Gregory's ServerUnfortunately(?) the beauty of the places we visit is inversely proportional to the amount of reception we are getting by raising the wifi device up the mast.
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@avi the cynical part of me want to say yes, but there's more important challenges to reaching these places than the lack of wifi, so it hasn't really manifested, the far flung places as just as empty as ever I think.  @neauoire @avi Yeah, Starlink is a means to keep income rolling in while exploring far-flung places you were already motivated enough to tough it out to get to, IMO, it's not suddenly going to make Alaska be as populous as California. The cold, the sketchy roads, having to plan food/water supplies, etc. are still barriers to entry. Closer to home, I mean, jeez, in the Puget Sound boating groups, half the people in there are scared to be more than an hour from a diesel pump. You're probably fine.   @neauoire Last time we talked about this I might have mentioned ComAnt directional antennas, did you consider that? I combined one with Teltonika 4G router on a carbon fiber mast before my far away place received fiber. Looking now it's so expensive though... also hard to direct the antenna at the top of the mast... hm @tinspin yeah I have collected a couple of documents about it, but it's not really practicable on our small boat and especially the way we do certain things. Some people use non-directional Shakespears-type antennas to extend their range, but even that is troublesome to negotiate on Pino safely. |
@neauoire oh god does starlink mean that more people will suddenly be willing to invade the off-grid parts of the coast?