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The following are real world fans of Wifi-Plus:

Please let us know of your test results.
WiFi-Plus works with Mining Engineering company located in West Virginia
WiFi-Plus was able to sucessfully demonstrate wireless connections hundreds of feet under the ground using MP antenna technology that gives you a competitive edge over other antenna technologies. Using MP technology they were able to provide a mile NLOS link with 3 hops to a portal going 5 miles into the mine. Their longest NLOS wireless one hop link was 3000 feet. MP Technology has been the antenna of choice by several other companies. If you have any questions contact WiFi-Plus VP of Manufacturing Allen Higgins at 330-273-3665 X 102 www.wifi-plus.com
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Viriginia Highland Haven Sucess
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CUSTOMER FEEDBACK:

Tree obstructed installation 50% signal at 2.8 kilometers.  NO amplifier.  The pictures tell it all.

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"Rugged and genuinely built-to-last WiFi Plus antennas occupy a realm all to themselves.  I've personally tested the Bullet and WISPer across nearly a gigahertz of RF spectrum.  Both held their own: maintaining gain and signal fidelity-as measured through FTP transfer rates-at any frequency within the 802.11a/b/g WiFi bands.  Seemingly far fetched, WiFi Plus' advanced antennas solutions will no doubt prove to have far reaching and long lasting impact on antenna designs.  If there are any other antenna designers and builders in their league, they have yet to make them and themselves known to the WISP marketplace."

E. Caleb Black | President & Founder
LA Unplugged | Wireless Internet Enablers
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These antennas are nothing short of amazing.

Dear Wifi-Plus

I want to thank Dr.Jack and his associates. The information that they have shared with myself and my company has been extremely beneficial. The 18" and 4" beams have performed well beyond my expectations. I am currently utilizing the 4" with a 250mw amp on a 70' tower and the coverage is unbelievable. The "null" spots as I like to refer to them have been cut by 60%, I was deploying primarily 120 degree 12dbi antennas hoping to gain a larger coverage area. Your antenna design and signal performance has restructured my entire thought of the limitation of the areas that I may cover. I have tested your 18in against one of the leading 24 dbi grid dish parabolics and and pleased to say that it outperformed it on almost every level. SNR, strength, location and packet loss were all increased with the usage of your antenna. Again I want to say that these antennas are nothing short of amazing.

 

Antonio
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Lighting up a marina and many slips beyond
Good Day:

    We tested the basics of our system today and I am really happy. The system consists of a 120 degree Quad Stacked antenna covering a mooring field of over a mile. For nearby marina slips we have a MP Dual Stacked 8 dBi Omni.

The signal is truly remarkable. Full signal throughout the harbor and great coverage around the slips. The antennas are up high on a building. Thank you for the tech help and thanks for an antenna concept WELL DONE!

Andy

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Lighting up my valley and hills

                                      This testimony is from our WiFi users Forum

     Before I get into the wow part here's my drive test setup for getting a general idea of coverage, Pocket pc with a cf wireless card modified for external antenna, one of those cheap hawking amp.s set for 200mw about 6' of LMR400 attached to the 5db omni. I use wififofum for the software.
I did some work on my hill site (why pay for a tower when this hill is 1200'). I decided to drive around and see how well things worked, cutting though a valley to get where I was going my signal pops in did'nt think nothing of it at first but decided to stop and see if it was accurate. This valley has hills around 900' all around it plus very mature trees, no leaves yet but will try again when there is, I had a -70 signal and did not believe this was at all accurate untill I drove around a lttle more and checked my email and surfed the net a little (pocket pc kinda sucks for surfing but works for testing). I was about 2 miles from my hill site, went to another valley about 2.5 miles with similar results. WOW!!


With this I also have a question, in another part of the river valley here I'm lookin at trying the omni dome up with a 1 watt amp.(barely legal but legal all the same)the idea here is to capture some people in the bluffs above in wooded lots and probably capture a park and some more river just by the nature of RF. What kind of estimated distance can I expect using 250mw radio's and 4" beams on the homes?
Just a rough idea is all I'm looking for. I was going to deploy the 120 I made out of 2 4" beams but someone decided to build condos right in my path %#@!.
So now I figured the omni would be the way to go.

Joe
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Transmitting analog video in a UAV at 2.4Ghz

 

Greetings,

   We are currently using your 2.4 Ghz antennas for analog video in conjunction with our UAV, and have found their pattern, gain, and sensitivity to be excellent for our application, which requires a broad omni style pattern. Following the successful use of the 2.4Ghz unit, we ordered some 900Mhz units and have also obtained excellent results in field tests. These are being specified as our standard antenna for short range (for us) telemetry links. In fact we are currently awaiting 3 units I am told are in production for delivery next week. We have been working with Connectronics and the folks there are doing you proud, we get excellent and timely support.  

   We are moving to the 1.3Ghz band (telemetry only) for our military customers. Finding antennas for this band with a broad pattern at moderate gain is difficult to impossible. Since we are so impressed with the other two products, I would like to find out what is involved in having an antenna using your technology designed for this band.                                 Thank you for your time, visit our website to find out more about us…

 www.insitugroup.com

Chris Erikson

RF systems Avionics Support and Testing 

The Insitu Group, Inc.
118 East Columbia River Way
Bingen, Washington USA 98605

1-509-493-8600- x232
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Remote Ocean sensing from seven miles out in Gulf of Mexico




