People are only just realising they can boost WiFi with £1 kitchen staple

People have just realised that they can boost their by using just £1 kitchen staple item. A thread on a social media forum, , mentioned how to boost the strength by using aluminium foil.

The : "Dramatically increase wifi signal strength and internet speed by placing a sheet of aluminum foil behind the router, blocking the wave in one direction and amplifying it in the other." The trick left many of the online media users "surprised" as they claimed never having heard of it.

One of the users responded: "I'm honestly surprised I've never heard of it. Sounds like click bait.

"99 percent sure there's companies that don't want you to know this. I was having connectivity issues cause I lost my wifi card antennae for my pc. My wifi signal was 0-1 "dots".

"After I did this it went to 1 dot + 2-3 bars when I angled it toward my bedroom. My download speed average went from 3-500kb/s to 1-2.5mb/s average."

The science behind this hack had already been discussed by a group of researchers a few years ago.

The computer scientists said in 2017 that placing aluminium foil, particularly if wrapped around a 3D printed shape or cardboard, near the router's antennae can boost its signal as well as strengthen cybersecurity.

Xia Zhou, then an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth, said during the 2017 BuildSys conference: "Through this single solution, we address a number of challenges that plague wireless users. Not only do we strengthen wireless signals, we make those same signals more secure."