ok well i have been doing alot of research about how foil can help boost wifi….and i have been looking at videos on youtube showing people how to do this…mostly when people are demonstrating this experiment they are only using routers with antennas…
my only problem is my wireless router does not have any antennas….so is there another way i can do this foil wifi booster? if so plz tell me
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Your router probably has internal antennas, which trades off looks for better range. Some routers have a port where you can plug in an antenna…in which case you should just buy one and plug it in. Otherwise, there’s no way to improve the signal with foil. Even using foil with an actual antenna, unless you have a near perfectly smooth surface (tough) in a near perfect parabolic shape (tougher), you won’t get much of a signal boost.
The problem with any reflector based booster is that it does NOT boost the signal. It only reflects ALL the signal into a more concentrated narrow wireless beam in ONE direction. This means that you then lose all signal in any other direction. And for a router with no external antenna, you would need to stand the router inside the foil with the antenna section of it absolutely in the centre of the foil parabola, with nothing to support it other than a small protrusion through the centre of the foil, or you totally destroy the correct signal concentration and weaken the signal.
Better to do the following:
- locate the router in a central location as high off the ground as possible and away from large metal furniture or wire-frame shelves.
- check the channels that your neighbors are using and use a different channel that is as far away from the channels in use as possible
- get rid of your 2.4GHz cordless phones and buy DECT 6.0 compliant cordless phones
- change your SSID to something unique so that your computers don’t stray to your neighbor’s wireless network
- enable WPA2 security to keep your neighbors off of your wireless network.