How to boost your wifi antenna to incredible range
 

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The important question is, will this help your cell phone problem?

:p

:D that is awesome!

You pay too much attention to me. And yes, it will.

very interesting, I'll have to do some research on this

I bought a DirecTV dish off eBay for $20. Today I wired my Netgear WG111 802.11g USB dongle onto the focus using some bent coathanger wire, got on my friend's roof, and picked up 12 access points using my laptop. The device is incredibly LoS reliant, so you have to have really good aim and practically no obstacles. However, once you get LoS your connection is really strong, even from half a mile away in suburbs. These are reported to have up to 10-12 MILE range with pure line of sight.

Haha Fantastic. Thank you.

Hilarious twist on the idea:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4508373394872473

Have you guys heard about the pringles can trick? I first heard about it from some professors on campus that were monkeying around with the wireless network on campus.

You can check out a good article on it here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

This website talks about cantennas also, and how they compare to pringles can antennas.
http://www.optonline.net/Call_For_He...098863,00.html

Cantennas are cool, but require immense amounts of work by comparison to this handy trick.

FCC anyone?

great trick, i just can't fit that into my backback...but a cantenna fits just well.

Cantenna's are perfectly legal as long as you're not using them to illegally capture data. In other words, decrypt and or use data from a network that does not belong to you.

-Al

I wonder if something like this could improve the repeater reception for my XMPCR at work? Hmmm.... I wonder if anyone would notice a 4 foot dish above my cubical...

could be a silly question, but did you actually do the math to figure out where the focus is or just wing it?

I did the math.