Even in a crowded environment you might to well to remove the antenna from a router and place it very close to the mobile device (inches). This would reduce the gain at the receiver and allow the nearby mobile device a significant SNR advantage over the rest of the access points in the room.

You see - this is how it starts.

All flee before the super-mutated radioactive jellyfish. The Blob is coming.....

Well actually...

  Within Western Europe, the USA and Australia (Plus others) the money gained from private sales of pirated music is not used to fund terrorism, generally speaking.

  That is also the case for the factories manufacturing the material (actually, pirated CDs are much more of a rarity than DVDs, because of the ease of either DIYing it or downloading music as opposed to video) the majority of which are in China, Pakistan and SE asia.

  However - the middle-men, those transporting the Media and the private sellers in the Middle East and SE Asia are a very different story, some very, very unpleasant people can be found here, not usually actually members of, but very certainly sympathetic towards and contributors to terrorist organizations.

  As someone who has owned some very dodgy DVDs in the past I can also attest to another MPAA statement that is absolutely true - the quality is poor (8 movies on one DVD sounds great until you try to watch them!), they don't last and it's rare that you actually manage to have a film finish without glitching or just refusing to play.

  I'm no fan of the MPAA or RIAA and their tactics, but Piracy isn't fighting back, it's just Piracy - at the end of the day, like it or not, the MPAA and RIAA own that music and have the right to sell it to you.

  If you really care about music, and want to hear new songs from people you've never heard of services like Finetune and last.fm are a far, far better proposition, are licenced and legal. Now if only the RIAA would stop shooting down that market with it's royalty fees!