24 db gain Wifi Antennas from I-Com

[Chuckt]

I was reading a blog about a lady who built and lives in a small 130 square foot house:

http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/tiny-hous ... slideshow/

I actually went to her blog and found out she doesn't have internet:

http://littleyellowdoor.wordpress.com/

And I found that you can actually buy these small houses as plans or kits:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/pages/houses

So how do you power up your wifi to get connected and share someone's internet? There is a provider of high powered wifi antennas:

http://www.l-com.com/productcenter.aspx?id=2005

You can get a 24 db gain WiFi dish antenna and they come with an RG8 cable with rp-sma termination which work with half watt USB adapters. They cause a lot of RF so I'm not sure how much they would heat up something with water but they should probably be mounted high up on a wall or a roof if you want to share someone's wifi signal. This will also increase your chance of having your computer hacked unless you are in a rural location.

Then you can get a second antenna and aim them in different directions but you have to spend some time aiming the antennas.

Someone is going to ask what db gain is and I believe that 24 dB is the maximum allowed in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission:

dMystifying the dB
http://www.moonblinkwifi.com/dmystifying_the_db.cfm

[brad]

Such a cool house, although where would I set up my electronics workshop?