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In motion has always been a feature (unoficially) Now they have decided to officially include it & charge for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by W&KO
Our original round dish is embedded into the roof of our truck (yes I cut a hole in the roof & its flush mounted) for over 2 years now & its always worked perfectly in motion.
Its now also cheaper to opt for the 50Gb plan ($80 a month) and pay an extra $3.00 ish per gb if you go over . Typically we use less than 100gb.
Just gets more appealing... Not sure mate :) Depends on your use case. For me I was initially happy to read about international travel aspect but 2 months only so still useless for us permanent overlanders. Back to the "move per country" scheme it is. In motion does sound appealing, although it unofficially worked except for a short time a few years back. I am still very much in doubt whether I should mount my dish permanently like goingbush has. I have the gen2 dish and fixing it permanently does mean permanently hacking it up [bighmmm] if I were to not mount it permanently the in motion stuff is quite irrelevant as well.
Personally, I do not think a 50GB plan is even close to enough but I never really measured my traffic per day/week/month. I do know that with streaming stuff and such traffic does add up quite a bit. Your average movie for example on amazon, netflix or whatever will certainly be 5GB at HD quality. That's "just" 10 movies per month and then the rest of the internet usage needs to be added to that.
If you only use it for simple stuff it would suffice, and who wants to watch netflix when you have the bush telly on :) But we would be also using it for work so that requires a connection without hiccups and preferably enough data. We will see as time goes on.
Cheers,
-P
Can you make mobile calls using Starlink? If it uses WiFi I sort of think it should, but nothing I read on the Starlink site mentioned phone comms.
Yes Starlink does support wifi/data calling if your phone is capable. Our phones do it automatically but some require you to physically turn it on in the phone.
Sure can….it was our solution for 6 months while doing some seasonal workQuote:
Originally Posted by DieselLSE
Yes, we also use it for phone calls. It's a thousand times better than a sat phone and your text messages come through also.
Can you have all the hardware installed and just activate it for when you’re away and put the plan on hold while the camper is sitting around at home?
Sure can….Quote:
Originally Posted by John_D4
The plan is called roam(ing). You can pause it whenever you like and reactive when you need it. Just throw the starlink gear into the car/camper and you're done. Permanently wiring it up/mounting it does require some attention but it is definitely a good solution. I had mine "paused" for almost two years and it reactivated no problem. It did take quite a while to get up and running though since it installed a bunch of OTA updates for both the dish and the router and rebooted several times. I would recommend that you resume the plan whilst at home and let it do it's thing for a couple of hours in the driveway so that it is updated, tested and ready to go.
Cheers,
-P
Wwhat I was advised to do and have done is even when the account/dish is paused hook it up at home every month or so and let it do updates as required, you don't have to activate it to get updates.
With the "new" options on a roam account of 50GB for $80 on all dishy's, international roaming and up to 12km to sea they're going to be popular.
Then there are the current discounts for the 3rd gen at Bunnings, JB and Officeworks as well.
With the 50gb for $80 it has to be an option for some for home use as well, cheaper than most of the NBN providers with no speed constraints.