WiFi is very nice to have on board. It's what makes all the difference as to being able to communicate with friends and family, and for me at least, to do some work from the boat.

We've had a NanoStation2 wifi amplifying antenna since a bit more than a year now and as with many technical convveniences, you don't realize just how dependent you are until they break or fail. A couple od days ago, the converter from 230 V to 12 V burnt and hence the unit didn't work and I had to sit outside the public library to get wifi signal. Not fun at all.

So after getting som technical support from friends on sailfar.net in particular I took to mending the unit yesterday.

After a lot of thinking, trying to remember whatever I learnt in elctricity/electronics back i school 30 years ago, I gathered the courage to solder a 12 V bridge pass the fried 230 V power input and thus powered the unit directly from the ship's mains which is an advantage obviously compared to working over an inverter.

Much to my surprise (!?) it actually worked, and I m now happily uploading this blogpost from the boat again.

As an aside, the technical mannual for the NS2 on their website states thatit works on anythng between 12-24 V DC so no problem.