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I didn´t think, that it could be so easy. I thought I would have to tear down a wall to get my wifi coverage in my bedroom. With that antenna it was done in 3 minutes and I have full coverage of my bedroom. so thank you you genius of MP Antenna.
Danke Euch Jungs von MP Antenna. Funktioniert super die Antenne – auch in Deutschland.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:55 pmWOW! This Trident Antenna has significantly boosted the power and speed of our wireless network in our 3-story house. Previously, the only decent reception was on the main level of the house, and reception was always spotty in the finished basement/terrace level, as well as upstairs in all of the bedrooms. Before the Antenna, when our son was visiting & needed optimum reception & speed for World of Warcraft, he would hook up a LONG ethernet cable thru 2 rooms direct to the router, as he played in the den on the main floor. (That was previously quite annoying, because he would also have headphones and microphone on his head, chatting away to other players excitedly.)
Now, we have incredibly powerful wireless reception & speed anywhere we go, including outside in the backyard pool area!
The Trident has really opened up our lives on the computer! The freedom to be anywhere and do anything because of the Trident is truly refreshing and a relief to all of us!
It is better than expensive “boosters” that computer geeks had sold to us, and we are so glad that we found out about the Trident!
July 16th, 2010 at 9:33 amWe use Cisco wireless equipment and are not really able to get coverage everywhere we need it. I attached this Trident antenna from MP Antenna’s to a WRT54GL Linksys router with the most current DD-WRT firmware loaded on it. This router is located up on the first floor of our Sheriff’s Office in a closed server room. The basement of our facility has concrete floors with rebar running through it. The building was designed to keep people in so running Ethernet cable is somewhat extensive and a lot of work and wireless signals just get adsorbed. After adding this antenna to the access point, there was wireless coverage throughout most of the basement. I must say I was thoroughly impressed with it. So let’s look at the big picture here. I used an off the shelf home router, flashed it with an open source firmware for free. Then I added a $50.00 antenna. Walla you have a reliable cheap solution that gives you better coverage that Enterprise level wireless equipment that cost thousands of dollars such as Cisco. Without a doubt I will look into more of your guy’s products. I am really interested in your Mobius product.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:41 amI purchased this product because I was having problems with my wireless connection in my upstairs office. The Trident solved this problem and I have not had any problems with my wireless connection upstairs and anywhere else I have tried to connect to the internet on the property including outside! In addition, my internet connection is faster than with the factory antenna. Removing the factory antenna from the router and installing the Trident was very easy. I was so impressed with this product that I bought three more and gave them to friends. I highly recommend this product!
April 7th, 2010 at 3:00 pmI installed the Trident on my Verizon FIOS wireless router that is located in an upstairs room at the back of my two-story house. I noticed that the weak reception areas on the first floor were now 4-5 bars strong, and streaming Netflix to my Blue Ray DVD seemed to be faster and the picture is a much higher quality. I took my laptop and walked down the street 70 – 80 yards, and I still had a 2 bar signal and 24+ MB/sec. This isn’t quite the scientific test Dr. Jack would endorse, but it proves the Trident provides the coverage any homeowner or small business facility may need. Thanks!
April 5th, 2010 at 3:15 amI have a wireless modem in my office and could not get good coverage in my detatched shop. I tried numerous wireless modems on the advise of the “professionals” and could not get the coverage I needed. I purchased a wireless booster and installed at a half way point and it took care of my coverage issues. Brian provided me with a Trident to try and “boy o boy” what a difference. I disconnected my booster and use the Trident on my router and have complete coverage anywhere I need it on my property and in my shop. I was a bit surprised because I thought I tried everything up to this point.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:16 pmThanks for the use of the unit, it works GREAT!!!!!!
Since I’ve installed the Trident Antenna we are getting much faster start up connection service everywhere in the house, particularly in the basement where previously service was spotty and unreliable. Downloading movies to our Roku is much faster and makes for a more enjoyable experience.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:03 pmI had not been able to leave the room my modem was in but now I am able to go anywhere in the house and get a good signal on my lap top. The house is 3 stories and is a traditonal home with the router and motem in my office on the 2nd floor over my garage. Even in the basement and back yard, I am able to get a great signal.
My equiptment is a Lynksys 2.4 and the modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5100.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:30 amOur house has an L-shaped basement, with our cable modem and wireless router located on the short leg of the L. (There really isn’t a better place for them.) The result has been that on the main floor, signal is great everywhere except the living room, which is above the long leg of the L. This means that there is actually earth between the WiFi router and the living room — a classic non-line-of-sight situation.
