T&T: Fw: WiFi again

[Larry N. Brown]

Hans,

The Kyocera KR-1 doesn't receive wifi; it works off the Verizon cellphone 
data and provides a wifi link. I can best explain this by looking at my 
evolution. Pre-Katrina, I had a Dell desktop at home and a Dell laptop for 
running the Capn navigation program on the boat. Katrina crunched the house 
and we moved aboard sans internet. I went to circuit city and bought the 
Verizon Aircard. Don't remember the price but think it's around $60/month 
all you can eat. Just plug it into the laptop. You're the only user.

Talked to Phil Rosch and bought a WiFi card for the same laptop for if we 
were out of Verizon range ( which we never have been).

Then my wife wanted a laptop of her own. Bought a Gateway which comes with 
built-in WiFi. Cool. I then bought the Kyocera KR-1 which is a router. Take 
the aircard out of the laptop and put it in the KR-1; the KR-1 is a wireless 
WiFi router. I can get on the internet with my laptop(with added WiFi card), 
my wife's laptop (with built-in wifi card) and when my buddy comes down we 
can all surf the internet together from the Verizon data as transmitted by 
wifi.

Now, I brought my Dell desktop down to the boat and I have an ethernet cable 
hooking it to the KR-1 and I've set up a networked office linking all three 
computers. I can sit down in my dinette in the galley and work out all my 
Capn routes and next morning, when I turn on the flybridge laptop, I can 
upload them and get ready to go. I can send the nav data from my Dell laptop 
to my Furuno dedicated chart plotter by hardwired ethernet. Once underway, I 
have two separate GPS  antennas feeding data to two separate displays for 
navigation. If one doesn't exactly mimic the other, I take a look at the 
paper chart and figure out what's the matter.

Once you're working on the KR-1, I con't think there's a limit to the number 
of people logged on; you put a password so only people whom you want can 
logon to the KR-1 wifi.

Hope this clarifies; if not, email me offline. It's really simpler that I 
describe.

Regards,

Larry & Teri Brown
MV Cigano, 47' Prairie Sundeck
Still glued to the dock in Covington, LA






> Regarding the Kyocera box. Do I understand it as this is an access point? 
> OK
> then, can it work as an access point for a city wide WiFi system like we 
> have
> it in Baltimore? And can I then network (wifi) the rest of the boat? And 
> what
> about password if more than one wants to sign on IE I have the subsciption 
> to
> the WiFi but Peggy wants to be on too?
>
> Hans
>
> Aqua Vitae
> 43' Albin Trunk, Now in Anchorage Marina, Baltimore.