How to Make a Homemade Wi-Fi Amplified Antenna
- 1). Print out a basic parabola template, which you can find from several online sources.
- 2). Cut out a rectangle of cardboard roughly one foot long and six inches wide.
- 3). Place a sheet of aluminum foil over the cardboard rectangle. Cut the sheet of foil to fit the rectangle.
- 4). Glue the sheet of foil to the cardboard rectangle.
- 5). Cut three horizontal slots in the top third of the cardboard panel.
- 6). Cut three horizontal slots in the bottom third of the cardboard panel.
- 7). Bend each end of the panel slightly.
- 8). Cut out the parabola template.
- 9). Insert the top three tabs of the parabola template into the top three slots on the cardboard panel.
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Insert the bottom three tabs of the parabola template into the bottom three slots on the cardboard panel. - 11
Tape the panel to your router's antenna.