{"id":9051,"date":"2006-07-07T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2006-07-07T01:10:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:10:44","slug":"wi-fi-antenna-from-a-soup-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9051","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi Antenna from a Soup Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/brikAntenna.jpg\"> Jeff Duntemann has a really nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivebywifiguide.com\/TetraBrikHowTo.htm\" target=\"new\">how-to<\/a> on building a Wi-Fi waveguide antenna from a &#8220;Tetra Brik&#8221; type container (the kind of foil-lined packaging that Swanson Chicken Broth and Kitchen Basics Beef Stock comes in). I like the first part of this intro:<\/p>\n<p> A lot more has been said than written about the legendary Pringle&#8217;s Can Wi-Fi antenna, and a lot more people have talked glowingly about them without ever actually using one. Look closely, and you&#8217;ll see that you have to add various things to it to make it work even so-so. Unless you have a can with a foil lining (not all Pringle&#8217;s cans that I&#8217;ve seen do) and unless you can make good electrical contact to that foil lining (not a slam-dunk, trust me!) the can won&#8217;t act as a waveguide antenna and thus won&#8217;t throw your signal very far or bring in anything from a distance&#8230; Don&#8217;t obsess on the Pringle&#8217;s solution. There&#8217;s an easier kitchen-trash antenna to be had: The Tetra Brik Soup Box.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Duntemann has a really nice how-to on building a Wi-Fi waveguide antenna from a &#8220;Tetra Brik&#8221; type container (the kind of foil-lined packaging that Swanson Chicken Broth and Kitchen Basics Beef Stock comes in). I like the first part of this intro: A lot more has been said than written about the legendary Pringle&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wi-Fi Antenna from a Soup Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}