NETGEAR Omnidirectional MIMO Antenna (6000451) - Boosts Performance of Internal Antennas, Compatible with M5 (MR5200) & M6 (MR6150 & MR6550) Hotspot Routers, Includes 2 TS-9 and 2 SMA Connectors

We use these with our mobile hotspots for our Photo booth business and they work great! We get a signal where normal antennas have none or very weak. Also seems to give more life to the wifi network as well. Easily adds 2 bars to the cellular signal. Worth it.

Increased the signal for our router. Easy to install and works well!

Maybe my hotspot, an Aircard 815S (Unite Explore), already has a better antenna than this Netgear antenna? (Very doubtful.)But this Netgear antenna appears to do NOTHING. Absolutely nothing.Yes I gave it a chance, rotated it around, faced it right at the cell tower (which, weirdly, is recommended even though the antenna is called "omnidirectional").Anyway it appears to do nothing - zip - nada - zilch - nothing.If it was $20 or even $30 I might keep it on the slight chance it would help in some situations, but for $60 plus tax? That's too much.

With this antenna I stayed at 3 bars of 4g, but my download speeds increased by about 15 mbps. Which, in a poor service area is notable, but not impressive.

Works better, and has improved my signal, better than my two "hi-gain" mag-mount antennas and takes up much less space. I live in very rural northern Maine and my cell tower is less than two miles away but still had a weak signal. This NetGear antenna is attached by suction cups to my window facing the cell tower and is connected to an Inseego FX2000 router. I did buy a TS9 pigtail adapter for this antenna. The installation was fast. I positioned it in an upstairs bedroom and as high as I could in the window. The Inseego router is on a small knick-knack shelf above the window using an extension cord. US Cellular is my carrier. I would buy this again.

Works great. It does improve signal strength

Pros:• Can connect to existing wifi (i.e.: starlink, campground wifi, starbucks wifi, etc, a.k.a. data offloading), to re-distribute internet to your personally created wifi network or LAN• Has an ethernet port for LAN• Has split 5Ghz/2.4Ghz wifi broadcasts (some devices don't like when they're combined)• Allows VPN tunnelling• Access to text messages sent to SIM card/phone number, which is useful for 2FA, carrier messages, etc.• Allows IP Passthrough (the router acts as a modem solely)• Allows enable/disable of DHCP service from router• Has 2 radio antenna extender portsCons:• Display is nice, but tough to use. Better off using the web page.• DNS settings would NEVER work for me. It has a section where you can set a DNS IP, but no devices would ever get these IPs. I know some routers set themselves as the DNS provider, then forward all requests to the IP you set, but not this router. I could not access my pihole or other LAN devices via FQDN, only IPs. That kind of sucks.• Every single change requires a reboot. EVERY. LITTLE. CHANGE.• Every reboot, the system would NEVER turn back on. Its almost as if "reboot" = "shutdown". Keep the device within reach if you plan on making any changes.• Drops packets every 45 seconds or so. I ran a continuous ping to google.com and it resolved the IP no problem, ran the pings no problem at around 30ms each, but then it'll just jump up to 250ms, then "Request timed out" once, then back to normal. 45secs later, it'll jump to 250ms, then "Request timed out", and so on. Seems like it can't handle a normal workload. For comparison, I connected to my Starlink router in the same location, ran a ping to google.com and never had any dropped packets or "Request timed out" replies.This is a secondary form of internet for me now as it's performance is hardly reliable. I can't set DNS to be my pihole, and I really don't feel like setting DNS individually for all my wifi devices. I can't have consistent internet if the router is underpowered and dropping packets.Too bad I'm outside my return window now, otherwise I would have returned this.

I got the NETGEAR (600451) Omnidirectional MIMO Antenna to use with my MIFI 8800L Hotspot. You will have to adjust to your surroundings as you use it. In some areas, your internal antennas will work better, whereas in others, the antenna will help boost your signal.I like the small form factor, and it is about the size of a hand with the fingers spread out or a small paperback book, and it is light to carry. It does come with two ways to mount it. It has two suction cups to mount to windows and it has two brackets that will allow you to hang it on your open laptop or a flat surface like a laptop.