Some recent Testimonials in regards to "The G Spotter" ™antennas.

Hi Dave,

I spoke to you about 3 months ago re the "The G Spotter" antenna. I have followed your advice and mounted it outdoors and just wanted to provide a bit of feedback.

Firstly I should mention that the ISP I am with uses the Optus 3G network. When I first contacted Optus they told me that their 3G service would not work at all at my location and therefore would not be guaranteed. I took the chance anyway and purchased the modem. It worked OK most of the time but often only at dial -up speed (or slightly better) and was subject to complete drop-outs. It was an improvement on dial - up but not really reliable and very variable. I tried a couple of "high - gain" omnidirectional antennae and found that they made little or no difference - fortunately I was able to return them to the retailer as they were of no real use to me at this location.

The G Spotter has made a big difference and now the signal virtually never drops out and is at broadband speed most of the time. Of course it depends on prevailing weather conditions (that seems to be the nature of wireless internet) but the service is now 99% reliable and generally pretty quick - at times up to 2 Mbps. It does still vary but is always much better than the old dial - up.

I also noticed when installing the antenna that it does have a fairly wide coverage pattern ie it does not need to be directed "spot on" towards the tower in order for it to work, although it probably is worth spending some time (as I did) to find the best angle.

Overall I am very happy with the performance of your antenna. ADSL2 is not available in my area. A neighbour has ADSL1 but says it is pretty slow. Your directional antenna has allowed me to access broadband at reasonable cost.

Best regards,

Tony Jeglic
Llandilo NSW

31st March 2011

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The G spotter arrived this morning, speed was .10 now averaging 2.70 up to 4.30
It is sitting behind my TV facing the wall.

Great product thank you.

regards
Clint Baker.

10th February 2011

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Rcvd Gspotter today (Thursday 13th Jan) set up OK using 900mhz connection on the modem and I am very impressed. Now I can use utube without waiting an endlessly long time or giving up.
I will need to watch my usage now!

James Black

January 2011

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IPhone Reception & The G Spotter Antenna Comments on Whirlpool Forums

(The G Spotter Antenna...) is the only thing that works for me here with my iPhone which otherwise gets no bars inside.

Simply resting the iPhone (3GS or 4) on the top of this antenna gives me 3 bars, and I use the cable from the antenna to feed a modem. It's not quite as good as a directional yagi, but for ease of set up and it's versatility, I'm glad I bought it.

You may be able to purchase it with the option of returning it if it wasn't successful. The chap was comfortable doing this for me if I wasn't happy with it.

Hope this helps.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1583631

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Hi Dave the system I purchased from you (G-Spotter areial - router and wfi directional areial) works fantastic.

I took this set up of yours as you know to my brothers place at Upper Bingara (nth wst N.S.W.) we had a lot of trouble locating a signal we found a signal that had 1 to 3 bars fluctuating some time no signal this signal was right next to the corrigated tin shearing shed. We knew we had to stay within the 300M range of the house so I made up a 10Mx30mm water pipe attached your G-Spotter WFI gear and stood this assembly up against this shed with your G-Spotter 3.5Mtrs above the roof.

We now can maintain between 2 to 5 bars. reception on a laptop in the house 300Mtrs away is great home computer had trouble with the Belcan USB divice pushed into front only one bar but we put it on a short USB cable placed it on top of home computers steel top which created a flat reception plane and BINGO it could do what the laptop was doing 2 to 5 bars which enabled internet Ebay access.

So Dave on behalf of my brother and myself thank you very much for a wonderfull device for people that live on the edge of technology that can't use it.

PS Telstra people don't understand there own devices (DATA CARD system) we found 1 person out of 7 phone calls (3 hours worth of time)one who new a little about it and sold us the CARD system that lady was in Inverell Telstra shop a 150km's away. Thanks again Dave.

