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Strange - I see them on sale for $199 CAD.

They seem to be sprouting from off-grid cabins around here. I'm posting from one right now via Starlink :)

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If you have the will to resell, you could do a WISP: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/22/1118734792/michigan-man-isp-f....

What something sales for and what something costs are two completely different things.

Quite often game consoles sell for less than the cost of production, they make it back on the games/services you buy.

Yes, but the point of the article is that they aren't doing this any more.

I'm pointing out that's not true if you live in certain places.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/05/03/starlink-hardware-sale-70...

"SpaceX’s satellite internet platform currently has its hardware on sale for $199 for rural Canadians, down from the usual $759."

Starlink was good but not for me because I was surrounded by trees. I had an interruption every 3 mins. Sometimes for a couple of seconds and sometimes for a few minutes. There’s no disruption when you’re streaming things but it makes video calls almost impossible which is what I needed the most for my job. Ended up keeping starlink and reenabling my Viasat system just for the video calls. I have a wired fiber connection now and it’s heaven.

A hack I’ve seen people do is to mount Starlink to the top of a tall tree (and cut the very top off the tree).

It has a built-in IMU, and can tolerate some ridiculous amount of sway since the phased array antenna can steer the beam so quickly.

Yeah I considered it but the trees around my house were 70-80 ft high so it wasn’t trivial.

How long until lightning takes it out? Or a strong storm takes the tree down.

For a lot of people, it’s a worthwhile risk.

Starlink has historically replaced them for free if lightning strikes them (this was early in beta when I paid attention, so the policy may have changed).

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