On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:07:36 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce wrote in
:

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.


Over here you just go down to the market and buy a "wok". I have no
idea what the largest size made is but a 26 incher is right off the
shelf. Works a treat but my wife doesn't think that they create a
suitable ambience hanging on the living room wall :-)


Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)