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by TeMPOraL 868 days ago
15+ years ago, my friend made a Yagi from a piece of wood and some nails, to connect to some open WiFi network from a block of flats a couple hundred meters away, in order to use it as a backup connection during semi-regular outages his ISP suffered from.

Ah, the joyful age of high school. No money or power to do things "the right way", but ample free time to skill up and hack your way around.