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WiFi for your Yacht… we’ve got an App for that. We’ve got a Box for that…

10. December 2009 23:23 / Leave a Comment /

Marine – Yachts – Make sure you have a look at:

http://blog.marinetelecom.net/?s=Lightspeed

If you’re looking for a WiFi System to share those WiFi Hotspot Systems that you see in many marinas, yards, and anchorages … we’ve got an App for that. We’ve got a nice Router Box Appliance for that. Make sure you have a look at the above link and also http://www.wifiyacht.net or give me a call.

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom with Bryan Fugett of International Marine Electronics – Presents the Lightspeed – Marine WiFi Bridge/Router System. It can be “jacked in” to your existing onboard network and used as a cost-saving alternative or option among your other Marine Internet Systems onboard. It’s very good at logging onto most Public WiFi Internet Systems (and even private ones with a WEP or WPA code) and routing and sharing that Internet Connectivity onboard to your entire vessel. An existing network can be used, or a new network can be made to support both wired and wireless computers.

That’s what we do :-)

Thanks for looking! Happy Holidays!

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Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

http://www.marinetelecom.net and http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954 683 3426

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

Posted in: WiFi Hotspot and Onboard WiFi Wireless

10. December 2009 23:14 / Leave a Comment /

The following follow-up or comment was just received on my recent article or articles on Windows 7 where related to marine vessels.

(My reply: Absolutely I’ll look into setting you up with a user account to be able to comment here on my blog. I’ve worked with your company before when working onboard motor yachts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – and it has always been a pleasure working with your techs and staff on the telephone. And thanks a whole lot for writing me via email.)

 Hi Alan,

First, can I obtain access to your login to leave comments on your blog?

Second, I enjoyed your article on the marine world upgrading to Window 7 and how in the past it was a very large concern due to compatibility with Hardware on the vessel and running the special software to support those hardware devices. Just wanted to add that we see the same with our installation of equipment on vessel but have noticed an improvement with two satellite owners. With the new generation of the Inmarsat and Iridium terminals (FleetBroadBand and Iridium Open Port) the hardware manufactures are going IP based with web interfaces so no longer does the user have to load a piece of software on the computer to use the equipment. As the hardware is IP based, the operating system does not seem to matter. I also have to support our customer and are already getting calls mostly from the pleasure vessels as to “Can I connect to the internet with my new PC using Windows 7 ?”. As you did, I too have multiple PC’s in the LAB running Win 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 just for the purpose of verifying they work with the new terminals. I have been pleasantly surprised that the new terminals have no problems with these operating systems. Vessels also report that the Windows 7 PC’s seem to be able to quickly adapt to the other peripherals on the vessel such as printers and routers. The larger vessel such as the fishing fleets are very slow to go from something working like XP to the unknown like Vista or Windows 7.

Looking forward to your next articles.

Best regards, Grady

Grady Jeffreys

Technical Specialist

Mackay Communications

3691 Trust Drive

Raleigh, NC 27616

919-850-3041

Visit us online at www.MackaySatellite.com

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Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

http://www.marinetelecom.net and http://www.wifiyacht.net

+1 954-683-3426

communications (at) marinetelecom.net
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Ericsson W35 Holiday Orders Notice: Read! Better get ‘em Now!

10. December 2009 10:28 / Leave a Comment /

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Regarding Ericsson Cellular 3G Mobile Broadband Routers (e.g. Marine Cellular Internet):

Orders will officially be closed from  the 23th of December to the 1st of January.

* So really if anyone wants to get an Ericsson W35 this year … you need to have your order in by Tuesday the 15th (next Tuesday) any much past that and you might not get it until after the 1st of January 2010. Next Friday would definately be your drop dead date. No order by then and it will be over a week to get one.

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Alan Spicer

http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35/

+1 954 683 3426

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

Posted in: Cellular Voice and Internet