Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Without Software
Thursday, July 9, 2009 by Chris Lesinski 
Improving your Wi-Fi signal is not this complicated. There's all sorts of stuff you can do to your Wi-Fi router's software to improve its signal strength. I think that's a pain in the ass. Let's do it in less than a minute and without any keyboard-touching.
Placement
Radio waves fall down and laterally. That means getting your router as high as possible: on a piece of furniture or the highest floor possible. If you're not trying to reach an upper floor at all, hang the router high and upsidedown.
Put it in a central location.
Barriers
Give your router some breathing room from the wall -- at least a foot if possible. Large furniture, appliances (especially microwaves) and even your own computer will also stand in the way.
Reflection
Anything metal will reflect your signal -- even if it's very thin. So, the small metal sheet in a mirror is going to screw with things. But you can use this to your advantage. Try using trial-and-error with a compact disc or some tin foil to bounce the signal back into your domain.
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Reader Comments (6)
Great tips. Thanks for sharing.
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hi, I spend most of my summer in a campground enviroment. They do have wifi up on a very high pole. I get a weak signal that lasts quite a while at times and other times just for seconds. Is there a way I can use some kind of signal booster that would reconize the signal and "reboost" it to the area of the campground where I reside. I do have an older model router that has a insert of a wireless card. I do not know if this would work because I have yet to get it to reconize the wifi signal. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Radio waves do not fall... and any reflection at all w0uld be a good thing, as the signal that would normally be mostly absorbed by your wall is at least reflected a bit more.
nice bro keep it up