WiFi Signal Booster
Posted in Geekies, Lifestyle on August 3rd, 2005Stuck at low WiFi signal strength? I have a Linksys Wireless G router (WRT54G) in my brother room which connected to my Linksys Wireless G PCI Adapter with SpeedBooster (WMP54GS) is located in my room and connected to the internet throught the router. I always get really low signal strength, around 11Mbps. I have bought some Linksys 7dBi High Gain Antenna with SMA and TNC connector, I’ve tried them both on router and my PC, I got few extra boost in signal. I think these antennas are way overpriced, so I gotta return them to shop.
After asking few help, I come up with few solutions. I upgraded the router build-in firmware to HyperWRT v.2 firmware and boost the Transmit Power from 50% to 100% in Advanced Wireless Settings. This is the first solution I got so far, it did improved wifi signal a little bit.
I googled around and found a cheap (but effective) way to boost up my router signal by making a DIY 10dBi Corner Reflector antenna through this site’s instructions. It took me one hour max to finish the 2 antennas. This DIY project is so simple and easy. Now, I fully get up to 54Mbps and 90% signal strength. All this works saved me hundreds dollars on those High Gain Antennas.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
sick! Will it work on my Linksys Wireless-B BEFW11S4 router?
August 30th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
I’m not sure, it may work with yours. Give it a try and let me know.
July 4th, 2006 at 3:35 am
how bout single antenna? do u have any suggestion?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:41 am
i’v made two of these antennas, one for my router and one for my friends. we both have a single antenna and it worked fine for us. we got the best results by aiming the homemade antenna towards the area we wanted to use it in. because wifi signals bounce off shinny things, the homemade antenna directs the signal in the area you want to use. which boosts the signal. i also purchased a linksys wireless usb adapter for my other home pc, and tried it on my laptop and got about a 10% increase in signal from a further distance in the house. i think i need a better wifi card, cant be having a wireless network adapter out perform my laptop card lol
July 15th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Wow, that’s to damn goofy looking antennas. uhhh, actually they look even better than the stock ones. lol.
well done.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I have been searching for a fix to my wifi problem. the router is at one end of the house, the wife’s wifi laptop is at the other end, many walls approx. 85 ft.. all I ever here is bitch- bitch- bitch “my signal keeps dropping me out”. this is been going on for 2 months. I’m starting to walk funny, if you know what I mean. found this site made the the booster as per plans, signal strengh is now super and my life got soooooo much better in one night. strength went from poor to very good. thanks so much. highly recommend this………
June 28th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Got any ideas that extend the laptops receiving signal?
July 19th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Her are a couple of links to the Pringles Can signal booster referenced above - I haven’t tried either one of these, but I remember reading something about them in Popular Science and they seem to work well from what I remember
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/17669-how-make-pringles-can-signal-booster.html
attempting to use the tags - we’ll see if it works:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/17669-how-make-pringles-can-signal-booster.html
July 19th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Doubled up - sorry ’bout that…
September 16th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Sorry no spams here. Deleted otherwise.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:28 am
YOU ROCK