Please can someone recommend a solution to this problem. I have been trying to sort this for months and, with my Mums chemo and hip replacement, I've been very much on her schedule. Now that she is at home, she really wants to be able to log in to the wireless hotspot at the marina where she lives on a house boat. Her main requirement is to pick up this hot spot (Spectrum Marina) into the boat and then repeat the wireless signal within the metal confines of the boat so as to use her laptop or iPad. Everything I have bought so far has not worked and am currently looking at a solution direct from the suppliers (costly and USB only which rules the iPad out without buying something else). Can anyone give me a suggestion that could maybe incorporate any existing gear I have including a 10m Ethernet cable, Linksys Compact Wireless G ver2 router, TP Link Wireless N nano router and a Ubiquiti M2 Bullet. I'm pulling my shoulder hair out here as I have no actual hair left on my bonce. Thanks in advance, Ian
We can get a weak signal on the boat using a usb dongle on the end of a three metre cable. So that's fine for the laptop but doesn't extend the wifi for mobile platforms. Thanks for the quick responses so far!
Could you put something like this outside in a weather proof container http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Universal-Ethernet-Adapter-WNCE2001/dp/B003KPBRRW/ref=pd_bxgy_pc_img_y and a wireless access point inside the boat.
Get yourself an outdoor AP, like the Ubiquiti Bullet2HP add on a decent omni directional antenna and you'll have a solid connection to the marina wifi. It'll give you a wired connection that you can then link into the WAN port of a cable router and connect as many of your own devices to.
