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WiFi Access
You might try a EUB-362(EXT) high power (200mw) USB wireless adapter with an
8.5db marine antenna on the Shuttle, hard wire in the other PCs through a workgroup switch and use the Windows ICS facility to share the connection. The EUB-362 is especially attractive because you can run the USB cable up to 15' and locate the EUB362 close to the antenna. With a powered hub at the end of the USB cable you can go another 15' and take the load off the Shuttle all together.. At 2.4Ghz LMR200 coax will loose more than 50% of the signal over 20' but only 15% over the 4' that comes with the antenna. Also working off the USB port the Shuttle will own the adapter so you can scan for access points and control which one it connects to using the standard wifi utilities. You can't do that very easily with a wireless router. To give you an idea of the performance, using a 200mw Senao card connected through 16' of LMR100 an 8.5db antenna I could get a usable signal from the 500mw BVI Marine Wifi access points out to about 900 yards. The thin LMR100 lost 75% of the signal so a shorter length of LMR200 should get you out to 1,500 yards or better. -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com "Rusty" wrote in message . .. I have a non-laptop Shuttle computer on my sailboat. I would like to be able to access marina and other WiFi points when available. I have talked to some of the marine WiFi providers and they only provide hardware that works with laptop computers. At the Oakland boat show the provider I talked to wouldn't even look at me after I said I had a desktop computer instead of a laptop! I would like to set up an external antenna and the necessary hardware to get WiFi access into the Ethernet port on my computer. I have no laptop PCMCIA slots, no PCI bus slots, only a high-speed Ethernet port. I am not looking to have secondary wireless access for other devices on the boat. I would like to be able to install a wired router on the boat and share the internet connection among more than one on-board wired computer. This would eliminate USB wireless adapters that connect directly to the computer. Can I use a bridge, like the Linksys WET54G, for this application or is there a better solution? Recommendations for an external antenna would also be appreciated. Thanks, Rusty |
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