Our team recently visited the Melbourne Caravan & Camping Supershow and we decided to summarise all your main questions about caravan internet here. How do I get Internet in my Caravan? There are many options. If you are mainly staying in cities and don't venture...
Use 4G instead of NBN We are all happy to take advantage of flexible work arrangements, with many organisations allowing staff to work from home. As these numbers continue to grow, the need for access to fast and reliable internet has grown alongside it. Home internet...
There are different 5G modems currently on the market. We go over the obvious ones which are the network operator (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone) provided solutions.
Why do I prefer an LPDA for mountains? We have flat panel antennas, you have LPDAs, and you have Yagi antennas. Those are the main ones that I can think of. I mostly prefer LPDA. The reason for that is the LPDA has a consistent gain across...
Nighthawk M6 vs Teltonika RUT In this video I just want to do a quick summary between a Teltonika type router and a Nighthawk M2, 5 or 6 modem. Focusing on the type of product and the type of technology that they could support....
Can I boost cellular and data connection at the same time? Can I use a 4G modem and a Cel-Fi Go signal booster at the same time? Yes, it is, it's not as simple as just using one or the other, there's a significant performance difference...
In this video we discuss the background and illustrate how you can convert your stock Helium Antenna to an awesome 9dBi Helium Yagi Antenna for testing and experiments for free and earn more crypto in doing so. All you need...
https://youtu.be/jjMtM8geGWc Cel-Fi Go or 4G Modem - how to choose? In this video, I explain the difference between the Cel-Fi Go (the only signal booster approved for use in Australia) and most common 4G modems. A Cel-Fi is great for boosting voice calls. Meaning it...
https://youtu.be/G2qlVLivUrA Caravan internet - get a strong connection with a 4G modem and directional antenna. This caravan internet video is for all the digital nomads out there. Go from no mobile signal at all to a strong RV 4G internet connection by just using an...
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TS9? Many of the most common modems used in Australia today have the TS9 connectors. Modems such as the Netgear Nighthawk M1, Nighthawk M2, Nighthawk M4, Huawei B818, and the Optus ZTE. It is important to be careful when connecting...
The new Poynting MIMO-3 series antennas - we have been getting a lot of questions about what are the differences between them. We give a short overview of the features of these 4G aerials to make it easier for you to choose which...
In reflecting on 2021 and the crazy start to the 2020's we felt it was an opportunity to reflect a bit. The topics covered are nothing new, and the same conversation can probably be held over-and-over again. Although the way it's presented...
How to choose an antenna for my Helium Miner? The main thing is to avoid bad quality antennas and cables.
How to Improve my Home Office NightHawk Connection? The simple answer is use an external 4G antenna
How to Improve my Caravan NightHawk Connection? An external antenna will be able to give you a better connection.
We keep talking about the 4G directional antenna, and have demonstrated the great performance one can expect from this antenna. In this video we run through the contents of this great antenna, and highlight the...
This is the next video in a series looking at how you can improve your 4G connection using external antennas. In this video, David attempts to improve his 4G internet connection using the Poynting 4G LPDA antenna. Watch the...
In this video we demonstrate the test setup used to generate antenna radiation patterns. The anechoic (i.e. no reflection) chamber eliminates reflections from the outside world, and you can clearly see how this antenna...
In November we attended CommsConnect2019 in Melbourne. We had our stand, and once again it was a bit of an experiment to see what type of expo setup we should use as displaying a niche but important feature of wireless technology is quite a challenge.In the setup...
You may have noticed that we refer a lot to Black Art Technologies (or BAT in short). Black Art Technologies is the same group of engineers as RFShop Australia, trading as Black Art Technologies. We have 40+ years of antenna and RF system design experience and have...
As a technical company it's very tempting to start a conversation by telling people what we do. Imagine the excitement in the room when you start a conversation like this: "What do I do? Well, I build coaxial cables and sell antennas for a living". I guess you can...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0s64DU-8g Top 3 SMA questions Over the last 3 years (well, in-fact more than that) I have come to realise that there is an ongoing confusion about SMA connectors. I can appreciate where the confusion comes from and in these images...
It can be quite confusing to specify coaxial connectors particularly when they can be “reverse polarity” or “reverse gender”. In the good old days, before some bright spark decided to introduce RP types there were just two types of SMA and other similar connectors. The plug had a male pin and the jack had a female pin. Too easy. The reverse SMA plug, RP-SMA plug, instead, has a female pin (4th pic down) and the reverse SMA jack has a male pin (3rd pic down). Unfortunately there seems to be an increasing tendency to refer to the RP-SMA plug as “RP-SMA male”. We use the term RP-SMA plug female pin , because, from what we know of sex, there are no male elements at all in RP-SMA plugs.