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Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
This device is way overkill. You don't need a full router at all for the tablets, and USB wifi stick with an antenna connection is a far better choice.
But it's beneficial because you're not leashed with a USB cable.
The choice of antenna is also particularly stupid. Not only does it make very difficult to find networks (high gain antennas get their high gain because they receive from a smaller angle, so that this antenna will be difficult to point at an unknown signal), but there are antennas designs with similar gain which are far less conspicuous. A simple waveguide or microstrip sector antenna would be a much, much better choice, for example.
But it's gonna be conspicuous anyway, with a tripod for stable, flexible positioning; still, I think the point of the Yagi-Uda antenna was chiefly cool cannon-lookiness. High gain isn't bad, if you can detune it for a wider field; yep, a "zoom antenna". Unfortunately, I don't know of any such of the shelf, but it should be fairly easy with a Yagi-Uda design.