Explore europe in a campervan

Well my first attempt at making a high gain Wi-Fi antenna didn’t go too well. For my first effort I purchased a sieve from The Range for about £2 and made a hole in the center to accommodate the USB Wi-Fi antenna, job done!

It turned out to be a total waste of time. There wasn’t much gain in signal over using the USB antenna in its original form. All it really did was make the antenna much more directional. I can only assume a sieve doesn’t concentrate the signal to the antenna efficiently due to shape or mesh type. Or maybe my USB antenna needs to be slightly more powerful.

Back to the drawing board.

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