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Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan
modeca writes "Using only commonly available kitchen equipment this guy demonstrates the amazing powers of an ordinary metal pan to boost the 3G reception of his USB modem. It really seems to work, check the right hand side of the graph in the video."
It's not that crazy: cheap antenna boosting (for USB WiFi dongles, Bluetooth, and more) has been elevated to a fine art in New Zealand.
That is until IBM patents the pan.
Take the high road, son.
Patent the pan before IBM does.
I guarantee they'll be there for hours ignoring the hi-tech and working out the significance of the frying pan.
Does it shrink in the heat or something?
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Try putting your slashdot rss feed in a pot.
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If that's not a euphemism, it should be.
I think you too high opinion of you and your "tech" gear that you carry...... where you see "hyper-nerd spy", I'm seeing a damn dweeb that thinks a AAA/AA battery charger is nerd spy gear.
Maybe the signal strength shown on his computer includes signals reflected from the pan back into the wifi modem.
Just to be sure, I watched the video again. The graph on his computer was measuring download speed in KB/s rather than actual signal strength. Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
This ain't rocket surgery.
What is sad is the trolls and flamebaits have gotten so bad here that you would think that. Sigh...once upon a time Slashdot used to be home to the greatest trolls and flamers in the world bar none. We had guys that spent ages making very intricate and truly vulgar ASCII art, trolls that would go on for three or four pages before they got to the eating poop or incestuous sex, I mean you could really tell they put a lot of heart into it, you know?
Personally I blame digg and the chans. They have lowered the bar on trolling so badly that true artisans of the troll have left the hallowed halls for Slashdot for places where their malevolence and mischief will be appreciated, like working at Comcast, Goldman Sachs, or lobbying congress. It really is a shame, as another great art is slowly suffocated by the "dumbing down" of mass market appeal. The great trolls long past are looking down from under that great bridge in the sky and hanging their heads in shame. Truly a sad end for what was once a noble profession.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
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