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I've long dreamed of sailing the world. The biggest obstacle is being able to support myself while doing that, and looking at existing boat satellite service is really depressing.

Does anyone here know if between this, Starlink, and OneWeb, it will ever become realistic to work remotely from a boat in, say, the middle of the South Pacific?

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Iridium Pilot already exists, albeit it's only 134 kbps (although maybe it's already been upgraded to 1 Mbps? I'm not sure). VSAT service may also work (although that might be spotty in the middle of the ocean).

I do know people who manage with just satellite, including some in tech. But it's certainly a stretch and being basically unable to stream video is increasingly a liability.

I see $4,000+ for the Iridium terminal and $500/m for a 100MB plan.

Thats really really expensive for not a lot of data. Click the wrong link from HN front page and you could burn through half that in one click!

I suppose it could be doable. You'd want to be setup with all your software and development environment before hand and just use the satellite connection for text-only email/chat. Maybe SSH to an outside server and use w3m for web browsing?

It's very expensive but doesn't scale linearly (random searches find 10 GB plans for $2400/m).

Yes. That use case would be enabled... at a commensurate price.

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