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Hi that’s very interesting to me as I just had a scare with a neighbor about a half mile away. We’re rural and he has a government-provided phone and his brother has wifi, but the company has blacked out wifi calling and he must be outside to get wifi anyway. I don’t have a car and am not super technical, but I do have friends who can help if I need it, just trying to figure out if a cantenna would be workable. He also has a cheap tablet that’s wifi capable so any suggestions would be appreciated. Tyia
I wouldnt trust a cantenna or anything like that for wellbing of someone, there's just too many variables even down to atmospheric pressure which is going to affect wifi signal with something like that. That said, if you can put a rasberry pi at his house, maybe in the house but on the nearest wall to the access point / router, then something like this might be workable