September 1, 2006 20:03
We visited the Port Networks office since they are right here in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A tech guy demonstrated their products and answered all our questions. Ended up buying a MWB-200 with the 12 volt Power over Ethernet injector for $399. Set it up this afternoon and we're getting all kinds of signals that the mac wouldn't pick up before. It is a small, seailed box that can be mounted on the deck and only the Cat5 ethernet cable needs to run to it. Since we're still "enjoying" the remnants of TS Ernesto here we haven't even put it outside and we're getting good signal. The unit is platform agnostic and we tried it with both our 17" powerbook and the Toshiba Satellite. The configuration utility didn't like Safari, but it worked fine with Firefox. There is a 30 Money Back Guarantee, so we'll try it out around the bay for a few weeks. Can upgrade the antenna if needed, but so far, so good.
Mark
Mark