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hi everyone jeff cote here with

boatingtechtalk.com

uh here we have a product box

opening and i'm sort of excited

voila yes uh

this is a kvh's latest v1

lte range mobile internet a lot of big

words here

many of us not all of us but many of us

would like to have connectivity

on our boats while we are doing coastal

cruising

and we do it for various reasons no

judging you know some people

like to surf the internet some people

want to download netflix some people

need to get an email so they can respond

to an email and keep cruising

you know what the reasons are many and

some of us don't need it at all this is

not a video about if you need it or not

this is a question that's a question for

you to answer

um this video is about a product that

many of us are looking for how do we get

better connectivity

to a cellular network and this is

important this is not satellite right

from kvh because kvh does absolutely do

satellite

connectivity and communications both for

sat tv and for satcom

this is separate this is actually kvh is

sort of foray into

cellular connectivity uh for some of us

that are within you know

close to cell towers and a lot of us on

the coast

even here in british columbia washington

state

are sometimes just too far away from a

cell tower to have a really good

connectivity on our phones

so the purpose of this device is it

actually has believe it or not a sim

card inside and we'll look at that

and so you're actually terminating a

cellular connection

within this device and what that means

is that you can then start

propagating that signal not as a cell

signal but as

actually as a data signal over ethernet

inside the boat if you want and that's

the trick

is having really good high gain antennas

outside

above as high as possible converting

that cell signal

and then converting it to data signal

that you can actually propagate within

the boat

so um i have to say this is a sort of

new product that just got released and

we're actually excited and this is

actually going to go on my sailboat

that's right

that's the perk of the job getting to

try new things and i can't wait

um connectivity is pretty important i

work

every day and so this is a way for me

even on the water to have connectivity

all right so what we're going to do is

we're going to start opening this box a

little bit so

it might eclipse the sun here okay

so i'm gonna open this up a little bit

first thing that you see is the manual

front and center

right here so we'll take that away

and we'll put it off side and we'll have

a look a little bit later

the next thing that we're going to take

out and it's hard to see is sort of like

all the different sort of connectors and

stuff like that we'll take that away

we'll put that off to the side as well

and now you can see the dome

inside this box

again i have to say well protected which

is really good

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all right and now you can even see the

