On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:13:05 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

Wayne, just want to be clear how you are doing this. Is the unit kept
inside and you run a cable outside with the antenna on the end? Or is
the whole unit mounted outside? If the former, any indications on
signal loss per cable length?

Is there a way to feed this into a router? Would like to be able to use
my Vonage phone service and also feed other computers in my boat.

Yes, the USB adapter is inside the main cabin feeding a 30 ft run of
low loss coax cable through an adapter (SMC to type N connector if I
recall correctly).

The antenna looks like this:

http://tinyurl.com/s6vkg

I don't know the loss figures on the cable but shorter is always
better at these frequencies. What I can tell you is that overall
system performance is a great deal better than anything else I've
tried previously. CompUSA also sells a Hawking remote
amplifier/preamp which could be installed near the antenna if mounted
in a watertight enclosure.

I don't know of any way to feed a router unless you can figure out how
to get ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to work using a USB primary
network connection. If that is important to you, I'd recommend
looking at a remote external WiFi adapter with an ethernet interface.

The folks that I bought my USB adapter from also have a wide variety
of other components that you might find applicable:

http://www.wlanparts.com/