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DIY: Boost your WiFi signal using a cell phone hack

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Here is an awesome hack which allows you to boost your WiFi signal using your cell phone. Basically, the premise is to trick your computer into reading off of radio frequencies as well as Internet frequencies, by wrapping an ethernet cable around your cell phone. Very cool and effective. — Andrew Dobrow

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by mattMarch 16, 2007   18:39pm

Are you serious? thats never going to work! its a hoax!

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by AndrewMarch 16, 2007   19:22pm

@matt: ya never know until you try :-)

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by LouiseAugust 6, 2007   9:33am

Andrew,
so…. what are the steps to try this? I am game…. thanks

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by BrianNovember 2, 2007   21:05pm

I tried this. It doesn’t work. There isn’t any way this could work.

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by ahmedNovember 16, 2007   10:29am

i swear it won’t work i tried i does nothing if u sure from ut post post the detailed steps to make it

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by radio engineerMarch 26, 2008   18:21pm

You must be nuts or an american teenage boy. that will N E V E R work. learn a few things about RADIO, then grow a brain in a jar, then teach it talk, then send it uni, cos it will be 1000000% better than your own. CRETIN!

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by Andrew DobrowMarch 26, 2008   18:58pm

@radio engineer The whole point is that the guy does a series of fake tech shows.

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by robMay 5, 2008   22:39pm

fake

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by SensorDecember 22, 2008   19:19pm

Hey everyone it totaly works!!! I tried it and it picks up twice as many networks as before.

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by ScottJune 23, 2009   8:05am

Details plz !! Does the cable need to be plugged in at the time of use. BTW, how are u supposed 2 dial with the numbers all wrapped up by the cable??? It just doesn’t make sense.

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by WesSeptember 12, 2009   7:16am

funniest joke ive heard in a while

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