Can having a Quicky boost your Wi-Fi range?

Follow up to this post: I ended up buying a device called "n3." Has Mac compatible drivers for 10.3-10.5...and it works! Upped a 28% signal to 76%! Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0JI4ERPOdA

I'll be able to report on actual use of the Quickie II. I ordered one and will have it next week.

It does seem pricey.

Say what?

The Quicky gets you N on a machine with older Airport cards, but it doesn't seem to be any more powerful than stock equipment. I agree with the above poster who said that their software is really clumsy. Also it doesn't play well with anything more powerful than WEP security. I give it a meh for overall meh-ness.

I had much better success yanking the original Airport card out and replacing it with the Aria Extreme N from Sonnet. That card definitely increased the reach of the computer versus the Apple original.

I can never understand the half-delivered reviews provided on this site. How difficult would it be to take a laptop to a point at which reception dropped to 1 or 2 bars, measured some file transfer speeds and then bung in this device and repeat. At least give some credence to the capabilities of the device. As it is this just reads like a press release was obtained and it was spruced up for inclusion in the blog. Someone asks if this would work from the carpark outside of Starbucks. How difficult would it be to have someone try that? and report with some actual metrics? Too often this site stops short of actually validating things.

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This product does not "route the signal to the airport circuitry", it is it's own wireless adapter. Just like any you would buy on the shelf at any store, only it has a larger antenna. I'm sure it's better than the built-in airport/antenna, but it's not magically routing an RF signal over USB to the Airport card (on a PCI connection, not USB). Those signals do not mix.

I've used both the antenna that you attach to the airport connections inside and the silver box that just attaches to the usb port. They both worked as advertised and allowed greater reception. I can't speak for the customer service as I never had to deal with them.

And Avian was correct, with the USB version, you turn off your Airport and use the dongle instead.

Also, to answer Barlo, yes, you can pick up Starbucks wireless from the parking lot.

I used the Jr. for a while with my early '08 Mac Pro. I got frequent KERNEL PANICS which rendered the device - obviously - unusable. It got great reception, but their drivers are crapppppp.

Also, their customer service was - in my opinion - very, very bad, considering the price of the object.

this reads like advertising copy