How to Hack a satellite dish into a WiFi signal booster « Hacks, Mods & Circuitry :: Gadget Hacks

I will try and shed some light on the subject as it seems the author of the video may have abandoned the comment feed,. As for the comment about the distance of the feedhorn being relative to the frequency alignment,. In theory you are correct, it would be intensley important had he been transmitting in that frequency range, However I believe he built this for reception only therefore his wrong distance will only result in a lower db gain, however if my calculations are correct he was recieveing a 24 db gain, witch is a very good gain and can result in a much needed distance boost. I would however like to see the gain we might obtain if we shorten the distance of the feedhorn relative to the dish itself, with that being said I shall address those of you who continue to ask were to hookup the other end of the coax on the computer...For those of you using a desktop with an internall pci wifi card, most if not all of these are equiped with an external antenna jack, you should be able to find the right type of coax end that will screw into place on your antenna connector on the back of your computer, most likely at rad shack...For those of you with laptop computers: If you use the internal wifi that comes with the laptop you are most likely out of luck, as only extremely high end laptops will include an external wifi jack with the built in wifi, However if you use a pcmia slot or usb wifi adapter there are some higher end wifi cards available that have an external antenna connector that uses the same connection end as those on the desktop computers therefore that is were you would connect the other end of the coax...I will be building one of these antenna's and experimenting with the feedhorn distance, I will be sure to let everyone know how it turns out.. as for now I am receiving my wifi signal from about 3 miles away with a simple windfield type high gain antenna built using a 2 meter amateur antenna that is intended for the 14x.xxx mhz range, witch is no we