Allan Preston

January 2011

Hi Dave
As discussed I couldn\'t get any coverage in Chugga Lane Windellama NSW 2580, until I installed your antenna and faced it north towards Marulan. Now its all good two bars and on the net using Telstra and optus.I have preferred to stay with Optus and have now installed a DIR451 DLINK 3G modem/wireless router and have wireless connection all round the living area of the property. Thanks once again.
Re : The G-Spotter Antenna (Duel Frequency)

Dave - Kanimbla Lodge

December 2010

Hi David,

As suggested by you, armed with my new antenna and 3G Telstra Country phone, I walked around the yard as far as my 10 metre cable would extend in order to use the computer. I could only pick up the 3G signal - no bars, however in walking down to the shed 10 metres away I had 4 bars, astounding!

Well I didn't give up, I got the antenna attached it to my telstra turbo usb modem and computer and walked around the yard again, I have two permanent bars in a direct line facing three large trees and several mountains, couldn\'t believe it! I am so happy my internet speed is awesome, much much faster than satellite, and it has even worked in storms where the satellite hasn't.

Great Product - you genius!

Susan Moore - Northern NSW

November 2010

Hi Dave, The G-Spotter you sent, does the trick in a reception "black hole", which is my house.

I have installed the antenna on top of my computer and point it towards the direction of town.

Well done. It is a very good product.

Kind regards, Rory Williams, Adelaide, South Australia

November 2010

Re: The G Spotter Antenna (Duel Frequency),

Far out, how good is i t!

I connected it and straight away it gave me full reception. I use this antenna in Dalton NSW, literally in the middle of nowhere and I am impressed.

David P.

October 2010

We originally had a YAGI antenna fitted to the roof, but this never gave us more than 1 bar reliably. It got less reliable with time - maybe the trees grew! Although there is a Telstra tower within 10 km, the house is in a gully with hills around and there is very limited or no mobile coverage. A chance search on the web found your information, until then we had spent months trying to find someone who could offer a solution.

With your G Spotter antenna we found that there was no position close to the house (within 10 m) that gave a reliable NextG signal. The next step was to search in close proximity to the house, we found two spots, both about 40 m from the house, that gave reliable 2 bars sometimes 3. We tried putting the G spotter antenna up higher, but in the end it was best only 2 m off the ground. We then set up the Telstra wireless router and the WIFI antenna, access to an outside 240 v power point was only a few metres away. This has given us an excellent signal into the house. Now we can run two computers at once from anywhere in the house.

Everyone is happy! Thanks for your help,we could not fault your service!

Regards
Chris Anderson - July 2010

For further information on setting up internet from "where you can get a signal" and then using WiFi to take that internet signal tou your house, drop me (Dave) a line on 02 4844 5174 Business Hours AEST, or use the website contact form.

Hi Dave, The antenna package arrived Monday morning and today it's up and connected. We get a better signal strength. Before the antenna I could only get fluctuating signal between Zero,1 & 2 bars. Now it is 4 and steady. Thanks again.

Bob Martin July 2010

Dear Dave,
Just a quick word of thanks in relation to the recent purchase of the G Spotter. As we live in a remote rural location in WA we are delighted at the increased performance of our communications having installed the G Spotter recently.
Signal strength is now up to high on a regular basis, there are less interruptions to signal strength and performance has increased by 50% many thanks for a top product.

Peter W- April 2010

"Thank you for the prompt delivery of the 'G-Spotter'. Tried it at Wallaga Lake and received 4 out of 5 bars in one spot on our verandah. The house is in a hollow close to the water so this is about a 200% improvement on normal reception. It is more than sufficient to use the internet connection for working purposes and downloaded a 13MB file without any problem at all.

Hannu M - April 2010

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"Hi all, well I got the "G spotter" and I am astounded.
It is bringing in 2 Next G bars and I am acheiving a download speed of
1.34 mbps!!!.
That is after many friends have been unable to get any reception with their 'rural' mobile phones.(for miles)
I had to point it in almost the complete opposite direction (of the tower), into some trees and directly into a mountain. Go figure!
I must be getting some sort of 'bounce' off the hill, which is what happens with my digital tele signal (was also told no reception likely there as well!)
If I try to rig the sattelite dish I'll let yall know if it improves things.
Thanks for all advice and comment
Yipppeeeee!!! G spotter rules!!!
Telstra should (help) market them....
if I hadn't of come here for advice, I would have given up!!! "

Whirlpool post - January 2010

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1365656

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George Bray made this clip about using our G Spotter Antenna - January 2010
You can see the full story at - http://geobray.com/2010/01/19/broadband-3g-from-the-beach/

George said -
I use an external antenna mounted on a tripod. (a 3G Long Range Antenna from www.broadbandantennas.com.au )To share the 3G connection I use a Draytek Vigor2820n. This ADSL/Wifi router also has a USB port and displays the 3G radio reception signal strength in the browser. It redials the 3G connection on demand, if required.

