From: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar/74-wan-to-lan?task=archiveon

  WAN to LAN Throughput
  IxChariot - throughput.scr
  

From: http://kk.org/streetuse/archives/2006/08/fryer_basket_antenna.php

Lots of low-tech household items have been used to boost wi-fi signals, starting with Pringle cans

  and upward. But none have been able to match the decibel gains offered by a Chinese fry basket.