The 30 second WiFi extender

This one was born out of boredom and a necessity. My sister has her room right next to mine, and in it is a mirror that blocks the signal to my WiFi devices in my room. We have a great new router (I thought our old router was the problem) it helped but wasn't enough. So, seeing some other things like this, I went to work. But I didn't want to spend to much time and I didn't have too many materials to work with, the creation being this.

This is a super easy reflector to aim WiFi signals to where you need it. The first one literally too me about a minute to make. I've seen others here but this one is able to stand on it's own and only uses 3 materials 


On a side note, Im wishing to save it for a weekly challenge, but whatever ;)

EDIT: About a week later my Wifi In my room crapped out again, I checked my reflectors, both of them had the tape fail.

Fix: I just Hot-glued the skewer back on. If you want to tape, I'd use hocky tape, duct tape, just something better then Scotch tape ;) After I fixed it, Wifi was back in my room 

Step 1 Materials

An awesome thing about this project, it uses almost nothing and can be found in any house already!


Materials:
Tape
Pop Can
Skewer

Tools:
Utility knife

Comments

[WhiteTech]

Yes, but are they free?

[pheer]

this is great, i never thought of using something that simple before!
a before/after measurement of the signal would be cool to see as well. :)

nice one!

[WhiteTech]

I know right? Like I said it doesn't work as well as others, but it still does, I'll post some pics up of the difference later today

[waynemov]

i agree it is simple, but to use even less, you could skewer the flaps so you dont even need tape. Good job!