Imagine a comfortable evening on the eve of the weekend at home, where you have decided to watch a movie that you really like. You have before your eyes a table full of delicious food and drinks, while you get ready to make yourself comfortable on the couch. There's just one problem: the Wi-Fi waves seem slow.

Calling customer service is only one side of the coin, sometimes the solution can be found in your kitchen drawers: the aluminum foil you use for various dishes.

Yes, you read that right! It seems that for those people who have discovered this trick, if you put some aluminum foil behind the internet device, the wirless signal will increase.  

But how does this happen?

How this trick works is simple. You should make a ball out of aluminum foil and place it behind the internet device, which carries wireless waves to phones, computers and other electronic devices. By placing the aluminum foil, it makes it possible to channel and make the Wi-Fi signals more effective, but the main thing: the shiny side of the aluminum foil will reflect the rays coming from the antenna and direct them to the place certain.

Source: Reader's Digest