starlink pricing

[yobigal]

I guess they decided to jump on the price increase band wagon.

We just got notified that our price is going up because of the area we are in.

We have the residential setup because we use it mainly at our stick and bricks.

 

[BobinICT]

Just got an email on the RV version. Going up $15 to now $150. Not pleased.

 

[yobigal]

The other issue is for those of us using at sticks and bricks we can no longer take it camping unless we switch to RV mode. Once switched you can't go back to residential.
We will have the option to change our address but you take the risk when you try to change back to sticks and bricks address that there will be availability in that area still.

 

[MoonShadow_1911]

It probably doesn't matter where your domicile is for the RV package. We are domicile in Texas and got the increase notice as well.

 

[trailrydr]

I guess they decided to jump on the price increase band wagon.

We just got notified that our price is going up because of the area we are in.

We have the residential setup because we use it mainly at our stick and bricks.

Musk gotta start collecting money for all those recalls and lawsuits over his self driving cars and poor investment into Twitter.

 

[Tom Traveler]

The other issue is for those of us using at sticks and bricks we can no longer take it camping unless we switch to RV mode. Once switched you can't go back to residential.
We will have the option to change our address but you take the risk when you try to change back to sticks and bricks address that there will be availability in that area still.

This is a significant change in policy. I just reviewed the Starlink policies. Portability is no longer available, but only in the United States. Apparently, it is available everywhere else in the world. Lucky us. Also, if you switch from residential to RV, you can’t go back - ”Please note, that we cannot offer customers the ability to change from RV back to Residential at this time”

All of this, plus the 10% price increase, is making Starlink a poor option for us. The inability to add portability to residential service is a deal-killer for us. Back to a cellular hot-spot. Maybe RV parks will step up their game and provide Wi-fi that actually works. We are 0 for 6 at RV parks that “provide” wi-fi. (We are relatively new RVers). We can always get a good signal but there is never any data throughput. I suspected the park buys the equivalent of 1 residential or small business account and expects it to serve 100+ users.

 

[Hoopy Frood]

I think expecting RV parks to be able to supply wifi capable of streaming is not realistic. Least ways unless you're willing to start paying triple digit prices regularly. Most RV park wifi is much improved over what it was 7-10 years ago when it was almost non-existent. Consider what high speed internet access cost individually and then compound that by 40-100 people. And that price is regardless of whether it is being used. When asked about cable television access a few years ago, we were told that the prices just were too much to maintain, especially since it was a constant price, not variable according to usage.

We have no issues with campground wifi much anymore, as long as you stick to normal surfing, occasional utube videos. I think one has to tailor their expectations when it comes to RV park wifi abilities. JMO of course.

 

[Tom Traveler]

I think expecting RV parks to be able to supply wifi capable of streaming is not realistic. Least ways unless you're willing to start paying triple digit prices regularly. Most RV park wifi is much improved over what it was 7-10 years ago when it was almost non-existent. Consider what high speed internet access cost individually and then compound that by 40-100 people. And that price is regardless of whether it is being used. When asked about cable television access a few years ago, we were told that the prices just were too much to maintain, especially since it was a constant price, not variable according to usage.

We have no issues with campground wifi much anymore, as long as you stick to normal surfing, occasional utube videos. I think one has to tailor their expectations when it comes to RV park wifi abilities. JMO of course.

Web surfing use or email would be great. We’ve never even gotten that. We can always connect with a decent signal, but no data.

 

[Hoopy Frood]

That does seem odd, we haven't had a wifi RV park in several years that, unless they said the wifi was poor, worked well for surfing, email, and Facebook. But it pretty much is a crap shoot at RV parks in general.

 

[Tom Traveler]

That does seem odd, we haven't had a wifi RV park in several years that, unless they said the wifi was poor, worked well for surfing, email, and Facebook. But it pretty much is a crap shoot at RV parks in general.

I might be doing something wrong with our wi-fi system. I've never done anything to set it up. I think we are just seeing the campground signal instead of using our RV system.

 

[Hoopy Frood]

I've not used the RV system so know nothing about that, but I wasn't aware that it provided internet access.

