SpaceX's Starlink launches $5,000-per-month satellite internet for yachts

Heyo, I have been doing a ton of research on this in the past few months. I have worked on boats almost my entire life. My parents just bought a boat (yay) and I was going to work on it full time because I’m remote. I have been looking into starlink as an option and found that hundreds of people have been installing them in the ceiling of their boats with great success and paying $110 a month. As a regular person how am I supposed to justify paying $5,000 for internet. That’s double my rent…

Additionally 350mb up and down can only support like 10 people using internet regularly max. Which ruins the use case for cruise ships who would have hundreds of people. Cargo ships and research vessels don’t really need that kind of bandwidth. While it’s nice to have why would a company pay and extra $5k a MONTH when what’s in place now is/has been working.

I find this very dumb and can’t see it lasting long at this price point. Then again, starlink is the only one capable of such speeds and likely will remain the only one for the rest of our lifetimes, so maybe Elon will just make people pay.

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