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Stuart Sweet
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· posted in The Solid Signal Blog
When your ship is out to sea, knowing where you're headed is so important. To help you navigate your way across the seas, Solid Signal carries a selection of marine GPS equipment.

A marine GPS system is a must have for any luxury craft and working vessel. These helpful devices keep your boat going in the right direction when your cell phone's GPS cannot. That said, there are many marine GPS units from which to choose. Do you know which one is best for your working vessel or luxury craft? What features do you need? If you're having trouble deciding which marine GPS system is best for you, we can help you. Solid Signal is your source for the best marine GPS, marine navigation gear, and more.

Why Marine GPS?


Because your cellphone GPS will not work out at sea. This is particularly true if you travel far from shore. A cellphone GPS system operates with something called assisted GPS or aGPS. Simply put, it work by triangulating your position between signals from three cell towers. As you know, there are no cell towers at sea. This renders your cellphone's GPS system useless when you're cruising far from shore. Look, you wouldn't go out to sea without a marine radio, right? Well, it's the same concept with your GPS navigation. Only a marine GPS system will get you there and back.

Marine GPS and Navigation from Solid Signal


We carry a wide variety of marine GPS and navigation equipment. It's almost like we have a ton of this stuff! If you're visiting our online inventory for the first time, it might be a bit overwhelming. If you look at our selection of marine GPS systems, we feature 10 product pages filled with various marine GPS units! Our maritime navigation product list reads like a who's who of maritime navigation. We carry products from the following manufacturers:

  • Digital Yacht
  • Furuno
  • Garmin
  • Humminbird
  • Icom
  • KVH
  • Lowrance
  • Maretron
  • Raymarine
  • Rigid Industries
  • Si-Tex
  • Simrad
  • Standard Horizon
  • Vdo

Knowing which brand to choose from is the least of your worries. We carry a huge variety of these devices, each unit with its own set of unique features. For example, some of these marine GPS units have fish finders while others don't. Fortunately, Solid Signal understands that so many choices can be a bit confusing. To address this, we have ways to help you find the right marine GPS and navigation system for your boat.

Call Solid Signal for Your Marine GPS


If you need a marine GPS unit for your boat, just give us a call. Our team of product experts can help you find the best marine GPS unit for you boat. We do this by asking you questions designed to help us make a product recommendation based upon what type of boat you have and which features you need. And if you also need a marine cellular booster system, we can help with that too. While your cell phone isn't a good navigation source out to sea, a cell phone booster can improve calls and data on your boat. Just give us a call at 888-233-7563.

We're Your Source for Marine Satellite TV


Speaking of boats, do you want to add DIRECTV or DISH to your ship or vessel? If so, then Signal Connect is your No. 1 resource. A subsidiary of Solid Signal, Signal Connect is your total solution for marine satellite TV. Our team of satellite experts have delivered programming and equipment to thousands of boat owners across the country. Why? Because they enjoy the many benefits of having Signal Connect as their marine DIRECTV provider, such as:

  • We carry all the top-name marine-grade satellite dishes.
  • We partner with professional satellite dish installers who specialize in marine installations.
  • We quickly activate your DIRECTV or DISH service.
  • You save money by suspending your account during the months you're not using your boat.
  • We serve as your personal account representative throughout the life of your contract. If you need something or have a question, just call us and we'll take care of it.

Whether you own a luxury craft or service vessel, you deserve the best TV programming. With its wide variety of news, sports, and entertainment programming, satellite TV is a great choice for any captain, crew, and guests. If you have any questions about marine satellite TV, call Signal Connect at 888-233-7563. Or, just fill out the form below.


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Scott Greczkowski
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
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98.6 - Keith
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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It's Easy - Boston
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Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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TRG
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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b4pjoe
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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Foxbat
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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dishstaller
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.