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Accessing the internet from aboard is difficult unless one is willing to spend $10K for hardware and have a large white dome somewhere on the boat; and even then a megabyte of data costs around $10. So the alternative is to get a Wi-Fi extender antenna which allows signals from up to several miles away to be received. I had a Bullet system from Ubiquiti which had begun to fail because I'd used an uncompensated power supply for it, but in 2017 I got a brand new system called the &£8220;Bad Boy&£8221; which I mounted on the backstay. This system has a much simpler front-end than the Bullet and it makes connected to Wi-Fi sources quite easy. I also got a wireless router which lets me connect any computer aboard wirelessly to the external Bad Boy signal.