To amplify the last post: What you want is a VPN setup. What a VPN does in simple terms is encrypt the traffic flowing through the wifi connection and route it through the VPN server on the way to and from the internet. This means if you connect to the Dr Evil and KGB Associates wifi access point they won't be able to read your traffic. I hardly use wifi anymore on the boat, I have unlimited data on my phone. I really only mess with it when it has a very good signal or the phone data won't work.
Joe Coquina (this email went through a VPN) From: Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:32 AM To: Stus-List <[email protected]> Cc: Marek Dziedzic <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Wifi antenna at top of mast Re 2. Almost regardless of what you use, such system has to be two-part: one connecting to the far away network and one providing a local connection for your devices. This will be a bridge or a router (better). Most likely, a single device comprising both radios and the "network stuff" (bridge or router) with an external antenna (at the top of the mast). A word of caution: connecting to some far-away wireless networks is frought with problems (risks). You never know to whom you are connecting and either you steal from some poorly protected personal network, or you connect to a public Wi-Fi. Either way, you are an easy target. A robust network security solution on your end is highly recommended (if not a must). Marek Sent from my Android-based can on a string
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