On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:33:39PM -0400, Stephen Petri wrote: > Not sure if any of you follow the PANBO marine electronics blog, > www.panbo.com/, but this Marine Wi-Fi AP was featured. Pretty cool beans. > > http://www.thewirie.com/marine-wifi-product-AP.html
Lots of misleading fluff there, at least on the comparison chart. Personally, I wouldn't want to give money to somebody who has to lie about other people's products to hype their own... but whatever. :) IslandTimePC's WiFi is $255 with shipping included, not $289 (against the Wirie's $350 - shipping _not_ included.) It is also 1000mW as compared to the Wirie's 500mW. The worst part is, the Wirie is a USB cable (which they hype as "single cable installation!") - this means that you have to have very expensive and highly unreliable (I've gone this route before) USB "extenders" - at something like $40 every 16', up to a max of 80'. These also cannot be run up the mast due to the very large bulges of the in-line amplifiers. The IslandTimePC WiFi uses Ethernet cabling - dirt cheap, and essentially of unlimited length for boating purposes. It's also much hardier than USB cable. So, much hype, and a much lower quality product. If you want a USB setup like this, you can have it - a much better one, actually - for about 1/15th of the price. Just search for an Alfa AWUS036H; this is what all the geocaching folks use, and it's somewhere in the $25 range these days. http://rokland.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=294 (Disclaimer: Nope, don't own any stock in Island Time. Just a very, very satisfied customer, with a lot of respect for an excellently-designed product - and much thanks to Skip who recommended it to me in the first place.) Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
