25. August 2009 by admin.

Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom is in the process of being set up to be a Cradlepoint Authorized Partner.

Cradlepoint, in case you don’t know, makes Cellular Mobile Broadband Router products - such as the MBR1000 - that handles the newer Cellular Internet Cards that you get when signing up for Mobile Internet from the cellular companies.

Two USB ports and 1 Express Card port for Modem Card connectivity:
USB and Express Card Cellular (laptop style) cards are supported. Many other mobile broadband routers just don’t support these newer style cards.

Cradlepoint also has 802.11n wireless for onboard your vessel, and ethernet CAT5 jacks for wired networking and for expanding your onboard network.

I’ve had a web page for awhile on the MBR1000:

http://www.marinetelecom.net/Cradlepoint-MBR1000.htm

which will get updated soon. Meanwhile if you use multiple cellular Internet cards on your boat - you might want to consider this one. One of the key benefits of the MBR1000 is that you can change cellular carriers (and hence technologies) between AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, etc. … and have it work without having to change your system hardware. Maybe you want to use someone else’s cellular data card temporarily? Maybe you changed carriers (and maybe later changed back? or changed again?) - No problem as long as you use a supported card for the Cradlepoint MBR1000. It should be noted that this does not do cellular voice … if you need voice to analog phones or PBX then please see the Ericsson gear that I sell and support as well.

It has uses for businesses on land as well, and can go mobile with the appropriate power arrangements.

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

communications @ marinetelecom.net

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25. August 2009 by admin.

Cost Saving - Back Up Internet and Voice Telephone for Yachts - means not only the physical hardware systems … but the knowledge in the industry and systems to support their use to provide multiple systems, and cost savings for marine (sail and motor yacht) vessels…

In order to save $$$ on communications costs - Alan Spicer is often called in to implement solutions using multiple technologies in a heterogenous onboard network onboard sail and motor yachts - including those with existing Satellite Communications Systems.

Cellular 3G+ and WiFi Hotspot Sharing Broadband Router systems can be used to give a vessel more options (= choices) in their Voice and Internet Communications.

Often WiFi is available when at anchor or in dock in a marina or yard. WiFi is often free, or pay per (day, week, month, …) and has high bandwidth/speed compared to other Internet Communications methods. Voice over IP can be used for telephone across most Internet Connections to save on roaming charges.

When in your home area (assuming the U.S. for U.S. customers) for cellular it’s often more readily available to use Cellular 3G Internet because you don’t have to search for WiFi Hotspots, or they just may not be available. And Cellular 3G Internet is usually a fixed monthly fee (as long as you watch to not exceed typical 5Gb per month limits.)

Satellite Systems are good for deep blue cruises when you are out of range of cellular and wifi signals. Typical currently used systems are Fleet Broadband (FBB) and Tracphone V7 (Mini-VSAT), as well as some remaining Inmarsat Fleet and Mini-M Systems. Not to mention some Iridium and Globalstar systems. The latter two don’t provide much speed on Internet but can give you voice and fax when nothing else is available.

Alan Spicer assists with Satellite activations and maintenance of related onboard networking, and sells and consults on implementing solutions for cellular and wifi Internet and Voice systems to augment those satellite systems and for cost savings on voice and Internet communications.

Alan Spicer writes yearly consulting and support agreements, which many vessels renew year-after-year because of the excellent support provided.

Thank You!

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

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25. August 2009 by admin.

Please visit http://mobilebroadbandrouter.biz/

Welcome to Mobile Broadband

Router dot Biz

Mobile Broadband Router is a service of http://www.marinetelecom.net.

So what are Mobile Broadband Routers?:

In order to go mobile such a router has to be wireless - other than that they are often similar to home broadband routers used on DSL or Cable Internet. Mobile Broadband Routers work on Cellular 3G Service similar to how your hand cellular phone works.

Some such routers also produce Dial Tone and allow ordinary home style telephone sets to be connected to share Cellular Voice Telephone with 1 or more Telephone Sets or PBX systems. On the Internet side some of them have built-in WiFi Access Points to share the Internet with wireless clients such as laptop computers. They also often have a 4 port switch-hub and obviously the router or “Internet Sharing” functionality built-in - allowing wired computers to take part in a Local Area Network and the Internet as well. This also allows expansion of this Local Area Network to add additional Wireless Access Points (user supplied) to extend the whole thing into more areas

For mobile use in motor vehicles such as RV’s, SUV’s, Buses, Cars, and Trucks - you can often run them off of the vehicle power supply (often 12v battery) and connect an external antenna outside on the vehicle roof top - to provide better signal and range for the system.

These Mobile Broadband Routers are also popular in Marine Mobile environments such as Sail and Motor Yachts - where they can provide Dial-Tone and Cellular Voice to the Boats PBX System as well as 3G Fast Internet to Crew, Owners, and Guests onboard the Vessel.

This web site is under construction - so please have a look at the link above, as well as http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W25 and http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35 for now

Thank You!

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

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25. August 2009 by admin.

Check out:

http://backupvoiceandinternet.com/

Your Internet Connection and your Voice Telephone Service have become critical to business and Home Office. If these services go down you lose money, time, and productivity. Staff ends up working on the clock but can’t get things done because of the lack of Internet and Telephone Communications.

Prevent that from happening by using 3G Cellular Voice and Internet Routers to step up and provide these services when the normal landline services fail. The gear we’re talking about can connect to standard RJ11 telephones and PBX systems - and the Internet part of these units provides an RJ45 (CAT5 or CAT6) network switch hub as well as wireless Access Point functionality. If you use a server or a router that can fail over to a 3G Cellular Router when the Landline fails then you can remain quite nicely operational!

Otherwise we can consult for you on how to inexpensively provide that failover functionality either via manual switching or automatic failover hardware and methods.

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

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25. August 2009 by admin.

Please stop by Boatpile.com (Fort Lauderdale, US/South East) and have a look at my new ad posts on there for Ericsson W35 3G+ Cellular and WiFi Hotspot systems.

You can find them here: http://www.boatpile.com/50/posts/8/

Thank You!

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net

http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

communications @ marinetelecom.net

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25. August 2009 by admin.

The sale continues on the Ericsson W35 Mobile (Cellular 3G+) Mobile Broadband Voice and Internet Router. See pictures and web control panel screen shots here:

http://blog.marinetelecom.net/page/2 (near the bottom of the page.)

$440.00

$     8.00 - MCX to N-Female Radio Pigtail (mates with LMR 400 or other coax cables ending in N-Male Connector.)

$ 25.00 - Shipping to US destinations

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$473.00 total

(Not including external antenna or coax cable run. Call or email for those items.)

* Many customers are upgrading from their Ericsson W25 units - or purchasing new W35 units. They are very flexible mobile Internet Routers working on 10-28vDC allowing installation in Boats/Yachts/Motor Vehicles/Temporary - Work Sites/and Remote Data Acquisition.  Providing dial tone on RJ11 telephone jack for standard telephones or Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems.

* WiFi is becoming HOT at this time … Smart Phones and PDA’s with WiFi Capability are becoming VERY POPULAR. With an Ericsson W35, which provides a WiFi Base Station built-in, you can share the Internet to all of your “i” devices such as iPod Touch, iPhone, and other Smart Phones supporting WiFi. Share Internet with your friends! Share Internet with your Yacht Crew! Share Internet with your automobile passengers!

* Share USB hard disk drives and USB memory sticks via Windows WORKGROUP networking.

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Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

+1 954 683 3426

http://www.marinetelecom.net

http://www.wifiyacht.net

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