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Mr. Luddite

On 11/23/2013 1:29 PM, wrote:

There are several sites on the net that will show you how to make
antennas from anything ranging from old DSS dishes to a Pringles can.

There are plenty of commercial solutions, aimed at places like
campgrounds or building owners that provide hot spots.

Before I bought the extender and before all the recent upgrades, I was
looking at some of those home-brew directional "dishes" for wireless
routers and was going to try to make one. The new style router/modem
does not have an external antenna though, so I wouldn't know where to
place it.

The new, D-3.0 routers with the two channel capability look like this:

http://media2.comcast.net/anon.comcastonline2/support/help/faqs/wireless_gateway/image004.jpg