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I bought this to use in addition to a hawking hi gain satellite antenna, and so far I'm almost convinced. As a professional sight seer, aka truck driver, I tend to rely on truck stop and hotel wifi for all my internet needs. As I only just received this unit a few days ago, I'm still putting it through the grind. I tested it, with the hi gain antenna, and was pleased to see a plethora of new connections available form my brothers house, some of which were about a quarter mile away. While most of the signals came in much stronger(avg 2 to 3 bars), there were also a noticeable amount that showed weaker connections than my laptops internal hardware. I did check around using the stock antenna as well, and that was fairly comparable to my laptops internals. We did pit this against 3 laptops, and the results were generally better, but not absolute. Tonight is proving the opposite effect however, I'm using my laptops internals because they are holding a more steady connection than this adapter has shown today. I was able to connect to a few different providers, but the steady truck traffic has made that quite sporadic. Will continue testing and try to update this in the near future.

Great item...I can see my office wireless router and actually use it! Our offices are built inside a large warehouse and the router is located in the front offices. With the built in wireless card on my laptop I could only get one bar and it was not dependable. Now I have three to four full bars and I can use my laptop anywhere in our office space and do not have to use a hard-wire connection. For the price it is a great item and simple to use.
You will notice an increase right away and I am very happy with the results.

This antenna is great. My built in wireless card in my laptop is not working and with this little thing I can catch not only my wireless network signal but many others I didn't catch before.

I am on a base in Iraq which is the ultimate situation in trying to recieve a wireless signal. We have ONE provider here and they are located across the base, on top of that the signal they send out is populated by everyone here who needs access to the internet. I have tried a huge directional array attenna, a basket attenna, and an amplified antenna that was powered by electricty, none of them helped much at all. In fact I just rather say none of them worked. Then I tried this little black box, and the rest is history. Now, I'm sure different circumstances may prevail for what works well and what doesn't work, but this EnGenius works. I use this box nearly 16 hours a day everyday, and I mean that, and it has yet to provide me with any problems. I do not work for this company, and in fact never heard of this thing before I got here, but I will definately keep one of these with me from this point forward. You can read as many reviews as you choose to, but know this, if it didn't work I would say that too, this thing works, and works well!

I got this because my roommate has this product. We can share our neighbors signal even though the neighbor's house is 50 yards away! I have 3 other wireless adapters and none can pick up a signal like this one. Not only does it get a connection, it holds it consistently.
I read one of the reviews and someone said they replaced the antenna with an even longer one and increased the range even more.
Anyways, good product, great bang for the buck.