Donny Bahama
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They’ve already deployed a few thousand satellites. They’re in beta now. (Wish I’d been selected as a beta tester but no such luck. This is definitely going to happen.
Reliable WiFi on the boat
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Donny Bahama
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I agree. It opens up a lot of possibilities in this brave new work-from-home world.
I’m not sure you could take it from the house to the boat... you’d need an antenna installed on both. Initially, I doubt there will be a self-install option and even if there was, I’m not sure they’d send out another antenna/modem kit without an extra $50/month. Time will tell how accommodating they’ll be.
ksanders
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I have a business class network on my boat, and operate my business from my boat about 1/3 of the time. This includes internet access and a VPN link back to our main office for my Cisco Call Manager business phone system.
What I have is a Cradlepoint AER 1600 router with two modems. Each modem has a SIM card from a different carrier for redundancy.
This system is rock solid reliable, and provides the professional grade service that I need to be able to make a living from the boat.
What I have is a Cradlepoint AER 1600 router with two modems. Each modem has a SIM card from a different carrier for redundancy.
This system is rock solid reliable, and provides the professional grade service that I need to be able to make a living from the boat.
PPandE
Senior Member
Donny,
I for one would love to learn more. I’m shopping for a boat so I’m starting with a clean slate there. I’m planning to cruise south Florida and the Bahamas so the LEO system caught my attention! I have a Ubiquiti Amplifi system At home with 5 AP’s covering 6 acres fed by fiber optic. Dramatic improvement over HughesNet but the installation was way above my ability.
Thanks!
I for one would love to learn more. I’m shopping for a boat so I’m starting with a clean slate there. I’m planning to cruise south Florida and the Bahamas so the LEO system caught my attention! I have a Ubiquiti Amplifi system At home with 5 AP’s covering 6 acres fed by fiber optic. Dramatic improvement over HughesNet but the installation was way above my ability.
Thanks!
Dwk
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"Lastly, if there’s sufficient interest (let me know and) I’ll post a primer on basic home internet/networking technology/terminology." That would be most useful for a someone with limited knowledge(me).
The Brockerts
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I second Stevemitchells setup. I've copied his system that contains, an Mikrotik-Groove that gabs wifi if it's around. That is connected to a pepwave max transit router. This system seeks out wifi first, and then if it can't find that it will connect to a SIM card A(mint mobile), and when that plan is used up switches to SIM card AT&T. Very solid system.
The Brockerts
The Brockerts
FoxtrotCharlie
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We have the EERO mesh network in our home and it works great - old Tudor home with steel mesh behind plaster, so a mesh network has been great. But on our 42' boat we have only used our 11" ipad Pro as a hot spot. If we can get one bar of cell signal we can watch Netflix movies all night - and wifi all over the boat. I recently added a Digital Yacht AIS Transponder that emits wifi to the ipad for signals - that wifi is also available all over the boat.
