For a period of time (2007-2010), I was a poor college student who couldn't afford to pay for internet service. I was living in an apartment complex with many faint wireless internet signals passing through my apartment. I connected to unsecured wireless networks to access the internet for school work, but the connections were slow and unreliable. I improved the signal quality, one improvement at a time, for nearly two years. After many design iterations, and with a strong will, I finally developed a relatively successful wireless internet signal amplifier.