[Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans

[Poppa Bear]

I'm sorry if I gaiv any offence, with the boosters, I was trying to give an 
option as you were, with my folow up I was amusing myself, sorry if it was 
at your expense.
Blessings
----- 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 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Internet and the Phillapeans


> 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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