1000 Ft. of Wi-Fi coverage with wiFire
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$80 for 1000 Ft. of Wi-Fi range? Sounds pretty good to us! The hFieldtechnologies wiFire clips to your desktop or laptop and makes use of an internal antenna that allows it to acquire signals from up to 1000 Ft. away. It also claims to boost signal strength and bandwidth. No hassle, no fuss. It appears to work with whatever on-board wireless gear you’ve already got, allowing you to use your existing wireless card in addition to the wiFire. This could make the ever present hunt for free Wi-Fi that much easier, allowing you to mooch off your neighbors, your neighbor’s neighbors, and, well, you get the drift.
As far as mooching goes, as we have seen in this and other blogs, that might not be the best. Although it would really be good for large homes or even at work, where the idea was intended to go, so you can always remain on the secure network we know or have. And it doesn’t bother me to see the cost isn’t a ridiculous amount.
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im sold theres an E3 connection @ work that worth paying for the amlifier
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Not a bad price really. Nice to see products in this category lowering with time. Now if only I could find one so cheap that could boost a signal from a mile away?
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Um, Gal…. what’s an E3? Did you mean T3?
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Randy, just ignore Galvatron. He’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Anyway, an E3 does exist, but not in the United States.
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…Kaiser…15 days to drop…
This seems like it’ll make my internet siphoning days go by that much easier.
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I have nothing to do with this guy, but I just purchased a different one of these from a ebay seller for my travels. http://cgi.ebay.com/Free-Internet-Anywhere-28dBm-802-11g-2-4GHz-WIFI-Card_W0QQitemZ110158408908QQihZ001QQcategoryZ61816QQcmdZViewItem
Similar concept to the one mentioned in this post, but with more power. The wiFire doesn’t claim TOTAL TX power (which seems weird) but the I linked claims 28db! That’s a HUGE boost over the stock 3-5db TX of the built in cards in most portable.
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FYI, I just read the pdf manual from the site and it claims 27dB TX power. So this is inline with the other competitors out there.
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Galvatron is a few small fries EXTRA of a happy meal.
The guy just straight brings it, day in and day out. You may not understand half of it, but the basic jist is rock solid.
Kudos to you Galvatron, kudos.
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I think I paid another $50 or so just for Linksys 7dB high gain antenna’s for my wireless router. This was probably two years ago but still. $80 for that kind of boost is certainly reasonable I’d say.
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No i mean e3 not T3
an E3 is faster than an T1 connection but not as fast as a cable modem. a T3 is 20 times faster than a cable modem
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Does anyone know if this is better?
Link 1 = http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13128-The+Buffalo+wireless+adaptor.html
Link 2 = http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/01/buffalo-wireless-adapter/#more-1658
let me know please……
also I only have Vista,,,and this seems to be Vista compatible verses the Wifire NOT being Vista comp.
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TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PRODUCT:
http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/wifi-antennas/super-usb-wifi-antenna.aspx
I GOT THIS ANSWER BACK FROM hField technologies wiFire.
THEY SAID, “You’ll see on the Crane website that the Super USB WiFi antenna (which you referred to previously) has an antenna gain of only 4.5 dBi. The Wi-Fire has a whopping 10.4 dBi gain, greatly overpowering the Super USB WiFi antenna. With radio antennas, every 3 dbi of difference represents a doubling of signal strength, so you’ll note that the Wi-Fire’s antenna has about 4 times more power. Additionally, the Super USB WiFi antenna advertises a 20 dBm power drain from the host computer, while the Wi-Fire only draws in about 16 dBm in power. So not only is the Wi-Fire more powerful, it’s more efficient design results in less power drain from your computer, perfect for mobile users!”
AS FAR AS VISTA THEY SAY,
” Although we’re not ready to launch it for Vista yet, you’ll find that the Wi-Fire for Macintosh does work fine and operates with plug and play for Vista. You’d just have to use the built in Vista wireless controls, since we haven’t finalized and optimized the units for Vista software. We plan on releasing the Vista software soon, and you can be kept informed by going to http://www.hfield.com/support.htm and signing up there. But if you want to use your Mac Wi-Fire with Vista now, you can, just realize you’ll have to use the Vista wireless controls, and that the Wi-Fire wireless controls will be available in a few weeks.”
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You might find one of these useful sometime, Ray…
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Check this out, Ray…
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