I want to mount a WiFi receiver on a boat so I can pick up city

>>57408935
How can you post if Google is broken?

Dumshit....

You can't catch WiFi signals from a kilometer away. They are not designed to transmit that far. Any residual signal you might get is useless

>>57410159
If the signal is half as strong, just catch signal with twice as large an area.

>>57410214
the signal is far less than half as strong

>>57408935
>so I can pick up city networks from kilometres away
That's nice but they don't transmit that far, even if you make your receiver powerful enough to transmit to them.

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>>57410613
>>57410626

>>57410613
They call it windy Wellington for a reason.

>>57410613
That's one reason why I want a large receiver, and not a small receiver with a dish.
Although the wind in Wellington has been weak of late, and the real reason is because a large dish would be hard to get.

Why not just get a decent 4g plan and set that up on the boat?
Surely a lot less hassle and probably faster as well?

http://www.outsideourbubble.com/secure-private-rv-wi-fi-and-making-a-better-park-connection-for-under-100

>>57410738
I'm not made of money, it's multiple dollars a gigabyte for mobile data.

>>57410770
That's using small devices to boost a tiny range to a short range.
I'm wanting to construct a large device to get a huge range.

>>57410613
What if op does a dish to send from the city and a dish to receive on the boat?

>pick up city networks from kilometres away
That's not how attenuation works

>>57410807
Sure let me just rent a room in every city I pass

>>57410214
Power drops of as an inverse square function of the distance, 1/r^2

>>57411501
And a typical WiFi antenna is tiny.
Getting 2500 times the receptiveness for 50 times the range isn't entirely unrealistic, if you can find a cheap way to lengthen an antenna.

50 times the range would give you internet access 20-30 kilometres out to sea in Wellington.