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Steve Dunlap aboard Some Tuesday, mid-Pacific at roughly 117°W, 5°S en route to Nuku Hiva, delivers a Starlink setup guide built from 20 hours of troubleshooting at sea.Watch

On hardware: buy the Gen 3 standard dish at $350, mount it flat, and ignore the app's alignment warnings — Some Tuesday pulls 150 Mbps that way.1:04 Skip the Gen 2 motorized dish (known problems on boats) and the marine high-performance dish (nearly six Gen 3 units for the same price).1:04

On plans: the Roam Unlimited plan at $165/month is the pick; it enables Ocean Mode at $2/gigabyte, which activates in about 15 minutes and provides unlimited data within 12 miles of land.2:49 Critical: Ocean Mode does not turn off automatically when you return within 12 miles — forgetting this cost Dunlap $500 at a dock in El Salvador and cost another cruiser nearly $2,000.4:21

On redundancy: carry a Starlink Mini as a backup on the same service line (no extra monthly fee); activate it as a standalone device, not a mesh node, so it works independently if the primary dish fails.8:49 A third, unactivated Gen 3 sits in storage — firmware-updated every few months but not billed.9:48

On power: Starlink's own 12-volt DC power supply caused constant reboots and satellite-link failures after a $600 installation.13:35 Reverting to the stock AC power supply fixed everything immediately.13:56 The 12V supply's unreliability is a known forum issue; use AC.

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