It may be true that most US marina hot spots run under 65mw but most of the
commercial services (and a few altruistic souls) with APs aimed at
anchorages in the Caribbean run 200mw or more.

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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
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That setup sounds very clean but what do you do about power? The
WRT54GS comes standard at 63mw and if you boost it over 100mw it will
over heat.

The 200mw out of my little EUB-362 in my traveling set up makes a
major difference in usable range.


I used to think that mattered. It doesn't because the hotspot you're
connecting to ISN'T running 200mw, probably closer to 50. If I'm running
a
kilowatt and you're running a watt, you can always hear me, but I can only
hear you so far. Overkill doesn't seem to fix it....2400 Mhz is line of
sight at any power level less than 1KW where tropospheric ducting will
take
it over the horizon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/TRC-97A_Radio
That won't do you any good unless the marina wifi uses one, too...(c;

Larry
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