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I made a reflector from the same template a few years back, worked great. The reason it works is it improves both transmit and receive. The reason why a regular
by hedgehog 16y ago
I made a reflector from the same template a few years back, worked great. The reason it works is it improves both transmit and receive. The reason why a regular consumer AP doesn't come with that sort of antenna is it's directional, basically you trade wide coverage for better coverage over a narrower angle and most people have a hard enough time just standing their omnis straight up.
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- electromagnetic 16y agoHowever if you place it in one corner of your house and install a reflector with a 90-degree coverage angle you should be able to increase your signal strength up to ~4-fold with a perfect reflector as you're 1/4 your coverage area. Realistically getting a 50% increase in strength is great. Using materials like aluminium or copper would greatly increase the performance of your reflector. If you by chance had a copper mesh, it would kick the tin foil a mile. I personally have access to sheet aluminium so if I were ever to build one of these I'd definitely be making it from that and not foil. (IIRC reflectivity in metals is improved with thickness, with these tin foil reflectors you're probably still getting a strong enough signal at close range from the side of the reflector you don't want signal.
- stretchwithme 16y agoyeah, a smaller reflector close the transmitter wouldn't do much to help it as a receiver. I'll bet there's an optimal size reflector and distance from the antenna. and, the same would be true for your laptop too, right? a reflector at both ends.