Poor wi-fi?Use a baking tray

A top technologist hit exactly a right solution when confronted with a weak wifi signal and no mobile reception.He proposed an old baking tray to be used as an amplifier.
Peter Cochrane, formerly the Chief Technology Officer at BT writing on his blog at Silicon.com,said that “My mobile phone is showing one bar of 2.5G and one bar of wi-fi. My laptop isn't doing any better, and a data connection is proving impossible. There are some buildings behind the trees on the other side of the river, and my scanner is showing a number of open access wi-fi opportunities. But all I have is what I carry, and that does not include a high-gain antenna.”
Cochrane was on a boat on the Norfolk Broads and was unable to catch signals to get online.The solution was not to visit a nearby community on land but instead he used a convenient way of using an old baking tray to boost a flagging signal into an effective one.
“Time to improvise,” he wrote. “A visit to the galley turns up a much-used baking tray. A few simple experiments later and I'm able to locate the direction of the 2.5G base station and the strongest wifi signal. So I now have three bars of wifi and 2.5G by way of the unlikely combination of a baking tray and some judicious positioning.”
He concluded: “No matter how well prepared you are, there are times when you don't quite have to hand all the technology you really need. All the other options would have been far more expensive and far less convenient.”