handles to lift us out so what we're

going to do is because i'm going to hit

the camera this is simply too big

i'm going to move this off to the side

and suddenly we're gonna have

uh the just the dome right on the table

okay

so bear with me as i do that all right

we did it

we totally did it honestly

boating is like being a kid at christmas

it just never stops giving

i love it absolutely love it

um all right look at this

i'm not even sure okay slowly nice and

sure

yeah okay got it intuitive you got to

like that

i was like how the hell am i going to

open this figure it up

all right again notice i mean

the amount of cardboard on these it's

incredible

um this is expensive right this is not

you know

a uh this is an incredible solution

so i'm removing the cardboard

and i'm gonna take away the wrapper this

is the first time i've ever opened this

box

uh for some of you here that are

watching i've i literally this is gonna

go on my boat and this is the first time

for me to open it

you can see i can't even control my sort

of happiness

connectivity while on the water mix

uh my two pleasures of life boating and

working i know it sounds silly but i do

love my job

i get to do this for a living this is

pretty neat so this is

actually not that heavy um it's

reasonably i i don't know how much i'd

say but maybe about 10 pounds so this is

going to be installed

you know maybe on a radar pole at the

back of a boat it might be installed on

top of a radar arch

right for power boaters it might be

installed even on top of spreaders

so who knows it really depends on your

boat

it's not as big as some of the bigger

satellite domes remember there is no

satellite connectivity in this it does

look like it looks like a dome for sat

but this is just sort of the

nice look and feel of the dome but

inside you've got these dual

lte antennas that give you way better

connectivity obviously than a cell phone

let's look at this slowly from

underneath

i'm going to take that and you can

actually even what i like here is that

there's almost practically no

connectivity no wires

right this is neat notice how just right

here

that's all that's that only connection

that's going to be on the outside of

this box so you would actually

disassemble

this to actually do the connection route

the cable right through here

and uh you'd be know very well that

everything that's going to be nice and

dry

inside so again

lte this is effectively a cell booster

right

this is why i'm excited it's it does

have obviously it terminates a cellular

connectivity inside

so you do need a sim card this will not

work with your phone

your phone will effectively be able to

connect

to this wi-fi but will not have you'll

not be using the cell connectivity off

your phone you will definitely need a

sim card

to do that

kvh is offering a different data plans

and you have to go to their website to

see what the data plans are

here we are in canada but you know

there's data plans that actually

work around the world so you're gonna

have to look for the specifics and the

pricing

it's actually not that bad when you're

considering what they're doing and the

data plans i was kind of like

yeah it's not free but you know what if

you want data connectivity on your boat

and you really need it

this might make sense a lot of us are

still working and want a boat

this might be the solution all right so

this is the tracfone

lte1 so the next thing we're going to do

is we're going to open this box and find

out

what's inside all right

i can't tell you how happy i am about

this product okay

all right okay okay

so what we're going to do let me scoot

over here a little bit

excellent excellent

okay

oh wow they're doing a good job i love

it

i absolutely love it notice

how they're giving you instructions easy

all the parts the material list please

you know this we have excitement when we

open a new product

don't get too caught up in installing

read read read

you know i always tell people educate

educate educate

you know empower yourself with knowledge

and then do right don't get to the doing

part

so this would be sort of uh bedtime

reading for me

figuring out what i need to do before i

install this product i'm a geek i'll

highlight i'll put notes

i'll ask questions there's nothing wrong

with asking questions you know if we

prepare ourselves then we don't have to

do it later

so that's a kind of i like this this

this this tells me this is real right

uh the next thing you've got this

cabling

as you can see that comes with the unit

uh

this is an rj45 it's basically ethernet

cabling

that we'll find um basically on ethernet

you know like

and even inside homes and businesses we

use ethernet

okay so basically this is what it looks

like

and remember there's only one connection

going in there right so which is really

really cool

so that's pretty neat

we've got over here all the different

gizmos

and you can see obviously gasket which

is nice all the different fittings in a

bag

right i don't even know what all this

you can see these are the studs

again you've got to read the

instructions okay

and then probably this is the power

adapter to power this this is going to

probably have

poe power over ethernet it's a little

injector

and there you go a little device right

right here

again you can see the ethernet goes on

one side

power again goes uh on the other side

and again another lan port

so different ports for different

purposes again pretty neat

compact uh i like it it looks sort of

you know

i don't know it looks to me like it's

it's made for being on a boat

it looks sort of weatherproof it's not

meant to be outside but it looks

like a good seal i like it and it's

compact so this is probably a little

compact poe injector

right which is neat because think about

it you're actually powering this device

via power on an ethernet cable we do

that with ip cameras

it's possible and when we do bigger

bigger boats we're running ip cameras

and those ip cameras actually are

powered by the ethernet cable

which is really handy and then you have

these little feet

right here on the side

and obviously this is

these anti-seizing compound that you

apply to the boats because you know

some of this stuff when we put it on our

boats we're not just putting in for a

day or two days

it's going to be on there for maybe five

years ten years before you take that off

so again read the instructions this is

what i took off at first this is the

little sort of the packaging that came

with the unit

again i kind of like it it it feels like

you're getting something of

substance you've got the installation

guide which you're going to read

in detail right highlighting this is

pretty good

and then you basically have a little bit

of sort of at a glance

what's going on and you also have the

user kit in here so

all of that is really useful

so why is it that we do this well we do

this because going with satcom

is not everyone's first choice right

using satellite communication

as a means to get data on board our

boats is not necessarily

inexpensive some of us certainly do it

because we need to

but for some of us that are doing sort

of light duty use

um it might make sense to consider this

product

you can of course even though your cell

phone is not connected to this device

you can actually enable wi-fi calling

from your phone to connect to this

device which then would connect to a

cell network

so you can actually use your phone on

this network which is worth

considering you can have connectivity to

multiple devices

so it's not just one device you could

have a computer a tablet you can have

multiple people actually using this

device

it's effectively a gateway right a

gateway

via cell to the internet so that's

pretty good

you can have flexible data plans they'll

even do a data plan where you're

in use and then there's a sort of

off-season data plan where it's just a

nominal fee to keep your subscription

but you're actually not paying the full

rate which i like

that's really good it includes this cat

6

double shielded which is really good 15

meter

cable included you'll definitely want a

sim card that's the little cards that go

in our cell phones and sell your devices

so you'll definitely need one of those

and it will need a subscription so this

is not

again a cell booster only this is

actually a cell booster that

terminates the cellular connection in

here and then propagates it

over ethernet to inside the boat even

has even wi-fi as well

so if you're curious about more of this

product i'm sure the documentation is

going to tell you more we're almost at

you know 12 13 minutes here

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