Bruce wrote in
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What I'll do is build one of each and see :-)

Thanks for the idea.
Cheers,



Screwing around with wifi is almost as much fun as ham radio used to be....
(c;]

They used to make an aluminium dish for the kids to slide downhill in the
snow called a snow coaster. It had two handles to hang onto and was
relatively concave shaped until it hit its first good rock.

We've acquired a good one, nearly unused. If you lean it against something
on the lee side of the internally-antenna'd netbook, you can move the
netbook around while watching the signal level to find where the signal
reflects off the metre-wide aluminum dish as a reflector, concentrating the
signal from a distant hotspot into the behind-the-screen wifi antennas.

Even if it didn't work so great, and it does, the looks you get from
passersby more than make up for any deficiencies in RF effects....(c;]

Maybe the passersby have noticed the CIA official logo we put on the back
of it and think we're government spies....hee hee.

--
Religion is to reality what homeopathy is to medical science.

Larry