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.

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Slashdotted :)

[nomad63]

Site is having a slashdot effect.
You need to tell these people that you are putting their site up for brute force test before doing it so, so that they can buy some akamai bandwidth (questionable how effective it is lately though) <grin>

Re:usb + dish network dish?

[Sjobeck]

I think it is not that people do not understand the right to bear arms, I think that they understand that that was a differnet era, a diffrent world, they were not talking about machine guns, they were not dealing with a death rate many many multiples higher than any other country in the world, etc, etc, etc, etc when that was written. I think people are only asking, hey, look, we all need to interpret the writing, let us interpret it for today where we can have a balance. As is the NRA is far too powerful. Corporations, not just manufacturers in the blood sports industry, but all corporations are far too powerful. And, last, I (and here is where I will chime in personally with my own opinion) do give a rat's ass about anything other than the fact that what we have right now, is not working, it is borken, it needs changing, there are simply far far too many dead people from guns in this country, that is all there is to it. Who would not want to sit down and discuss how to fix that. There are simply too many dead poeple in this country. Period. Why? Let's find out why?

Shouldnt respond.. but

[nurb432]

Just one comment.. Before you start tossing the 'too many people killed with guns', please keep in mind that the majority of people that are killed by guns are either:

A - Legally possessed and used in self-defense
B - Illegally possessed and used in a crime.

So changing the law-of-the-land would only prevent the honest citizen from exercising the *right* to defend themselves. It wont prevent criminals from doing harm as by definition they don't care about the law.