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I believe that will be for safety reasons. US liability laws are "interesting".Quote:
Originally Posted by W&KO
Just my opinion, but I can't see them preventing access from older equipment as long as it's stationary, if the extra "roaming" fee is paid. Of course, anything is possible, given how new SL is, all going to come down to profits.
It’s not for safety reasons as in-motion has just been released……but the hardware is like 10x mores and the monthly access is 2-3 times more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
Starling have been pausing accounts that are using the RV/Roam unit on boats. I reckon they crack down on the car using it given in-motion is available in AUS
Time will tell…we hit the road again in September , will see if anything changes between now and than
Cheers. Have to admit my info is a bit out of date as the budget has not been there for me to get it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by W&KO
Just don't use it whilst driving :)
What I am more interested in is the "though shalt not use it outside of your own area" meaning, using the starlink device outside the country or "region" whatever that may be it was bought. I know an internet bloke who bought it in south america and is paying significantly less per month. It seems the price of the unit and subscription is adapted to the median income per country or smth. By that same token, I know of overlanders from germany who brought their unit over to south america and it is still working as of a month ago. However, starlink introduced the subscription option "mobile global" which costs more than twice as much so I wonder if they will be cracking down on that... I was hoping to use our starlink on the road but if they do enforce that, it'll not just become pricey but generally unaffordable to us :(
Cheers,
-P
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I’m getting more value out of starlink over the last 5 months than I Eve have out of the cosmosQuote:
Originally Posted by RobMichelle
Yea,, but not the HP Flat panel mount on your roof permanently type...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
The one I want is around 200 a month,, plus hardware!
Seems like Starlink are offering refurbished equipment for $299 until Jan 5. I have no more info.
It's been a while since I last used my starlink (about two years I reckon) so I thought I'd unpack it and set it up to see what's what before we go to the abenteuer und alrad messe in a couple of days.
I expected some trouble since the device was off for so long. I did power it up a year ago and let it sit so it could fetch updates (without activating the subscription) but never checked if it worked. So I got it out today and plonked the dish outside (wooded area) and plugged it in. I could connect to the wifi router named "starlink" which surprised me. Turns out that the router had lost all settings and had gone back to default. No biggy, I simply made a new wifi SSID and gave it a password and done.
I then reactivated the plan (via my PC since you can't do that trough starlink if you do not have it activated it seems which I would like to see them fix) and waited for a couple of hours. I downloaded a dish update, a bunch of updates for the router and what not, it rebooted half a dozen times and started on it's merry way to find where the hell all the satellites had gone :) Eventually it found it's way and it is up and running again. Not bad! but I am glad I did all this before I reached my camp site.
On the camp-site I suspect there will be (by now) many MANY starlink users so I am looking forward to doing this experiment to see what happens when all of a sudden in an area where probably no one owns/operates a starlink unit dozens of units will want to make use of it.
What I did notice though is that the mobile - global roaming plan has increased price to 450 euros a month! (that's almost 750AUD) so I am seriously doubting that I will be taking that thing with me on our trip because there is no way we are going to be able to pay that. A shame really. I guess the only option is to buy a new starlink per region and have mobile region plans and sell it when we leave that particular region.
Cheers,
-P
