I have no idea how this works but apparently you can boost weak wifi with a baking tray and some "judicious positioning"
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Ah, the fun of improvising with household objects!
Reminds me of the metal coat hangers people used as portable TV aerials. And I know someone who locked themselves out and used a coat hanger through the letterbox to retrieve the doorkey from the hall table. (Though it's obviously wise not to leave keys within reach like this.)
I once suggested to Haringey's Environment Service that street cleaners needed a tool to extract cans and litter wedged 'tidily' behind phone cabinets. They said the cleaners could turn their brooms around and poke the cans out. I got a similar answer after a resident phoned in a panic when a pool of water over a blocked drain gully was getting close to his front door. Haringey's staff advised wiggling a broom handle down the drain. It worked fine.
Since then I've found other uses for widely available free tools — such as twigs.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
Homo Habilis was pretty handy with improvised tools back in the early Pleistocene period. So too my old Nan a little later in getting intelligible sounds from her old wireless via the same discarded sash-window weights she used to protect her chicks from thunderbolts. Neither of these ladies felt bound by branded technology or Ikea instruction sheets and allan keys.
This rather reminds my of a (probably not true) story of a pal of mine who was a gas cooker engineer. On getting called to a job, she found that the woman was complaining because the location of her cooker (and being made of metal) meant that it had become a radio receiver permanently tuned to Radio 1.
"Well, I don't know what you want me to do about it" pleaded my friend. "I've not got a problem with receiving radio she replied, its just ahta I was wondering if you could retune it to Radio 4"
Slightly off topic, but
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