GL-MT300A-Ext need to replace antenna with outdoor antenna - which one to change

peterries · 2017-11-20T20:18:57.000Z

Hi,

I recently bought a GL-MT300A-Ext for use in an appartment with a public hotspot around. Unfortunately the signal quality inside the room is very poor. Right outside the window the quality is sufficient to get a conection. So I orderd an external outdoor directional antenna (18dBm) with a cable of 4 meters.

Another WiFi repeater is connected to the LAN port of the GL-MT300A-Ext so I don’t have to transmit any signal to the internal network from the GL-MT300A-Ext. Clients connect to the SSID of the repeater. The “internal network” of the GL-MT300A-Ext is turned off.

As the GL-MT300A-Ext has two antennas my question is which antenna has to be replaced for communication with the hotspot?

Is there a dedicated antenna for “internal” and “external” or do I just have to replace just one of them? Do I need to take of the other possible unused antenna?

Thanks for any hint.

BR

Peter Ries

spacix · 2017-11-22T02:04:26.000Z

You should be able to replace either antenna but this might limit your connection speed because of how 300Mbs N works, you can get a 2T2R outdoor antenna with duel RP-SMA’s if it is an issue; However going though the Ethernet LAN limits you to 100Mbs so I doubt that’s a problem.