In order to get set up with Stour Marine, you need a PC or Mac laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA) with wireless (Wi-Fi) connectivity. Otherwise, you shouldn't need any new hardware or software (unless you choose to buy a wireless access card to upgrade any current laptop without wireless connectivity).

Systems Description

• The system is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.11 b/g standards and fully compatible with all laptops and other computers using this type of wireless connection (e.g. Pentium Centrino computers)
• There are wireless access units installed throughout the area which provide the “service footprint” for our customers, on average each access unit can serve customers within a radius of 100 metres.

The wireless units are connected to the World Wide Web using high speed broadband connections to ensure a high shared data rate and low contention of individual data packets. The radio path is “common access” for all our customers and customer accounts are valid for all served areas and marinas.

Laptops that have the new Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology with integrated Wireless LAN capability will work automatically.

Most new laptops are wireless enabled, otherwise you need an IEEE 802.11b wireless access card (e.g. PCMCIA card). You can order a wireless access card from your local computer store.

Ideally your laptop/PDA should be running Microsoft Windows XP (Home, Professional, Tablet PC, Media Center, AMD 64-bit edition) or Windows 98 or 2000.

Linux users need to be using operating system 2.2 and above.

Apple Mac users need to be using operating system 9.0 and above.

Check drivers and settings

If you've added a wireless access card, check you've correctly installed the drivers and the card by referring to the card's instructions. Windows XP has built-in drivers for most wireless cards.

Check wireless settings

Before starting to use StourMarine WiFi, your wireless settings should be:

• Service Set Identifier (SSID) set to '' (case sensitive and no spaces)
• Network type set to 'infrastructure'
• Wireless network key (WEP) disabled

If you access a company network using your laptop, you may have to disable your Internet Explorer proxy settings.