Wifi Antenna

[roger rabbit]

Re: cheers

" most home-brew ain't pretty"

Fiddle, somehow I have this mental picture of your gaff as a real Heath Robinson paradise.

[fiddleabout]

Re: cheers

Not any more. I stopped messing about with ham radio many moons ago. The "shack" was just the cupboard under the stairs.

My WiFi setup is all commercial - mind you if I could have got the connector easily I might have knocked something up - sadly I suspect Mrs. Fiddle would have objected though unless it was very unobtrusive.

In the main she is in favour of wireless networking simply because it is so much tidier away from the rat's nest which is the router - that lives in my "office" anyway which is pretty cluttered up with all sorts of hardware. She has a simple solution for the "office" - the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

[JS]

Re: the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

I wish mine would,
she keeps going in and tidying up.
Then nothing works. :\

[zeitghost]

Re: the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

It's the dust that keeps it all going.

[SupremeSpod]

Re: the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

You can make a colinear out of a length of coax shoved inside a bit of pipe (possibly lossy) or simply hung from the ceiling.

One of the designs I've seen uses a "Pringles" Container with the exposed Coax a certain distance from the tin reflector at the back.

I seem to remember reading something on Slashdot about distance records for 802.11(x)

Spod - In "Heath Robinson" mode!

[AtW]

Re: the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

oi Spod, bet my SlashDot ID is more elite (ie smaller) than yours - just 4 digits, 9xxx.

[JS]

Re: Pringles Antenna

These are better:
www.turnpoint.net/wireles...howto.html

www.wlan.org.uk has some good info

[fiddleabout]

Re: the door is kept shut and she pretends it doesn't exist.

> I've seen uses a "Pringles" Container

that one will be directional I think - a colinear is omnidirectional (ie same signal strength in all directions)

probably designed for rural area networking

*upd* just looked at the tin can design - yep those are for point to point not much use for roaming the home with a laptop.