Does STARLINK still work for BOATERS??? Here's our 6-month review of service! [MV FREEDOM SEATTLE]
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Welcome to Victoria.I was born there and moved out to Sooke in 1981.Sooke is 25 miles west of Victoria.CHEERS from HERE!
Thanks for showing the customs check-in. Love your boat shots at 11:45 - so smooth and seamless.
Gotta love the pups excitement! Enjoy Canada.
Have you considered getting Nexus for border crossing? The trusted traveller program makes crossing very simple (both ways) and you are able to select from a far greater number (and more convenient) ports of entry.
We have…
Nice to see you guys back out cruising and making a little content, excited to see where your Canada trip takes you. Safe passage!
The bullet that hits you, you don't hear. As bullets travel faster than sound 🙂 Its great to see different areas, love the channel.
Welcome to Victoria..."the home of the newly wed and nearly dead". I was born there 68 yrs ago. 3 kids and an ex wife still live there. The sidewalks roll up at 10pm or earlier.
Glad you guys are back to posting.
Welcome back. 😊
Barefoot on cold fiberglass? Shawn's a beast!
Thanks for posting again so soon. Great watching your content.
Love-Love your show just became a huge “FAN”thank you!
So glad you guys made it back to Vic!
Back to informative, scenic, quality content with cool music to boot, well done
Another wonderful video! Many Thanks for sharing!!
Many thanks!
Thank you for bringing us along….Safe Travels…
Great one again. I'm sure you guys will have a terrific time, looking forward to the next video🥶🥶😊.
Wishing you guys a very Merry Christmas !!! Give the doggies an extra hug. Stay warm in Seattle!
Another Excellent Edition! Well Done Shawn & Elizabeth
Great video! Grew up in Lake Stevens, WA… and I remember the first trip I took to Victoria with the 7th grade jr high honors society on the Princess Margarite (out of Seattle). Your video brought back some (very old) great memories. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing,get ready for snow this week!Stay warm and stay safe.
Thanks, we’re ready for it 🥶
That was a nice smooth cruise. Like when y'all are out on the water.
Welcome back to Canada !
Love your videos….
I will spare you the long repeat comment from 3 years ago, but don't forget to walk either around Ogden Point or cut across Beacon Hill park to get to the Dallas Road off-leash dog park which is about a mile or so or prime Juan de Fuca Strait real estate and if you are really lucky, the coffee cart is out or you can deke up Cook street and get a take out Golden latte (rooibos, awesome) at Mika House. Enjoy!
Hope you guys had a Merry Christmas. Stay warm, stay healthy!
I used Damp Rid on my boat. Never had a problem while it was winterized. You can buy it at Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers
I'm 🇨🇦, sorry about our customs rules and regulations confusions. Love Victoria BC, friendly, good restaurants and clean place. Hope you enjoyed the place and thank you for sharing with us.
Victoria is the best! Until we go to the next Canadian port, then that’s the best 😉
We found that Starlink worked great in Canada and Alaska. Once we hit Anacortes it slowed down during 5pm-9pm. Just keep going north! 😉
Yeah it’s amazing here in Canada!!!
Merry Christmas from Melbourne Australia
Always enjoy your videos! On your humility issue, have you tried the chemical dehydration. Starbright and others make a hanging bag that collects the humility and deposits it into a closed bag. They have bucket systems two, but I haven't tried them.
The bags work great for winter storage of the boat and RV, to control mold growth. I use them during the rainy part of the summer season as well.
Just thinking that they could supplement your electronic dehydration.
Enjoy your stay in beautiful BC - welcome back.
Love the channel. Being canadian glad you love BC.
Buy the RV version! It’s cheap and works great!
It’s hit or miss, we’re finding it works great in Canada!
Thank you two...
Nice music for the video! keep up!
Thanks for My Freedom fix, have a great six weeks.
Thank you visiting my country.
We cannot wait for the Victoria content along with hopefully the rest of the island. Both sides of the island are some of the most beautiful places. Enjoy the visit and views.
God bless and enjoy!
So cool I have used Milwaukee shop vac for work. Very interesting use for boating life
We’ve had the same issues. Unlike you we didn’t disable the motor or flat mount. We have found the radar effects it greatly. Because of that we don’t turn on the radar often even at night.
I’m holding off on buying the big antenna ( twice the size, flat mount, $2500) till next spring. Congested areas are becoming more congested and priority use ant data limits make the system less attractive. Starlink is very quiet about future equipment but the launched 54 new satellites yesterday from here in Florida - laser communicators that don’t use ground stations and promise decreased latency.
Good video 😀
I just turned off Starlink. Our T-Mobile hotspot works much more consistently on the boat. I am in your backyard, always good to see M/V Freedom in Eagle Harbor. Happy Holidays!
excellent video enjoy your stay in Canada
Thank you! Will do!
Have a wonderful Holiday Season
Love your channel and loved the comment Canadians eh!... That's right.
greets from Germany, another great episode of your travels...thx for sharing and happy hollidays!
Happy holidays!
