This may sound stupid but it has worked for most of the people I know who have tried it. Take a pringles can and clean out all the salt and grease. Cut a hole in the bottom and put your adapter inside it with the cord coming out the bottom. Point the open end of the can in the general direction of your router. Make sure you leave the lid off (IMG:
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Tried that in a couple different places and saw a 1-2 bar signal increase on average. This coupled with cwegga's idea should help out a lot.
decided after initial post that I myself wouldn't try this without an explanation so why would anybody else (IMG:
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The pringles can acts in the same way as the dish on a satellite dish and focuses the signal by bouncing it all into a straighter line with the aluminum lining. dwegga's idea of pointing the antenna towards your xbox is good too. Most rotuers use omni-directional antennas. That means that they broadcast in all directions at the same time. The majority of the signal however (imho) comes out of the end, therefore pointing it in the right direction should help. If you don't have too many other wifi devices on your network then try putting a pringles can over one antenna as well and point that one. It doesn't have to be a pringles can any other aluminum lined tube will work. And remember: as dumb as this all sounds, what do you have to lose?
This post has been edited by ghostmachine418: Dec 17 2007, 02:32 AM