{"id":16994,"date":"2011-08-06T00:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2011-08-06T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:09:49","slug":"ubnt-directional-wifi-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ubnt-directional-wifi-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"UBNT Directional WiFi Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"_MG_4741.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MG_4741.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MG 4741\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our never ending quest for Internet connectivity we continue to add tools. This is a UBNT high gain directional antenna. It is mounted on our old FollowMeTV single axis tracker. Keith Smith from Towndock.net in Oriental, NC first introduced us to this unit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As long as it is pointed in roughly the right direction it improves performance and reduces the clutter that an omnidirectional high gain antenna produces.<\/p>\n<p>It communicates via an Ethernet cable, and is not the most user friendly hardware\/software combination. So we now have the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UBNT high gain directional Ethernet antenna.<\/li>\n<li>Alpha 36 high gain amp connected to omnidirectional high gain via USB.<\/li>\n<li>Alpha 36 with a short USB cable for direct connection to the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Verizon 3G\/4G modem via USB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of which can be confusing for the older generation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"_MG_4745.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MG_4745.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MG 4745\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter Chris Martin, son of Jaja and Dave, born and raised while cruising, and the best computer whiz we have ever asked to sort out our Internet, file sharing, and general gremlin issues. Chris even has our Furuno black box weather fax talking to the computer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"_MG_4750.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MG_4750.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MG 4750\" width=\"384\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We now have a clear set of instructions and screen shots to consult when we forget how to switch from one source to another, or the Internet sharing between the various computers decides to quit.<\/p>\n<p>The high gain directional UBNT is being used today as we are anchored off the Wooden Boat Building School in Brooklin, Maine. Verizon is too weak to be of use, the omnidirectional doesn&#8217;t get us connected, but UBNT has a great signal. Aside from uploading this blog, we are watching the first IAAC 45 foot cat regatta from Cascais, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>In a later post we will detail this a bit more. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Post Script: The tracker was originally used with a Direct TV satellite dish. It has been idle on our stern since spring of 2008. We did not really expect it to function when we fired it up, but work it does. A good piece of gear.\u00a0http:\/\/www.track-it-tv.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our never ending quest for Internet connectivity we continue to add tools. This is a UBNT high gain directional <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ubnt-directional-wifi-antenna\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}