Internet & Tech: Wifi booster works like a charm

You probably saw this video on Digg yesterday:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUTT8wdN_VA

Patrick Norton of Screensavers fame, shows an extremely easy way to boost your signal: aluminum foil.

All the walls in my house are concrete and we have two laptops that are a few rooms away from where we have our wireless router.

After making a quick and cheap version of their booster (piece of foil rounded like a reflector aimed in the direction of the other rooms), we went from about 500kb/second up to 2,500 kb/second.

Check your current wireless speed here:

http://speedtest.net/

Then see how it is after you stick a piece of alien communicator around it.

I'm very impressed by how easy this was and worked.