We’d put up with it for years, but as now we have a Wii at the far end of that room, we really wished we had decent WiFi there. The Trident antenna was the solution! We installed it and immediately saw a substantial increase in throughput on bandwidth tests. No more signal problems! We are completely satisfied!
Also, the antenna looks very cool.
The visual appeal alone made us excited when we took it out of the package. We highly recommend this product.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:27 pmWe had a trident installed at our Firehouse. We were having problem areas with our old setup. Typical masonary construction. Dead spots and range were issues. After the Trident was installed, range was increased with no noticeable dead spots. Using a D-Link 4500 router. We thought we were going to have to buy an additional router or run a mile of wires. But we did not have to. Thank you very much for the help.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:52 pmWe installed the Trident antenna on our D-Link -665 N Extreme router. What terrific product! We have multiple wireless network devices that we use around the house which includes two Dell laptops and a Sirius radio (stiletto 100). After installing, we noticed an increase in bars on all devices including the Laptop that doesn’t have a very strong wireless card. Also, I’m now able to go across the street to my neighbors and still access our network from my laptop or our neighbors. What I really like is I can listen to my siruis radio while cutting the grass and don’t have the continuous signal loss that I used to experience. If one of the wireless modem companies would team up with Trident they could produce a superior WiFi router.
January 13th, 2010 at 5:05 pmWe installed a trident antenna on our pc because we could not get the proper wireless feed to operate our son’s gaming programs. After installation the increase in wireless flow was increased 300% and our son’s gaming improved to a point of where he has not had an issue since. THANKS TRIDENT!
January 13th, 2010 at 1:55 pmWe have a Linksys WRT54GSV7 (wireless G). Our house is a 100-plus year-old brick home with plaster and lathe walls more than 18 inches thick throughout. The router is in the basement, and with the stock antenna, several areas of the house, including the back porch, could not connect at all, while other areas had a weak signal that would drop occasionally. The MP Antenna Trident is an amazing upgrade. The iMac on the second floor — physically, 25 to 30 feet from the router, but through several ceilings and walls — went from two Airport bars to five. Using a MacBook in the kitchen, we went from two or three bars up to a consistent five. The same is true using a MacBook in the second floor bedrooms, which is farther from the router than the room in which the iMac sits, and we now get five bars even on the third floor. The signal is good enough in the farthest corner of the backyard to download music on iTunes with no appreciable loss of speed as compared to inside the house, where before we could not connect at all. Just a great product.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:51 amI love it! I have a Linksys router. Just followed instructions by removing left (facing) original antenna and installed MP. Works amazing. I’m in a two story 3200 sq. ft. home with barely any connection in the downstairs corner of my house. Now, full signal everywhere.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:28 pmI put the Trident antenna on my Linksys Wireless G home router the other day and we instantly found improvement in signal strength in areas of our home that previously had low strength. We now can get a strong signal in our upstairs rooms as well as the basement. In areas that previously showed poor signal strength the Trident antenna increased the signal strength by one bar. Since the antenna worked so well at home we decided to put one on the Linksys Wireless router at the office. We found the same exceptional results in the office where there are more users and much more distance from the router to the users. I definetly recommend this product.
December 15th, 2009 at 6:44 pmTrident Antenna works great, improved signal, no problems to date.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:19 amRecently our fire station had a wireless router installed by our phone company/isp. For the past several weeks we have struggled with weak signals in the remote parts of the station. This may have been due in part to the thick concrete walls that “zig-zag” throughout our station. For example, in the back office area, nobody was able to gain Internet access. Also, in the kitchen, only the person sitting next to the window could go online. Even after upgrading our router we had similar problems. After consulting MP Antenna and Dr. Jack we removed the stock antenna that came with the router and replaced it with the “Trident” antenna. This solved our problem. We were immediately able to gain Internet access in all parts of the kitchen, no matter if a window was nearby or not. We also were able to obtain a signal (two lights) and surf the web from the desk in the back office. Thanks again for your great service.
firefighter/paramedic
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:30 pmBob Meeker:
We tested the Trident antenna on a D-Link system that we are using in our home. Our home was built in 1926 and the walls still have lath and plaster walls. Getting a reception was near impossible room to room and forget about trying to connect out back by the pool area. In the past we installed a D-link booster and that did help in the house but still left us with a very weak signal with very poor response time.
