NETGEAROmnidirectional MIMO Antenna (6000451) - Boosts Performance of Internal Antennas, Compatible with M5 (MR5200) & M6 (MR6150 & MR6550) Hotspot Routers, Includes 2 TS-9 and 2 SMA Connectors

Works with regular M6. Paired with cable extenders is perfect when having your device indoors with outdoor reception. Mine is placed on a window and the differences are notable for my overseas trip as max 4g speeds where I'm at are 25mpbs (non peak hours). So any extra reception is noticeable otherwise i would have to leave my hotspot outside to the elements. Worth the purchase.

Huge improvement in performance in a fringe area, your milage may vary. Galaxy phone on 5g showing 3 -4 bars as a base test @ speedtest 138mbps connected to MR6550 att unlocked 158mbps without antenna at 3 bars, with antenna connected 5 bars at 196mbps a 39mbps increase and a decent latency decrease. Note the connectors ts9 adapters are very tight, but sma allows for a quick disconnect if needed. Cable length is about 3 ft

Maybe my hotspot, an Aircard 815S (Unite Explore), already has a better antenna than this Netgear antenna? (Very doubtful.)But this Netgear antenna appears to do NOTHING. Absolutely nothing.Yes I gave it a chance, rotated it around, faced it right at the cell tower (which, weirdly, is recommended even though the antenna is called "omnidirectional").Anyway it appears to do nothing - zip - nada - zilch - nothing.If it was $20 or even $30 I might keep it on the slight chance it would help in some situations, but for $60 plus tax? That's too much.

Helps improve signal strength

Very good product. Thank you.

Worked great with my netgear Hotspot. Big difference in reception

Pros:• Can connect to existing wifi (i.e.: starlink, campground wifi, starbucks wifi, etc, a.k.a. data offloading), to re-distribute internet to your personally created wifi network or LAN• Has an ethernet port for LAN• Has split 5Ghz/2.4Ghz wifi broadcasts (some devices don't like when they're combined)• Allows VPN tunnelling• Access to text messages sent to SIM card/phone number, which is useful for 2FA, carrier messages, etc.• Allows IP Passthrough (the router acts as a modem solely)• Allows enable/disable of DHCP service from router• Has 2 radio antenna extender portsCons:• Display is nice, but tough to use. Better off using the web page.• DNS settings would NEVER work for me. It has a section where you can set a DNS IP, but no devices would ever get these IPs. I know some routers set themselves as the DNS provider, then forward all requests to the IP you set, but not this router. I could not access my pihole or other LAN devices via FQDN, only IPs. That kind of sucks.• Every single change requires a reboot. EVERY. LITTLE. CHANGE.• Every reboot, the system would NEVER turn back on. Its almost as if "reboot" = "shutdown". Keep the device within reach if you plan on making any changes.• Drops packets every 45 seconds or so. I ran a continuous ping to google.com and it resolved the IP no problem, ran the pings no problem at around 30ms each, but then it'll just jump up to 250ms, then "Request timed out" once, then back to normal. 45secs later, it'll jump to 250ms, then "Request timed out", and so on. Seems like it can't handle a normal workload. For comparison, I connected to my Starlink router in the same location, ran a ping to google.com and never had any dropped packets or "Request timed out" replies.This is a secondary form of internet for me now as it's performance is hardly reliable. I can't set DNS to be my pihole, and I really don't feel like setting DNS individually for all my wifi devices. I can't have consistent internet if the router is underpowered and dropping packets.Too bad I'm outside my return window now, otherwise I would have returned this.

Works great. It does improve signal strength