A “killer” idea. The sort of idea I wish I had come up with myself.

The first use I think of is this older model NetBook sitting here that
does not have a well supported Wifi chip and no internal antenna.

Now if they would add-in a USB hub to the base, so a person doesn't
have a net loss of USB ports to use when it is plugged in…
A “world beater” device.

Would be EVEN BETTER if it has MESH NETWORKING built-in, so that it could be used on ANY NETBOOK that is being used in schools (meaning that then the netbook could be inside the Mesh Networking of an OLPC XO-1 Sugar desktop).

AND, of course, we could all use Mesh Networking to extend those limited distance wireless access points. Can you imagine if EVERYONE had mesh networking running?

Wrote B.G. once, had someone call from that company, then I could never get back to that person, but I was told that the person who called would help fix the problem. Problem was theirs totally, and I tried to follow up, only got the cold shoulder, and talked to another phone number where it was going to cost something like $95 and they wanted a credit card number BEFORE I could talk to anyone at tech there… TO FIX A PROBLEM WITH THEIR OS that their representative had said was their proboem…. it was then, that we concluded that Linux was the way to go.

OLPC XO-1, with Sugar, had a Mesh Networking capable system that was part of the stack. Too bad that others can't, or will not, do the same. Intel hated it because they were all about WiMax at the time (patents and all).

This would be a good possibility if someone wanted to add a Broadcom HD decoder to their netbook but only have one mini pcie port being used by a wireless card.

There are plenty of USB wifi adapter that come without antenna but can work perfectly. But what make this model different to others? if not, the antenna just a tall stick that make inconvenient to use.