Alright, so on the side of our house is one of these babies...
It's a satellite dish for Sky TV that we've had for at least 10 years. We recently got rid of our subscription to the satellite TV service and have settled for Freeview, so we have no need for the dish anymore. However, I was thinking - instead of getting rid of the dish, would I be able to take it off the side of the house, stick it on a tripod and SOMEHOW hook it up to my Alfa wireless adapter (which looks like this);
I just want a crazy fucking range so I can pick up many more wireless networks without any problems. So, IS IT POSSIBLE? Because if it is, then I'm definitely doing it.
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I am extremely sleepy right now but you can place it in the middle and see what happens.
Give a whirl and see what happens and let us know.
I have an old dish network dish that I just could not throw away, or have a good reason to keep so this just might be justification for keeping that thing.
Once you get a signal you could play with some linux and probe your neighbors .
http://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1121
There's also something call a wok antenna, invented by the kiwi's (They're pretty good with the wireless stuff for some reason..). The wok is parabolic, like your dish.
And how can I get this to work? I know nothing about this kind of thing, so how do I go about hooking it up to my TV etc?