Wifi Antenna Booster Signal Link VS Signal Strength

Make sure the AP or wireless access point that you want to connect must have 50% and above link quality. The link quality will determine your connection is good or not, if the link quality is bad no matter how high the signal strength is, you will experience low speed internet connection. The wifi antenna booster can help you improve the link quality.

How dBi effect your wifi antenna booster

Ever heard about dBi? dBi is a measurement for antenna gain high dBi means high gain. Most people always make mistake when choosing wifi antenna booster. They just but the antenna according to dBi, more dBi means more power per watt thet your usb adapter must produce. Your USB wifi adapter itself must be able to coop with the antenna gain. from my experience 10dBi wireless antenna would perform better with 1000mW usb wifi adapter. In this case Alfa 1000mw is the great choices of wifi antenna booster.

Buy : Alfa AWUS036H 1000mW

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Basically the diy wireless antenna that I want to setup is parabolic wireless antenna. And this is the cheapest solution for wireless antenna booster. Building a wireless antenna 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 not 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.

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.

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Homemade wireless antenna

Homemade wireless antenna.Do it yourself! Yea thats the right word for my latest project. I spent almost a week to make a research on how to increase Wireless Signal. Few months ago my sister’s laptop detected a wireless signal coming from the school nearby, but the signal was very poor. I can’t event load google with it. So last week I made an experiment on how to boost the WiFi Signal.

I found a good and cheap solution for that.They call it “Poor Man WiFi” . This is an inexpensive solution and homemade wireless antenna. I made an experiment with all different materials including milk can, pepsi can, pringles can, a wok, and this one. I don’t know what people called this hehe. Its a kitchen utility.So the idea is base on the wave’s behavior.The normal wifi antenna is omni directional or 360 degree angle. The range is big but the wave can’t travel far due to lost in energy. From my experiment if the wave travel approximately 30 degree, we can get very high gain.

My Homemade wireless antenna

Pringles can or cantenna is the most ideal for this. But Pringles can give me lot of signal noise due to interference. Correct me if i am wrong. So i adjust the radius. and came out with a good signal gain. The signal was doubled and noise is reduced a little bit. The suitable angle is 180 degree. So i design a parabolic antenna with 180 degree.  Stay tuned i’ll post the complete tutorial for the homemade wireless antenna.

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