[Starlink] Re: Starlink Standby Mode

[Oleg Kutkov <contact@olegkutkov.me>]

Well. I prefer a good old free pause.
I have seven Starlink terminals on my account, and I mostly don't use 
them, except for some experiments, occasional tests, firmware dumps, and 
similar purposes.
Now they will charge me $35 each month for basically nothing.

On 9/9/25 23:14, Luis A. Cornejo via Starlink wrote:
> There is another electric cooperative in my county that did just that.
> Strung fiber along the posts, I was not lucky enough to be part of their
> territory. But from people that I know it’s similar that’s it’s fast but
> not always reliable, so storms can take some down, often around here it’s
> also a backhoe, and when it does down, it’s down for a while.
>
> But I agree, it’s a great backup. Although it probably costs almost as much
> to run in electricity as the service itself! =o)
>
> -Luis
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM Colin_Higbie via Starlink <
> starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
>> I find the Standby mode to be a great backup option. $5/mo for unlimited
>> low-bandwidth usage. This is something I've been urging them to offer for
>> about a year now.
>>
>> About 18 months after I originally purchased and subscribed to Starlink,
>> our power company (not phone company as you'd expect, really our electric
>> power company) rolled out fiber to rural communities in northern NH. As
>> great as Starlink was compared to what we had before, fiber is even better
>> now that it's available (1Gbps for $79/mo, consistently tests as A on
>> Bufferbloat). But it's not 100% reliable. For example, when there are
>> widespread power outages, it goes down. The Starlink standby option is
>> perfect for those situations.
>>
>> Latency remains decent, just limited bandwidth. And if the fiber outage
>> remains in effect for too long, we could always activate Starlink at full
>> bandwidth for that month, where it appears they're taking that option away
>> from people with inactive accounts not already on Standby mode (they may be
>> bluffing on that – you'd think they would want to make it easy for anyone
>> to give them money and resubscribe, standby customer or not).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Colin
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Best regards,
Oleg Kutkov