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4km WiFi Range w/ $5 DIY Antenna
Mignon writes "This industrious fellow in New Zealand made his own WiFi antenna using a USB WiFi adapter and a Chinese 'spider skimmer mesh scoop.' He got about 17 dB signal improvement for about US $5 in materials." Update: 05/25 23:09 GMT by T : Reader
John Stockdale offers a U.S. hosted mirror of the site. Update: 05/26 13:58 GMT by T : Reader Jared Mauch contributes another mirror.
All he needs now is a signal to pick up. {laugh - it's funny}
OS/2 - because choice is a terrible thing to waste.
Still, impressive gain for $5 worth of parts. Makes me wonder what I'll get if I can ever find the right connector for my Linksys wireless router to hook it up to standard coax and a pizza dish I took out of a dumpster.
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General Tso's Access Point.
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
it has other uses as well. If you wrap your head in this spider silk mesh it is even more effective at blocking the evil thought control waves than tin foil!
How much does the antena cost that increases your site bandwidth?
in bed.
Piece of number eight wire reputation.
Hmm, now I feel sadly parochial.
Someone sent up us the Slashdotting
I'm only learning html, sorry
How long have you been learning that you haven't gotten to 'hyperlink' yet?
"Chinese parabolic cookware"
OMFG is that funny.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Yes it does. I've been accessing my Apple base station sitting in my apartment in San Fran from where I work in Oakland for YEARS now. In fact, I even access my base station from AIRPLANES while flying overhead!!!! Apple is THAT GOOD! Obviously you don't use Apple so you wouldn't understand. So SHUT UP.
Why can't we break the laws of physics?
If he is getting that kind of gain from the scooper, imagine if he used the wok...
That's why I always put a grounded wire-cage around all my antennas.
That this guy kept the other $145 he saved from building his own antenna because he's definitely gonna need it to pay his web host.
I have the site saved, so anyone want to host a mirror, let me know..
Once you've connected to the network, you'll just need to connect again in an hour or two.
Actually, a lot of products have really long ranges -- right out of the box! I got a Linksys WiFi router and it seems like I can pick up my SSID "linksys" network all over the place!
Heh heh..
"Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics. Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim."
:)
And who are we to argue?
I asked the same question in junior high science...Actually I asked "What happens if you break a law of physics?" His answer - you become very famous.
You are aware, I assume, that, an hour later, he'll just have to stab himself in the face again.
Yan Can LAN!