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How to make outdoor wifi antenna using satellite dish and usb wifi adapter

joe — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:02:55 +0000

This is another series of extreme diy wifi antenna booster. Using wifi satellite dish? Yea imagine how long you can pull the signal. Just grab your usb wifi adapter and find abandon satellite dish. In this video he combine both the tin can wave guide wifi antenna and ExpressVu satellite dish. This is not a internet satellite service neither internet over satellite this is just the satellite dish is used as an external antenna here.

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To check your wifi signal increase download the software called netstumbler or PassMark WirelessMon.
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DIY homemade wifi antenna hack

joe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:25:46 +0000

This is another step by step video on how to make long range wifi antenna. This method is different from my DIY wifi antenna that i publish earlier. Basically there are only few different between long range wifi extender and your regular wifi router or wifi receiver. If you disassemble the antenna part you will see the the only different is the pigtail wire configuration.

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The video will show you on how to double or more your wifi strength. You can try this for your wifi router or wifi antenna receiver/wifi pci card. Enjoy the video

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How To Make Wifi Signal Booster (DIY)

joe — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:44:20 +0000

As I promise before (Cheap Solution for Wireless Signal Booster (Homemade Wireless Antenna) I would like to give instructions on how to create your own wireless signal booster. Right now i am using free Wireless connection from school 500 meters from my house. Before this I couldn’t even connect to Google due to terrible wireless signal. In this tutorial I am using Aztech 802.11b/g USB Adaptor. If you have wireless pci card, the procedure still the same. By doing this you can increase your wireless signal up to 12Db. If the signal too low you may need a monitoring software like netstumbler.There are few wireless antennas out there that you can purchase but that’s not cool at all. Do it yourself!.

Basically the diy wireless antenna that I want to setup is parabolic wireless antenna. And this is the cheapest solution for extended wireless antenna. Building a wireless signal booster DIY style. Tool that you need are Cheap USB wireless modem, antenna holder, aluminum foil and USB extension cable. I tried using the long extension cable but it does no detect my USB wireless devices , maybe because not enough power supply.

Step 1 The Reflector I found pre-made template on the internet for this.Downoad this pre made antenna templateI just doubled the scale to fit my cardboard. Once you already downloaded the template cut it into the shape. I am using plastic file’s case. You may use cardboard get the cheapest one lol. I cut the square hole in the middle to fit the Aztech wireless USB adapter.

Step 2 Cover with the aluminum foil. Once we the template is ready. Go to the kitchen and grab the aluminum foil. Ask your mom first! Cover the template with aluminum foil and use your sister’s uhu glue.

Step 3 Antenna Holder Get some material for antenna holder. I am using curtain’s holder for this (no idea what’s the words lol).

Last step Mount your USB and to test the correct position and direction for the antenna.

Adjust the position of your wireless antenna booster so you will get the maximum signal gain. This is the difficult part since we don’t know from where the signal coming from. You can use this also as to increase your router signal. This is my result.

Look at the SMKKB_AP1 the gain is from 7% to 29% the gain is quadrupled plus I got 2 more signals. Good luck!. Experimenting is the best part in this tutorial. If you want to get better wireless signal booster, additional software might help.