is the most brilliant thing for boosting WIFI reception
It is quite small and nowhere near as directional as one might expect, but obviously you need to be discrete when using it.
I find just leaving it in a backpack is good enough, to pick up an unsecured access point.
It is one of the best things I have ever bought for travelling, and I pack it on every long holiday. Even in hotels with "free wifi" it has proved essential most of the time.
Wifi is becoming a rarity in Europe these days. On a recent trip to northern Greece (Kavala area) I found not one single open access point. Loads of commercial ones. Pretty obviously the operator did a sweep of the area and knocked on thousands of doors to get the residents to secure them.
Still, nothing beats an
E585 with a local SIM. I got 3GB in Greece for 15 euros for 10 days. If you can get a local SIM like that, forget WIFI. In these "late developing" countries, 3G is almost everywhere - unlike the UK.