[Off-topic] wallyb132:
I wanted to take a minute to throw down my 2 cents on this device and back up the review of it posted above.

I often find myself in locations where wireless internet access is not immediately available for various reasons. 99% of the time my internal wireless card on my laptop can see an unsecured network with a signal strength strong enough to appear in the list, but not strong enough to actually move data.

Because of this, for over a year now i've been searching for the end all be all solution to this problem, I've studied wireless chipsets inside and out, learned the capabilities and faults of hardware from every manufacturer, I've spent what amounts to hundreds of dollars on wireless adapters, signal boosters, signal amplifiers both low power <2w and high power >5w. I've tried the amped wireless 1w signal booster and the rosewill rebadged version, I have Alfa adapters, I have low power adapters to use with the amplifiers, I have high power adapters, high gain adapters and long range adapters, and I have what amounts to a freakish collection of antennas, that range from 2dBi indoor to 18dBi outdoor directional antennas.

Some of the devices i've tried came from established local and online retailers like Fry's Electronics and Newegg so I was able to return some of the things for a refund. the more expensive items I always bought from some place with a hassle free return policy. The smaller stuff was all purchased thru ebay, and though i could technically return the items if i really wanted, but its a pain in the ass and more trouble than its worth, so i've kept them.

All throughout this adventure I was becoming more and more convinced that the end all be all solution to my wireless problems, or holy grail of wireless adapters, just didn't exist. Every time i considered another option, or bought another device or accessory that didn't live up to its claims, I felt like I was hunting Zebras, mythical creatures that dont exist, but if you look for them, you will always find one, just beyond your grasp.

Several weeks ago, while completely bored out of my mind, I was thumbing thru wireless devices for sale on ebay, I usually limit the listings i see to US only, but some reason this time I didn't. As I was scrolling down the pages, I kept running across this device, it certainly looked interesting enough, so I stopped and read the listing for it, the listing made some really wild claims both about the capabilities and the antenna design. I immediately wrote it off as bull**** and went on scrolling. For some reason, over the next hour this device kept popping in to my head and poking me, to the point it was starting to annoy me, so I went back and looked at it again, read some listing from other sellers, searched google for the part number, which the only meaningful search result google returned was this forum i'm replying to now.

I thought about it for a few minutes and applied the rational that i've already spent so much money on this quest, whats another $22, and i hit the buy it now button.

Fast forward 2 weeks to yesterday afternoon when the USPS mail lady rang my doorbell and handed me the box. When it arrived I actually wasn't even remotely excited about it, mostly due to all the previous let downs, but had nothing better to do for the next couple hours, so i opened it, its looks cool enough. I plugged it in, didn't even have to install drivers because i have drivers for just about every wireless adapter ever created already installed on my laptop. I had the windows 7 connect to a network popup window open when my laptop finished installing and enabling the device, the scroll bar had about a half inch of travel, basically i could scroll down as see one more network. I watched that scroll button shrink to about 3.4in in size. the first thing that went thru my mind was huh?, that changed quickly to WTF? then to Holy ****! I scrolled down a list of networks that just blew my mind, 4x the number of networks my internal adapter was seeing. I've lived in the house for 2 years and I was absolutely certain that at some point or another I had seen every wireless network near my house. I also found out that i was completely wrong about that.

Still in a state of disbelief, knowing in my heart and in my head that this was just a fluke, I opened up Xirrus Wifi monitor, inSSIDer3, Passmark Wireless Mon and started my Backtrack5 VM in an attempt to rationalize the fact that this was just a fluke.I studied the list of networks that each program provided and the signal strengths of each of these networks, comparing this device to my internal wireless card and finally looking at the airodump output on backtrack.

After about 45 minutes of failing to convince myself that this was just a fluke, the reality of the situation set in and a wave of both relief and anger washed over me, the relief, because I finally found it, and it really does exist, the holy grail of wireless network adapters. the anger? because I realized the every dime I spend on wireless hardware prior to ordering this device was a complete wasted of money, all I needed to do was buy one of these devices.

What I got when I purchased this device, is what I was expecting when I purchased both of my Alfa wireless adapters that people so highly praise but ultimately wound up on the top of my expensively disappointing pile, I also have a cheap disappointment pile, a pile of devices that i'm embarrassed to admit i bought, and a works surprisingly well for what it is, but doesn't do what i need it to pile.

The only drawback I can find to this device is that there is no viable US distributors for it, that I could find anyway. There are some random sellers on the US that have these available for sale, but are selling them for stupidly high prices, like >$100. So its 2 weeks from China or bust... I ordered a second one today, just for good measure, and I also ordered a couple other Signal King devices, such as a compact version of this device that claims to have almost identical capabilities and couple other things, figuring that if this device is so awesome, I cant wait to see what their other devices can do....