Increase your Wi-Fi signal strength with an aluminium foil?

[David Baxter PhD]

Increase your Wi-Fi signal strength with an aluminium foil
by Amit Agarwal
March 27, 2009

Are you looking for ways to increase the signal strength of that wireless router in your home without having to invest in a Wifi extender?

Then head over to the kitchen and grab a piece of shiny Aluminum foil that is normally used by mom for cooking or for wrapping sandwiches so that they stay fresh a little longer.

Tear off some foil in the shape of a rectangle, give it a curve and then place the foil behind the antenna of your router. This will reflect the wireless signals into your preferred directions.

If the router is mounted on a wall, you can make holes in the Aluminium foil and insert it inside the antennas as shown in the following video.

YouTube - Wifi Signal Booster for less than $1 New!

 

[Atlantean]

Thats a great idea. My downstairs neighbor actually made a device to capture unprotected wi-fi out of a splatter gaurd and a couple other odds and ends. Hes an engineer though, and its always fascinating to see what he comes up with, or has to say about any given topic.

I have a problem with my router where I have to reset it sometimes two or three times a day (or not at all), but I dont think its related to anything regarding signal strength, because I get some killer download speeds. Gotta love cable! LOL, Id think I went to heaven if I only had a T1 *sighs longingly*...

 

[David Baxter PhD]

When it comes to the net, no matter how fast your connection, there's always something somewhere faster to aim for or dream about...

 

[Atlantean]

When it comes to the net, no matter how fast your connection, there's always something somewhere faster to aim for or dream about...

LOL. Yeah, and your speed is only as good as the server or peer your downloading from. *sighs*

 

[Budoaiki]

Hopefully it's not because your engineering neighbor is leeching off of your wi-fi, sometimes if someone is and they drop and reconnect too many times the router will reboot to stabilize the connection.
You can always encrypt your connection if that's a concern, wpa2 is the most stable that I know of. Or check for the standard things other wi-fi devices or appliances with high energy output or large electro magnetic pulse fields within a meter radius.
I used to work in internet tech support, can you tell? Although if you know what a T-1 connection is this probably isn't anything new.

 

[Atlantean]

I worked in ISP and domain hosting tech support for a while, too. Ours is encrypted and password protected. when it was happening in the beginning we thought it was because ppl were leeching of us, so we corrected that aspect. I think its just a problem with the router, in all honesty.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[arlene]

huh? really I didn't know this. Thank for sharing.. I'll tell my friends about this so they can try it and see if its effective or not.