It won't be too long, the military now uses high speed internet access on
it's command and control aircraft, the tech exists and will bleed down to
the public as the costs drop (if you can get internet access on a moving
aircraft, it will not be long before it will be available for ships and
boats) . I know it does not help right now, but it might influence long term
planning.

Eric

"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in message
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Such products have been around for a while. All are fairly
expensive and won't work well in motion. But I'm sure
that it won;t be long until such systems will be cheaper and
more reliable on a moving vessel.

Doug
s/v CAllista

"Tamaroak" wrote in message
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The folks at http://www.cyclonecom.com/ have apparently hooked up a
system to allow high speed internet and television from the same dish on
an RV that's currently touring the US. See http://www.fieldtripusa.net/
for details. The newspaper article that told this story indicated the
product worked good at automatically acquiring satellites. It wouldn't
work on a moving boat, but could probably be set out on a dock at a
marina. I sure do think there could be a market for such a product...

Capt. Jeff