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I'm currently living on a sailboat with my wife working remote in the Caribbean. There are 5g sim cards for pretty cheap but I think you know what it would be like to only use that in the states to do your job. Sometimes the networks here go down all day.

Starlink makes this life possible and it's a dream. Also owning a boat is a lot of work so don't just imagine beaches and cocktails 24/7. I love it though.

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I’ve been working remotely in wilderness areas of the U.S. in my RV, and it’s been great. I wouldn’t have attempted this without Starlink.

Have been thinking about moving to a more remote location in Colorado as the mountain town I’m currently in is pricing me out.

How reliable is the service?

I've had it for two years, pretty much 100% uptime unless it's updating or there's a storm.

I'm in the same situation! Not in the Carribean..yet, but traveling around U.S. coast in a trawler with my husband. Never would have been possible without Starlink. I would have had to wait for retirement that probably would never have come.

Agreed that owning a boat is a lot of work! I need to remind friends it's not all relaxing with cocktails!

> Sometimes the networks here go down all day.

Which country, or countries, specifically, has or have all-day mobile network outages on a regular basis, in your experience?

It's probably not the entire country, more likely it's the area or the tower he's able to reach. But it would be interesting to know if it's like remote towers on an unpopulated Bahamian island or more major areas.

Not mobile outages, but generally the network gets saturated to the point of being practically unusable.

You can see this effect in basically any island country that does not have access to an undersea cable.

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