Comments on: Hawking USB Dish Antenna Picks Up WiFi, Protects Death Star

By: Otis

Otis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:45:58 +0000

The Hawking dish has a stronger wi fi transmitter for communicating with the router.
Other Can antennas will frequently detect but not be able to communicate with distant routers because although you can increase the incoming signal it does
not boost your outgoing signal.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:05 +0000

I have this very dish. I use it for “borrowing” internet from others in my building. I really helps to make a week connection stable. I do not have one of the cards that have a fancy attached antena so the above DIY wouldn’t work for me. This does the trick! It makes a handy snack dish too while surfing at late hours.

By: mcman

mcman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:17:40 +0000

Dude, you can do the exact same thing by making a dish out of cardboard and covering it with foil.

Once complete you attach it to your rubber coated antenna and do a little point adjustment. You can find how to’s on this very gadget just by doing a simple search, which is what you do most of the time anyway.

Cost: approx $0.10 and I will bet it works as well as the fancy knick knack above.