Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal Strength with a Foil

27 mar 2009

Are you looking for ways to increase the wireless signal strength of that router in your home without having to invest in a Wifi extender? Here's a tip.

Are you looking for ways to increase the signal strength of that wireless router in your home without having to invest in a Wifi extender?

Then head over to the kitchen and grab some Aluminum foil that is normally used by mom for cooking or for wrapping sandwiches so that they stay fresh a little longer.

Tear off some foil in the shape of a rectangle, give it a curve and then place the foil behind the antenna of your router. This will reflect the wireless signals into your preferred directions.

If the router is mounted on a wall, you can make holes in the Aluminium foil and insert it inside the antennas as shown in the following video.

http://www.medlawplus.com jjray

Nice trick but, to extent the range of your home or business wifi range, it is probably better to spend $20 and get a better antennae for your wifi router. Here is an example.
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/Wibberduck5.php
JW

I wonder if wrapping the foil around the antenna would work as well?
http://virgintech.org Shahab khan

In my home my router is at the ground floor but i generally work with my PC on the first floor. So I am wondering in which direction i should place that foil in order to get the better signal strength??
If you have any idea then do let me know please!
http://www.etiole.com Monik

A way to decrease any radiation or such is By using Copper. Copper can absorb all radiations. :) Just experimented!
Mr Ree

my router doesn’t have an antennae so how can I increase its range/strength? thanks
http://softwareshelper.blogspot.com Rajeev

In my home my router is at the ground floor but i generally work with my PC on the first floor. So I am wondering in which direction i should place that foil in order to get the better signal strength??
If you have any idea then do let me know please!
Cazar

Wow… what if i put a mirror?
EisforEverything

Will it work if I just put the aluminum backing over (behind) the whole router, not just the antennae? Because the atennae on my wireless N router are not on the outside like the video shows on their router.
TheAngryMisfit

Well i built my own antenna using an old direct tv dish, i just removed the contents from the emitter and built a simple solid core anode, bending it into a diamond, 234 mm long. connected it using a simple tv cable to my wireless card in my pc, some soldering required, but its self explanitory you have your ground and your core transmit receive wire, solder where needed, use cable in 3 9 12 15 set lengths. its set up in my kitchen and i get a signal through many walls and 100 feet, of an apartment good enough to stream movies. but the first dish i tried was made from a pot top, taking the handle off and mounting an anode next to it, grounding the top to the cable. adjusting the distance from the top to the anode worked great.

Technology, Software and Internet

Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal Strength with a Foil

You may also like: