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Old March 8th, 2007, 01:07 PM     #21 (permalink)
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Is your car wireless? Most cars must have a physical connection to the ground to work. Your car would have to have a jet engine for the RF booster to help. See this thread for more details...
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Is your car wireless? Most cars must have a physical connection to the ground to work. Your car would have to have a jet engine for the RF booster to help. See this thread for more details...




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Old March 8th, 2007, 03:43 PM     #23 (permalink)
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I asked my networking teacher about this one. He said there was no conceivable way this could work. I watched that video and I was convinced it was spoof from the moment he constructed that antennae with a bowl and aluminum foil.


Seriously open your eyes! Why would a network cable have anything to do with wifi!?
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Old March 8th, 2007, 04:19 PM     #24 (permalink)
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I put one on the cat and he was picking up several new cat networks.
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Old March 8th, 2007, 04:23 PM     #25 (permalink)
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I put one on the cat and he was picking up several new cat networks.

That is great, but did you install Linux as well?
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My tinfoil hat exploded when I tried that!!! I think you aliens are trying to exploit my brains waves
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Now we can use your brain to inject a virus into the alien mothership. WOOT!
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