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I’m not living this lifestyle, but I feel that Starlink will drastically alter this market and open up so much more remote working environments. You should consider to at least sign up for the beta so you can get access sooner, theoretically you would get 100+ mbps anywhere in the US with no caps within the next year or so, and I’m guessing they’ll make a remote-friendly plan. Right now you officially can’t travel with the dish, but they’ve unofficially said there’s no limit imposed on the dish location.

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> I feel that Starlink will drastically alter this market and open up so much more remote working environments

You're not allowed to use Starlink in other location than you ordered. It's not for nomads.

https://www.starlink.com/legal/terms-of-service-preorder

6.3 You acknowledge that you are only authorized to access Services at the location identified on your Order, and you will not divert the Starlink Kit or Services to any other locations

Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.

What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.

They've said they want to allow moving dishes

What the price options looks like in 12-24 months time is anyones guess. Personally I'd love to buy 250 dishes (at full price, $2k each or whatever), but skip the monthly charge (or have some sort of pool agreement)

Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part.

The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can.

For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move.

It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.

Although at the moment Starlink does not allow for roaming.

I assume its to prevent beta users from selling their kits to musketeers.

"Your Starlink is assigned to a single cell. If you move your Starlink outside of its assigned cell, a satellite will not be scheduled to serve your Starlink and you will not receive internet. This is constrained by geometry and is not arbitrary geofencing."

https://www.starlink.com/faq

I really hope so. I'm actually eligible for the beta where I live, but like you said, the plan doesn't travel. fingers crossed

Do you really wanna be lugging a rather awkwardly big dish around every time you check into your next airbnb or hotel room?

We're in an RV, so the dish wouldn't be a huge burden. Wouldn't want to do that at a hotel, but I also assume wifi is easier to manage at hotels or airbnbs.

Put it on your truck or your boat.

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