Over the last year, we’ve used Starlink on four separate two-week trips to the Caribbean. 🌴⛵ It has worked flawlessly, whether we were sailing underway or anchored, with the dish mounted on our catamaran’s cockpit.

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To test this, we mounted our Starlink dish on my car and drove 25+ minutes on the interstate and back. 🚗 The dish was secured to the roof with a TrioMount and Seersucker suction cups, giving it a slight forward angle. The Ethernet cable ran from the dish to the WiFi router and power adapter inside the car, which was powered by a 2200-watt EcoFlow DELTA 2 Portable Power Station. 🔌

For the test, I put my phone in airplane mode, then turned on WiFi and Bluetooth. Without any help, I turned on Spotify and called my buddy Steve during the drive, which lasted almost an hour, including a lunch break at Hard Eight BBQ. 🍔 The system only lost connection when I went under an overpass.

I monitored the performance using the Starlink app’s advanced Speedtest page and recorded about 73 Mbps download speed while traveling at 70 mph. 📶 The WiFi call to Steve was excellent. 👍

Our conclusions:
1. We can use Starlink during hunting trips where internet access is usually limited or spotty. 🏕️
2. If we ever charter a powercat instead of a sailboat, we can still rely on Starlink for fast and reliable internet access. 🚤
3. If we exceed Starlink’s speed or distance limits, we would need to switch from unlimited data to priority data, which costs $2 per gigabit. 💵

At the end of the video, I include a short description of the equipment I used for this test. 🎥

Starlink proved to be a robust solution, even under unconventional conditions! 🌐🚀

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