Home-made Beam Antennas for WiFi Routers

The correct antenna achieves more range and speed for your WiFi network, but it does leave a hole in your pocket. These home-made antennas are a great alternative.

                          The mountable parabola antenna directs signals specifically in one direction as opposed to the standard antenna from the manufacturer. It ensure even more data throughout with even more obstacles in teh way. The instructions for making these antennas are available @ http://www.freeantennas.com/projects. Make two parabola antennas for routers with two antenna terminals. They transmit concentrated signals in one direction. As the basic material, use cardboard bound with metal foil. Believe me you'll only need a few household tools for this.

Effects are certainly noticeable. You can get an increase of 10db from a old WiFi G router using an omnidirectional copper transmitter and rigging it to an old CD spindle. However the latest router models based on the 802.11N standard do not operate with this kind of antenna. (www.skifactz.com/wifi/biquad_enclosure.html)