The WireAP WiFi hot spot up and running!

We ran the cable from The WireAP WiFi hot spot to a battery connection and got it configured. It seems to work great. 

I liked using our little net book on the top shelf of the nav station with a key board and mouse on the next level.  Only the net book would not get a good WiFi signal there. It runs Windows XP and does all we want. Well not really, it does not have a good enough video card to run movies off the cd player to the LED TV using HDMI. We use my work laptop with Windows 7 for that.

 But this does everything else and probably more than most tablets and yet it is real inexpensive!

 Anyway with the new hot spot we get great WiFi at this location and probably any location around the boat now. It is secure and wireless.

 It takes the marine WiFi and boosts the signal strength. It then provides a spot here at the boat where we can connect to the WiFi. It speeds it up a bit as the connection is better and we do not get dropped connections. It does only get the speed of the original connection. In this case it is a good email and browsing connection but for movie streaming you need to pay a fee for more speed. The marina WiFi speed is free.

We named our network after the boat Elegantsea. We will try an apostrophe next Elegant'sea.

Sea Breeze is a book store about 2-3 miles away, OK maybe not that far over the water or as the seagull flies.

On this pic you can see the scroll bar. The hot spot picks up a lot more networks than with out it.

 The real use will be at anchor in Mexico where there is land based WiFi. This will really help pick up the signal and boost it for us to use.

 We still need to run the cable to a switch etc but we got it working and configured.