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I known there is a guy at work that already uses starlink for his home internet service (he lives out in the middle of nowhere). Could he keep using starlink wh

I known there is a guy at work that already uses starlink for his home internet service (he lives out in the middle of nowhere). Could he keep using starlink while traveling, including on a cruise ship, without incurring any additional costs?

HWR_14 4y ago
No. The "travel in an RV" otherwise meaning traveling outside of your home cell is extra. And the maritime version is $5,000/month
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  This is not entirely accurate. You can use Starlink in RV mode on a vessel, you just don't get the higher throughput and availability of having two antennas and the orchestration for them. There is some nuance. https://youtu.be/zN8ECQrot8g https://youtu.be/zN8ECQrot8g
  - HWR_14 4y ago
    I'm pretty sure that Starlink will start identifying and dealing with nautical customers who don't use the nautical package. Right now, it's like a legacy mode. But after enough nautical antennas have shipped, they're not going to deprioritize the $5k/month customers
mabbo 4y ago
I believe the "RV" version of the service costs more but lets you move around over land- but they charge even more if you want to use it at sea. The reason is that SpaceX only can support so many users in a given region because each satellite has limited bandwidth.
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  I think the main issue is Starlink still needs a nearby groundstation to work. That gets harder at sea... I guess Royal Caribbean never goes that far from land?
  - Jtsummers 4y ago
    The colors are awful, but here is the projected coverage map for maritime use: https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.pdf https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.... Near-shore coverage is there because of the nearby ground stations, yes. But per that map they expect to be covering two large bands of open ocean later this year, and the rest next year. Satellite-to-satellite communication will allow users to make use of it without nearby ground stations via multiple in-space hops. Given that this press release has them deploying Starlink in their cruise ship fleet at the end of Q1 2023, that fits the above map's projections. So Starlink already has a major customer lined up for their upcoming service.
  - fastball 4y ago
    Won't need a ground station once they have the inter-satellite laser links working.
  - jq-r 4y ago
    Royal Caribbean owns Silversea Cruises, and those guys go as far north and south as possible. Also everywhere else in between. This is s godsend to them, and the guests are going to appreciate it.
chrisco255 4y ago
I have a Starlink and live in an RV and use it across the U.S. You can set it up wherever you just have to toggle a setting in your account for that (easy to do from the app). As others have mentioned, I do not believe oceanic coverage is available unless you pay the much larger fee.

HWR_14 4y ago

No. The "travel in an RV" otherwise meaning traveling outside of your home cell is extra. And the maritime version is $5,000/month

toomuchtodo 4y ago
This is not entirely accurate. You can use Starlink in RV mode on a vessel, you just don't get the higher throughput and availability of having two antennas and the orchestration for them. There is some nuance. https://youtu.be/zN8ECQrot8g https://youtu.be/zN8ECQrot8g
- HWR_14 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure that Starlink will start identifying and dealing with nautical customers who don't use the nautical package. Right now, it's like a legacy mode. But after enough nautical antennas have shipped, they're not going to deprioritize the $5k/month customers

mabbo 4y ago

I believe the "RV" version of the service costs more but lets you move around over land- but they charge even more if you want to use it at sea. The reason is that SpaceX only can support so many users in a given region because each satellite has limited bandwidth.

BurningFrog 4y ago
I think the main issue is Starlink still needs a nearby groundstation to work. That gets harder at sea... I guess Royal Caribbean never goes that far from land?
- Jtsummers 4y ago
  The colors are awful, but here is the projected coverage map for maritime use: https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.pdf https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.... Near-shore coverage is there because of the nearby ground stations, yes. But per that map they expect to be covering two large bands of open ocean later this year, and the rest next year. Satellite-to-satellite communication will allow users to make use of it without nearby ground stations via multiple in-space hops. Given that this press release has them deploying Starlink in their cruise ship fleet at the end of Q1 2023, that fits the above map's projections. So Starlink already has a major customer lined up for their upcoming service.
- fastball 4y ago
  Won't need a ground station once they have the inter-satellite laser links working.
- jq-r 4y ago
  Royal Caribbean owns Silversea Cruises, and those guys go as far north and south as possible. Also everywhere else in between. This is s godsend to them, and the guests are going to appreciate it.

chrisco255 4y ago

I have a Starlink and live in an RV and use it across the U.S. You can set it up wherever you just have to toggle a setting in your account for that (easy to do from the app). As others have mentioned, I do not believe oceanic coverage is available unless you pay the much larger fee.