Weak Wireless?

Lifehacker has collected some cheap ideas for extending your home wireless network to reach your special spot.

Parabolic surfaces are perfect for collecting errant wireless signals and focusing them, and the food strainer in your kitchen cabinet is a parabola waiting to do something other than hold pasta. Instructables user Dan Folkes describes how to turn a $10 Asian cooking strainer and an equally cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle into a signal-boosting dish. Dan boost his signal enough to detect an additional 20 Wi-Fi hotspots using NetStumbler to sniff them out. If you'd like to modify your wireless router instead, check out how to boost your Wi-Fi antennae for less than a dollar with an antenna replacement and how to boost your wireless signal with tinfoil "sails" on your router antennae.

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