Weather for Lowbandwidth/Satphone Users?

[npf1]

mailasail in the UK have a compression service and some weather stuff too.

IMHO, if you need the comprehensive weather stuff, use Ocens (they also have an internet browser/service that strips all the unecessary stuff - see http://www.gmn-usa.com). But if you're weather will be coming by email, use mailasail as it's cheaper.

Both have top notch service and both are normally straighforward to get up and running.

I think Ed Wildgoose (?) who owns mailasail posts on here sometimes too.

 

[estarzinger]

Your sim card/minutes supplier is independent from your compression supplier. They can be the same company but don't need to be. In our case they are not. We use GMN (http://www.globalmarinenet.com/) for our compression but shop around for our minutes if we are buying "prepaid" and use Stratos if we are doing "post-paid".

As I said above, the big three for compression are GMN, UUplus and airmail/sailmail.

GMN is the ocens provider but I am not a big fan of ocens. They want you to pay for the data and I can get it all free elsewhere (saildocs and noaa) with what I consider more flexible user interfaces. So we just use their xgate program and not the ocens product.

Where you can get the cheapest sim cards seems to differ quite a lot year to year. But we usually end up getting them from small companies I had never heard of before, who have a deal on, and have never had any problems.

 

[demonboy]

That's great, and I think it was the answer I was looking for! Off to happy hour. Will return to this tomorrow.

Thanks all.