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On 11/12/2025 21:18, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
> Two ideas.
> 
> Some routers can steer the signal horizontally; the technology is called 
> "MIMO" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO). You notice because the 
> router has multiple antenas, maybe four.
> 
> Then you can replace the antena on the router

What antenna on the router?

It's just a wifi bridge with an internal something or other.

https://www.netxl.com/wifi-access-points/mikrotik-routerboard-rb
51ui-2nd-wifi-4-access-point/

Its actually very very cheap and has been 'good enough'


  > or the remote with a
> directional WiFi antena. 

That gets complicated. I am trying easy shit first :-)

P Pico W doesn't have an 'antenna' either. Just some PCB traces.

>Home made with a box of Pringles. just google 
> for "pringles wifi antenna". I made one and it actually works. But maybe 
> they are sold, too.

Everything is possible. I am lazy. I do what is necessary to achieve 
desired result and no more.

For now I seem to have adequate connectivity.

-- 
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered...
...than to have answers that cannot be questioned

Richard Feynman




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