StarLink - pretty awesome tbh

[PhillM]

After the ARC and using a boat mounted starlink system I borght the mini for a recent trip (for work) to the caribean. I have ben seriously impressed with the performance and affordability. Not that I am a fan of Mr Musk but his product does excatly what it says on the tin.

I have since 'aquiried' the system from work and plan to use it this summer so I can 'work from home' with home being onboard swift. AT £4.99/mpnth to keep the system current and less than £50/month for what is in reality almost unlimited use, its a great add-on to have onboard.

 

[st599]

I'm just hoping that AWS LEO forces the costs down. If the promise of Sat to AWS Cloud works as suggested, they could take quite a bit of business from Starlink. Also need to see what Starlink Mobile does to Starlink - some of the speed and capacity increases they've given recently are riding on the capacity they've launched for the DtC mobile service - if that takes off they could have a bottleneck.

 

[Sea Change]

Likewise, not a big fan of Musk (he needs to stay out of UK politics) but I can't fault the product at all.
The only thing for a smaller boat would be the 23w power consumption. Fine for us with our 1300w of solar, but on a typical small UK based boat it could become an issue.