved version to compare it to along with a couple standard ones and do tests that would be interesting!, but prompt engineering is key, you have to tell it what you expect of it, for example tell it you want Xn eliments or it wont know, its not a mind reader ...yet)!
You should do a bit of research into Physics Informed Neural Networks. Large language models are not meant to do scientific research. You can use the programming skills of a LLM to help you design some software to create antennas though. Eventually you'll probably have an agent swarm with varying strengths and weaknesses creating computer programs to solve difficult problems in design.
I feel like it is a specific expertise and was probably not included in the dataset as much. It would be like asking a first or second year student to make one. Maybe if a company that had a lot of antenna engineers and lots of data of what the antenna engineers did. Then they train the AI on that data, maybe you would get a better response. But I still don't think they would be able to replace engineers as of now. Maybe in a few decades or so.
My industry has been using antennas designed by genetic algorithms for awhile. It depends on what you consider to be "AI" but these antennas are mostly designed by the machine. However, it still requires a lot of human work to design the algorithm, the scoring routine, and the initial seed. Genetic algorithms only work if the solution space is continuous (any solution has to work, better or worse), antennas usually meet that requirement. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
Halow advantage is versatility of working great indoors and outdoors without switching between 2.4 or 5.8 and the long range without bulky directional antenna just a regular omni stick like a ham radio. Hope manufacturers will focus on this 802.11ah/s use case scenarios and develop higher power add mimo for more thoroughput and more watt power for extended range like 6 to 7 miles. And make it man portable with battery like a tactical manet radio in a ruggedized tactical form factor.
A Cat 6 router and Cat 20 router is difficult to compare I think? I am trying to figure out what is the best option for me to work on remote places. A nighthawk M1 with antenna or an other router with antenna. I need at least 2 mbit up (for livestreaming on RU-vid). Let me know your thoughts and solutions for this :) and thanks for the nice video!
Theoretically speaking , HaLow wifi could be built-in into mesh Wi-Fi system (eg: as a front backhaul between units) given the low speed maybe 2.4 / 5.0ghz n/AC bands (backwards compatible)
I wonder what the speed have been had the router been outside the box instead of in? Also, what would the signal have been like had the aerial been inside the box instead of out? From my testing today, using a similar method, the results of speeds would have been similar with or without an aerial. In some instances, I had a higher signal without an aerial in lower signal areas. I tested 2 different aerials.
@@RFShop hey srry to reply late. I'm from south Africa, my isp it telkom . it says " b222s disconnected from the internet check WAN settings or contact your isp "
@@touchthibhothashi1734 seems that you need to setup something to make it work on Telkom's network. Might be as simple as the APN ( which is indeed something that your isp (in this case Telkom)) would be able to help you with.
