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by delichon·1mo ago·view on hn ↗
At the other end they recently doubled the cost of the Starlink Mini standby plan, from $60 to $120 per year.
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I have a Starlink v2 dish and I pay $10 per month for a residential "standby" plan.

I only get 10G per month of bandwidth but I rarely use it since I have a fiber connection that is mostly reliable.

It might be a grandfathered plan because they don't list it anywhere I can see:

  - https://starlink.com/service-plans
  - https://starlink.com/roam
Edit: turns out this is a feature/mode and not a plan:

https://starlink.com/na/support/article/37bb3b47-9525-7224-5...

And, apparently, I now have to reactivate the service to one of the published plans if I want to use more than low-speed data. Previously, I still had high-speed bandwidth for $10 a month just not a lot of it.

They must have changed things recently. And, now that I'm thinking about it, I probably skimmed an email that said something about this a month or two ago but, since the charge was staying at $10 a month, didn't pay much attention to the details.

> At the other end they recently doubled the cost of the Starlink Mini standby plan, from $60 to $120 per year.

I kinda wanted to get one of those for standby, but the price seemed too good to be true, so I figured they'd either eliminate it or raise the price.

I noticed this too, but decided to keep my mini because I downgraded my max plan (I was defaulted to this as a customer since they started) to a bitrate I still won't reach, and by doing so am saving $480 per year.