Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan 146
modeca writes "Using only commonly available kitchen equipment this guy demonstrates the amazing powers of an ordinary metal pan to boost the 3G reception of his USB modem. It really seems to work, check the right hand side of the graph in the video."
It's not that crazy: cheap antenna boosting (for USB WiFi dongles, Bluetooth, and more) has been elevated to a fine art in New Zealand.
Re:Moola! (Score:4, Insightful)
That is until IBM patents the pan.
Take the high road, son.
Patent the pan before IBM does.
Re:I think I'll start keeping a frypan in my backp (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:New Zeland (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Are you serious? (Score:3, Insightful)
Try putting your slashdot rss feed in a pot.
Re:Now I am torn (Score:4, Insightful)
my wife's prawn crackers
If that's not a euphemism, it should be.
Re:I think I'll start keeping a frypan in my backp (Score:1, Insightful)
I think you too high opinion of you and your "tech" gear that you carry...... where you see "hyper-nerd spy", I'm seeing a damn dweeb that thinks a AAA/AA battery charger is nerd spy gear.
Re:what's going on? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe the signal strength shown on his computer includes signals reflected from the pan back into the wifi modem.
Just to be sure, I watched the video again. The graph on his computer was measuring download speed in KB/s rather than actual signal strength. Although there's a correlation between the two, I'd tend to agree with the other posters who have postulated that the pot was more likely attenuating interfering signals rather than boosting the desired ones.
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Re:Most likely (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually it isn't logic, it's physics.