Adventure starts from 2 universal adaptors
Archive - June 2008

Episode 2 (part 2) - Asus WL-330gE AP

Asus WL-330gE is a palm sized multi-functional wifi AP, router, gateway, repeater, adapter. I have sold a lot of this little machine. I have noticed them because of my brain is still in "traveller mode" and prefer everything compact, powerful, and physically lightweight. Hong Kong government provides free wifi service at countless spots, and there are free wireless network hotspots everywhere such as McDonald's and some cafes. Warning, technical language starts here. Please skip it if you are not computer savvy-> Because of the wireless module in my laptop is Intel 4965agn which its Linux native driver had a TX power bug and it disconnects once in a while (usually every 10 seconds). I had to "modeprobe -r iwl4965; modprobe iwl4965" to make it back to work everytime. This was driving me crazy and there was something wrong with ndiswrapper on Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy). I couldn't install the windows driver with ndiswrapper and I don't have time to debug. I found this Linux driver works OK when the signal is strong enough, thus I spent some efforts to increase the strength of the signal. I have tried an onmi-directional antenna which didn't gain prominent improvement. Then I took several days in searching of the so called wifi booster, unfortunately I couldn't find one with a resonable price.

Then I found this thing and placing it outside of a window to act as a wifi repeater. The performance is usually good. Sometimes all signals from different sources dropps significantly, especially when the weather is hot. I recon that is because of the heavy operation of the electric substation just outside of the window and it is generating broad spectrum noices which interferes with the 2.5GHz wireless signal.

I started thinking somebody may also need such thing to extent their wifi signal range from say, downstairs to upstairs, so they may play PSP in their bed. Perhaps somebody also has the need to connect their laptop and smartphone to the same metropolitan wifi account simultaneously, this device will be helpful in this scenario as well. That is the idea which gets me to research the price in USA, UK, and Australia. I found the price in USA is not to much higher than the one I can get in Hong Kong, and the price in UK is very high. As to the price in Australia, it is the highest I can find in the world. It costs $110 in Australia. I have tested the acceptance in UK and Australia, and I found the bidders from UK bids a lot more than those in Australia. Thus I can get better profit by selling it in UK than in Australia.

I have sold 3 of this device and I am gonna keep selling it. Hope the demand in the market is still high.

This is the listing on ebay. I have more description of this device in this listing. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=170223499366

Episode 2 - Philips mains tester screwdriver


I found the Philips mains testers just a few feet from where I live now. The price is so low that the shipping fee will definitely be higher then its value. Thus I decided to sell them in the quantity of 30. So the bid winner may resell them or do whatever he/she wants. I have checked the price in US, and the retail price is about 10 times higher than the price I can get here.

It is basically a voltage detector which lights up when contacting something has a higher voltage than the ground. This is the spec I can find from the tag.
Detect AC voltage from 100V to 500V against earth.
Dimension: 3.5x120 mm

The listing is here now. http://cgi.ebay.com/30-x-Philips-mains-tester-screwdriver-voltage-detecter_W0QQitemZ170224206635QQihZ007QQcategoryZ42341QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Only 3 days left, but I have got 0 watcher. It seems nobody wants them.

Eee PC 900 sold 2

Another Eee PC 900 is sold to Claudiu in Romania, the origin country of "Dragostea din tei" (numa numa song). He was asking me the reselling price of EeePC and some netowork equipements. I do have relevant suppliers information, but their contacts and products are in a pile of sheets. I need sometime to sort it out.

Luckily that I just got 3 distributors' contact. I have contacted 1 of them which makes mini figures which resemble to the photo of the customer. This is an interesting product which is very eye-catching. I stood in front of a retail shop looking at the figures and the photos of their fleshy human owner several times. Another 2 distributors are computer parts wholesellers. They supply video cards, CPU, memory sticks, RAM, notebooks, and all kinds of relevant famous brand products. I am going to see if I can get stock from them and resell on eBay. They may also have stuff Claudiu wants.

I think it's better to calculate the accumulated price of all episodes, otherwise I will just blame ebay and payal charging me too much everytime. I just paid 13.71 AUD fees to eBay. The fees I am gonna pay to eBay is 51.47 AUD next month. My Paypal balance is 11,118.60 HKD now. Thus the total profit I have made so far is 722.6 HKD (96.94 AUD). That is the income I have got in exactly 1 month. It is soothing that the value is not negative as I was not aware of the paypal and ebay fees are so high. However, the income is not even enough for me to buy groceries for 2 weeks.

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