Extending wifi range

Legacy_user

Spotted this one in a newspaper.

Fancy using your laptop in the garden, but can't get a signal?

Routers work by transmitting radio waves from an antennae to your PC. These Waves are transmitted in all directions, but by reflecting them, their range can be extended.

Cover a cereal bowl in tin foil, (making a mini-satellite dish), place it behind the router antennae, facing in the direction of your deckchair.

It can almost double the range of the wireless connection.

Duk

Like that

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5178759_b15426d59d.jpg

PhilCo_2

I saw that too. Wonder how many bowls are now covered in tin foil.

timbim_2

Tried that, didn't work at all.

kwikbreaks

timbim wrote: »

Tried that, didn't work at all.

In that case you didn't do it correctly.

Try these plans... http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html

This technique is based on good science and does increase the gain of the antenna by making it directional.