Dualy brings 802.11b/g/n wireless to any Mac
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 20, 2007 at 6:26am
QuickerTek has released the US$324.95 Dualy, which lets any Mac with a USB port take advantage of wireless networking, whether the Mac has an AirPort wireless network card or not. Dualy also seeks out more distant wireless signals and locks them in with two 500 milliwatt transceivers, coursing wireless across two antennas.
Two 500 milliwatt transceivers inside each Dualy seize wireless signals from access points manufactured by a variety of common wireless hardware vendors. And the dual 3 dBi antennas (one for each transceiver) provide the speed necessary for 802.11n wireless that runs in the 2.4GHz range, according to the folks at QuickerTek. Users may choose to upgrade these antennas for greater distance and wireless speeds.
Dualy clips to the Mac laptop case and is powered from the USB port. It’s fully compatible with all Apple AirPort Base Stations. It requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and works with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). An Apple AirPort card isn’t required.
Article Information
Comment on this Article Print this Article Email this Article Digg This
Contributor
Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
