Homemade wireless antenna

Homemade wireless antenna.Do it yourself! Yea thats the right word for my latest project. I spent almost a week to make a research on how to increase Wireless Signal. Few months ago my sister’s laptop detected a wireless signal coming from the school nearby, but the signal was very poor. I can’t event load google with it. So last week I made an experiment on how to boost the WiFi Signal.

I found a good and cheap solution for that.They call it “Poor Man WiFi” . This is an inexpensive solution and homemade wireless antenna. I made an experiment with all different materials including milk can, pepsi can, pringles can, a wok, and this one. I don’t know what people called this hehe. Its a kitchen utility.So the idea is base on the wave’s behavior.The normal wifi antenna is omni directional or 360 degree angle. The range is big but the wave can’t travel far due to lost in energy. From my experiment if the wave travel approximately 30 degree, we can get very high gain.

My Homemade wireless antenna

Pringles can or cantenna is the most ideal for this. But Pringles can give me lot of signal noise due to interference. Correct me if i am wrong. So i adjust the radius. and came out with a good signal gain. The signal was doubled and noise is reduced a little bit. The suitable angle is 180 degree. So i design a parabolic antenna with 180 degree.  Stay tuned i’ll post the complete tutorial for the homemade wireless antenna.