Our WIFI Booster

Ever since we setup a wifi router in the living room, the two rooms at the long corner of the house have been sufferring from not-so-good wifi signal. From our reading (yes, wo do read!) both rooms were having RSSI signal value of below -70 dbm which is considered really poor.

So, finally  today, after looking at an antenna booster template, we tried this out ourselves! Armed with two pieces of hard folder cards, a sharp scissor, some glue and the always-trusted Diamond aluminum foil — we made our own WIFI booster.

Step 1: Cut the folder cards to follow the antenna templates.

Step 2: Grab the aluminum foil from the kitchen

Step 3: The backplates should be fully covered with aluminum foil

Step 4: Attached the other portion of the antenna as cut from the templates

Step 5: Finally, you can then inset the booster into the WIFI antenna.

You can then twist them around to get the most optimum position.

RESULTS:
Without Antenna Booster

After Antenna Boosters Installed

*RSSI : received signal strength indicator, more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_signal_strength_indication

The antennas look really weird and laughable (yes, even Pudding was giving us the-not-so-confident meows while this was being made); but the bottom line is: we get an increase up to 11%. The signal in the living room has also increased from -35dBm to -32 dBm; the best part was we are able to get, at times, above -70dBM in both back room!

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Cheers sanggalas.

2 comments

1. 

   cicak

   Posted on June 12, 2009

   Wah! it really works oh kan. I’ll try this somonu
   
2. 

   zen G

   Posted on October 15, 2009

   cicak, i have thrown this away — seems like the signal was not stable. I ended up getting a one foot antenna for my router! It works ok so far.