tin cans

Hi

Anyone any experience of building tin can waveguides to boost wireless
signals?

Such as

http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/

or

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

The reason I ask is that having set up a wireless network between my PC and
my wife's laptop in her office directly above my own - which worked
perfectly - excellent signal, when one of the "children" left home my wife
decided to convert that bedroom into her office instead. But it's on the
opposite side of the house, several walls away, and the signal is not
reliable - varies between low and non-existent. I've been considering moving
the router closer (an easier option than refitting offices AGAIN!! even if I
was allowed), but came across the above articles and wonder if this really
works.

Thanks

"Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Anyone any experience of building tin can waveguides to boost wireless signals?
>
> Such as
>
> http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
>
> or
>
> http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
>
I'll be intereseted to hear if that stuff works, failing that you could get one of these
http://tinyurl.com/6chdu

if you drill down far enough with that option, you get warnings that such
products only work with same make routers

"Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:41b72e50$1$29761$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> Anyone any experience of building tin can waveguides to boost wireless
> signals?
>
> Such as
>
> http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
>
> or
>
> http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
>
> The reason I ask is that having set up a wireless network between my PC
> and my wife's laptop in her office directly above my own - which worked
> perfectly - excellent signal, when one of the "children" left home my wife
> decided to convert that bedroom into her office instead. But it's on the
> opposite side of the house, several walls away, and the signal is not
> reliable - varies between low and non-existent. I've been considering
> moving the router closer (an easier option than refitting offices AGAIN!!
> even if I was allowed), but came across the above articles and wonder if
> this really works.

This is discussed at length in WiFi Guide, Jeff Duntemann, Paraglyph Press,
2004, ISBN 1-932111-88-3.

In article <41b72e50$1$29761$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Me
again" (E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi
>
> Anyone any experience of building tin can waveguides to boost wireless
> signals?
>
> Such as
>
> http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
>
> or
>
> http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
>
> The reason I ask is that having set up a wireless network between my PC and
> my wife's laptop in her office directly above my own - which worked
> perfectly - excellent signal, when one of the "children" left home my wife
> decided to convert that bedroom into her office instead. But it's on the
> opposite side of the house, several walls away, and the signal is not
> reliable - varies between low and non-existent. I've been considering moving
> the router closer (an easier option than refitting offices AGAIN!! even if I
> was allowed), but came across the above articles and wonder if this really
> works.
>
I've seen reports of people getting impressive range outdoors, but in
your situation I expect it would be heavily dependent on what's in the
way - if you've got foil-backed plasterboard or expanded metal lath on
the intervening walls then I don't think you'll have much luck.

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:39:35 -0000, Me again <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone any experience of building tin can waveguides to boost wireless
> signals?
>
> Such as
>
> http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
>
> or
>
> http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
>
> The reason I ask is that having set up a wireless network between my PC and
> my wife's laptop in her office directly above my own - which worked
> perfectly - excellent signal, when one of the "children" left home my wife
> decided to convert that bedroom into her office instead. But it's on the
> opposite side of the house, several walls away, and the signal is not
> reliable - varies between low and non-existent. I've been considering moving
> the router closer (an easier option than refitting offices AGAIN!! even if I
> was allowed), but came across the above articles and wonder if this really
> works.
>
> Thanks
>
>
Hi
Not tin cans but I done alot of experiments with reflectors on
external ants and they work well and you don't have to worry about
element length. Presently got a 1/2 kilometer link working well with
reflectors.
In testing in the house and putting the radios where they couldn't
link I got a good link after putting on the reflectors. Got no figures
as I haven't got the right s/ware.
www.freeantennas.com I think is the site for the reflector design
Cheers
Jon

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"Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> if you drill down far enough with that option, you get warnings that such products only work with
> same make routers
With the Buffalo and the Belkin but not with the Hawking's HSB1 signal booster

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> "Me again" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> if you drill down far enough with that option, you get warnings that such products only work with
>> same make routers
> With the Buffalo and the Belkin but not with the Hawking's HSB1 signal booster
Quote ...Using three wireless routers from Hawking, Linksys, and Compex along with a variety of
clients, we ran the booster for a week without a problem...this was part of the test report

Thanks for the clarification, but as I'm reading the bumf, this product
requires that you remove the aerial from you router and plug it in to same
connection. But my router doesn't have a detachable aerial

Hi Jon could you give some feedback on your experiments with reflectors?
Would your end products work with an indoors network?