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Date:Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:41:12 GMT
ThanksGiving
The last few days have been busy. Organizing the boat, working on wifi
extenders for neighbors (and ourself) cooking for Thanksgiving and trying to
stay warm. I fixed a little switch that goes from red to white for the boat
lighting. There was a loose wire so I re-crimped all the wires and put them
into a screw in switch instead of slide on connectors.
I have been working
on wifi extenders/repeaters for the last week. I have been testing the
groove 52 hpn by mikrotik. It seems to be doing well. Bob Stewart at
Island Time PC has all the
configurations and hardware to make everything work! There are many marinas
that are making off the shelf extenders taboo. They repeat the signal with
multiple names and it makes an RF mess if you have everyone doing it. Bob's
method is like the old "bad boy" system that is an AP with a big antenna
into a little wifi router for inside the boat on a private net. So it's not
a "repeater" in the pure sense. And you can improve your speed and signal
at long distances down the dock or even at anchor 1/4 of a mile way.
We locked the cat in the v-berth while we went to thanksgiving dinner and
when we got back she was in the main salon. We don't know how she did it.
Cats are amazing. She might have opened the door. She might have climbed
over the door. She might have found her way into the bilge and out the other
side. We simply don't know how she did it. But I guess that the V-berth is no
longer secure.