What version of the Mac OS are you using? Lion or something earlier? your experience with the Ocens mail sounds radically different than mine…
On Aug 5, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Ed Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > We have used OCENS Satellite phone & email service and think they are tops. > > We bought an Iridium 9555 Satellite phone, and also a stubby antenna > we mounted externally and also a small Docking Station to keep the > phone in that runs off of 12 volts at our inside steering station. > > We have (except for a couple test calls) always used the phone just > for email. We installed it in April of 2011 just before our 38 sea > days, going from Brunswick GA to Falmouth England in 2011. WORKED > LIKE A CHARM. > > We used the version of the software for MAC computers and it worked > well. They spent time holding hands this July till I got it set up all > over again from Serbia on the internet over SKYPE after I had removed > prior software they had supplied. They are great at support, which I > cannot say for others, as I found other service wanting and the > principals at their competitors not interested in doing anything but > selling you time and suggesting you just email them questions you have > in setting it up. The competitors tried to give support with online > videos, but they were not helpful. We switched back to OCENS because > of this. > > All emails are batched so that you compose them offline, and then when > you log onto the mail program it compresses all outgoing and incoming > messages. We would typically send as many as 8 simple email messages > of text only in .7 or .8 of a second. This made it truly economical. > > Most recently we have taken ANGEL LOUISE, across the North Sea to > Holland, for travel up the RHEIN RIVER and then by canal to the > DANUBE, where we have been going downstream to join the BLACK SEA, > with plans to spend next winter on the Asian coast of Turkey. > Presently we have the boat in BELGRADE. > > Anyway, we thought we would switch services to an English Satellite > company (Mailasail) that serves many of the folks doing the Atlantic > Rallye for Cruisers from the Canaries to St Lucia every year. We > found the service not on a par, and the compression a joke compared to > OCENS. After spending 50 minutes of precious Satellite time and doing > just a few emails, we decided the savings from the compression of > OCENS made their service far more economical in the long run. We have > been using the Satellite phone from Central and Eastern Europe. I have > heard good reports on the services with the Iridium equipment > worldwide. > > If you have any specific questions, please advise. > > Ed and Sue Kelly... USSV ANGEL LOUISE > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:50 AM, john sexton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does anyone here have any experience with the OCENS mail-satellite phone >> email service? I have a friend traveling to a remote location in Africa who >> would like a review and your thoughts. Thanks, >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Liveaboard mailing list >> [email protected] >> To adjust your membership settings over the web >> http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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 > > > > -- > Ed Kelly > sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m > > US Skype phone #: 202-657-6357 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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
