bobofthenorth
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- Joined
- Oct 18, 2009
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- Canada
- Vessel Name
- Gray Hawk
- Vessel Make
- Defever 43 Offshore Cruiser
What alternatives are out there?* Last winter we tethered our cellphones.* With 1 Gig of data per phone and 2 phones that gave us adequate bandwidth and we were surprised how much coverage we had but we never got further north than Desolation Sound and there were areas there where we had no coverage.* And plenty other areas a lot further south weren't covered either.*
We have carried a Hughesnet tripod system on the bus for years so this winter I brought the Hughes modem, dish and LNB west with us.* I'm starting to cobble together a system that will let us get about 300' away from the tripod so as long as we can shoretie within 300 feet of the beach I think I've got a workable system but I'm curious if anybody has any other economical solution.* Obviously if you can steal wifi that's the cheapest solution but there are some ethical and security issues there and regardless of your position on the practice it is becoming more difficult as hardware providers make secure connections easier to set up.
We have carried a Hughesnet tripod system on the bus for years so this winter I brought the Hughes modem, dish and LNB west with us.* I'm starting to cobble together a system that will let us get about 300' away from the tripod so as long as we can shoretie within 300 feet of the beach I think I've got a workable system but I'm curious if anybody has any other economical solution.* Obviously if you can steal wifi that's the cheapest solution but there are some ethical and security issues there and regardless of your position on the practice it is becoming more difficult as hardware providers make secure connections easier to set up.