Starlink on the boat
Lake_Bum
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How many of you are using the Starlink mini on your boats, and what success have you had with it? I just recently cut the cord at the house, and got Starlink. I'm loving it SO much, I will most likely get a mini to use in the RV and boat. Also.....if any of you are on the fence on getting Starlink, I can send you a referral code, and you will get a FREE month ($120) just for signing up. Yes, I will get a free month also. It's a cool program they have! I got my home system for a whopping $89 bucks! The next cheapest I found was $349 at Best Buy, which was normally $499.
2000 Captiva 232
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Works great. Highly recommend.
My residential setup is blazing fast. My son can do gaming, wife on zoom, and we have 5 TV's streaming on it
We planned on using starlink on the boat however I found a much cheaper way to get internet especially since our data usage on the boat isn't very much. I bought a portable hotspot and got 2 free sims from our cellular provider Google Fi. These just use the data along with our phone plan. I use my wife's SIM in the hotspot since she only uses about 5 gb a month which leaves us 95 gb for the boat each month. The only coat to me was the hotspot which I got for about $250 as I bought a refurbished Netgear off of Amazon and no monthly cost for network.
This hotspot can also connect to Wi-Fi at the marina or my friends boats who have starlink and then my hotspot will use that data rather than cell network and I don't need to try and reconnect all my devices to a new wifi network.
https://www.outdoorrouter.com/product/5g-cellular-router-wifi6-sim-slot/
Where I anchor there is no cell service but cellular works great at the dock. We didn’t boat much this summer so I didn’t activate the Starlink.