Increase your Wireless Signal with a homemade WiFi Booster

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

If you have a weak WiFi signal on your computer you only have a few options. First you could move your computer closer, but this isn’t always possible depending on the space in your home.

Secondly, you could go out and buy a Wireless Antenna such as the Link Depot WiFi Signal Antenna from Newegg - but a decent wifi booster costs anywhere from $15-150. This is generally not a bad option but doesn’t always solve the problem. In my experience these antennas don’t do a terrific job, they do help, but I wouldnt spend too much money on them. I have used the Link Depot antenna featured above and it is as good as any (even when compared to models twice its price). The other option is to pick up a cheap wireless signal booster from Ebay.

If your on a budget however, you can try making your own homemade wi-fi booster by using the template provided by freeantennas.com for the Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector. I first noticed this info on Walyou.com

I made one for my wireless router at home and i can confirm that it does work. The outcome will however depend on other external interference factors. For some people not even the best wi fi antenna will help their signal problem. If after trying all of the above suggestions you are still having problems there is one more thing you can try which is almost certainly going to fix your problem.

There is a product called Ethernet over power adapters. These allow you to emulate a physical network connection over your house mains power without having to get an electrician in to wire your house with ethernet cable. Ethernet-over-Power adapters arn’t cheap, but they are quick fix for difficult network connections. I wouldn’t buy no name brands for this type of device. I would play it safe and get something like the NETGEAR XE102G Powerline which has a great track record.

Well I hope this helps you fixing your wireless signal connection problems. If you still are having problems drop me a comment or send me an email via the contact form and I will see if I can help you out

Bookmark, Share or Email this article.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm and is filed under Hardware, Networking, Troubleshooting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Check out some other related posts:

Computer turns on but monitor is blank or says “No Signal”

2 Responses to “Increase your Wireless Signal with a homemade WiFi Booster”

Andrew B on January 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am

Good tips. I purchased a pair of the Netgear Powerline adapters a few weeks ago and they are working great! I found however that they dont work very well plugged in to power boards. They seem to prefer being plugged direct into the wall.
Dallas on May 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am

O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.