Use an Aluminum Can as A Wi-Fi Extender

Cute idea but I don't have an antenna on either of my wireless routers and on the rare occasion I do drink a beer it always a frosty bottle of Sam Adam's Boston Lager. :)
 
The way I'm thinking doing it will end up voiding the warranty.
 
If you have a linksys, some of their routers allow for custom firmware to be installed (eg DD-WRT). The firmware allows you to increase the power output past FCC regulations:D Warning though, might not be good for the old health and could get pretty hot. Do your research.
 
if you do try to extend it using a can you have to have the antenna perfectly placed in it. Me and a couple of friends tried this 4-5 years ago to see if he could get my internet via wifi down the street from me. we had to do some calculations to get it right but it did increase the range by a small amount.

Also as bot said there is other firmware. dd-wrt is a good program. Tomato is a good program also.
Both give a ton of tweaking ability to your network.
 
BOT#00001 said:
If you have a linksys, some of their routers allow for custom firmware to be installed (eg DD-WRT). The firmware allows you to increase the power output past FCC regulations:D Warning though, might not be good for the old health and could get pretty hot. Do your research.
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Heh well Linksys is a minority in the DDWRT arena these days anyways. Buffalo actually pays brainslayer to develop for them so Atheros gets the DDWRT love and broadcom gets worse and worse builds every month.

FFC Regs are actually higher than most routers can do at all stock with only firmware. 1000mW is the limit and the WRT54g's cant even hit 1/4 of that. Buffalo has a G model with a built in amp that i think does 600mW normally not sure what it does on the tweak end of things. Most routers are around 50mW but can run higher, there are 1000mW models available of course just not mainstream stuff.

xxXRayzorXxx said:
if you do try to extend it using a can you have to have the antenna perfectly placed in it. Me and a couple of friends tried this 4-5 years ago to see if he could get my internet via wifi down the street from me. we had to do some calculations to get it right but it did increase the range by a small amount.

Also as bot said there is other firmware. dd-wrt is a good program. Tomato is a good program also.
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Yeah you need to measure for the wave length in question i forget what its supposed to be. I used tomato on my ASUS before it gave up. Tomato unlike DDWRT at this time uses newer broadcom drivers and has much better broadcom builds. Guess thats what getting paid does to a good project, ruins it.


RIP 2011-2011 LOL
 
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