I can still wander anywhere in the house with any of my wireless devices and get a strong signal, and my neighbors (across the street, some 600 feet or so) have reported no signal degradation (OK, they wouldn't call it that, it'd be more like 'It broke!', but you get the picture). (They have a waveguide can similar to the one localguru just posted about pointed back at the router).ĭoes it work? In a word, yes. The router still acts as an omnidirectional antenna in the house, but provides a clean 11 Mbps signal to my neighbors across the street. The collector is a full 2.4 GHz wavelength long, with washers at every quarter wavelength.īasically, the Pringles cans have a Yaggi collector inside of them, and I've stripped the black antenna caps off of the router and shoved them through small holes in the side of the cans, which effectively turns the Linksys omnidirectional antenna into an injector in the Yaggi antenna. The inside of the can, with the collector on the left. PC-3P0 with Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless router and two pringles cantennas (Regular on the right, Sour Cream and Onion on the left)Ĭloseup from the top - notice that the black antenna covers have been removed (you can see them on the desk in the first shot) My efforts to use just a waveguide antenna on their computer failed, so I tried boosting the source instead.

After seeing localguru's post about his waveguide antenna, I figured I would post a few pictures of my project of sharing my DSL connection with my neighbors across the street.

Cantenna pringles can