We have internet access virtually any place there is any, including, on our way south last fall, 6 miles offshore NJ under sail, and, now, in Georgetown where others who had supposed killer setups couldn't find any, we have three to choose from beyond the pay services.
Drop bob stewart (Hi, Bob!) a line after you look at his islandtimepc.com. It's his setup I have, as well as his 12V computer, built into my nav station bulkhead... L8R Skip and crew ----- Original Message ----- From: "'bella" <[email protected]> To: "Ed Kelly" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:08 PM Subject: [Liveaboard] email and web servers > Morning everyone....I just thought I would toss this out... a few yrs > back.. I was cruising.. facing the same waaaaaaay to much mail > on my server to download via winmail or whatever it is called via the > SSB or wifi if i could find one.. we did not have an antenna on the > boat.. > I sat down one morning on the sock outside a place and got me a yahoo > account for my lists that i liked to read.. then later got a Gmail > account.. > the pluss is that anyplace I go, I can access my email.. it is all on > servers and not on my laptop... if there is anything I want to truly > save.. I can cut and paste it to a file. > Even better is that I have stopped seeing spam and attempts to hit me > with a virus via email. > I prefer to send photos via yahoo..they come out full size.. gmail > automatically resizes them to thumbnails that don't resize for my > aging eyes... > > I have some freinds who have some awesome WIFI antenna setups on thier > boats... let me see if I can get a url or two for them... > > Air Cards CONUS are great..simplhy fantastic... once you leaeve CONUS > then you are sol...it is WIFI.... > > www.caribwx.com is a good site.....this is the forecast page for the > caribean...usvi and points south.. http://www.caribwx.com/latest.html > > fair winds to all... > 'b. > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
