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New Marine WiFi Product
Although I have not tried this myself, it looks interesting and I may
order one. Basically it's a 9 db omnidirectional antenna integrated with a high powered USB adapter. The advantage is that coax losses are eliminated and you have a smaller cable coming into the boat. Which is useless as USB is limited, at best, to 15 feet. Just getting across a cabin, up a bulkhead and to an opening will take that much length. And that only gets you to the deck. It's been my experience you need to get at least 8 feet off the deck to get any sort of decent signal. At least in anything other than a close proximity to the base situation. If you're in the marina and it's got good coverage then the above gadget might be useful. But if the coverage was that good you wouldn't need that gadget anyway. And that unit is limited to USB 1.1. Too slow for wifi, but then for ****ty coverage it might be "enough". In short, no thanks. |
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