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Tin Foil Hat --- Wireless Router Speed Boost .... and works 🙂
Watched teh Gadget Show on Monday and this was suggested. Made mine out of four panel bok and two layers of foil.
I had a crappy 40KB/sec and it jumped to 200KB/sec.
It actually works. Well it worked for me. Took the foil away and it dropped again.
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Wonder if it would improve my mobile signal - I will try it.
I tried it. It made no difference. Maybe it works with these single box types like LIveboxs or BT hubs, but with routers with an antenna it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Works with the this netgear router 🙂
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presumably you have to have the router in a corner (an "outside" one) so that you never have to get a signal in through the foil at the back of it??
I've got a BT router, and my signal was virtually non-existent upstairs in my bedroom, the opposite side of the house, so I got some ally foil and taped it in a curve behind the antenna, so that it focussed the signal and immediately got a full signal on my phone upstairs. Nothing fancy, but it works a treat. There's instructions on the Internet for building router booster dishes if you google it, but a few square inches of foil just taped at the back in a curve works.
should just work like they say anyway. (kicks router)