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There's always a guy in these threads and this time it's me. Sure wish they had an a-la-cart option. We're in the Trailer 6 weeks a year, over 5 trips, and sta
by Damogran6 3y ago
There's always a guy in these threads and this time it's me.
Sure wish they had an a-la-cart option. We're in the Trailer 6 weeks a year, over 5 trips, and starlink internet access is $150 a month, for the full month.
This isn't unique to starlink, if I need any kind of bandwidth, it's $80 for a 100gb month of Verizon.
I'm already paying for tethering on the AT&T phones, and Comcast at home. This stuff really adds up if you're doing any kind of travel.
- tobyjsullivan 3y agoDo you mean an option to pay per Gb of usage, rather than monthly? At least its a possible offering now that they won't be losing money on the terminal (thus necessitating predictable time-to-recover via monthly subscription). That said, I wouldn't hold my breath. There are good reasons very few businesses offer that option alongside monthly plans.
- Damogran6 3y agoI'd be good for that, but those situations generally end up being more expensive than just buying a month. Not only that, it's trivially easy to have a single poorly choked device blow through a cap. (e.g. one laptop decides it wants to download paath updates...the Tier you have is $60 for 25gb or $80 for 100gb...or, you know, $150 for uncapped starlink.) The amount of brainspace required to have reliable internet access in an RV is crazy....and it won't be cheap.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoSounds like a secondary market opportunity. Keep 20 Starlink subscriptions, rent them out for a few days at a time at $8/day. $600 deposit on the antenna.
- Damogran6 3y agoI'm betting that's all sewn up in a click-wrap EULA somewhere.
- beaugunderson 3y agoDid they remove the ability to pause the subscription when you're not using it? That was specific to the RV plan that I'm on.
- Damogran6 3y agoPausing is still there, but it's $150 a month, in month units.