I am using Ocensmail with a 3 - 1/2 yr old MacBook Pro, model id 2,2 We run OS 10.6.8. The computer has upgraded to a 500GB hard drive, and has a standard 2.33 MHz CoreDuo processor We have a 4MB L2 Cache with 4 GB of 677mHz DDR2 SDRAM.
THE SOFTWARE WAS DOWNLOADED FROM OCENS WEBSITE less than a month ago, and I had extensive help from their help desk getting my unit working while I was i Eastern Europe over a skype connection on an iPad I also carry from a wifi at a nearby restaurant. It took a bunch of calls to get it working but they were very patient with me. In trying to instal mailasail's satellite hookup it was a mess for me and after 40 minutes they refused to spend time on the phone getting it configured, suggesting that I do it by trial and error with emails to them... At the time we were leaving the only site with email (in Budapest Marina before we were heading futher down the Danube as I wanted it working since I had a dear relative back in the states who had just had a bad setback with terminal cancer and we needed to get the system working. My hat is off to OCENS. Ed Kelly, USSV ANGEL LOUISE (now tied to a restaurant dock in Serbia while we remain back in US on emergency visit) On Monday, August 6, 2012, Jaye Eldridge wrote: > 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]<javascript:;>> > 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. 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