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JDCanuck
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Satellite (and Cell) Access in BCS
Just wondering if anyone has recommendations for Internet and Cell phone access in remote areas where cell signals are weak or non-existent.
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JZ
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Inreach Mini for basic two way texting to anyone. And SoS. Very good choice if you don't actually need to talk to someone.
You can connect your phone via Bluetooth and use the phone's keyboard for typing.
[Edited on 8-6-2021 by JZ]
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JDCanuck
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Very interesting concept. Does this device also give you GPS positioning? Our greatest need at present is receiving Canadian based text messages from
financial institutions so we can access them from a new location over the internet. We have considered Hughes net Satellite at our remote home for
internet access, this device might give us the cell phone text receiving we need in addition. Thanks, I'll look into it.
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Similar for me as well. I use the Garmin inReach Explorer+ -- it will track our locations for others to see, we can send and receive texts friends and
family, or we can use it to call for help. When racing or when more communication is necessary, I'll rent a sat phone from from Satmoto in San Diego (great people).
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JDCanuck
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This would come in really handy next time we bury a rental Sentra in a sandy arroyo. Really hard to find a La Paz rental 4 by 4, but i did take note
of the Hertz rental that provides them down on the Malecon. None available when we needed it.
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El Jefe
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Get on the list for Starlink. I paid my hundred bucks and am waiting for the email that service is available on the East Cape. Hopefully within the
coming 12 months.
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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JDCanuck
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Quote: Originally posted by El Jefe  | Get on the list for Starlink. I paid my hundred bucks and am waiting for the email that service is available on the East Cape. Hopefully within the
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Is Starlink equivalent to Hughesnet? We are located north of Todos Santos, I think about 50 miles up the coast. Cell access is apparently very weak in
that location, but some boost it with their own Antennae equipment.
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| Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck | | Just wondering if anyone has recommendations for Internet and Cell phone access in remote areas where cell signals are weak or non-existent.
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I recommend doing without. Being unreachable and off grid is the ultimate luxury.
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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El Jefe
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| Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck | | Quote: Originally posted by El Jefe | Get on the list for Starlink. I paid my hundred bucks and am waiting for the email that service is available on the East Cape. Hopefully within the
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Is Starlink equivalent to Hughesnet? We are located north of Todos Santos, I think about 50 miles up the coast. Cell access is apparently very weak in
that location, but some boost it with their own Antennae equipment.
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We had Hughesnet back in the day when we first built our place. It was just a little bit better than nothing. Too slow for making calls over the
internet and forget about streaming. Then we upgraded to our local provider Alexanet which serves our needs most of the time. Now we can call via the
internet and watch netflix etc. using the little dish that points at the mountain. However, when our daughter visits she needs a bomb proof connection
to do conferencing and so on Soooo, in order to get her down to visit more often we are going to get Starlink. It is very fast compared to what we
have. Another benefit is that when the system goes down due to a hurricane there is no effect to the satellites. You might loose signal while in the
thick of it, but as soon as it clears a bit you will be on line (as long as your dish didn't blow away)
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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JDCanuck
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Thanks a lot for that info. I did a little research on starlink and hughesnet and found most areas Starlink is faster. I think the best idea for me is
to contact the local supplier in Todos Santos and get their recommendation, hopefully they have both.
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| Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck | | Quote: Originally posted by El Jefe | Get on the list for Starlink. I paid my hundred bucks and am waiting for the email that service is available on the East Cape. Hopefully within the
coming 12 months.
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Is Starlink equivalent to Hughesnet? We are located north of Todos Santos, I think about 50 miles up the coast. Cell access is apparently very weak in
that location, but some boost it with their own Antennae equipment.
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Starlink is very different than Hughesnet. Starlink uses a constellation of low earth orbit satellites (340 miles high), Hughesnet uses a
geo-stationary satellite (22,223 miles high).
The result is Starlink will be much faster.....will be. It's only partially up and running. Coming to Baja and the rest of the world soon.
https://www.starlink.com/
Interesting video "Why SpaceX is Making Starlink"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs
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https://news.yahoo.com/spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-f...
thats full gallop in my world!
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SFandH
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As explained in the video I linked to above, Starlink will provide the fastest link between the London and New York financial centers. Faster than the
super special multi-gazillion dollar fiber optic trans-oceanic cable that's there now. Both systems use laser light to carry the data but Starlink is
through space, fiber optic is through glass. The speed of light is slower in glass. The thinking is Elon Musk is going to make MEGATONS of money
carrying high-speed financial transactions for the big boys between New York, London, Hong Kong and ???? He'll have the fastest system over long
distances and milli-seconds are important to these guys.
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with TREE'S being the Achilles heel, I would think Baja should be a perfect fit here!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-updates-star...
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Thanks for the tip SS. We rent a sat phone maybe once a year or two, when we go way out there. The place I've used for the last 5 years is in
Georgia.
Planning a long boat trip in October and will give your guys a call.
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| Quote: Originally posted by El Jefe | Get on the list for Starlink. I paid my hundred bucks and am waiting for the email that service is available on the East Cape. Hopefully within the
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We are on the East Cape as well. We currently use the local provider who has a small network of repeaters running out the coast. It is okay but we
learned last year that video meetings can be challenging. We signed up for StarLink but haven't heard anything yet. If others get notice of service,
we should post here? I am really hoping to be able to spend more time on the East Cape, but can't cut the tether to work yet. Good internet will be
a bonus
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JDCanuck
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So it seems for now we are stuck with Stargo or Hughesnet. We'll try out the cheapest plan we can handle and wait patiently for Starlink.
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Off topic but you all should know Inreach Mini had less capability than the explorer. Explorer gives you all the intended functions for tracking
communication and saving trails as .GPX and .KML and saved track point forever.
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JZ
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| Quote: Originally posted by PaulW | | Off topic but you all should know Inreach Mini had less capability than the explorer. Explorer gives you all the intended functions for tracking
communication and saving trails as .GPX and .KML and saved track point forever. |
I don't think Garmin is a good choice for those capabilities.
Offroad GPS phone apps like Gaia and Back Country Navigator (my favorite) are much easier to use and much more powerful.
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JZ
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| Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck | | So it seems for now we are stuck with Stargo or Hughesnet. We'll try out the cheapest plan we can handle and wait patiently for Starlink.
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Make sure you are on the wait list for Starlink.
They just got approval to offer service in MX and will start rollouts at the end of the year. I signed up a couple months ago.
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