 

[trailrydr]

This is a significant change in policy. I just reviewed the Starlink policies. Portability is no longer available, but only in the United States. Apparently, it is available everywhere else in the world. Lucky us. Also, if you switch from residential to RV, you can’t go back - ....... Maybe RV parks will step up their game and provide Wi-fi that actually works. We are 0 for 6 at RV parks that “provide” wi-fi. (We are relatively new RVers). We can always get a good signal but there is never any data throughput. I suspected the park buys the equivalent of 1 residential or small business account and expects it to serve 100+ users.

While staying at a CG in Columbia MO, the owners were having a fiber line installed to the WIFI service for the CG. He said that he should be able to provide streaming service to all his campers once complete. So I think some are considering uping the game already.

However, we have (and probably always will) use our android hotspot for our internet. The DW still works and has no problem using a work related VPN over our cell while camping. So yeah, cant see paying for another sat service anytime soon.

 

[jsm180]

Not impressed at all. My justification for the higher price was being able to take it camping.

 

[MoonShadow_1911]

Well, now Starlink is on par with "unlimited" cell plans through MVNOs like Unlimitedville and Nomad Internet. I figured it was going to happen sooner or later (I was hoping for later, much later).

I have three hotspots as well, as a backup to Starlink, Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. All of them are limited so I'm not paying out the nose, but there have been a few RV parks, like the one we are staying at in Florida right now, that cell service for all three suck. I can't get better than 2 mbps down in any of them and I'm not going to drop another $600.00 for a cell booster just to back up Starlink.

I need Internet for my job, and between my wife's streaming and my work, we burn through right around 500 GB a month.

Oh well, gotta bite the bullet and pay the man, for now.

 

[geotex1]

All, let's see how it plays out. Residential portability is still in the official terms of service. The fear is stemming from a revised FAQ on the website. No one I can find out if the beta group/now customers have been notified in any official way we are losing portability from our residential plan. If it becomes official, I think the impact will be one that gets Musk's attention pretty fast since his entire goal is to build revenue and not cause it to decrease. Interestingly, somehow I'm now in a reclassified cell of limited capacity, and I really want to know how that's possible. The cell is not much larger than my entire Township which is both classified historic and protected, meaning the population isn't changing much and I can assure you only a tiny fraction of residents have Starlink!

 

[yobigal]

I'm not an original beta tester but have a residential service plan. I no longer have the ability to turn on portability on the screen like I did before. That option is missing. I'm guessing if I take the dish with me I will not get any signal when I try to set it up in new location. For those of you that had it turned on when they removed that option maybe you still have it.

 

[geotex1]

I'm not an original beta tester but have a residential service plan. I no longer have the ability to turn on portability on the screen like I did before. That option is missing. I'm guessing if I take the dish with me I will not get any signal when I try to set it up in new location. For those of you that had it turned on when they removed that option maybe you still have it.

After beta, I got a residential with portability. My account still shows it active as does the debug data. Right now Dishy is stationary on the RV, which is how I use it at home. If I get a chance in the next few days, I'll take Dishy down and set it up on the opposite side of the house, which is where the GPS shifts just enough to trigger portability to see what happens. If no longer working, Mr. Musk is going to have some serious 'splainin' to do.

 

[pengle]

RV Miles explained the new Starlink policy and pricing fairly quickly in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_0FKK2b_s

 

[jsm180]

I opened a support ticket and sent them the following;

"How do I turn on portability on my residential account. There is supposed to be a link on my accounts page according to the FAQ's but I cannot find it."

I'll play along until they admit they are violating the TOS.

 

[geotex1]

RV Miles explained the new Starlink policy and pricing fairly quickly in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_0FKK2b_s

Not really. He's just parroted what was issued via email and then the concern of uncertainty on portability that hit the chat boards. Unfortunately, like all YTers that become monetized, it is a rush to post first to get the view count to get the check at the end of the month. So, just like when "news" became a ratings game, reports become more gossip-like than Walter Cronkite "and that's the way it is..."

What is getting old about Starlink is the unbalanced burden on American customers. Nearly every other market in the world available to service has seen price reduction while we continue to escalate.