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Any suggestions here?
thanks!!



http://tinyurl.com/2jp374
but I'm not responsible for making it work for you.

It has power-over-Ethernet so only an Ethernet cable goes up the mast to
the masthead-mounted unit. Turn off the laptop's internal wifi
transceiver and plug this into the laptop's Ethernet port like you would
a cable modem at home. Your laptop is now connected to a really high-
powered wifi bridge as high up as you can get it.

Screwing around with another 20-50mw plugin card and some rinky dink
antenna on the main hatch isn't going to fix your weak signal problems.

Skip has one and was trying to get it to work as a wifi repeater so he
wouldn't have to plug it in. I think his problem was that the local wifi
link from the repeater to his computer was interfering and crashing with
the transmissions of the remote router where the marina wifi came from.
Hooking it up directly with Ethernet and turning off all other wifi
transmitters, such as the one inside your notebook, eliminates this local
interference.

These units run the full RF power allowed by the FCC. I'm amazed they
are so cheap in an outdoor cabinet....Follow the instructions that come
with them.

Larry
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