What type of iPad is required

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by CassidyNZ

Who needs a network to see where weather is coming from? I have Iridium Go! to download GRIBs to PredictWind on my iPad. Yes, that is a wireless connection but it’s hardly a network.

It’s two networks really. The uplink quite elaborate actually, with a constellation of low orbit satellites covering all of the planet’s surface, then an wireless Ethernet which was deemed impossible just 30 years ago.

You can’t have weather without networks. Even the weather guy you hear behind the noise on HF is using networks to get his info

[CassidyNZ]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

It’s two networks really. The uplink quite elaborate actually, with a constellation of low orbit satellites covering all of the planet’s surface, then an wireless Ethernet which was deemed impossible just 30 years ago.

You can’t have weather without networks. Even the weather guy you hear behind the noise on HF is using networks to get his info

A constellation of satellites doesn’t constitute a network on my boat which is what is under discussion here. My probably Luddite (as you would call it) opinion is that two devices (Iridium Go and iPad) talking to each other does not qualify as a “network”.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by CassidyNZ

A constellation of satellites doesn’t constitute a network on my boat which is what is under discussion here. My probably Luddite (as you would call it) opinion is that two devices (Iridium Go and iPad) talking to each other does not qualify as a “network”.

Your Iridium Go, when it establishes a satellite uplink, is part of that satellite network.

Your Iridium Go, when directly linked to your iPad, is a normal IP network. You can actually link multiple devices to the Go which is acting as a wifi access point

so you have not one but two networks running to get your weather

[CassidyNZ]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Your Iridium Go, when it establishes a satellite uplink, is part of that satellite network.

Your Iridium Go, when directly linked to your iPad, is a normal IP network. You can actually link multiple devices to the Go which is acting as a wifi access point

so you have not one but two networks running to get your weather

Which part of this is presenting you with difficulty?

Two devices talking to one another is not a network, it is a wireless connection, a network implies multiple devices, not two.

The satellite constellation is not on my boat - it is somewhere else. This discussion is about networks on the boat, not 200 miles above the boat.

Yes I can “actually link multiple devices to the Go” but I choose not to, the very point of the discussion.

There is another “network” that I make use of. It’s called GPS. But it’s not on my boat. It’s also hundreds of miles above me. I just connect one device to it. Not a network on my boat.

My AIS is able to communicate with hundreds of other vessels. They are out there. A network probably but it is not on my boat.

My EPIRB is able to communicate with SAR agencies around the world. But they are not on my boat. This is not my network. It is up there in the sky.

Geez. I don’t even know how to make this sound complicated.

[Snore]

Originally Posted by CassidyNZ

Which part of this is presenting you with difficulty?

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Geez. I don’t even know how to make this sound complicated.

Wow! That post tells a lot about you and how you run a boat.

So do you have a hard time keeping crew around?

[Simi 60]

What type of iPad is required

No ipad is required
Android for a fraction of the price will work just as well

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

What type of iPad is required

No ipad is required
Android for a fraction of the price will work just as well

That's not what Siri tells me

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by CassidyNZ

NETWORKS?
I dont need no stinking networks..

I too prefer the Admiral Adama approach to electronics.

https://thediplomat.com/2013/05/what...tar-galactica/

[Macblaze]

Originally Posted by CassidyNZ

Which part of this is presenting you with difficulty?

Two devices talking to one another is not a network, it is a wireless connection, a network implies multiple devices, not two.

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Geez. I don’t even know how to make this sound complicated.

Soooo... as an analogy, if my vehicular transport corridor only connects my house and my guest house it's not a road right? A driveway then... But no, drat, a driveway connects a house to the road network so that's not it. It's a pathway. Big enough for cars to pass both ways. But definitely not a road because it doesn't connect to the road network...

Are you sure this isn't complicated?