wireless signal booster receiver?

[JoPh]

do they make some kind of device that i can plug into my laptop or some other kind of device that i can use to pick up wireless signals farther away?

i am having trouble picking up signal in certain parts of my house/yard..

looking for something that picks up signals farther away.

 

[veloc1ty]

saw it in popular mechanics, but make on out of cardboard and aluminium foil in the shape of a triangle that goes around antennae.. heres an idea... |<

 

[feelingshorter]

for certain parts of house/yard then theres a device for it, i forgot what its called..

 

[Burtie21]

i got one for my desktop, there was no improvement keeping it at the same place the original antena was at. I think the only reason it works better is because it has a longer cord so i can move it closer to the access point, but thats just my experience. I think tiger direct has alot of them, they are around 40 dollars, but i dont know if they will work with laptops. Just because i had to screw mine in, maybe there are laptop specific ones?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=374&# < a link to abunch on tiger direct....
http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_s...C4145,4153&webid=585303&affixedcode=WW << this is the one i bought....maybe it doesn't work aswell because i have a linksys card and dlink antena?

wait...now i have a question...sorry for hijacking, but am i supposed to hook this up to my pci card, or my router?

Graeme

 

[TWills]

cantenna!!!

 

[everman]

Foil is supposed to work very well, no joke. Maybe try the popular mechanics website or just google it.