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I think he was wondering how you would get a cell phone signal 500 miles from the nearest land.

Once we head out, there will be no service. It's only while we're in Florida.
None of us see the pint of buying a satellite system for a boat to watch TV and movies when we're sailing or meant to be checking out the islands of the Caribbean or Pacific.
There is also no service that I know of that transmits out there (the Pacific) since they use geostationary satellites and they would have no one to serve. Maybe as we get closer to some larger islands they have feeds but it's not worth the effort.

vendic wrote:Once we head out, there will be no service. It's only while we're in Florida.
None of us see the pint of buying a satellite system for a boat to watch TV and movies when we're sailing or meant to be checking out the islands of the Caribbean or Pacific.
There is also no service that I know of that transmits out there (the Pacific) since they use geostationary satellites and they would have no one to serve. Maybe as we get closer to some larger islands they have feeds but it's not worth the effort.

Not that I'm trying to talk you into it but there are services that provide satellite internet access essentially anywhere. It would probably cost an arm and a leg to watch a Netflix show, though.

Are you taking DVDs?

geonuc wrote:Are you taking DVDs?

Absolutely! Along with some BluRays. Mostly TV series.

Oh - and we'll also be downloading some movies directly onto our computers, when I figure out how. The UltraViolet service apparently allows this. These are movies we've purchased. I'm not talking about illegal downloading.

geonuc wrote:Not that I'm trying to talk you into it but there are services that provide satellite internet access essentially anywhere. It would probably cost an arm and a leg to watch a Netflix show, though.

There is the internet via satellite phone but the bandwidth and cost is not suitable for streaming.
At least that was the case the last time I checked, back in 2013.

We can get satellite internet around the mainland USA but further out it's very limited.

vendic wrote:

geonuc wrote:Not that I'm trying to talk you into it but there are services that provide satellite internet access essentially anywhere. It would probably cost an arm and a leg to watch a Netflix show, though.

There is the internet via satellite phone but the bandwidth and cost is not suitable for streaming.
At least that was the case the last time I checked, back in 2013.

We can get satellite internet around the mainland USA but further out it's very limited.

Let's just say, the day we spend the amount of money required to stream videos in the ocean, we will have been able to afford a bigger boat.

Iky and I have always wanted enough money to buy a ship -- a nice one and hire all our friends to help man it then spend the rest of our lives traveling from beach to beach