Comments on: Building a wifi booster DIY style

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:39:26 +0000

It works perfectly for me.

By: Bill Paton

Bill Paton — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:04:19 +0000

My friend your original post is epic fail for two reasons the first is the wrong proportions of your pdf, despite the resizing of the total document you have to increase the length of the 1st piece. And second fail is covering with tin foil the second piece, microwaves reflect on tinfoil but not on paper so if you put tinfoil at second piece a big percentage of the total wave won’t reach the back of the rectangular piece to reflect on the antenna :P All I can say is that it is a bad copy of a brilliant original idea :)

By: Chris M

Chris M — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:05:46 +0000

I’m glad @burconsult came along and helped out here, that’s what this is all about! :)

By: BB

BB — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:53:08 +0000

Thanks burconsult for your input, yours is perfect.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:17:01 +0000

Hi @AustinTasker – To be honest, I’m not 100% sure, perhaps someone else with more understanding will have a good answer for you. However, I’d imagine that anything that transmits via signal, can be increased by using a booster – it makes logical sense..

By: AustinTasker

AustinTasker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:10:44 +0000

Do you know if this will work to increase the signal strength of a WiMAX connection?

Clear High-Speed Internet to be specific?

http://www.acreativedesktop.com/clear-high-speed-internet-help.html

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:44:50 +0000

Actually, I did this myself and it worked brilliantly, so my instructions are not incorrect.

Go rant elsewhere please.

Thanks!

By: bliksem

bliksem — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:44:12 +0000

[rant]
- If you copy the template from someone else DO IT RIGHT (see the former posts).
- You shouldn’t wrap aluminum foil around the part where fit the antenna like on the fotos (that would block the signal)
[/rant]

By: burconsult

burconsult — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:32:02 +0000

Totally worked for me using the instructables template (direct pdf link here: http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FMB/QJJ2/T6XEXCFFSFP/FMBQJJ2T6XEXCFFSFP.pdf ). Used it on a Netgear DG834N modem-router (with two small antennas) and managed to get great signal in an upstairs bedroom and groundfloor office and even to the street in front of the house, where it had never worked before. I was feeling a bit like Tim Allen in “Home Improvement” while building it but the science looked right and it proved to be working indeed.
Thanks!

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:36:49 +0000

Oh my goodness, it fits now! Thank you thank you. And there everyone was telling me I was just putting it together wrong and should fiddle with it till it worked. Well that’s step one done. Now I need to get some aluminium foil, wrap it up, stick the thing on my router and see if I can get a signal from the router all the way to my bedroom (which only just gets 1 bar sometimes and drops the signal often). I’ll let you know if I get any interesting results. Thanks for your help everyone.