Dr. Nilsson,
Having recently concluded our exercise implementing a wireless sensor network in the Tampa Bay waters in the Gulf of Mexico with some very encouraging results, I wanted to update you on the happenings as promised. We had one of our nodes set up on a Coast Guard range marker (40feet ht) and 7 miles away from the shore (University building). We had a number of sensor nodes on buoys and a few mobile platforms including an ROV and boats as clients to the remote node. We were able to monitor all our data and remote devices from the University building on shore real time. The multi-polarized antennas seemed to work great even in the ocean environment. Although we had expected a better fade margin on our backhaul link with the calculations we did, it did not matter much as the received signal strength was consistently stable, although low. The 18 inch beams and the quad stack 120 degree sector worked great for us even on choppy waters. This definitely broadens our capability in remote ocean sensing, environment monitoring and other navy and port security related applications. Presently, we are scaling up the existing network using mesh topology. As a result of our success using your equipment, other groups within the university and have expressed an interest in your products for their applications.  We have gladly passed on all the information we have to these groups.
I would like to congratulate you and your team for the pioneering work on these antennas. Kindly keep us informed about the latest developments in terms of improvised products. At the Centre of Ocean Technology, University of South Florida, we are a test bed for a variety of marine research and have a lot of scenarios where we can put your antenna systems to real world test. Also, I would like to thank your sales and technical staff, especially Dennis and yourself, who have been very helpful.
Best Regards,
Pragnesh Bhanushali
Microsystems Electrical Engineer
University of South Florida
Center for Ocean Technology
140 7th Ave South St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Office: (727) 553-1319 Cell: (813) 503-7434
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Increase Wireless Laptop Signal Strength
Hey again, Guys.

Well, my laptop-embedded Bullet worked out really well. Recently, I went out with my Linux user group for a field test of our wireless gear in downtown Paducah, KY. (Don't laugh. Paducah has their whole downtown area rigged for wifi.) My laptop (your Bullet omni antenna and Cisco wifi adapter) was consistently the last one to drop off the net as we drove around testing various blind spots and perimeter limits to the overall downtown wireless coverage. I'm a walking hot spot.

It took a little work on my part to fit the Bullet in the allowed space (and luck, my laptop had a comparatively huge open cavity in one corner) but the results was more than worth the effort.

Later. -Bigfoot

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1223 Peoples Ave

                                      Troy, NY 12180

        Phone: (518) 276-2892

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Dear WiFi-Plus,

 

It is with great pleasure I have the opportunity to send you some information related to the testing and demonstrations we have experienced using your antennas over the past few weeks.   As you know, we have patents related to “hands-free” micro-video cameras and are very involved with numerous state and federal agencies for law enforcement, security, medical and even sports end users.  In addition to these groups and their applications, we also are working very closely with one of America’s premiere TV networks.  In all cases the demonstrations and their continued in-field test have been very favorable and in several cases closed deals for us because the antennas works that well. 

 

Prior to receiving your antennas, we used conventional high gain patch and whip antennas for all our markets.  In several cases, these antennas were the weakest link in our testing and presentations.  We often are required to demo the units in very tough RF environments and around or thru major obstacles I.e. Thick brick walls/our office complex, woods, campus locations, city streets and indoor arenas.    In almost all cases, when we compared the transmission, which in almost cases for us is from a mobile transmitter, your bullet antenna matched with your omni and high gain antenna was superior to the equipment we have used before.  We really look forward to the new designs we discussed for your smaller bullet antenna because we as stated use them when the individual is moving and sometimes in covert situations.  The smaller bullet will compliment our body-worn needs very nicely.  

 

In most cases the competitions, whip/ducky antennas when worn and matched with high gain patch antennas dropout.  That is not the case with your equipment.  We have even compared the antennas to 900 GHz diversity systems with multiple antennas and you still beat them.  The misunderstanding about 2.4 GHz being used for mobile or moving applications and not working is false when it comes to your antennas.  

 

As stated, we look forward to seeing the smaller bullet for body-worn needs such as law enforcement, security, sports and media use.  Please keep us abreast with new advancements with your technology.

 

Please continue the great work and our hats are off to the Doctor and his genius.

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

Michael Jones

Managing Member/CEO

Niche Concepts, LLC.   

 
Apple Aid Robotics
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Hi Wi-FiPlus folks,

This is Tim Ball of Fireball Info. Tech., the guy to whom you gave a

discount on three 2.4 Ghz antennae because we were trying to use the systems

for our real-time wildland fire mapping system. We have had occasion to put

the Ultra 5 dB antennas to a bit of a real world test. We have been using a

link between our ground station and the helicopter for perhaps two months.

We are pretty satisfied although we have been so busy that we really have

not been able to do the kind of detailed comparative testing that we would

like. We did however achieve a "Fire Technology First" on the fires around

San Bernardino. At one point when the fires were moving much faster than

seasoned veterans had expected and homes were being lost because priorities

were very hard to establish we flew to the critical area to map the

situation. At the same time we send a fellow with an older model IPAQ

Pocket PC to the area on the ground. This IPAQ had a simple 11b WLAN to

receive the data. It took a few tries because the older IPAQs do not sync

automatically over the network but we were in fact able to send down the map

data. As I think you folks know sending digital data over microwave from

aircraft involves horrible polarization problems because of the continuous

aircraft motion. We all felt that without the multi-polarization

capabilities of the Ultra (that was mounted on the helicopter hook-rack)

transmission of the data would have been very unlikely. Yet, the data did

go through and the Supervisor of that Division of the fire had a hard copy

map in his hand two minutes later. He re-deployed his forces and told us

that he felt that homes were saved as a result.

We are very excited about this achievement and are busy trying to quantify &

improve our ability to provide real-time digital downlinks to emergency

personnel. We will keep you posted as over the next month or so, we do some

more definitive experiments.

Thanks for your products and your help.

-tim

J. Timothy Ball, Ph.D.

Fireball Information Technologies, LLC

1240 Fairfield Ave.

Reno, NV 89509
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