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WiFi Equipment

By Kate Bass


While a simple camera tripod is typically used as a stationary mount, you must get a little more creative when building a wifi antenna window mount. A WiFi network is very convenient, cutting down on the costs of running Ethernet cable through walls in order to have a high-speed network in the home or in the office. However, if you're new to this technology, you might not know what you need for WiFi in your home. Here's what will get you enjoying the wireless revolution in your home.

Tools to have on hand are: a pair of needle nosed pliers, a pair of sharp scissors, and a small pair of strong wire cutters.Many broadband companies now provide this piece of equipment when they set up your service. What the wireless router does is transmit the information that comes from your provider to the other computers in your network. It manages who gets what information and it is the device you configure to determine the SSID, which determines which computers can access your network.

First, you must cut your wire clothes hangar in half, using a pair of sharp wire cutters. Unless your computer or laptop has built-in wireless devices, you will need some sort of wireless card. For PCs, this is usually a card that plugs into the PCI slot on your motherboard and has an antenna to aid in receiving data. If you have a laptop, it's probably built in, but can also be obtained by a wireless card that you plug into the PC Card slot. Alternately, there are wireless receivers that run through USB as well. With a wireless card to receive what your router sends, you have a basic WiFi network.

Cut two small holes in the tapered end of the bottle, just a little bit bigger than the semi-circles on the ends of the wire clothes hangar. Even if you don't have a wireless router at home, for example, as long as you have a wireless card and permission to use an SSID, whether at a coffee shop that offers WiFi access or at a friend's house, you can have access to a computer network.

Just a few typical household products, and you can have a do-it-yourself wifi antenna window mount of your very own. If your broadband company provides the router, the startup costs of such a network is very low, giving you access to fast Internet access for research or online gaming anywhere in your home. With such an advantage, it's easy to see how having basic WiFi equipment can improve your home computing.




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