Ann, I have the RadioLabs antenna which I bought on the recommendation of a friend. It worked fine for us on Windows, but when we scrapped Windows for Mac OSX, we discovered that Radiolabs did not have the OSX version of the necessary drivers for the antenna chipset. Radiolabs blamed that on the chip manufacturer. They would not intercede on our behalf with their chip supplier, and they offered us no recourse on partial or total refund. (At the time, the website made no mention of the Mac restrictions, but I note they do now.) They are still routinely waaaay behind/slow on supporting Mac users; always two operating system drivers behind. Net: left us with no options. Not a company with acceptable business ethics around their customer relationships. I would not recommend them as a company with which to do business. And in the meantime, (US-only statement) Wi-Fi is an increasingly less attractive connectivity option, anyway, with few open access points and many potential security problems. In todays world, WWAN is a much more consistent, reliable and secure option. If you do local, coastal/near-coastal offshore cruising in the US, go with a 3G/4G solution from one of the major carriers. Ours is Verizon. Works reliably everywhere there's water until you get east of down-east Maine. Jim Peg and Jim Healy aboard Sanctuary Currently at Crisfield, MD Monk 36 Hull #132 MMSI #367042570 AGLCA #3767 MTOA #3436

> And in the meantime, (US-only statement) Wi-Fi is an increasingly > less attractive connectivity option, anyway, with few open access > points and many potential security problems. In today's world, WWAN > is a much more consistent, reliable and secure option. If you do > local, coastal/near-coastal offshore cruising in the US, go with a > 3G/4G solution from one of the major carriers. Add Canada to that. I have not used a public wi-fi for over a year -- too problematic and risky unless using a VPN. I use the portable wi-fi hotspot feature on my Android phone and/or my Galaxy Tab to share the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) 3 or 4G data plans with my other devices, like this laptop I am writing on now in my home marina. This marina has free wi-fi, but I have never tried it. I use Pay-as-you-go from Bell and from Koodo since Koodo charges the same $10/GB regardless of usage and allows tethering in their terms of service. Bell charges $7/GB in 5 GB chunks on PAYG and you can set the chunks to auto-renew or just run out and stop, but if on the Flex Plan, once 5 GB is hit in a month, data continues, but the cost escalates. Coverage is reasonably good, but there are less populated places where signals are weak or non-existent unless you run the phone up the mast on a spare halyard while anchored (haven't tried that). Of course there won't be wi-fi there either. If your phone or tablet is unlocked or you can unlock it (Google your device, carrier and "unlock code") you can usually just get a SIM card and sign up for a plan for free or a nominal cost. I typically watch an hour of Netflix a day and the cost is low since I set my quality selection in my Netflix account to "good" -- the lowest data usage option. (Note: I read somewhere that in the Land of the Free unlocking may now be illegal. Not sure).