[Starlink] Re: Starlink Standby Mode

["Luis A. Cornejo" <luis.a.cornejo@gmail.com>]

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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