Legacy Go Free App?

[Brian.D]

https://www.putty.org/ Get Putty. It is a great little program.

[CaptTom]

Originally Posted by Dockhead

I would strongly recommend anyone buying a new nav system to check out the situation with that maker's 10-year old gear. Is it still supported? Can you get parts for it? If not -- don't buy it.

That disqualifies Garmin then, too. I don't have any newer Navico stuff, so I don't know which company is worse. I do have some old Furuno gear which is way out of support but they've actually gone out of their way to help out anyway.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by Brian.D

https://www.putty.org/ Get Putty. It is a great little program.

Thanks. But this is secure shell/telnet utility, right? How is that connected with the subject of this post? Are you posting in the thread you intended to?

[Brian.D]

Originally Posted by ohgary

If you know the port number you can test with an extended telnet from a dos prompt

telnet <site> <port number>

If you get a connected the port isnt blocked, If you get a refused then the port is blocked. If you get a timeout then the site cant be reached.

Once your connected your get gibberish if anything but the connected,refused/timeout will help with idenifying the issue.

Depending on the version of windows telnet may/may not be available. YOu might need to install a telnet client...

Originally Posted by Dockhead

Thanks. But this is secure shell/telnet utility, right? How is that connected with the subject of this post? Are you posting in the thread you intended to?

If you note, Ohgary recommended that you test your port with a telnet session. Ohgary also, in the last sentence, stated that if you do not have telnet available, one can use a third party client. Hense... Putty. That is why I recommended Putty. It does a lot of things.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by Brian.D

If you note, Ohgary recommended that you test your port with a telnet session. Ohgary also, in the last sentence, stated that if you do not have telnet available, one can use a third party client. Hense... Putty. That is why I recommended Putty. It does a lot of things.

Makes sense now. Thanks!

[lateral]

My GoFree with Zeus2 won't connect to android but connects to iphone/ipad automatically. Thats with 18.3. update. It was unreliable on 18.2. (for android)
Would putty help with that?