In this video we discuss how a Yagi could help your 4G or 5G internet and phone connections using a Yagi antenna. It will have some challenges with bandwidth, and as a narrow band antenna may not be the obvious choice.

There is a good reason why Yagis can be used over other antennas as well. Now, a fundamental thing of a Yagi antenna it has a single resonator in the middle. So, it's one antenna with one purpose only one single frequency. With a Yagi you can get more gain than with any other fundamental basic antenna. Not talking about dish or parabolas here. They are completely in their own league, and they would be bigger at gain, but they are more clunky. In this case, I'm talking about comparing LPDAs, which is an antenna that looks like a fish bone, but it has gradual elements, smaller and smaller, comparing it to potentially a panel antenna, such as an XPOL2. And then in the same category, I would put a Yagi antenna as an option. A Yagi antenna has one purpose, one frequency where it works well. Now that frequency can be wideish. So, it's a whole range of frequencies. But if you look at what 4G and 5G and like, let's say, dual band WiFi, or WiFi 6E would do, they require much more than what a single Yagi can ever dream of doing.
If you want the best gain you can get for your setup, and you know I'm only ever going to get one specific frequency for one network operator. In that case, don't think about future proofing anything. Go hard on the one that you know is going to work such as down the line. If you know, well I'm only going to get, for instance, 700 megahertz or 800 megahertz here where I am. You could do some research. You could get somebody to do a desktop or a site survey for you and they tell you, there's only one frequency that you can use. Yagi is an awesome idea. Higher gain.
You can still install two antennas so you can make it a MIMO. If you have a single antenna you can use it on a repeater such as CelFi GO. If you use two antennas, you can put it on a RUT360. You can match it up with your Nighthawk M6. If you go to our website, you can add cables and details, or adapters that is needed for your specific modem as well. But the Yagi, the benefit is higher gain. The negative is one frequency only. So that's why I still prefer the LPDA over the Yagi when we talk to customers.
Unless you know you want the single antenna or single frequency specific frequency, then definitely consider a Yagi antenna for hardtoreach places. Mountains is an awesome example of hardtoreach places. You may get reflections, but you won’t get a signal that is a tower behind any of these hills. Physically I'm here and I'm stuck. There's absolutely no internet. You say, well let's get the best band 28, 700 meg that we can get. There's not going to be any 5G anytime soon. Go for a Yagi, get that. You will have a good signal and that's then what you will do.

Edited by Holly Winter
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