I bought Huawei E156G High Gain Magnetic Mount Antenna. If you want to know if aerial is only crap this article will show you speed test with and without antenna.

I made two speed tests: first used on-line SpeedTest, second used wget. I reconnected between each test – both between turning on / off antenna connector and changing on-line to wget speed test.

Environment

• Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.
• Mobile: Poland / Play Online.
• Area: hilly with forests.
• Connection: UMTS HSPDA
• Antenna – technical specification:
  • Height (cm): 106
  • Gain: Isotropic: 11dBi
  • Cable Length (m): 8
  • Operating Frequencies: GSM900, GSM1800, 3G UMTS

  

• USB Stick: Huawei E156G
  

Benchmark

On-line SpeedTest – using benchmark on www.speedtest.pl site, with selected server from Warsaw. I made two separate tests for each connection.

Antenna plugged in:

Antenna disconnected:

WGET speed test – download about 2MB from Debian ISO file and check average speed.

Antenna plugged in:

1. • Average speed: 98,2 K/s
   • Estimated downloading time: 26m 34s
   • Download file part size: 2.026.154 B
2. • Average speed: 120,2 K/s
   • Estimated downloading time: 19m 41s
   • Download file part size: 2.026.302 B

Antenna disconnected:

1. • Average speed: 34,1 K/s
   • Estimated downloading time: 81m 14s
   • Download file part size: 2.033.794 B
2. • Average speed: 43,8 K/s
   • Estimated downloading time: 79m 44s
   • Download file part size: 2.033.854 B