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Let them eat starlink! (mander.xyz)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Second, you would only need this level of satellite internet service for your boat if you want to be able to use full broadband speed with over 1TB of transfer in the middle of the ocean far away from terrestrial cellular networks.

Well, the ideal goal would be to be able to do things like work remotely and keep my kids entertained while circumnavigating, so yeah.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a boat person but it feels like you've got conflicting ideas about whats possible. You said:

Because of-fucking-course anybody who wants to buy and live aboard a cheap (easily $50k or less) old sailboat instead of paying rent forever

...and...

the ideal goal would be to be able to do things like work remotely and keep my kids entertained while circumnavigating

I don't think you're going to find a $50k boat you can buy (and maintain!) that can house four people comfortably for transoceanic cruises while also affording you the ability to work a full time job from the boat. I would think you're looking at a MUCH larger boat, possibly with some full time crew to accomplish that, and at that point $1k a month for global high speed low latency internet is probably a a small fraction of your monthly expenses.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

I'm talking about a monohull in the 40'-50' range (e.g. this), which I believe would be... "very cosy"... but not completely implausible for two adults and two small kids who can share a bunk.

Admittedly my dream boat would be a 35'-40' catamaran (e.g. this), which would be way more spacious and comfortable, but they're not only way more expensive but also come up for sale on the used market way less often.

Anyway, even in the latter case where you're talking about more money, you're still not talking about anywhere near "full time crew and $1000/month internet" money!

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm just going with an Iridium for calls and short texts. I save up all the bigger missives for when I hit wifi. That doesn't work for most work situations I think.