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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 11/04/2004 : 18:51:42

Getting to the FLL airport to ride home (not working) and after hearing that you are seriously delayed you open the laptop to read the local notices to mariners you have downloaded and your computer greets you with the announcement that the President's Club WIFI is leaking through the wall and that we are surfing USA....free! (for the next two hours)

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618)

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 18:58:54

What does it normally cost you, Oscar?
Derek

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 19:21:27

Usually they want $10.00 or so per 24 hours, I'm never anywhere that long, it hurts to pay that much. I do have access to my acellerated dial up nationwide where there's a phone.........I don't subscribe to any monthly WIFI service. So far, between Rio and Oslo I've run into a plethora of services, each cover this or that country or hotel chain or what have you.....none of them reciprocate. I'm not in the same company's coverage enough to justify buying any single one......I'm going to have to wait untill someone covers at least the whole US, possibly more. In ten years it will all be a non issue.....meanwhile I enjoy finding the freebee's...

Hah! Low battery, plugged into a pillar...now I'm running on their juice too!

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618)

Edited by - Oscar on 11/04/2004 19:28:59

JimB517
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 20:16:46

Funny, I hate hanging out around airports but I could sit at the docks and watch ships all day.....

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roberoo
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 20:58:01

WiFi at marina+Office within 2 minute walk+early summer hours = Geek heaven

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 21:37:10

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 Funny, I hate hanging out around airports but I could sit at the docks and watch ships all day.....
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By boss is a private pilot (I've even flew with him once - he took me for a flight over my marina

) so he loves to watch the planes when we're at the airport

. We went to a conference in Chicago this summer & he was so excited that could see the planes coming in to land at O'Hare from his room - they were stacked up one after another on something like 4 runways (really, really close together

). He's got the same enthusiasm for flying as we have for sailing (except that he can't afford his own plane). Actually, it makes for good conversation & he frequently pulls out his arial map so I can show him where I sailed.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 22:39:29

Home office in condo, wireless router, boat slip 100' away... Think it'll work? I'll let you know next summer. (If not, it'll work on the deck overlooking the river.)

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Waterboy
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Response Posted - 11/04/2004 : 22:58:45

You go Oscar - they should give you the WiFi for free tho IMO

Dave - put the home router (w/antenna) in a window so the antenna is visible to the boat ... and put the boat's WiFi antenna on your, uhm *cough* radar arch - should work.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 07:12:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">really, really close together<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

A Chicago specialty......They are probably one of the better run airports in the nation....

Oscar
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 10:30:01

I spent 11 hours in the Atlanta airport yesterday and they have "recharge" stations for folks to plug in and work on their laptops but there is no online access at the stations. You still have to pay a fortune at the commercial Laptop Lane vendor.

The good news is that I got $800 in Delta vouchers and 2 restaurant meal vouchers for volunteering to be bumped, twice.

Steve

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 14:17:44

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
 Home office in condo, wireless router, boat slip 100' away... Think it'll work? I'll let you know next summer. (If not, it'll work on the deck overlooking the river.)
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Yesterday I got my second AirPort base station, the new ones offer a neat trick. You plug your stereo into it and then you stereo plays all the music on your computer. Anyway, the reason I got it was to extend my WIFI at home. My laptop was loosing signal, now it has max power and the second base station is further away from the host base station that the laptop is. SO, Dave; you can get signal out to the boat, $119 hop.

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Waterboy
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 15:44:56

I use a similar item to watch movies on our laptop on the boat (if I recall AirPort is the McIntosh wireless setup trade name). This is just a little FM transmitter that plugs into ANYTHING with a mini headphone jack audio plug outlet. It transmits a weak FM signal on one of 6 or so frequencies at the end of the FM spectrum, and you can play the audio on any FM radio or stereo. We pop a DVD in the laptop and listen to the soundtrack on the stereo - wireless, handy, nifty, clever, and about $40. I'll try to track down the brand name if anyone is interested.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 11/05/2004 : 15:50:30

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Waterboy
 I use a similar item to watch movies on our laptop on the boat (if I recall AirPort is the McIntosh wireless setup trade name). This is just a little FM transmitter that plugs into ANYTHING with a mini headphone jack audio plug outlet. It transmits a weak FM signal on one of 6 or so frequencies at the end of the FM spectrum, and you can play the audio on any FM radio or stereo. We pop a DVD in the laptop and listen to the soundtrack on the stereo - wireless, handy, nifty, clever, and about $40. I'll try to track down the brand name if anyone is interested.
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Belken has one for the iPod and others.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 11/06/2004 : 08:36:37

Ramsey, the kit people, have a FM stereo transmitter that pumps out .5 watts....(you have to solder it together, about 125 pieces and a board.....) I have my entire cd collection on an external HD, (120gig, about 400 cd's on there with room for 700 or so more...) this runs off i-tunes on the pewter, random mode, into the stereo and on the air....
All my favorite tunes all day, NO TALK.....all over the house and the yard....(actually down to the street corner.....)

Only problem is when someone like say, Frank Zappa, starts getting "creative" and you're in the shower and the Admiral complains about the "content"....

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618)

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