I've bought three D Link networking products in my past and they all sucked. The access point would need to be reset every couple of weeks. The first PCMCIA WiFi card shipped with different chips under the same model number (which caused driver issues). On the second WiFi card, the driver fails to load every-other try (my girlfriend still is removing it and inserting it all the time). In short D Link's QA sucks and you should go elsewhere.
There is no way this method of power transmission is 70% efficient at a yard away. The transmitter is blasting radio frequency radiation out in all directions. Think of a 360 degree sphere with a radius of one yard. How much of the area of that sphere is taken up by the 1 cm (or whatever) disc that actually captures the radiation inside a device. They must mean that the disc is 70% efficient at converting the radiation that *it* receives, which is, what, 1 / (4/3 pi r ^ 3), or about 0.000005 of the original energy.
Now if you get closer than a yard, your efficiency will increase with the cube of your distance, but you can't change the fundamental laws of physics here.
Diebold systems have been shown to have horrible security. Without security, what good are they? Even if there is zero malice or foul play, their machines simply suck.
I personally perfer a more compact phone with no camera in it. I'm not a fan of the crappy phone pics.
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