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Anyone know the best way on getting wifi on a narrowboat?
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A lamp, and our wifi router is all that's been on today. Everything else is 12 volt! -
A glance on google reveals very few options. SONOS have a device called a boost that looks like it runs on 5 volts so you could get a small step down transformer to run it from 12v. Other than that wifi boosters seem to all plug direct into 240v sockets. My Huawei b535 has very powerful wifi.....I get a signal outside at the very stern of the boat even though the router is at the front of the boat, inside a steel cabin!
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What I have noticed over the last few years my satellite Tv equipment has dropped away because having internet/ WiFi not only give you Tv options so you won’t need an aerial or a satellite dish, but the internet/WiFi route allows you to do much more eg social media, banking, Utube, Netflix but it’s all dependent on the network sim your using and the location have decent equipment helps as well.
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WPA is an older, less secure, method of encryption so enabling WPA/WPA2 reduces the encryption level and would allow an older device that does not support WPA2 encryption but makes your WiFi easier to hack.
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Yes, it surprises me when I see folk using satellite dishes when wifi is so available, but I guess there must be some instances where/when they are an advantage? or no?
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And those who work from their boat who need to be in one location for wifi etc and obviously can't move every day and can only move on a weekend?
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With a WiFi connection and the eWELink app you can read the data from anywhere
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But the OP wanted something simple that can store to a memory card. Blink cameras need wifi (and potentially a subscription), not ideal on a mooring with limited power options.
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I can do repeated speeed tests alternating between phone and PC and the phone is always slower. Ookla says the phone is connected to our wifi (Vodaphone) rather than its own mobile O2 signal. The (old) iPad is even slower than the iPhone and that is wifi only, it does not have 3G. I think its an Apple issue. It would be interesting to test an Android phone. The Teletonica only supports 2.4GHz which suits me as that is fast enough and we need the better range. There are a few people asking the same question on the www but not getting a sensible answer.
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Thanks, I just need something simple to install that gives me a rough idea of how much mains is being used while I'm onboard. I don't need it to have WiFi or whatever. I'm have a look on eBay for something cheap.
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The Kobo connrcted to the house wifi fine until this week. Now it wants the password, but ignores it and won't connect. Apparently Kobo use a very cheap and nasty wifi chip, and it's all based on a very old android version. It says it wants a WPA/WPA2 password - I assume this is the one everything else (eg Sky box) uses to connect? I changed a router setting from WPA2 to WPA/WPA2 and now it works. The connection is better on the tablet too. If someone out there can tell me why I'd be grateful! I was an early adopter of all things computerised, internetty and then webby, but have now been well left behind.
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Yes it's not a boat specific thing I also get it in the van. It can be cured by changing the name on the WiFi as you leave but there are devices reliant on the WiFi and I CBA to change them as well. -
We got the lower tech Teletonika router as its "always on" and I read somewhere that the new higher spec one uses more power. We need wifi right through the boat (sofa at the frint and bed in the back cabin) so I assume that 2.4G is the better option. Maybe I should have got the better one and put the PC on 5 and the Apple stuff on 2.4 (if that is even possible). There does appear to a bit of a pecking order when two or more devices share WiFi and the Windows PC always comes out on top., but even with the PC off the Apple stuff does not match the speed of the PC
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All devices like this actually run from DC which sometimes comes from a wall wart PSU plugged into the mains, in this case it's perfectly possible to power them from a DC-DC converter with the right voltage (often 12V). That's exactly what I've done with my router on the boat. These might work... https://www.currys.co.uk/products/tplink-tlwa801n-wifi-access-point-n300-single-band-10212693.html https://www.currys.co.uk/products/netgear-nighthawk-x6-ex7700100uks-wifi-range-extender-ac-2200-triband-10189971.html But if they're physically built into a mains plug together with the PSU -- as many are -- you're screwed... 😞
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Yes Wifi "on" on mobile but iPad wifi "on" but "not connected"
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The automatic is probably your phone 4g data network not your WiFi connection. For WiFi, swipe down from the top of the screen and click on the WiFi symbol , then click on the name of your mifi device and you will be prompted for the password. If your mifi name doesn't show, click Add network and you should get a screen that asks for name (ssid) and password.
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Only if the system isn't set up properly🤔 Our areas don't overlap one is upstairs at one end of the house the other downstairs at the opposite end so even with different SSID switching happens as you reach the bottom of the stairs. If I go into the garage or workshop it switches back to the upstairs network as it's immediately overhead. The third one is generally not used apart from the two smart TV. Plus all the AP are fed with cat6, there is no WiFi back haul which speeds things up a lot. Using one SSID requires WiFi 6 and unless all your devices are less than 12 months old they may well nor support it. Plus I'm not about to spend money on new tech when I have a system that works just as well.
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Are you saying that the iPhone, when connected to the same wifi network as (for example) a laptop computer, gives much worse speed test results? It would seem odd, but maybe an explanation is that some networks throttle or disallow speed tests (it is quite network-heavy), maybe with their "network traffic rule" coming into play after say 500mb or so of data is through - so it could make sense that a 2nd, 3rd etc test is much slower than the first. If its mobile network, not wifi, then was the iPhone inside the boat? I have noticed sometimes the "faraday cage" effect absolutely hammers a mobile phone's performance, while other times its completely unaffected - I can only assume this is due to the frequencies used. Having it by a window can help too.
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Yes one of these: Three Mobile Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband 24 GB data SIM https://amzn.eu/d/aN5JUzz It won't use that much so this should last 2 years. It could run on WiFi if there is one present.
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One thing I have noticed with Google maps is that if you stay somewhere for a while it positions your WiFi at that place so every day of my trip started at the marina it would take about 4 days until it realised that my WiFi wasn't there. Something to be aware of 😉
