Wired.com reader Ryan Rhea says he found the approach to dual a download speed of his brand-new iPhone 4 with zero some-more than black electrician’s tape.

Rhea, obviously the graduate of a Home Depot School of Gadget Hacks, simply applied the skinny strip of black tape upon a reduce left corner of a phone’s outer metal rope, starting right next a volume buttons and extending down to a corner of a orator upon the bottom of a phone.

That was sufficient to stop the accepting complaint reported by many iPhone 4 business. For those with this problem, in contact with the reduce left corner of their brand-new phone causes vigilance strength to drop, mostly cutting off calls as well as neatly decreasing interpretation download speeds.

Wired.com has not been means to transcribe a complaint, although some-more than 30 readers have reported experiencing it.

That steel rope forms a phone’s antenna, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained when announcing the iPhone 4 progressing this month. And while touching a airwave or TV receiver can mostly improve accepting, by creation the conductive aspect of your skin into an extension of the receiver, it seems to have the opposite effect upon the iPhone 4.

Several readers have reported that putting a iPhone 4 into a protecting case, such as the $30 “bumper” box sold by Apple, solves the complaint.

The electrical tape achieves a same result at the most lower price, by putting an electrical insulator in between you as well as a phone’s receiver. In Rhea’s case, his 3G download speed as reported by Testmyiphone.com went from 0.41 Mbps but a fasten to 0.82 Mbps with a fasten (in both cases, with the phone gripped firmly in his left hand).

The price for the roll of electrical tape? About $4 for a 66-foot roll of 3/4″ fasten, that should be sufficient to fix your iPhone — and about 790 others.

As a reward, electrical tape also functions good for regulating nerdy glasses.