On 12 Nov 2007 21:32:55 +1050, "me here" <gloaming_agnet@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Nick - Surrey, BC wrote:
>
>> After reading some of Jeff's posts back to 2004, I decided to try the
>> link he posted for http://www.freeantennas.com. I cut out the
>> template and glued tin foil to the back side. I then glued a laser
>> transparency to the backside of that. I took care to do it very
>> accurately.
>>
>> My house is three stories. I have a rental suite in the basement
>> (which is partially underground). My renter, Ed, is at the farthest
>> point from my wireless router. I'm top north corner and he is bottom
>> south corner. After placing the "Windsurfer" antenna on each of my
>> linksys poles, my signal went from two bars on my laptop on the second
>> floor to 5 bars. Ed phoned me around 7 tonight and asked if I'd done
>> anything to the internet. I told him about it. He says he has
>> doubled his signal strength and is getting speeds of about 8 - 9 MB/
>> second. He says there is no fluctuation in signal as he would
>> normally experience.
>>
>> This is the best 50 cent solution I've every had!
>>
>> Thanks to all who talked about it.
>>
>> Nick
>
>That reflector design by Michael Erskine really works well.
>
>I made up a free-standing variation for a PCI card antenna using the
>EZ-10 template.
>
>http://users.picknowl.com.au/~gloaming_agnet/ant1.html
>
>I can easily detect usable signals from neighbouring houses as far as
>150 meters away - without putting the antenna anywhere near a window in
>my double brick wall house.
>
>I'm not surprised at the results you achieved.
>
>I take it you had the antennas orientated downwards towards the lower
>floors?
>
>Cheers
>
>Rob

That is the strange part. I first oriented them downward but it had
little or no effect. I ran back upstairs and oriented them straight
.... ie... as I sit at my desk i can look straight at them and read
"Windsurfer" left to right. With this config, the signal downstairs
increased dramatically.

I don't understand that part.

N.