{"id":194569,"date":"2010-01-18T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/18\/bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:06:15","slug":"bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/194569","title":{"rendered":"BearExtender n3 grabs WiFi from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearextender.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/01-18-10bearextender2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/01\/24\/buffalos-usb-wifi-adapter-boosts-range-210\/\">WiFi extenders<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/08\/18\/bountiful-router-extends-wifi-range-up-to-1-200-feet\/\">our day<\/a>, but the BearExtender n3 has a few critical advantages over the rest: it&#8217;s cheap, effective, and, uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2005\/07\/25\/wifi-cantennas-now-illegal\/\">legal<\/a>. The $45 external WiFi adapter for Macs was developed by Rolan Saekow, a Berkeley grad who wanted access to the campus &#8220;Airbears&#8221; network from wherever he was &#8212; and it seems to do the trick, as <i>TUAW<\/i>&#8217;s informal testing revealed stronger signals and higher throughput when using the BearExtender over internal WiFI. Sure, it&#8217;s a little bulky, but that just makes you look hardcore, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar\/\">BearExtender n3 grabs WiFi from afar<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:02:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_label\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_VIA.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/01\/16\/the-bearextender-n3-expands-your-wi-fi-network\/\">TUAW<\/a><!--\/\/--><\/span> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_label\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearextender.com\/\">Bearextender<\/a><!--\/\/--><\/span> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/forward\/19321034\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/bearextender-n3-grabs-wifi-from-afar\/\" >Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a few WiFi extenders in our day, but the BearExtender n3 has a few critical advantages over the rest: it&#8217;s cheap, effective, and, uh, legal. The $45 external WiFi adapter for Macs was developed by Rolan Saekow, a Berkeley grad who wanted access to the campus &#8220;Airbears&#8221; network from wherever he was &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}