PQA Ep. 4: Boosting Your WiFi Signal

PQA (Petra's Questions & Answers): Episode 4, Boosting Your WiFi Signal.

In this episode, I go over the construction of a simple and effective means of boosting your home network's WiFi signal.

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[omerocelikkol]

This does not work unfortunately.

[PTPetra]

@omerocelikkol Well, it did result in stabilizing the wireless connection to my media PC... sometimes there's a signal boost and sometimes, like in my case, it merely solved my packet loss and connection drop issues.

[lynn77581]

Does the aluminum foil have to be smooth in order to get a proper reflection?

[PTPetra]

@lynn77581 Smoother foil should work better; however, I'm not sure how much of a noticable performance difference there would really be between smooth foil and foil with a few small creases and wrinkles.

[vietsoul2]

lol you did it wrong, the tin foil is the other way

[PTPetra]

@vietsoul2 If you feel that's the case, then I invite you to review the designer's instructions as well as assembly tutorials from others (like Revision3's Systm, for example). I'm sure you'll find them to be the same. Additionally, from a functional standpoint, it doesn't matter which side of the parabola the aluminum foil is attached to, aside from attachment to the inside possibly causing performance-altering deformation of the foil (crunch rather than stretch).

[PizzaIsGod]

no link

[msmustache1]

he looks like a pedophile

[NoRogeR]

cool hah, you should have added a little comparison with and without x( but thats fine, thanks