STILL NONE THE WISER!

It's not for lack of trying to find out that we remain ignorant of the best way for those of us who are not mega-rich to get online aboard our boats. Admittedly, we haven't tried to get the low-down by going online, but that's the whole point...
Most of those who are not online at home cannot easily use the Internet to find out how to alter that state of affairs. We ask other live-aboard sailors but, so far, we haven't received a straightforward answer that we could understand. 

It has been explained to us that one can connect the SSB radio to a laptop computer and download weather charts and that sounds fine, but we would really like to know how ordinary people can use either a mobile phone or an SSB to send and receive e-mails and, maybe, even upload to a website, without having to spend a fortune. We can accept that there may be a limit to the range over which this can be done and we would really appreciate it if someone would spell out to us, in words of one syllable, what the options and possibilities are.

We have been blinded by science, time and again so, if you can help with some information, we'd love to hear from you. We have no doubt, since none of them are online aboard, as yet, that many of our cruising friends and acquaintances who visit these pages would also be fascinated to know...