Since we installed the Trident antenna we have noticed a tremendous difference. We no longer have the booster attached and I took my laptop around to every room in the house and had great reception. The real kicker was when I took the laptop out to the pool area and for the first time was able to use my internet connection and did not have to steal my neighbors. The bars still show that the reception is low but the connection and response time is incredible.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pmI had sporadic wireless service throughout the house. I replaced the Westall router (supplied by Verizon with their DSL service) stock antenna with MP Antenna’s Trident WiFi antenna. With the Trident on the Westall router we have complete and more consistent coverage throughout the entire house. I can even go outside to the edge of our neighbor’s lot and still maintain a strong connection. The performance is incredible. I never knew simply replacing the standard antenna with the Trident would be so easy yet so effective. A truly great product!
November 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pmSo, today I drove around my neighborhood with a standard magnetic mount 7dbi stick antenna:
…connected to an Orinoco gold pcmcia card, running netstumbler with a gps receiver.
The result of that scan, is here:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/display/wifi/1255898255-17332-71.72.38.203.html
the 7dbi stick (not the new antenna, this is just for control) found 479 access points.
Of those 479:
167 were unsecured
4 were adhoc
312 were secured
84 were on channel 1
3 were on channel 2
6 were on channel 3
8 were on channel 4
2 were on channel 5
237 were on channel 6
4 were on channel 7
7 were on channel 8
5 were on channel 9
8 were on channel 10
115 were on channel 11
Now, I intended to drive around the same route with the NEW antenna from rick, and compare results… but, every time I tried, so many networks flooded in that my netstumbler program kept bluescreening my laptop. I think that’s a good thing, kind of a new marketing slogan: “sees so many networks it kills your network card” J
So, doing JUST my own street, I was able to compare 20 or so networks between the two antennas.
The bottom line is, while the new antenna has a lot more reach, it still missed some networks… but so did the 7dbi antenna.
The new antenna saw about the same amount of networks, BUT it could connect to 30% more networks than a standard 7dbi omni stick.
Meaning, it improved the signal strength of 30% more networks enough to connect to them.
The down side is, many of the networks had a stronger signal strength with the 7dbi than they did with the new antenna.
Of the networks in the chart above, the new antenna had an average of 0.628dbi better than the standard 7dbi stick.
While inside my house, it increased the signal strength of my neighbors networks an additional 6dbi to 12dbi more than what they already were. In 50% of cases, the added bump was enough to connect, whereas without the bump, they’re not connectable. This is where the new antenna really shines, of course.
I’ll try to get back out there one night, with a more powerful laptop, and get the same route done with the new antenna for a real comparison.
But so far, the new antenna would be worth about $100 to me if I were to buy one online… but only if it had a built-in tripod or magnetic mount or something… are you supposed to just lay it down on the table? I zip-stripped it to my car’s luggage rack, vertically mounted. Maybe it’s not marketed towards wardrivers, but it should be…. 30% more connectable networks on average is a huge increase.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:16 pmWe tested the Trident antenna on a Cisco Wireless Access Point, N Series, for the Muncie Housing Authority. We are using a Toshiba Satellite Pro notebook with integrated Intel B/G/N Series Wireless Network Card.
Test building is 1950′s brick and steel commercial building, windows all around front, no windows in back half of building. One story tall, roughly 100′x80′.
We tested range first with the standard 3 single-pole antennas, and found the range for our wireless laptop was roughly 120 feet inside the building, and only got single bar reception (of 5) outside the building, to a max distance of 150 feet.
We replaced the center antenna with the trident antenna and tested again. Our laptop picked up 3 bar signal across the street in the administration building, two buildings down at the warehouse building, and in the residential housing that sits roughly 300 feet from the facility.
Just as a test, we drove the laptop away from the building in the direction of the center of Muncie, which is densely populated with buildings of various descriptions and sizes. We still had a one-bar signal at a max of 1 mile from the facility.
We are preparing a BTOP bid in december for Muncie Housing, to fund their projected Campus of Learners program. This will involve heavy use of Wireless Access Points both Indoors and outdoors, to provide Internet service to approximately 3000 MHA residents. We are detailing the results of this test as part of our presentation to MHA, and they expressed great interest in making use of this technology to distribute wireless broadband into their properties.
Interested parties may contact me at:
October 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pmDshadrak@thefocisgroup.com
The FocIS Group
(440) 779 3805