Awesome speeds considering though.. If your really wanting the best performance you should look into load balancing from one router onboard to another router on a datacenter/VM environment then to the outside world. That's typically the best solution when you have multiple access points and some may vary.. The idea is you leave them all connected up to the router and the router routes the traffic automatically to the VM server then to the outside world of the internet.. Basically kinda like bonding the connection. Back a few years ago I remember some of our local News cast trucks using some thing called LipRouter they later went to I think a pfsense solution so basically they talk from one pfsense router to a Dedicated VM in a linode server etc.. Just a suggestion for automating the internet.
Greetings from Australia, good to see regular uploads again! Or has the YT algorithm/notifications been screwing with me?
Excellent music as always! 10:09
You guys should install the wheel kit for your dingy they work great for tides.
Lived in Friday Harbor for 15 years until last year and frequently boated to Victoria and the Canadian islands. Customs into Canada was always a breeze, very respectful people. Can’t say the same coming back to clear customs in the US in either Roche or FH. US Customs always had an attitude and often took twice as long to get through!
There are several direct competitors to Starlink either already operating or are soon to kick off so hopefully, this will be an incentive for Starlink to improve their service.
Welcome to Canada
Great video. Interesting about Starlink. That upload speed of 4 was super slow, especially when you are uploading video.
Yeah video uploads require a switch to a phone hotspot.
I know you guys are not in Victoria Harbor but I would loooove to see a video of Elizabeth forcing Shawn to dress up and do High Tea at the Emporess.
Apparently, the starlink satellites have been spread out to cover more area. Sean has modified his panel to lay flat on the top of the boat. In doing so, he has stopped the ability of the panel to track the satellites. Starlinks quality has not gone down, but your panels' quality to track the satellites has been disabled. Maybe you should get a second panel and compare it to the other. One that has tracking capabilities.
Love it from St albert
Starlink is the future. But the marine version will always be expensive.
Even though I own Starlink, and have for two years now (full time RVer), you might be better off with OneWeb, once it's rolled out. Speed will be slower, latency higher, but because of their higher, slower moving orbit, it'll be better for jittery receivers, like on a boat.
You need to put the arm again on the satellite that the satellite can move and search for best signal
Ours is free to move and we are experiencing exactly the same on the east coast. Worked great all summer and starting end of Oct/Nov it’s been crap, especially after 5pm
Ours is free to move and we are experiencing exactly the same on the east coast. Worked great all summer and starting end of Oct/Nov it’s been crap, especially after 5pm
Starlink is oversubscribed in SW Ontario. I went to order, and I’d have to wait list. I could get a mobile unit, but their disclaimer is they can’t guarantee speeds.
You’ll have to work on the Eh? I’d didn’t roll of the tongue just right. 😂
Recently Starlink released a new dish for RV's and Boats. It's a little bigger, and is flat. Not sure which one you have.
get the new enhanced RV package this is meant to work better than the domestic version as it tracks more satellites and the ones it uses are V 1.5, removing the gimble does reduce performance
You have AllClad cookware..I have 19 pieces and gonna try to do with 3 on the boat.
Starlink hasn't faulted down here in New Zealand and have had it for over a yr
Got mate live in Country side love it only thing that work good for them they are way down South near BUFF
I enjoyed this upload! Always great seeing a video from you guys. How does it work on the water getting into Canada? Is there a border patrol station you pass? Lol
I just finished watching the last few minutes of the video, got it now! Haha
Cant wait to see the upcoming episode where you shovel a foot of snow off your decks...
SNOW? This is Victoria. We do get snow but it is normally once MAYBE twice a year and normal years its about 4 inches. Having said that we did get a foot this January and was gone in 3 days.
NICE
Welcome to Canada eh!!
I wonder if by disabling the Gimble feature of the antenna it has impaired reception.
um DUH! why do you think it's Gimballed? This are not geostationary satellites but a modified LEOs (Low Earth Orbit...) they are constantly traveling at significant speeds along their orbits. In addition, Starling has not figured out their Satellite to Satellite laser communications technology (Ii think it is scheduled to debut just after the Autonomous Telsa Taxi fleet or the Free Speech Twitter platform with NFT Verification but I could be wrong :-) so they rely on ground stations for all backhaul. This can be problematic depending where you are located and can become more challenging in marine applications where ground stations can be very limited.. It's fabulous technology but like any other, has it's tradeoffs esp when you hack it....
Victoria is such a great town. At least in the warmer months. I think star link has rerouted many of the existing satellites to better serve the area around Ukraine. And we noticed a gradual decline a well since that activity began.
Saw a video this week saying that the FCC has given Starlink to evaluate about 100 prototype antennas. Shouldn’t take long. So, there is a V.3 antenna coming - possibly a Giga antenna!
Starlink is amazing at our home
As a long haul driver it's been my experience with Canada or U.S. customs that how quickly or slowly you clear customs depends completely on the person who you are dealing with and it's pretty random.
When I used the word "dock", they said that I couldn't be on a dock. Then, I used the word "float" and was allowed to check in.
It still works over 10 knots.
TIP: I've seen a few videos on your Starlink problem. Slowdowns seem to happen after software updates. I may have this part wrong so search for those videos. It seems if you do a reboot of the system, and sometimes it takes several reboots, it seems to improve things.
