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capt.bill11 wrote:

capt.bill11 Wrote:
What part of "talk to me like an idiot" did you not get Bill? :-)

The other box was/is a receiver box. But it apparently will not work
with the Linksys we now have. Or so we have been told.

What is a dd-wrt router?

I'm assuming it both receives and broad casts WiFi?

And do you recomment an particular brand over an others?

Have the model number for a Linksys or other dd-wrt handy?

I called Linksys support and very carefully explained to them what I
was trying to do but they tried to tell me it could not be done. Of
course me not speaking Hindi may have been the problem.

Thanks.

Or, how about this as a simpler solution.

We have a marine wifi antenna and a Hawking HSB1 signal amp. So if I
get the right adapter and hook the marine antenna to the incoming side
of the Hawking amp, that should pull the wifi signal into the boat and
boost it in the boat via the Hawking. Correct?

At least that seem to be what a lot of the "marine" wifi kits are made
up of.

Actually if you go look at the Spec's of the HSB1, first, you will find
that they are no longer in production, and second, the HSB2 is basically
only a Tx amp with some Rx filtering for adjacent channel interference.
It doesn't "Pull" anything but would allow for increased Output Power
of up to 500 milliwatts.

Bruce in alaska
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add a 2 before @

Actually the HSB2 does have some receive gain. The specs say 10-12dbm but
switching mine in and out between a WAP54G and an 8db antenna I can only see
about 7 or 8db improvement. For pulling in at a distance however my
EUB-362EXT will eat it for lunch.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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In article ,
capt.bill11 wrote:

capt.bill11 Wrote:
What part of "talk to me like an idiot" did you not get Bill? :-)

The other box was/is a receiver box. But it apparently will not work
with the Linksys we now have. Or so we have been told.

What is a dd-wrt router?

I'm assuming it both receives and broad casts WiFi?

And do you recomment an particular brand over an others?

Have the model number for a Linksys or other dd-wrt handy?

I called Linksys support and very carefully explained to them what I
was trying to do but they tried to tell me it could not be done. Of
course me not speaking Hindi may have been the problem.

Thanks.

Or, how about this as a simpler solution.

We have a marine wifi antenna and a Hawking HSB1 signal amp. So if I
get the right adapter and hook the marine antenna to the incoming side
of the Hawking amp, that should pull the wifi signal into the boat and
boost it in the boat via the Hawking. Correct?

At least that seem to be what a lot of the "marine" wifi kits are made
up of.

Actually if you go look at the Spec's of the HSB1, first, you will find
that they are no longer in production, and second, the HSB2 is basically
only a Tx amp with some Rx filtering for adjacent channel interference.
It doesn't "Pull" anything but would allow for increased Output Power
of up to 500 milliwatts.

Bruce in alaska
--
add a 2 before @

If you're not prepared to learn the geek aspects of this you might just be
better off buying one of the packaged marine wifi setups. I've never used
one so I have no opinions regarding how well they work or not.

-Bill Kearney[/quote]

I have no problem learning the geek aspects of this. That is why I am here asking questions.

Thanks for everyones help.