December 11, 2003
Need better WiFi coverage?
Got an 802.11 WiFi setup? Not getting enough coverage? Then consider making yourself a pair of passive antenna waveguides from this Parabolic Template.
I made a pair for use on my Linksys BEFW11S4 router and they work great. I'd previously been unable to get decent coverage out in the areas needed. Setting up a pair of these on the Linksys helped focus the coverage into a much more useful pattern.
It required about $3 in parts and about an hour of my time with some scissors, cardboard, a glue gun and some hardware cloth. It was the hardware cloth and some extra glue sticks that cost money. The cardboard was just cut from the side of a cardboard box.
The site has a PDF template that I printed at about 50% of size. This gave me a template sized to make about a 4" wide curve. These are just small enough to sit side-by-side on my Linksys. You can make them larger or smaller depending on your needs. It's not the width of them than matters, it's the curve.
So rather than going out an buying yourself a signal repeater try using passive waveguides instead.
