I believe this would be the right forum for this question, but if it isn't, please forgive me. I'm on a wireless network at college. The problem is that I'm upstairs and the Access Point & Antenna are downstairs so once in a while I have trouble receiving the signal. It works fine 95% of the time, but sometimes the signal strength drops way low and for a minute or two I'm offline. What I was wondering was if there is a way for me to somehow make the antenna on my Wi-Fi card bigger without buying any expensive parts. Like, can I run wire around the antenna and then around me room or something? I'm new to wireless so I have virtually no knowledge here so I apologize if this is a newbieish question. Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Xierox