Will we get to see you share a beer with Peter from Travel with Geordie?
Happy holidays
Hope you visited Peter Knowles on MV Geordie while you was there 🙂🛥
Hey! How did you get the numbers to stick on your RIB? I’m not having luck with the normal boat numbers. Thanks for your posting! We enjoy keeping up with y’all!
The information on starlight
in Victoria make sure upu go to Capital Iron on store St. northing they dont have
unfortunately it just closed forever yesterday. Almost 100 years. :(
@@2010willyz ohno that cant happen I go ther everytime I go to the island
If you're in Victoria, maybe look up Peter Knowles, You-Tuber 'Travels with Geordie' has 2 boats in Victoria inner harbour, really nice guy
We were right by him apparently but Shawn was too shy to go talk to him 😏
Hope you will read this and perhaps can answer it in a Q&A. Am kind of curious to your electricity and heat supply. Do you always run the generator 24/7 when you are out in a bay or do you mostly rely on the Litiums, even when in winter their capacity is reduced ? Also, what do you have as a heating system ? Run a diesel central heating unit or do you work with an air conditioning system that can also provide hot air ? Shaun has touched the lithiums in a different video, but after that I heard you guys say you were running the generator, so am kind of confused now. As far as I remember you don't have solar panels to re-charge the batteries.
We’ve talked about that a lot in previous videos but will try to touch on it again in an upcoming video since this is our first cold winter with the lithium batteries.
@@mvfreedom thanks for the quick reply. I have seen your lithium episode, was very informative, so were thinking you would run on the batteries most of the time.
But then I heard a remark in this video that you did not run the generator during the night, which made me wonder if the lithiums were functioning well in winter time or not or that you have enough capacity on board? Maybe you can discuss the overall satisfaction and capacity with the lithium batteries (after quite a while of using them) in an upcoming episode ?
As for the heating, perhaps you have touched this subject in a different video, but then have missed it. Am curious how the heating system affects the capacity of the lithium batteries ? With the heating on, do you still have enough capacity for the rest of the systems on board ?
We have a kabola heater on board, but the Amp usage of the pumps I do need to take into consideration when calculating battery capacity.
Thanks and enjoy your travels, the scenery in this video looked breath taking.
@@mvfreedom Have you given any thought to putting in a Dickinson Diesel (Newport) Heater?
Starlink satellites are supposed to be the low earth orbit link to ground stations. If you don't have enough ground stations the gateway will get very slow with more users piling on.
The idea for Starlink was that the Satellites could exchange data to connect with the best ground station via laser communication transfer between low earth orbit satellites. The laser comm's are not working yet to the best of my knowledge.
Welcome to Vancouver
I wonder if the drop off in performance is in any way related to the dish NOT being able to align itself with the satellite after Sean removed the mechanism that allowed it to do that? Especially as you travel further north and the likelihood satellites being overhead is less - satellites are typically placed to benefit the majority of the earth's population. It doesn't make any sense having satellites going over the poles for example.
Anyway too late now to fix that problem. Loved the music in this episode!
Likely not since it was great until October when a lot of other folks also noted that speeds dropped. Here in Canada it’s AMAZING!
@@mvfreedom OK just theorising...Fair 💨following 🌊
Have you ever been to Kwatsi Bay?? My Wife and I spent a few summers there a while back when we hitched a ride with her sister.
I follow the Sea Venture channel and they’ve had incredible service with Starlink off the Mexican/California coast. Might just be your latitude?
Re Starlink, do you think that not removing the articulating arm could have helped if the satellites within capture azimuth would be a stronger signal with the articulation? Haven't seen anyone else use this approach, relying entirely on the phased array capture.
We’re finding that outside of Seattle it gets much better, and apparently in Canada it’s blazing fast!!!
@@mvfreedom - We used Starlink up in Canada all last summer and it worked everywhere....we also shared with others next to us on the docks and when on anchor...everyone loved us for that....out in the middle of nowhere and full speed ahead on the internet !!! :-)
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After using your dingy can you show you running fresh water thru the lower unit to flush out the salt water?...Best...SV Aquila...
Christmas/New years is here. Any chance we can get a gratuities video of the the fur babies? Capt Sully and Adm Martha run your boat you know....
Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦 eh.
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If Starlink isn't working for you in the relatively unpopulated areas you visit imagine what the performance would be like near a big city.
I remember reading about an island in the Pacific, one of the French ones I think where customs would confiscate any raw meat you had onboard and then invite you to a barbeque that night to eat it.
The gunshot you hear is just the neighbors
Are not getting along again.
How did you learn how to all operations on the boat. Did you have to hire a captain, when you first started out?
Sounds like it's time for the new mobile starlink dish
Question; why do you anchor at times with the anchor bridle or times not.
I have Starlink as well on my boat and I’ve travelled the east coast with now problems. You didn’t mention that you modified yours, and by doing so restricting its movement that it needs to receive other satellites. Mine turns everyday sometimes multiple times. Just sayin.
It was flawless until literally one day when things went south, around the time many other people in our area noticed the same. It’s likely congestion but has been great in more remote areas as it was intended to be.