DIY Long Range Directional WiFi USB Antenna Tutorial (AKA Wok Fi)

With this homemade Wifi antennta, I saw a 7x increase in available access points in the video. Your results will vary.

Required Materials:
Wok (available at any place that sells cookware) - I got mine at the dollar store
USB Extension Cable
USB WiFi Adaptor (Check Newegg.com for the best deals)
Hot Glue Gun
Scissors or Pliers

Software Used To Verify Functionality:
inSSIDer, available for free at http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

Filmed with an iPhone 4G

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• DIY
• Long
• Range
• Directional
• WiFi
• USB
• Antenna
• Tutorial
• Wok
• Fy
• wireless
• mod
• cantenna
• homemade
• tutorial
• Wi-Fi
• sieve
• strainer
• high gain
• boost
• signal
• on
• bad
• connection

[asorita1]

I hope you bought you mom a new strainer

[Tim8242]

@asorita1 I would have, but knowing her, she would have just sold it to get money to buy new furniture online that she can neither afford nor assemble. 

[breakabilly]

Martha Stewart, YOU are not....next time have your shit ready so I don't have to waste 1 minute of my life watching you look for pliers or scissors....this was very painful to watch, and only ever so slightly informative enough to be of any actual use....thanks for 12+ minutes of pain...I'll take my novocaine now!

[Tim8242]

@breakabilly I WAS DOING SCIENCE. I cannot do science and cinematography simultaneously.

[uhclem]

douchebag



[Tim8242]

@uhclem Thank you for that profoundly stupid and irrelevant comment, the internet is now a better place because of your great contribution to it.

CAN I HAVE SOME THUMBS FOR THAT ONE?

[Tim8242]

@salvadormeza Remember to rub cheetah blood on the finished antenna to make it faster.

[sipapito]

Thumbs up if you tilt your head to watch this video.

[Maqsoodykhan]

bloody mother fucker

[ORiordanism]

@breakabilly "short attention span theater" -absolutely genius!

[DeludedManiac]

HAHAHA I love it how you called a sift/strainer a wok hahahaha I think I knew that when I was like 6 years old.. thanks for the vid anyways

[memoore68]

this is called a strainer!!!! LOL NOT jap! thought i would point this out!

[baldysoftknuckles]

its a siv



[Tutorial59]

just fu**ing put the camera down your making me dizzy by watching this!!

[breakabilly]

Dear Tim,

Please accept my apology for mocking your tutorial. What I MEANT to say was...INVEST IN A TRIPOD! While I have viewed many other more painful and unbearable videos on YT, your video still managed to rank in my top 159 most painful due to the one-handed nature of your filming technique. Remember, this is short attention span theater, so videos less than 5 minutes will generally keep the public's attention longer than a 12 minute one....as will a prepared and two-handed host!