Now tell me, what can you make with a glue stick, some tin foil and a sheet of paper?
Well, today I've made one of these - a small, home made parabolic dish to aid my wireless stick. The problem being it's not a very good stick.
No - really - it cost about $16 (£8) and is such good quality that it doesn't even have a brand name. It can fail to pickup a wireless signal inside the same ROOM. For a reliable signal you want to be at least 15ft away from the transmitter.
No - really. Any closer and it drops every minute. Any further and it drops, every minute.
And yet....with the aid of this handy-dandy silver foil monster I can further away from the router. Rather then having the effective freedom of my bedroom, I'm now transmitting through the wall of the at an oblique angle.
That is - through 18 inches of building material (straight on, it would be 6 inches - but at an angle...) a load bearing wall. All this and the signal strength varies between 30% and 60%.
As opposed to 0%-30%.
Go tinfoil!
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Edit for a really silly mistake
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Haha Martin.... Matt has showed that I can send indirectly a photo on here. Remember the PAINT drawing I did?
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