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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 or grinding for a $500K house is a "rich yacht owner" who can obviously afford $1000/month Internet. And have their home sunk by orcas while we're at it, because why not?
Just when I thought I had a viable plan to escape this shithole consumer trap of a country, the Internet service I would need to do it not only ends up being run by a goddamn Nazi, but they also jack up the price on that use-case.
First, screw Musk. 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. If you really need full broadband speeds in the middle of the ocean and you only need 50GB of it a month its only $250/month.
If you're at a boat dock you likely have wifi available or even just anchored close to land you can likely just tether your mobile phone.
Well, the ideal goal would be to be able to do things like work remotely and keep my kids entertained while circumnavigating, so yeah.
Look into a low-power server for your boat, try to host as much of you can locally. I'm pretty sure you could fill mot entertainment needs that way, and 'top up' your content via terrestrial Internet when you resupply.
Then it kinda depends on what you need for work. Upload/download code snippets? Video conferencing all day every day? There's like a big span for the bandwidth you might need.
First of all, I agree that's good advice and I appreciate you for offering it.
That said, I was really just trying to make a "rant about how Musk/Starlink sucks" comment (and to a lesser extent, a "people think everybody with a boat is wealthy but you'd be surprised how often they're not" comment), not a "please solve my problem" comment.
Also, it's a hypothetical future plan, not my current lifestyle.
Well, now that we all collectively solved that problem, you gotta go and buy a boat.