Homemade Laptop Wi-Fi amplifier (review)

Computers & Mobile

Phillip Torrone

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Red Scorpion writes – “I have always been frustrated with the performance of my laptop Wi-Fi. I tried many solutions to improve the signal from far away routers, but few of these worked. I’ll cover a solution that I came up with that finally did yield some results for me.” [via] – Link.

Related:

MAKE: Blog: @ DEFCON – New World Record for Wi-Fi Distance: 125 Miles – Link.
HOW TO – Uni-Directional WIFI Range Extender – Link.
Beerquad – DIY Wi-Fi antenna – Link.

8 thoughts on “Homemade Laptop Wi-Fi amplifier (review)”

Malc1961 says:

November 13th, 2006 at 4:35 pm

Nice build! I’ve run into similar issues with wifi range. My solution came from a company called enGenius. I’ve used both their mini-PCI (EMP-8602) and USB (EUB-362) solutions. They perform very well.

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Malc1961 says:

November 13th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

Nice build! I’ve run into similar issues with wifi range. My solution came from a company called enGenius. I’ve used both their mini-PCI (EMP-8602) and USB (EUB-362) solutions. They perform very well.

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kryten007 says:

November 13th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

It almost doesn’t matter if it even works–it looks so cool! Looks like something right out of a big-budget hacker movie :)

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matthew_kleinmann says:

November 14th, 2006 at 8:09 am

Too bad the amplifier was pre canned. I though this was going to be someone who built a wi-fi amp.

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