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This seems to have turned out a bit waffly, but please bear with it First a bit of background, as i’m just kicking ideas round in my head for a semi-permanent antenna on the boat, and i’ll add that my good lady wife will not suffer a cable through a mushroom or similar so needs to be tidy. Also bear in mind we are leisure boaters, spending the odd week when hols allow and weekends probably every month on board. Currently we are using a Huawei E5573 (bought when we were shareboating for our own use) blu-tacked in a porthole and for 80% of the time this works fine for general internet and streaming for the TV, and when she’s with us, the daughters PC gaming. If this does not work well enough in spotty signal areas, i slip the sim into a Huawei B535 and stick a Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 on the roof with the cable trailing under the cratch and in through the slightly ajar front doors. What i’d like to do now we have our own boat is switch to using the B535 exclusively, but have the antenna removable when we are not onboard. Ideal scenario would be to cut the Poynting’s flex and add suitable connectors to be short enough to go from roof to a cable point in well deck (there’s an existing TV aerial connector box similar to a Maxview Weatherproof Socket i could alter). Have cable following the same route as the TV coax from the welldeck box to a suitably altered wallplate with connectors for the existing coax and the new antenna. And finally patch leads from the wallplate to the B535. Question is, how much signal loss would i be looking at due to adding these connectors? Would it be negligible due to gains made from a shorter cable run? Or would it be horrendous? Hoping this makes sense 🤷‍♂️

How can you "suck" wifi into your boat. The 2 systems I have been able to find are a Kuma wifi repeater(170-00) and Solwise Patriot/3000 Router & Bracket Kit (110-00) Does any one know anything about these products and if so how do they perform