The Hawking Technology Hi-Power USB WiFi Dish. Connect your laptop or desktop up to one of these puppies and you’ll be grabbing your 802.11g signal from Guatemala. Well OK, from a nicely extended distance away anyway. Of course, not everyone wants or needs to carry around a satellite dish in their laptop case, but hey, you might have your own reasons. And lets face it, when you’re done computing for the day, you can always turn it on its side and cook up some dinner. Yours for around $70.00.
The HWU8DD is designed to connect your desktop computer or laptop easily to any Wireless-B or Wireless-G network via a USB connection. Hawking’s award winning Hi-GainTM Antenna technology extends wireless connection distances by up to 300%. The HWU8DD is equipped with a new 8dBi Directional Dish antenna that provides more distance and better speeds than other wireless adapters on the market. The Hi-Gain Wireless-G Dish Adapter is the only wireless adapter to integrate the distance benefits of wireless Dish Technology with WiFi networking.
I bought this from FRY’s. It worked fantastic for about an hour then promptly stopped working. It is no longer recognized by my usb ports on 3 different computers. It is a two hundred mile roundtrip to replace but I will try it again as the gain on this thing was worth the trip, if only it doesn’t fail again…
Try and Alpha 500mw adapter, they cost less and have more power, plus can be used as an access point as well. data-alliancedotcom has them in stock,