[Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans

[Jude DaShiell]

Free leg pulling as opposed to the expensive leg pulling by those snake 
oil sellers, that's a better deal definitely.

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Poppa Bear wrote:

> Just tell him to get two empty cans, tie a string between them, tie one to the
> leg of a speckled croe flying north as the moon is a quarter full when the
> humidity is 36 percent and put two pennies in the other can and rub the can
> three times and click his heals together three times and say, "There's no
> place like America over and over and it might work.
> Just doing some leg pulling, made me smile to right it.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans
> 
> 
> >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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