On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 12:33:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:
On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 3:21:00 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:48:18 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:
On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:05:55 PM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/8/2019 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:29:19 -0500, Alex wrote:
Ultimately the non-urban areas will be served by low earth satellite
swarms like the Starlink system that Space-X (Elon Musk) is planning.
I'm eagerly awaiting to have that on the boat, hopefully at a
reasonable price, but anything will be more reasonable than the
current satellite internet providers.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if he can solve the 2 big problems with satellite based service... expensive and slow.
Can you get decent satellite TV service on a boat? I would think that underway wouldn't be possible, but when anchored or in a marina can the auto tracking on a dish compensate for boat movement?
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Yes, auto-tracking works very well for both satellite TV and internet,
at least on larger boats. Internet can be reasonably fast depending
on which system and service level you subscribe to but pricing is per
megabyte and very expensive.