Patrick Norton: Welcome back to DL.tv I am Patrick Norton
Robert Harris: And I am Robert harris
Patrick Norton: Got some good stuff for you Magnus is how can I increase my Wi-Fi signal? My desktop is on one side of the room and on a completely different floor from the router. Now you could go out spend like $50 for an antenna to bolt on to the back of your router or $20 $50 it is like go to 7DBN antenna usually is going to cost you it is going to be about this high and you have to make sure you actually have to remove more antennas on your router.
And if they are not removable unless you really enjoy cutting things open and hacking and violating warranties you are not going to put up the super antenna on your router, which brings us to the fabulous wind surfer. Oh, that is the name, that is the name, you mock that you laugh.
Robert Harris: This is cool and expensive technology.
Patrick Norton: This is a parabola, parabolas are very simple they like to reflect things in this case the RFN the energy that is coming out of the antenna why do you care about that, trust me folks if you can find aluminum foil, do we have aluminum foil?
Robert Harris: I mocked this, you mocked this.
Patrick Norton: At first site, I was wondering what are you doing, aluminum foil do not even bother asking mom she would not care as long as you do not take the entire row. Glue or glue stick, remember glue sticks, do you use this?
Robert Harris: Oh yes.
Patrick Norton: This are amazing.
Robert Harris: I was just like one tube of super glue to last longer than I do not know, a month.
Patrick Norton: Well super glue does not last longer, it is like when you use it, it just—apparently I have to go back to using the Elmers all purpose glue since I am not licensed to operate the new fancy glue. I mean if you can spread glue on aluminum foil and then press one of these on it you are good to go. And this is the pattern actually, this pattern—
Robert Harris: Is that the template you can put out?
Patrick Norton: You bet, basically you glue this the aluminum foil, you cut the template out and then you fold, it is real basic slot A into tab B kind of stuff or as most people on the world would say. Tab A into slot be kind of stuff and once you assemble it, it actually works to do if you do on this size the largest size is about 10-12 Db a boost, for the smaller it is about 9 decimals of boost.
Robert Harris: You are showing the template for the small one there?
Patrick Norton: Yes
Robert Harris: Okay, the basic template if you basically double the size of the template it is going to increase the amount of booster getting from 9Db to about 12Db.
Patrick Norton: So it is a parabolic reflector you have made in a sense that it takes that what normally would be radiating from all directions from the antenna?
Robert Harris: Exactly
Patrick Norton: Little broadcast powers and then directs it, makes it a directional antenna?
Robert Harris: Basically yes, I mean once you have done this for the cost of a printed page and a little bit of aluminum foil, if you have time you can do this. This actually was amazing, this double to almost double the signal from one side of my old house. The house was like made out of lead sheets and we have actually had before and after—yes it is really cheap and easy.
This is actually the before—you probably cannot read that once it is compressed 82% on the signal strength on that and once we popped the fabulous wind surfer on there watch it, up to a 100%. Actually stronger than the commercial grade router that is sitting 30 feet closer to my system inside of our floor here.
Patrick Norton: Looks like an IBM access connection that I refuse to touch.
Robert Harris: It is pretty.
Patrick Norton: It is pretty I like the distance thing, it is like this one is in range.
Robert Harris: This one is closer to a 100% so it is better even I can understand it. Preantennas.com is a source for that it is a great, great website, the basic list you know they got some of the stuff like the classic Pringles antenna, which is listed up there bu
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