The very day I was going to set up the two routers to relay the signal to me - I'd got a good signal at the relay point - said mate bangs on me door. His brother was willing to lend me his USB-powered boosted aerial. In combination with inSSIDer, I can position it for very fair results. As said ont'other thread, putting the thing on the floor didn't get more oomph, just a reduction of other people's signals. Since my old signal was so variable, I'd guessed it was other folk switching in and out on my channel.
A good reflector should have a distance from the aerial that's a sub-multiple of the wavelength. Ideally, the length would be critical, though I'm not sure how that works with a curve.
Erm, in the Gig range, I guess a
sub-multiple might be a bit difficult.
