A Carnival guest and YouTuber who tried to push the boundaries of Carnival’s prohibited items list had his portable satellite dish confiscated during a cruise.
Richard Shillington, who runs the “No Pants Profits” channel, bought a Starlink Mini dish for $599 with a $250 per month subscription, to use while sailing on Carnival Miracle.
He was able to film a video for his channel and broadcast it while sailing, but once the video was posted he was called to the hotel director’s office and had his dish confiscated.
Shillington later said that he felt it was a vague prohibited items list since it only banned “satellite discs”, but Carnival has updated that now to show “satellite dishes”.
During his video, Shillington demonstrated how he’s also bought the ship’s Premium WiFi package which uses Starlink, and was getting download speeds of less than 4 Mbps.
But using his own portable dish in the same location, he was able to get download speeds of 123 Mbps.
This can be partially attributed to the fact that guests are paying for access to the cruise line’s network connection, meaning they’re sharing the speeds with everyone else on the cruise.
However, it shows what could be possible if guests were allowed to bring their own dishes onto the ship, which YouTubers and other remote workers may be tempted to do.
Of course, if their portable dish is discovered, they would have it confiscated and held until the end of the cruise.
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