Can an aftermarket wifi antenna help your signal and speed? 

By the way, I think the reason the second test ran slower with the fancier antenna is it switched from the 5GHz radio to the 2.4GHz radio. 5GHz provides faster speeds at the expense of range. 2.4GHz has superior range, and the expense of speed.

Thank you SO MUCH. I was looking at other solutions, most of which were actually more expensive. You saved me money today!

Just using the stock 2.4/5 Ghz wifi antennas helps a lot. Used to be my bluetooth 5.0 headphones could not make it outside the house. I got a new motherboard with new wifi adapter that came with two wifi antennas. My old wifi adapter had connections but didn't come with antennas. Now I can reach the yard which allows me to listen to videos while cutting grass! I aim to improve this. Wifi router is 2 rooms and two walls away. With antennas I get 10 ms ping, 57.56 Mbps download and 2.90 upload. Without antennas I get 12 ms ping, 20.45 download (Half the speed!) and 2.16 upload. That's Crazy Man!

Hey Michael, fantastic video again as always, would it be possible for you to do a shopping list of products that you would recommend for building a PC for using X-Plane in VR please? Could you list say your top 3 current cases, motherboards, storage, memory, sound card, graphics card etc etc please please pretty please 🙏🏻 as a lot of us are not in the USA and are going to be stuck at home with this being the perfect time to look at improving or replacing our ageing setups. You are the perfect person to take advice from as you know what elements of the build will benefit from future versions of X-Plane. 😀

Great video! Just picked up some dual band SMA Antennas to hook into my desktop's wireless card. Hoping for a similar speed boost!

Thank you Michael for posting the video, most informative.

I wish if you tried to just swap the antennas, test speed. Then plug the base with antennas, test speed. To determine if higher dBi is benefitical even without wifi base. As well as if the base cable causing a loss of performance. But I think even if there is some little loss from the cable, it will gain it back, or even better... by being in better position Good video, good points 👍🏻 I use ethernet on my desktop, wifi on my laptop. wifi drivers can have huge impact on speed.. I updated my laptop wifi, dropped my speed to half ! Rolled back, and it's back to full speed. Updates are not always better, have to test it.

One thing I noticed right of the bat is that both antennas are pointing up. Play around with one pointing up and one straight out 90 degrees. If nothing else have the two antennas 45 degrees like a Y. Intel engineers always say place one straight out and one straight up on both the router and the PC. Hope this helps, tks for the video

I just ordered that antenna from the link you posted....can't wait to try it.

that's a pretty radical improvement. put the original antennas back on, turn the lights off or wait until night time and test your bandwidth then.

Gotcha! Thanks for the response 😀

The bigger antennas don't give you a stronger signal, they manipulate the area the where the signal is being transmitted in order to get it to go further, this is done by compressing the y axis area of effect of a signal which is gained on the x. And this done starting as a cone from the antenna. Most omnidirectional antennas emit a donut-shape like signal, so if you put an antenna with higher db you simply squeeze it from top to bottom as to left and right you the mass of the donut expanding same thing happens with these antennas.

At first I thought Man this guy is paying for Really Slow internet connection but then you tested the other antenna and I knew you must be paying for 200 plus speeds download or you would never get that over wifi. The antenna does make a HUGE difference.

My computer was 100 feet away from the router, so we used a WiFi antenna with a 75 foot cable. Worked wonders. 😊

So basically that thing is effective? Im about to buy a 3 antennas similar to what you've shown

Thanks for providing such Awesome Information Man Thanks I made the best decision ever for my pc

Best tip is of course to always use an Ethernet cable whenever you can.

those speeds in the beginning lol what in the fuck is going on there, I actually assumed this video was 15 years old when I saw that.

If you don't mind the wires, gigabit ethernet is the way to go. Not as convenient as wifi, of course.

Good video

I think something was wrong with the original antennas to begin with.

are they RP-SMA or regular SMA antennas? as far as the ones ur using on ur PC

Must live near ga with wind stream lol

if your upstream is stronger than your downstream, your access point needs to be configured or replaced. your pci card shouldn't transmit a better signal than your router.

lol thats like you plugged in a cat 5 cable haha thats huge

Fix AA in XP. The scenery is shimmering like crazy even with the slider almost on MAX. Address in 11.50 Please.

Do they make antennas like this for phones

in the grips of a global pandemic and my boy spitting out content on Wi-Fi antennae. Michael, Austin, be safe.

Why would I use the wifi on my desktop. I don't care if the CAT5 cable is going through my infant son's crib, or the cat's shitbox, I'm using ethernet cable on my main PC. My little Linux chat-laptop, it can connect WIFI. Let this be a lesson to my fellow man.

Wifi is on desktops sucks: lots of aftermarket pcie cards come only with these terrible stub antennas and as a result have the issue you talk about here in the video, lots of motherboards with integrated wifi it's the same, also some cheap wifi motherboards only come with bottom of the barrel 1x1 wifi solutions. This is all compounded that aftermarket desktop antenna holders like shown here are a rare breed, same with pcie to m.2 a/e-key adapters. You can only buy these "bundles", that are underwhelming in some part and have an unreasonable delay in regards to the tech. they almost all use easily replacable m.2 wifi solutions like intel ax210, which came on the market 1,5 years ago and still many aftermarket solutions ship with the older non-6ghz version. And good luck finding antennas actually advertised as 6ghz. In the end, you should really just use ethernet on desktops, even if you cant lay a normal network cable, there are some flat ones that are easier to hide.

I’m sorry but this video is bs I bought this 3 months ago and my games run fine until the amount of packet loss I’ve received is horrible I’ve changed my mtu settings and it can’t even handle 1000 I have to set it at its lowest to not get any packet loss at 608 and even that I still end up receiving 1000 ping regularly

This guy takes hotdogs to the bum.