Starlink “Pause” Policy Change

[rideandfly]

Just did a speed test on standby mode. Uploaded this photo with Starlink on Standby mode. 

[rideandfly]

14 minutes ago, Steve Morris said:

Hmm, I did not receive an email from Starlink concerning anything about pausing my account. 🤷‍♂️

Check Spam.

[Steve Morris]

18 minutes ago, rideandfly said:

Check Spam.

I already had. Nothing there. Maybe because I’ve never used pause since activating my account. 

[rideandfly]

27 minutes ago, Steve Morris said:

I already had. Nothing there. Maybe because I’ve never used pause since activating my account. 

Sounds right.

Just ordered a Starlink Router for the Mini this morning, after placing the Mini on standby mode at home, it works OK but getting too far away from the dish in the house slows down service even more. The Router should help that situation at home and camping.

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by rideandfly

[Steve Morris]

41 minutes ago, rideandfly said:

Sounds right.

Just ordered a Starlink Router for the Mini this morning, after placing the Mini on standby mode at home, it works OK but getting too far away from the dish in the house slows down service even more. The Router should help that situation at home and camping.

That's why I changed to a POE cable to the Mini, as several others here have done. Here in eastern US, trees are everywhere, and I might need to get the Mini 50-150 feet away to connect. But instead of Starlink's router, I've connected it to my Peplink cellular router, so the cell connection can kick in whenever there's a Starlink dropout.

[Mike and Carol]

37 minutes ago, rideandfly said:

Just ordered a Starlink Router for the Mini this morning, after placing the Mini on standby mode at home, it works OK but getting too far away from the dish in the house slows down service even more. The Router should help that situation at home and camping.

We haven’t needed our router yet.  With the dish on the box on the tongue we get a strong signal.  I’ve now got it on the truck tonneau cover, we’re under a lot of trees (Lake Tahoe, CA).  Even with a narrow view of the sky it’s working well.

My sophisticated mount.

 

Sky view.

 

There’s a bunch of satellites racing through that blue patch.