[Starlink] Re: Starlink Standby Mode

[J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>]

nothing better than free ;-) but it may cost them more than $5/mo to
maintain an active dish. don't they just want to keep as many
revenue-generating customers for an upcoming ipo?
--
J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM Oleg Kutkov via Starlink
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> Oleg Kutkov
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