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wifi signal booster

Asked by John Kelly

Hi ,
we have connected tonetwork mifi. We live across 8 miles of water from the mainland base station. having problems getting a proper reception we are told that we need and will receive a booster which which will plug in to wall socket and to Huawei dongle allowing access to max 5 devices. Does anyone know about these boosters and maybe what is the best/latest booster. Is there another better alternative!? We did a speedtest with great fluctuations going down regularly to 0.05 download and 0.05 upload hence the need for booster?
thanks for your input
John

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Ubuntu4life (jeroenmerks) said : 		#1

What I have done is I've made a home-made antenna.
Besides that I've bought an Alfa Networks adapter which works great with Ubuntu.
Now I can connect to routers about five streets away from me.

So for about 1$ you can boost your wifi range dramatically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMFp4NYXXM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLDq5QRTOk&feature=related
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLnv0EmIwPI&feature=related

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#2

On 04/07/10 21:06, Ubuntu4life wrote:
> Your question #116618 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/116618
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Ubuntu4life proposed the following answer:
> What I have done is I've made a home-made antenna.
> Besides that I've bought an Alfa Networks adapter which works great with Ubuntu.
> Now I can connect to routers about five streets away from me.
>
> So for about 1$ you can boost your wifi range dramatically.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMFp4NYXXM&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLDq5QRTOk&feature=related
> http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLnv0EmIwPI&feature=related
>
>
 Hi Ubuntu4life
there is a solid technologies booster on the way to us...it is one box
with an antennae pointing to base station while being plugged into
socket.Hopefully this will do the needful!?
thanks for your help
John

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Ubuntu4life (jeroenmerks) said : 		#3

Ofcource, professional tools will do the job even better.

Good luck.

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