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On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:18:25 -0400, John H
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Has anyone ever used one of these? Do they do any good?

http://blog.rv.net/2010/02/wi-fi-a-b...GSC_Cyber Sam

or: http://tinyurl.com/ylbh98k



I don't know about that particular antenna but an antenna can
certainly get you amazing performance from WiFi. I was doing some
research when the community assn. was thinking about WiFi and stumbled
on a web page for WiFi DXers who have run close to 10 miles with clean
line of sight.
Various schemes use coffee can antennas or something based on a DSS
satellite dish.


I was going to say... why not just make one. I was fiddling around with that
last year... probably total cost would be under $20. It took me about a day
of fiddling after I got the parts. It was cool that I could get onto my
neighbor's wifi when I put the homebrew on the upper deck... can just barely
see his house from there. He gave me his login and it worked until the wind
finally took it. I never bothered to replace it. Now I have a wired
situation with my own internal wifi. Before, I couldn't get anything with
just the built-in laptop wifi.

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