Having discovered Pandora Radio’s app for the iPhone, I was disappointed to find that my iPod Touch’s WiFi couldn’t pick up my wireless router’s signal down in my basement shop. Too bad, 'cause that’s the main place I wanted to listen to it while I make whistles.
I tried Googling “WiFi amplifier” and found a link to this do-it-yourself cardboard and aluminum foil parabolic device that you slip over the router’s antenna. I was skeptical but I cobbled one together (10 minutes) and I’ll be damned if it didn’t work like a charm! I listened this afternoon for over an hour without losing the signal even once-- usually I’ve been lucky if I could get it at all. Take a look if you’ve been having WiFi signal strength problems:
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html
That google search will also turn up a couple of videos of people making this device or similar ones if the rudimentary instructions are not clear enough.
