How do you improve Wireless Internet signal? (1 Viewer)

[Geon106]

My media centre picks up the internet from my neighbor wirelessly, however i cannot get a really good signal, on average its low, i've attached a bit of metal at the base of the antenna to reflect the signal and now it is sometimes good to very good, but occasionally it can drop back to low for a while. This really has a knock on affect to streaming media such as Internet TV.

Does anyone have any tips on how to improve the signal or ways to make better antennas and so forth?

Thanks

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.1
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo/RealMP
Windows Version: Windows XP Pro
CPU Type: AMD Sempron 2800+
HDD: Seagate 80GB
Memory: 1GB DDR 333Mhz
Motherboard: A-Bit K7
Motherboard Chipset: VIA
Motherboard Bios: Phoenix
Video Card: nVidia GeforceFX 6600 GTOC
Video Card Driver: nVidia Forceware 9
Sound Card: Realtek Onboard 5.1
1. TV Card: Jetway PCI TV Capture
1. TV Card Type: Analog Software[Not Supported]
1. TV Card Driver: Conexant BtX878 MPEG
MPEG2 Video Codec: BtCap, WDM Video Capture
MPEG2 Audio Codec: BtCap, WDM Audio Capture
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Telewest Broadband
HTPC Case: JDI LAN Carry Case
Cooling: Fans and Heatsinks
Power Supply: 250 Watt Micro ATX
Remote: PS Dual Shock Game Controller
TV: Sony 24" Widescreen CRT
TV - HTPC Connection: S-Video

 

[Zeljko]

I made this one:

http://www.wifihr.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3

Here is PDF:
http://www.wifihr.org/files/articles/yagi/hm_yagi.pdf

 

[Geon106]

Thanks

 

[Zeljko]

If you don't understand Croatian, and you have some questions just ask me. Better in PM, maybe I'll not see in this thread.