New Starlink Deprioritised plan available for $79 per month

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#3204305 7-Mar-2024 21:50

Yeah I'd ignore that loaded latency, it will be due to the load balancing doing weird things. On Starlink only, loaded latency is around 100ms.

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#3206266 14-Mar-2024 10:50

Have just switched to this plan for one of our work sites. Hopefully not much of a speed reduction as all of our usage is 9-5 Mon-Fri. Even 100mbps is fine for a few teams calls and remote access.

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#3206275 14-Mar-2024 11:06

jameshammond:
Have just switched to this plan for one of our work sites. Hopefully not much of a speed reduction as all of our usage is 9-5 Mon-Fri. Even 100mbps is fine for a few teams calls and remote access.

I fear customers doing this and then speed being an issue.

Highly unlikely to happen but still...

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#3206308 14-Mar-2024 12:27

I have a reminder in my calendar to check performance when the plan downgrades next week. If there is a big impact we will revert, and I will post here.

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#3206309 14-Mar-2024 12:30

Decided to sign up to this Starlink offer after 5 years of a VDSl 28/1.5 Mbs connection. Which I was told would never get better and fibre would not be available in my lifetime.
The cost was $199 for a refurb dish ( looked brand new to me) and $65 for an ethernet connector.
Arrived in a week and I stuck it on the lawn to see how well it worked. In less than 10 minutes
it was up and running reporting speed in excess of 200Mbs download and 35Mbs upload. left it there for a week and it was rock solid. No outages consistently fast speed.
Bought an adaptor on trademe so I could mount it on my defunct satellite dish pole on the roof all working great after I connected it into my home network. Still achieving high download and upload speeds night and day . Latency varies between 27ms and 50 ms.
Really surprised how well and easy it works. at $79 per month it costs less than my current vdsl connection which I today have arranged to be disconnected.

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#3207166 17-Mar-2024 16:00

Is this plan likely to stay at $79 or increase once excess people start signing up?

Is the ping lower/going to be lower on deprioritized rather than standard?

What sort of range can be expected from the routers?

I'm happy with 50mb/s +, is it likely to drop below this?

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#3207175 17-Mar-2024 16:46

Couldn't say for sure obviously but given that they rate the plan for 50-100mbps downstream on the official website, it makes sense to me that they would let the service become congested to the point that you would get those speeds at peak before they do anything about it. That wouldn't bother me too much but might have implications for latency sensitive stuff.

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#3207232 17-Mar-2024 17:50

u13turbo: Is this plan likely to stay at $79 or increase once excess people start signing up?

Is the ping lower/going to be lower on deprioritized rather than standard?

What sort of range can be expected from the routers?

I'm happy with 50mb/s +, is it likely to drop below this?

I can confirm that the wifi from the starlink router is rubbish which is why I got the starlink ethernet adaptor and connected into my old google wifi mesh system.
Download speeds throughout the house never drop below 100Mbs and rise to a reported 269Mbs the closer to the starlink router.
My VOIP phone connection seems to work better as well for some reason.

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#3207305 17-Mar-2024 19:20

I'd put money on future price rises for this deprioritised plan once increased uptake plateau.

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#3207336 17-Mar-2024 21:50

u13turbo: Is this plan likely to stay at $79 or increase once excess people start signing up?

Don't know, but the Standard Starlink plan in NZ is one is the most expensive in the world (https://www.starlink-prices.com/personal/residential/usd/high), so having a lower priced plan would bring us more into alignment with Europe.

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#3207341 17-Mar-2024 21:56

tim0001:

Don't know, but the Standard Starlink plan in NZ is one is the most expensive in the world (https://www.starlink-prices.com/personal/residential/usd/high), so having a lower priced plan would bring us more into alignment with Europe.

But normal internet is among the most expensive in the world once you take US out of the equation so they only need to compete with what else is available here, not other countries.

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#3209004 21-Mar-2024 08:30

Speed update: My plan switched over to 'Deprioritised' last night and I ran a speed test this morning at 5am. 312Mbps down, 43Mbps up, Latency 25ms

These are the fastest speeds I've ever got (but within margin of error) so its nice to know there isn't an arbitrary speed cap for being on the lower tier plan.

Right now at 8:30am it is marginally slower at 259Mbps down, 41 Mbps up but still within my historical normal range. I'll test again tonight at 9pm which I assume is about peak usage and see if there is a big drop off

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#3209005 21-Mar-2024 08:35

Additional setup details if useful

Area: Te Awamutu, Waikato
Hardware: V1 Dishy connected directly into Deco X60 mesh in Wi-fi router mode. Starlink router not used.
Testing: Speedtest.net run on the router from Deco app

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#3209010 21-Mar-2024 09:04

myfullflavour: I'd put money on future price rises for this deprioritised plan once increased uptake plateau.

Starlink will follow the regular "Tech Bros" operating model of offering a good service for a pretty good price for the firs few years while building up its customer base. Their pricing will be aggressive enough to burn off competition,

Then there will be a demand from investors to be able to "get in" on this good thing, and it will be bundled up for an IPO, this will then make the existing owner a truck load of money - along with the public/institutions that get in with the original IPO offer.

3-4 years down the track ( or sooner) Investors will decide that the valuation of the company compared to its revenue is to high and thus a regular round of price hikes will occur to test the elasticity and "stickyness" of their customers, if they continue to remain at the higher price points then the cycle will repeat with more price rises until it starts to impact customer numbers,

We've seen similar rounds of price increases with companies like Netflix and others, and once its on the open market I certainly don't believe they will leave money in customers pockets if they can get in theirs....

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#3209413 22-Mar-2024 05:43

Speeds were 171Mbps down and 41Mbps up. Very very happy with that

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