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Looking to install a Wi-Fi antena on my Boat, anybody have any information on best antena's to use. Read several different posts seems like a lot of ways to do it..
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I use it mainly on known wifi networks that I have the password for. At my home port I am at a private marina so no wifi but there is a marina across the harbor that has wifi on the dock and I get the password from the gas dock attendants when I get gas there. Also, along our harbor there are many restaurants with wifi so when we eat at them I get the passwords and then store them for the summer so I have several networks I can log in to.Just curious about what kind of wifi networks you guys are getting on with these things. Do you use them to pull in signals in your home Marina or other places? I've been thinking of getting one but in roaming around Long Island with my iPad on land I haven't come across very many unlocked wifi networks and I'm not a Cablevision subscriber so I can't use theirs.
This is recently from my electronics guy which I found useful. There is about a 4 week wait right now for the Link 7 by Aigean. Thinking it was the same as the Rogue, I requested getting the Rogue in lieu of the Link 7 so I wouldn't have to wait and this was his response. Hope it's helpful:
"Yes we are a dealer for Wave Wi-Fi as well (one of their first). The Wave Wi-Fi Rogue Pro is 2.4GHz only. We are seeing many marinas and other hotspots adding 5.0GHz as that frequency is much cleaner and more bandwidth available too.
The LINK7 is both 2.4 & 5.0. Many people don’t realize what they are missing when equipped with 2.4 only. Most other boats are 2.4 and will latch on to just those signals – especially older equipment. If you go with the LINK7 you won’t be in the 2.4 bottleneck. Unless you are in a marina without much traffic? It’s not like 2.4 is going away anytime soon either, but everyone is on that frequency, the data is slower, and you will ultimately have less connection options with just 2.4."
So let's say that there's a McDonald's 1 mile or so from our marina that has free wifi... with one of these antennas, I can grab wifi from said McDonald's while at my marina?
Our marina has free wifi, but it's not the greatest, especially when it's busier on the weekends. We have better luck with our cell phone network.
Thanks in advance.
So let's say that there's a McDonald's 1 mile or so from our marina that has free wifi... with one of these antennas, I can grab wifi from said McDonald's while at my marina?
Our marina has free wifi, but it's not the greatest, especially when it's busier on the weekends. We have better luck with our cell phone network.
Thanks in advance.
That's exactly where wifi booster we're discussing here will come in to play. For example, I'm in a marina but wifi signal is only good close to the marina office. My cell can't even pick it up, my laptops pick it up but with poor signal strength. I turn on my Wave Rouge and the antenna booster reaches to the marina office with ease and delivers full bars signal to the boat. Now, of course my booster is plugged in to my boat's router, so wha-la...my entire on board network has full strength wifi signal and every on board device can use it.
The same scenario take place when you're away from a dock. Say I anchored in some gunkhole. I scan wifi networks with my cell or latptop and nothing. But, when I scan with wifi booster I pick up several networks. Granted, now days 95% of them will be locked. But, say you're Optiomum or Xfinity, or other cariers customer and one of the networks on the list is their hotspot. Wha-la...I got few accounts, so when I see a network I have account with, I connect to it with my booster and my entire on board network is up and running.