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There is an article appearing in today's New York Times about some relatively new technology that can turn your 3G wireless connection into a WiFi "hot spot" - looks like the answer for some of you who have multiple wireless stations on your boats. Warning: if you're not already a subscriber to the New York Times, you'll have to fill in a brief form, but it is free and you can then get your daily news online by email or by logging on to their web site, if you wish. Here's the URL to the article: http://tinyurl.com/r4zrk and a quote from the beginning of the article: -------------------------------- YOU know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel. Instead, you'd travel with a little box. Plug it into a power outlet  or even your car's cigarette lighter  and boom, you and everyone within 200 feet could get onto the Internet at high speed, without wires. Actually, such boxes exist. They come from companies like Kyocera, Junxion and Top Global, and they're every bit as awesome as they sound. (Unfortunately, the category is so new that it has no agreed-upon name. "Portable hot spot" is descriptive but unwieldy. "Cellular gateway" is a bit cryptic. Kyocera's term, "mobile router," may be as good as any.) Before you start thinking that you've died and gone to Internet heaven, however, you should know that these boxes don't work alone. Each requires the insertion of a PC laptop card provided by a cellular carrier like Verizon, Sprint or Cingular. The card provides the Internet connection, courtesy of those companies' 3G ("third generation") high-speed cellular data networks. The box just rebroadcasts that connection as a Wi-Fi signal so that all nearby computers  not just one privileged laptop  can go online. With those PC cards, you can go online anywhere there's a cellular signal: in a taxi, on a bus, in a waiting room or wherever. In major cities, the speed is delightful, like a D.S.L. or slowish cable modem (400 to 700 kilobits a second). In other areas, you can still go online, but only slightly faster than with a dial-up modem. (Also note that uploading is far slower than downloading.) -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>Mozilla Thunderbird<><><><><><><><><><><><> Bob McLeran and Judy Young Manatee Cove Marina M/V Sanderling Patrick Air Force Base Hampton 35 Trawler Melbourne, Florida