Pringles antenna

Do you get a bad connection in your WiFi-network? Is is probably because you have a to bad antenna. If you know where your accesspoint is located or if your computer is stationary it is really no point in blasting out those precious radiowaves everywhere. A better solution would certainly be to use a directional antenna. Cell phone operators use them all the time alongside roads and surely you can too.

There are many plans out there for building your own directional antenna. Most famous is absolutely Rob Flickenger's Pringelscan antenna. It is (probably) a Yagi-Uda-antenna much similar to the one you have on your roof receiving TV-signals.

If you don't want any more Pringles after finishing building your extreme macro lens you might want to consider other designs made from tin cans (finally we know what Warhol was doing with those Campell cans). These are waveguide designs and apparently work much better (about 9dB or 8x in signal strength) than a Pringlescan. So if you need some long range WiFi go out and buy yourself some tomato soup and start building!

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