Oh nice, and I may take you up on that tower then, I'll just have to make some calls then with @tlink.

On the heat issue, I had heard, if one removes the battery, and just runs it from the wall itself, a lot of the heat problems goes away. It seems the battery doesn't know when it's full, so keeps trying to charge, and in doing so generates the majority of the hear with the MIFI.

Now I haven't tested it yet, but I may in the future. I'll prob have you out sometime this spring anyways, for my local Friends get together. I have a group that meets about once or twice a year, from the old Star Trek Game, Starfleet Command. We usually eat some dead animal, and then bullshit all day, over Beers, or scotch. (Which works ,as it leaves all the Canadian Whiskey for me. :P)