![]() ![]() We recently started using the booster again to connect to the marina’s WiFi and are now able to pick up and connect a lot easier. With our dock filling up with the larger boats (one with a tuna tower) they were blocking us from the marina antenna on top of the building. This is where our WiFi booster has come handy. Before we would always be able to connect, we might get dropped from the signal from time to time, but we could always connect and reconnect. In the last couple of months, our dock has filled up with several large boats that are all full-time liveaboards. Since these new boats arrived, we noticed we had issues getting connected directly to the marina WiFi. We are now located on the face dock in the marina on the farthest outside slip possible. We still have some issues with getting that service connection out to the outer docks and many times folks on the outer docks complain about getting dropped all the time. Since I wrote that last post, Snook Bight has installed Comcast internet service which is a much better service and faster than our previous one. ![]() Basically, we just stopped using the booster all together. As a result, we stopped using the booster and just went back to trying to connect directly to the marina. We were frustrated that we spent money on the WiFi booster antenna and didn’t really get the results we expected. If the marina WiFi is terribly slow or down all the time, there’s nothing there to boost. I didn’t understand that the booster is there to help with connectivity, not miraculously make the internet service provider better. Frustrated with not being able to work at times and using up a lot of data, I was expecting to all of a sudden have great, blazing fast, always-connected internet access by using the newly installed booster. It was always down, and when it was up it was terribly slow and intermittent. I’m just going to give my thoughts on how I perceived it was supposed to work and how it is working for us now.īack when we installed the WiFi booster, our marina had terrible internet service. This post isn’t going to go into the technical details of how these WiFi booster units work because, frankly, it’s a little over my head. I think it was my misunderstanding of how it was supposed to work. I never really knew how to answer the question because I honestly didn’t know if it was working or not. We’ve been asked many times by folks how it is working and if it solves the age-old issue of getting decent internet access in a marina. I wrote a post a few years back about how we purchased and installed a marine WiFi booster from Island Time PC. This is a follow up to a post I wrote in February 2013, “Installing a WiFi booster antenna” ![]()
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