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Practically Free DIY WiFi Antennas

Monday, April 7th, 2008 – running time 21:01
Practically Free DIY WiFi Antennas
Cut and past your way to better WiFi reception? It costs pennies and takes the fabrication skills of a kindergartner... then bend a 6dBi Omni and a 10dBi directional out of copper wire!

David's got a bit of trouble getting his WiFi Router signal to reach every corner of his house... one of the easiest fixes ever isn't a trip to the local computer store, but a trip to the kitchen for aluminum foil, then to the home office for a manilla folder and a glue stick.

It's the infamous Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector, hosted at FreeAntennas.com.

Here's the EZ-12 template link.

Omnidirectional Antennas = radiate signal 360 degrees...

A panel mount or surface mount female N connector and 300mm of solid core copper is the heart of the Home-brew Compact 6dBi Collinear Antenna a slick e found on MartyBugs.net.

Directional Antennas = generally concentrates your WiFi in a single direction.

We went to the Seattle Wireless most excellent collection Antenna HowTo for the SardineCanAntenna a biquad you can build with or without an N-connector, at least at the antenna end! (just search WiFi Biquad to find a host of construction ideas!) You don't have to use a sardine can, just about anything will work as a reflector, even a pressed CD... it just needs to be metallic and around 150mm in diameter.

There are quite a few more WiFi antenna designs out there... these are just some of our faves!

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Started discussion: April 7, 2008 @ 4:25pm GMT

Episode 45 - Practically Free DIY WiFi Antennas [Discussion]

Cut and past your way to better WiFi reception? It costs pennies and takes the fabrication skills of a kindergartner... then bend a 6dBi Omni and a 10dBi directional out of copper wire!

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zboy417
about 1 year ago
The WMV Large version of the show is having voice-syncing issues....their mouths don't move with their words
Joey85
about 1 year ago
In reply to zboy417:
The WMV Large version of the show is having voice-syncing issues....their mouths don't move with their words


I am also having this issue.
chuckles
about 1 year ago
In reply to zboy417:
The WMV Large version of the show is having voice-syncing issues....their mouths don't move with their words


Yikes!! It is really out of sync. Working on getting a new encode right now.

-chuckles-
zboy417
about 1 year ago
In reply to chuckles:
Yikes!! It is really out of sync. Working on getting a new encode right now.

-chuckles-


Are you going to post when its fixed?
chuckles
about 1 year ago
In reply to zboy417:
Are you going to post when its fixed?


Yeah. I'll post an update once I have the fixed version out in the wild.

-chuckles-
Will_Stutler
about 1 year ago
and here i go thinking it was only me having that issue

thanks for getting on that chuckles
tokenuser
about 1 year ago
In reply to Joey85:
[QUOTE=zboy417;334628]The WMV Large version of the show is having voice-syncing issues....their mouths don't move with their words
I am also having this issue.[/QUOTE]Me too, and its annoying the crap out of my wife. She feels like she is talking to a bad Japanese overdub.
zboy417
about 1 year ago
Hehe...can we keep the old video as a Systm blooper :D

Also...can we have the Systm theme song in an aif file?
I don't want to copy it from the video, I want the original (it would sound MUCH better :D )
zboy417
about 1 year ago
Just a hope :D...i hope they mension it in next episode and play a clip and make a joke about it :D...
Its a classic words off thing ;)
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