Well, that’s one way to improve your netbook’s WiFi reception

I’ve never had much trouble getting my netbooks, laptops, and other mobile devices to connect to my home WiFi network… or a neighbor’s network for that matter. But what if you’re ahem, trying to connect to an unprotected WiFi network down the block. While I don’t think that’s what EeeUser Forum member wakrein was necessarily going for with his WiFi mod, he I think he could probably pull it off.

Basically, wakrein modified his Asus Eee PC netbook so that he could plug in an external antenna. And then he found a directional antenna that’s nearly as big as the one I have on my rooftop, threw it on a camera tripod, and now he can pick up WiFi signals from 100 yards away.

via GadgetMix

Posted on Saturday, July 17th, 2010, 11:39 am by Brad Linder

Anon

That directional external antenna might not work if you have a lot of pine trees of a certain needle length, or leafy trees in the line of sight between the WiFi source, and destination locations.

Should talk the neighborhood into Mesh Network maybe, see Wikipedia about Mesh Networking, and the link to a how to do it found there.
http://www.netbookfiles.com/ Netbookfiles.com

I will request the user for additional pictures so that we get an idea on the DIY antenna.

I see another dongle from the right side so its not certain how the system is actually working.

Well, that’s one way to improve your netbook’s WiFi reception

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