[rescue] Poor Man's WiFi extender

[David P Harris]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>velociraptor wrote ...
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>>I know some folks were talking about ways to extend Wi-Fi, I found
>>this interesting site:
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>>http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/
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>FWIW, we're able to connect to WiFi access points on the other side of Puget
>Sound (about 8 miles) with a home-made "bi-quad" antenna fed from a normal
>WiFi card in a laptop.  At one time I contemplated using that for general
>'net connectivity, but large ships interrupt the connection.
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>We can also connect across the water with a high-power WiFi card equipped
>with external antennas, from the bar in my office.  The ships interrupt
>that, too.
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>Once, the interrupting ship was a Princess cruise liner, and we were able to
>get a login screen from their onboard "pay by the day" hotspot.
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>Lounging on the deck, connecting to passing cruise ships is a fun
>fair-weather sport.  We call it "war-sitting."
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>-Shel
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Can't you just have two connections, so when one goes down , the other 
continues to work? 
David