Starlink ? anyone have it or tried it?

[RonR]

The wife has been checking on data plans for working off the boat.
Mostly located in the PNW (Everett/San Juans).

She sent me this link,
https://www.starlink.com/

said its about 1200.00 a year with a 4-500 sign up and would work for everything she needs, and would work for movies and what not. Has anyone tried it, or know much about it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/spa...ed-at-99-a-month-public-beta-test-begins.html

If I drop the dish network on the boat and the wifi card we have I would be saving $$.

 

[tiltrider1]

I have a friend who installed it at his cabin here in the PNW and is very pleased. However, he only goes to the cabin occasionally.

I have no experience with how it would work on a boat tied to the dock. A boat at anchor will not work.

 

[menzies]

https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/starlink-48730.html

 

[RonR]

https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/starlink-48730.html

Thank you !

Looks like we will wait a bit and see what happens.

 

[Ski in NC]

As I understand it, when a sat is overhead, for it to work it needs to receive a signal from a nearby ground station. So not only does it need a decent population of sats, it needs a decent population of the ground stations. They are doing the ground stations first near populated areas, so PNW is probably already handled.

Offshore not close to land, a different story. I think built into the sat design is a laser link between sats that may get some offshore function, but that is not set up with the partial fleet as is now. No expert on this stuff, just spewing bits I have read over the months.

I don't know if the antenna needs to actively track the sats, that would complicate boat use, especially offshore.