The above video shows my setup while travelling recently. Using it I can scan the horizon for the strongest signal (much like peaking a satellite dish). In some remote places where there is no GSM service on phones I can
at least get a GPRS service to the outside world. If you can get a 3G service, adjusting the directional antenna can optimise it.

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March 2010

Dave,

Just thought I would let you know that I received and installed the G Spotter yesterday (about 1.2m above a lean to roof).

Did a speed test and got 1.42Mbps with 2 bars showing by just aligning up generally towards the Telstra tower 6K away.

This is a mega improvement from previous "no bars, one bar sometimes", resulting in no internet connection whatsoever.

Am very pleased with result. It seems to be quite a bit faster than my defunct satellite service also.

....... Just did another speed test as connection seems even faster today. Was correct it is much faster. See below:

Test run on 19/03/2010 @ 02:13 PM

Mirror: Telstra Bigpond
Data: 600 KB
Test Time: 2.02 secs

Your line speed is 2.41 Mbps (2414 kbps).
Your download speed is 302 KB/s (0.29 MB/s).
2413.89619377kbps

In my experience this speed is approaching what you get at some the Internet cafés in town.

Cheers

David Carter
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Garry Goodman had this to say ...
(From his location he was previously unable to gain a signal with a standard directional YAGI antenna)

I thought that I would give you a "results" report on the antenna I purchased from you a fortnight ago. As previously advised, When arriving home I attach it to a piece of gal pipe and walked around our cabin. I pickedup signal where none was available previously.

Last weekend I took up a new mast, attached the antenna and went for a walk around our roof-top. Signal was available on about 80% of the roof-top area and I found a consistently stronger signal at one particular spot.

Anyhow, I have brought the antenna cable into our cabin and now have a telephone service that ranges up to 2 bars on strength (I have seen a couple of flashes of 3 bars) and with good call quality in both transmit and receive. "Bluetooth" enables me to have the means of picking up a call from anywhere inside or near to the cabin without trailing the phone and cable around.

So thanks Dave.

Regards,
Garry Goodman

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Liz has let us know some feedback....

I have lived for 8-9 years in a village located 45 west of Goulburn with a population of approx 300 in the locality.

Approximately 3 years ago I made a decision to get the internet for my son's schooling purposes, communication and employment opportunities. As we had no broadband reception and satellite was expensive, my options were limited. A service provider had opened in a nearby town and was providing their own towers with a wirefree network.

I made enquiries and they came out and installed the aerial etc and I paid only $120 because of the government rebate. The majority of residents signed up as well. The service was reasonably reliable and fast. Approximately 12months ago, unbeknown to customers until we received a letter, they had moved to the north coast and sold out to another company.

Since this company has taken over we have only 50% uptime at double the monthly cost. The customer service is virtually non existent and we are fed up. My son cannot rely on the internet for studies and one woman who is employed by a Sydney company faces losing her job as all her work is internet based. The inconvenience goes on.

Many of us are looking for alternatives in frustration. One option we have is satellite. But to do so would incur $2500-3000 for set up as we have already used our government rebate.

Then I was introduced to Dave and his directional aerial. I explained to him that I do not get Telstra signal and only minimal Optus. He offered to try his aerial. Upon testing my reception went from 0 to 5 bar coverage with Telstra and 2 to 5 bar coverage for Optus.

With this aerial I will, with minimal cost in comparison, not only be able to choose what internet provider I can afford and prefer but I will finally be able to use my mobile phone.

Thankfully, I will not be held hostage anymore by rogue internet providers and just because I choose to live in a rural environment does not mean that I cannot have the level of communication that others take for granted.

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