As I promised, I watched a lot of videos about boosting a wireless USB antenna using aluminum foil and paper, I did the same with my ZTE-TU25 Wimax USB modem but using a dish chaped white carton, I just did cover it with aluminum foil, dug a hole on it, stick the wimax inside and plug the USB cable from the other side to fix it in place, it’s easy to do and it raised my coverage 50% more.
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July 10th, 2009 at 12:02 PM
the link is not working,give me 404 . I just wanted to see how…
July 11th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
hahahaha ! lol the final image looks funny but works anyway I guess
July 11th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
does it work with the Huawei modem?
i cant get any smell of coverage at home, but when i take my laptop out to the house door it detects two degrees of coverage.
also, still there’s no driver for MacosX leopard ?
July 11th, 2009 at 12:45 PM
As for MAC and Linux the drivers aren’t available yet, you must wait for the open source community to make one, but since Libya is the first country with Huwaui and ZTE you will wait longer until the modems spread world wide “It they prove stability of course”, and to get coverage you must make a booster, like the one I made or use your imagination “And some physics”, if you can notice your Huwawei modem have 2 pins for extra antennas, stick 2 wires on those and watch the coverage raise up.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Hi Wissim,
I did a similar thing and it works for all wireless technologies. The template I used was http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/
There are loads of do it yourself solutions but the best bet is to get the dongle as high as possible and point it towards the transmitter, then reflect the signal towards the dongle using something metal.
I have found a supplier that does external aerial/boosters that can be mounted on a pole outside – these are 320 LYD so they are not cheep but work well if you have very low signal e.g. outside of the City.
July 12th, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Hey Wissam,
When you say “stick 2 wires on those and watch the coverage raise up.”, what wires are you talking about, i would love to get this working, my cinr is at 8-10, so i could use the boost.
thanks in advance.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Hey Wisso What’s Up,,
I watch some videos too, but it’s about wireless connection as the wireless connections have a different frequencies each one based for sort of technology.
this hack can be done smoothly with WLAN (like per-to-per) or ( pc-to-access point ) with giving the pc’s adapter a wide range to addict the poor signals..
a long time ago i made many tests for such a job like this with Hawawii device that contain 2 ports for external Antenna,, will be a video for that,,,
August 27th, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Hi there
does any one have a working driver for the ZTE-TU25 Wimax USB modem
for windows 7 beta or RC or RTM ??
i’ve try the old driver it works but it crash once you unplug the usb
so any one have idea how to slove this ???
please let us know
& share it with us