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Triple Your Wi-Fi’s Signal Strength With Wi-Fire

hField Technologies’ Wi-Fire is a compact high-performance USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Mac and PC that extends the Wi-Fi range upwards of 1,000 feet. Being a college student, I am blessed with a blanketed campus, offering a strong Wi-Fi signal wherever I go, right? …. Well, wrong. Dreaded dead spots exist and, to my dismay, my [...]

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The Amazing Human WiFi Sniffer

An author named Kate Figes from Europe claims that she can feel “electromagnetic waves” emitted by WiFi. Huh? She describes the feeling as being prodded by 1,000 fingers. She also states that her very own WiFi setup has left her feeling exhausted, nauseous and sleepless. She is even so sensitive to the signals that she can instantly [...]

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Wi-Fire Extends Your WiFi Range to 1,000 Feet

Do you always find yourself out of wireless access points’ range? Or your house is just so big? Wi-Fire should be of benefit to you. Simply plug it up to your USB port and you can extend your WiFi signal reception up to 1,000 feet. It is currently priced at $150, but only works for [...]

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Free WiFi for Google’s Neighbours

Google officially bestows its free WiFi service upon Mountain View today. The $1 million dollar project covers 90 percent of the city’s 12 square miles, and run at up to 1mbps. Not too shabby at all. “The feedback was overwhelming positive,” said Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives for Google. “It’s glowing, and in fact it’s [...]

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Eye-Fi Packs WiFi Into SD Flash Cards

Envious of the many new WiFi compact cameras, such as the Nikon Coolpix P1, that are starting to sprout? If your camera uses SD flash cards as its memory medium, you’re in luck. Eye.Fi aims to bring WiFi capability to any SD flash-supporting cameras with their revolutionary WiFi-enabled SD flash cards. The difference between Eye.Fi and [...]

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NetGear First to Ship New 300Mbps WiFi Products

Soon, we’ll be hearing less of 802.11g and more of 802.11n. That is the new WiFi standard, which was formed in January this year but unfortunately has yet to be ratified. In other words, these early products that NetGear and other vendors are shipping actually works on the draft version of the standard and might [...]

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