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It’s time once again to share a few of the comments we receive about the Wi-Fire.

This Customer is running Mac’s Snow Leopard on a Dell netbook, a kind of unique situation we thought Customers may want to hear about:

“Great product … Just got my WiFire today. Just wanted you to know that it works perfectly on a Dell Mini 10v hackintosh running Mac OSX 10.6.2. It makes the Mini 10v the perfect super-portable Mac.”

If you want to learn more about this solution on one of the smallest netbooks out there, here’s a writeup from Gizmodo.

How about a comment that starts out with “This device rocks”?  I’m going to have to shorten it up a bit.  The Customer was really excited about his Wi-Fire.

“I had bought this device for a friend who has a guest house that doesn’t pick up the wireless signal from the main house. Then my cleaning person drove my Dyson vacuum over the cord that leads to my DSL jack, yanking the cord so hard that it shattered the jack and pulled out all the wires. It looked like a tiny bomb went off near my baseboard. I figured I was hosed — and then I remembered I had the WiFire sitting on my closet shelf. Took it down, unwrapped it, fired it up, and I was immediately able to pull down a decent wireless signal from my neighbor’s house, which I have never been able to do previously. So while I waited for a week for the phone company to come and put in a new jack, I had Wifi that whole time instead of no Wifi. For me, that alone is easily worth the purchase price. It definitely works.”

Here’s another Mac Customer. Sorry to say, he had a little problem with his CD but then was impressed with our quick service and installed from a download from our site:

“It installed fine and I’m now picking up wi-fi signals from 1000′ down the block! (It also picks up our Airport 20′ away).  I’ll be using the wi-fire this summer on an island where the nearest node is about 400′ away. Should work well without leaving the livingroom. Thanks!”

I like to keep these down to no more than 3 or 4 at a time so I don’t put you to sleep.  This one started off with “Great for the Mac”. This Customer doesn’t mount the Wi-Fire on his laptop, and he’s sharing what a lot of people do to get even a stronger signal when they’re working from a fixed point, rather than traveling – read on:

“My wireless antenna on my G5 broke during moving. Being 4 years old, it was “obsolete” and I couldn’t just order one from Apple. I got this antenna instead and I am very pleased with it’s performance. So much so, I bought a 2nd one for the Apple my kids use for homework. I recommend hooking it up to an active extension cable and get it as high in the room as you can. Don’t bother putting it on the computer screen like the photo shows. The active extension cable doubled my reception signal.”

That Customer probably used an active USB repeater because he wanted to go a long distance with the USB cable and, since his computer is fixed, he doesn’t use the portability of the Wi-Fire.  But you can go up to 5 meters or about 16 feet with just a plain old USB2.0 extension cable and it’s much more economical.

hField stands in a class of its own when it comes to performance and Customer service and also, we love to stay in touch with our Customers and share their enthusiasm!

So no matter where you are, if you use Wi-Fi quite a bit, nothing beats a Wi-Fire for staying connected – the Long Range WiFi Adapter of choice around the world.

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