[Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans

[Jude DaShiell]

A signal booster almost certainly will not help.  The reasons are 
geography in an under-developed country.  Mountains without repeaters on 
their summits can be very difficult to get signals through but with 
repeaters going over is easier.  That being said, I had heard about the 
use of an empty pringles can wrapped with coiled wire and attached to a 
laptop being used to extract wifi signals from inside of buildings.  The 
pringles can in this case almost certainly would be way too small in any 
event.  The general idea though of loading something high up with lots 
of antenna wire and attaching to that wire in theory ought to work and 
may be lots less costly than purchasing any signal booster.  A piece of 
metal window screen rolled into a cone with one wire attached to it 
placed inside of a number 10 can with another wire attached to that can 
and both wires going into a satellite reciever has been documented to 
work in the past.  The best kind of help to get your friend in the 
Phillipines I think is a licensed ham operator who knows what to get and 
what to do to make all of this stuff work.

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Poppa Bear wrote:

> There may be some kind of signal boosters available, but be careful because
> some of them are just snake oil claims that will promis you the moon.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Sohl" <sohlman1970 at cox.net>
> To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 4:49 PM
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans
> 
> 
> > Hi I havre a strange question and I'm not sure which list to ask on but here
> > it goes.
> >
> > We have a friend who just move to the Phillapeans and where he lives, their
> > internet is very spotty. He explaied to us that the Internet modem he uses
> > is all wifi. He even told us that the Internet signals are very spotty.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recomcdenations so he can bo0ost his internet signal so
> > that it wil lnot cut out all the time. I think he's living int he mountians
> > and they don't have DSl like we have here in thestates.
> >
> > Since it's a third world country, they have very primitive equipment.
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