03-22-2009
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Telstar 28
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
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What's your budget? What do you consider internet access to be??
If you're looking just to have basic e-mail capability, then yes, an SSB radio with a Pactor III modem will allow that...
However, if you're looking for web access, you're going to have to go with a satellite phone. The smaller handheld satellite phones can provide limited web access and a fairly low speed connection. If you want broadband type speeds, you're looking at getting a gyro-stabilized satellite dish antenna setup and that's some serious cash and requires a lot of electricity.
Be aware, unlike most terrestrial internet access plans, the satellite internet access requires you to pay per megabyte... so any serious usage is going to cost you a big chunk of change.
You can get "full internet" access off shore, but you're going to pay a lot for the equipment and the service.
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Originally Posted by bardia
Wandering how I could have access to the internet when sailing/cruising off-shore?
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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