Wi-Fi long-Range usb adaptor.

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AWUS036 NH.
5dB antenna.
This gadget is working well on board,with an Asus eeepc900.Have signal at 63% from 500M.
Has anybody managed to get it to work on Mac or Android yet?
It is difficult to get the PC to maintain a hotspot to feed other devices such as Asus Google Nexus 7 or iPhones.
I did bring a TP-Link TL-MR3020 which is:
3g router mode
WISP Client Router Mode
and AP mode
Enabled.
This latter gadget seems to be aimed at use of a 3G dongle or as a router (WAN/LAN 10/100Mb commonn port)
Any comments gratefully received!
Main problem is how to become all Mac on board, perhaps another make of WI-FI bat might be needed?
 
Are you sane, I didn't understand any of that. We just bought a £40 widget from amazon that we plugged into a mains socket and it works with our iPads perfectly. Our main problem is collecting the access codes from the bars and cafe's.
 
paulclan said:
AWUS036 NH.
5dB antenna.
This gadget is working well on board,with an Asus eeepc900.Have signal at 63% from 500M.
Has anybody managed to get it to work on Mac or Android yet?
It is difficult to get the PC to maintain a hotspot to feed other devices such as Asus Google Nexus 7 or iPhones.
I did bring a TP-Link TL-MR3020 which is:
3g router mode
WISP Client Router Mode
and AP mode
Enabled.
This latter gadget seems to be aimed at use of a 3G dongle or as a router (WAN/LAN 10/100Mb commonn port)
Any comments gratefully received!
Main problem is how to become all Mac on board, perhaps another make of WI-FI bat might be needed?
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They work fine with Macs. You just need the driver. Should be the disk that comes with the Alfa. If not you can download it from here http://www.alfa.com.tw/download.php

I am not sure about the protocol for a router but know that it can be done.
 
Thanks to all who took an interest in this thread so far.When you have already purchased kit, one likes to play with it a bit before going all ebaying again with a somewhat different product.
For the steady Xp users, I have now managed to get the ALPHA booster hooked into the eeepc to ad -hoc bridge connections into the TP-Link TL-MR3020 router on WISP mode.
Great, you say?
Not really,
The Capitanerie setup is a bit like McDonald's;
You need sight of a login page and then auth your connection.
So an error page results if you power on the iPhone, which is perfectly happy with its IP data on wi-Fi except it cannot conect until the netbook auth page is closed.
So no multi-user connects are possible?
The XP bridging was at best cumbersome but now bridges the Capitanerie via the Alpha 036NH booster and the aforementioned router in WISP setting.
What is possible and satisfying, is to use Spotify music site on theiPhone,that audio plugged into the ship's music system(car -radio).
Of course all this messing about means the boat is on the hard.I'd never have the time to spare if sailing!
 
Thanks Matt21 for the Alpha r36 router prompt.When your Alpha USB 036 NH is connected to the router, how does it decide which of many wi-fi SSID's to choose, is that done on the NEXUS 7 by way of a browser (Chrome?).
I have a Nexus 7 which is a bit underutilised except for navigation, due to it not having a driver for the Alpha 036NH.
Paul.
 
Thanks Nortada,
found your post no.35 under WIFI bat, had to enter "range extender" to get anywhere, such is the search engine behaviour!
Looks like a good solution. well done!
 
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