"Skip Gundlach" skipgundlach sez use my name at earthlink dot
fishcatcher (net) - with apologies for the spamtrap wrote in
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I'm looking for experience with external antenna solutions to very
flaky wifi access on the boat. There's every sort of hub range
improver (get your signal out to others better) but I don't see much,
if anything of the other way around.



Here, have some fun while you're playing with it....

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

My wireless router is 50' up a tree inside an inverted plastic bucket to
keep it out of the rain. It's a Netgear with diversity antennas and
receiver. The boys on the air force base enlisted housing about a mile
away get great access to it with the Pringles Antenna featured in this
article. There's several Pringles Antennas on the roof over there.

It's what I do to "support our troops"...(c;

Here's lots more antennas for your wireless routers:
http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

The Pringles Antenna is a sharp little "beam", which is great because in a
city environment where there are lots of competing wireless signals, you
can POINT it at the node you want to hear, and it reject very well all the
nodes it's not pointed to. The added 12 dB gain for your miserable little,
FCC-hobbled transmitter gives your output signal to that node a real boost,
too!

Remember - ALTITUDE IS OUR FRIEND on microwave frequencies like 2400 Mhz.
It's why the telephone company's microwave antennas were way up a tall
tower!