Please define "while off-shore". Are you crossing oceans? Where exactly will you be?My wife and I require internet and phone service for our work access while off-shore realizing we will need to add an antenna and components. Please provide suggestions on providers and experience. Thank-you in advance
And that’s why we go there to explore the wilderness. No cell phones allowed.Just not worth the money to install/maintain an expensive cell tower where nobody lives.
And that’s why we go there to explore the wilderness. No cell phones allowed.
There are those times when boat or body breaks down and reliable communication comes in handy.And that’s why we go there to explore the wilderness. No cell phones allowed.
Handy does not equate to necessity. However, after losing a prop near Pierre’s Echo Bay in 2019, I vowed I would never go without some form of communication no matter where we cruised. Santa brought a Zoleo Satellite Communicator that Christmas.How did they manage 20 years ago?
If that were the only requirement I'd stick with my Garmin InReach. $65/$50/mo for unlimited text messages to anyone, automatic breadcrumbs to a website where I can be tracked, (and a big SOS button that'll contact the cops to come arrest me and put me in a safe jail cell instead of an unsafe sinking boat! ;-p )There are those times when boat or body breaks down and reliable communication comes in handy.
I don't know where you get the $2500. You can use the small antenna that costs a lot less (don't recall, under $1k for sure). You can also use the $150 per month rate with a opt in for marine use (not sure how that's done, but lots of folk are doing it). I'm using the $250 per month as that allows world-wide coverage. The world is broken up in zones according to Starlink. If you are not changing zones, you don't need the $250 per month version... But, no matter, it's still expensive...If that were the only requirement I'd stick with my Garmin InReach. $65/$50/mo for unlimited text messages to anyone (and a big SOS button that'll contact the cops to come arrest me and put me in a safe jail cell instead of an unsafe sinking boat! ;-p )
I joke, but InReach plus a good EPIRB with AIS is all I feel that I *need* for comms for "safety beyond coastal waters". I'm curious how well T-Mobile will work around Nova Scotia and down the USA East Coast, and beyond, when I'm within sight of land.... I'd like to be able to download decent weather info, but I'm not convinced that STlINK is the only way--certainly not at $2500 + $250/mo for a measly 50gb of data!
Well, I just crossed the north Atlantic and then the milk run with the cheap antenna. I was in the Azores when a boat next to me showed me his setup with the $150 a month.starlink.com/boats $2500 for the equipment, $250 per month with only 50 Gb of data, which, according to TOS gets used FIRST, regardless of where you are, and then if you’re out at sea, you get nothing, even if you used up your 50 GB of data INLAND!
I would love to see where it’s written on an official star link page that I can get the $150 per month plan, with the cheap antenna, and have it work on a boat. Reading the specs for the cheap antenna, it’s only rated IP 45. The $2500 boat antenna is rated IP 56.