I have a old satellite dish...

Question

I was trying to come up with ideas to use it maby a way to do something with wi-fi interent, like incresse the signal on my laptop?

( I have 2 bird baths all ready lol and sorry for the spelling)

Answer 1

It will only be single direction and single way transfer....

I'm not sure what the bird baths have to do with this....

I dont think you understand how transmission equipment work either.

You cant attach a dish to a router and expect to get wifi signal a mile out..... Its not possible.

If the dish is large enough, you can recieve free satellite channels, like aljazeera english, off of 97w with a fta reciever.

Get a good router, like a linksys wrt54gs v1.1, and specifically 1.1...not the new junk cisco models.

Flash it with DDWRT.

Move the power slider in the menu from 20ma to 250ma, and you should get your signal.

Both, the transmitter and receiver have to have more power. You may get a SSID from a router, but your laptop will still not be powerful enough to send a signal back that far.

Answer 2

No, you can't do anything with WiFi using that dish.

Perhaps a very large Wok for Chinese cooking?

If the dish is still installed, in working order, and has a cable attached, perhaps your best bet is to get a cheap digital satellite TV receiver and use it for its intended purpose. By moving the dish you may be able to get signals from other satellites, but you would need a list of satellite locations and some sort of signal strength meter.