Topic: Residential antennas to pull in unlocked wifi signals
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #91,717
Myth or reality
Syntax joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #1,042,644
@OP
> Myth or reality
Reality. Is easy to do. Betting you could Google this and find all kinds of help/advise.
Memories of living in Santa Monica when a major Football game was blacked out in LA - I used a sheet of cardboard from a refrig or some appliance. Calculated with very simple math the lenght of the elements for the frequency of a San Diego TV station. I could have used coat hangers for the stiff wire but decided to quick lay down a Yagi of about 6 or 8 dipoles with metallic tape. Connected the tv ribbon wire (flat brown stuff) from TV to the cardboard with push pins. Then rotated the cardboard while looking for the signal because I had no clue where the San Diego transmitter was located - QUICKLY Found a QUALITY Signal and friends were over in a flash to watch the game
Frequencies of Wi-Fi - 2.4 GHz, 3.6 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5 GHz, 5.9 GHz - One antenna that does all of that can be found inside any wi-fi box so clearly IF They can do it as simple as they do - You can build something that seeks out something a block or 3 away easily. Looking up dipole for 5 GHz
https://www.instructables.com/id/Dipole-Antenna-for-5GHz-and-58GHz/
Video only to show you how small the length of an single element is. YOU DO NOT WANT JUST A SIMPLE Dipole because the range of one is VERY Limited to say the inside of a house if THAT - You need to build a simple array like the kind you have viewed on Roofs
Bless Google for this gives you a quick background IF you wanted to buy rather than home made - More fun to DYI
https://www.siliceo.es/en/the-four-types-of-antennas-wifi-direction
This from Web looks very good - Because it uses a reflector instead of using a single drone element at the back of the array.
Never occurred to me until NOW. I have access to multiple 6 Meter Satellite dishes around planet earth that have a C band 5GHz among other frequencies and I can remotely point it anywhere but wood have to disable the Software stops that prevent the antenna from looking at less than 15 degrees so as to not spray the neighborhood blocks-
miles away with Megawatts of RF and cook a few people in the process. Receive only NO PROBLEM - Bet I could pick up WiFi signals 50 miles away. After all the package is designed to pick up weak LEO Satellite signals 1200 miles up IN space and beyond - GEO's 22,236 Myles UP
So you need to hand rotate or motor rotate the array and yes there are ways to make multiple arrays or a simple switch but you just want to find some sucker somewhere and keep you antenna on them. Don't be putting CP on their router. Play nice
> Myth or reality
Reality. Is easy to do. Betting you could Google this and find all kinds of help/advise.
Memories of living in Santa Monica when a major Football game was blacked out in LA - I used a sheet of cardboard from a refrig or some appliance. Calculated with very simple math the lenght of the elements for the frequency of a San Diego TV station. I could have used coat hangers for the stiff wire but decided to quick lay down a Yagi of about 6 or 8 dipoles with metallic tape. Connected the tv ribbon wire (flat brown stuff) from TV to the cardboard with push pins. Then rotated the cardboard while looking for the signal because I had no clue where the San Diego transmitter was located - QUICKLY Found a QUALITY Signal and friends were over in a flash to watch the game
Frequencies of Wi-Fi - 2.4 GHz, 3.6 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5 GHz, 5.9 GHz - One antenna that does all of that can be found inside any wi-fi box so clearly IF They can do it as simple as they do - You can build something that seeks out something a block or 3 away easily. Looking up dipole for 5 GHz
https://www.instructables.com/id/Dipole-Antenna-for-5GHz-and-58GHz/
Video only to show you how small the length of an single element is. YOU DO NOT WANT JUST A SIMPLE Dipole because the range of one is VERY Limited to say the inside of a house if THAT - You need to build a simple array like the kind you have viewed on Roofs
Bless Google for this gives you a quick background IF you wanted to buy rather than home made - More fun to DYI
https://www.siliceo.es/en/the-four-types-of-antennas-wifi-direction
This from Web looks very good - Because it uses a reflector instead of using a single drone element at the back of the array.
Never occurred to me until NOW. I have access to multiple 6 Meter Satellite dishes around planet earth that have a C band 5GHz among other frequencies and I can remotely point it anywhere but wood have to disable the Software stops that prevent the antenna from looking at less than 15 degrees so as to not spray the neighborhood blocks-
miles away with Megawatts of RF and cook a few people in the process. Receive only NO PROBLEM - Bet I could pick up WiFi signals 50 miles away. After all the package is designed to pick up weak LEO Satellite signals 1200 miles up IN space and beyond - GEO's 22,236 Myles UP
So you need to hand rotate or motor rotate the array and yes there are ways to make multiple arrays or a simple switch but you just want to find some sucker somewhere and keep you antenna on them. Don't be putting CP on their router. Play nice
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Syntax joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 11 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,042,647
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,042,666
Good luck finding unlocked WiFi signals. You may have to travel back in time a decade or so. I'm sure Syntax can help by finding some time machine plans somewhere though.
Syntax joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 57 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,042,669
@previous (D)
Around here MANY who are on Cox and Spectrum use the default password
I live at the very edge of Cox Cable and my next door Neighbor is on Spectrum and We have a mutual share and share alike - So I use Cox for only pure business and Spectrum for mostly personal email and tc mc and dance stuff etc. Since a client pays for my Cox I am very careful to keep it totally about business. (I think they can look at my logs)
ALSO anyone who comes to Swami's beach finds open WiFi and not telling you who provides it.
Around here MANY who are on Cox and Spectrum use the default password
Username: admin
Password: password
Or
user user
Password: password
Or
user user
I live at the very edge of Cox Cable and my next door Neighbor is on Spectrum and We have a mutual share and share alike - So I use Cox for only pure business and Spectrum for mostly personal email and tc mc and dance stuff etc. Since a client pays for my Cox I am very careful to keep it totally about business. (I think they can look at my logs)
ALSO anyone who comes to Swami's beach finds open WiFi and not telling you who provides it.
(Edited 53 seconds later.)