The mini is capped at 50gb?
The initial Mini plan is $30 extra on top of your home starlink plan. You MUST have a home starlink plan in order to get the 'mini roam' plan. The 'mini roam' plan is initially capped at 50gb/mo. HOWEVER, you can opt into a $1/gb over 50gb for unlimited data. IE. if you used 150gb of data in a month, that is 100gb over the 50gb cap, resulting in an additional charge of $100 to your account.
Great info. So you can get the mini hardware without an existing plan, as long as you get a standard plan?
I work in IT on wildland fires. I have a company that I rent custom StarLink setups that mount to the hood of a truck with suction cups, has a built in inverter, and connects directly to the truck battery. All in one sealed CNC milled case. StarLink also just changed the policy to allow connection up to 100 mph. I've had operations guys tell me they are able to keep a connection while driving down the highway at 60 mph. Driving in the woods it's enough of a connection to get notifications and send text. If they need to join a teams call or something they find an opening. I've asked about purchasing one, but they said they are focused on wildland fire support right now.
got a link to your product? Id be curious if you would sell one. I have the mini already. Im on the GIS side and have been looking for a way to do some remote work and still get some camping in during fire season.
I gotta ask - what the heck do you do to use that much data for work? I never used that much when I was in IT/network security (tracking traffic to/from my equipment to watch for strange things) and at home, when my son was here using our limited cellular data plan, we never hit the limit while he was working online, doing all of these meetings he was in, remote support and more.
It's not my product, but one of a company that we do an EERA rental. DM me your work email or firenet email and I'll send you the brochure. You can reach out directly to the company.
He does GIS. Very large data sets moving up and down the pipe. I work fire it and monitor the network for anomalies, and I will watch a group of them burn through terabytes in days on wildfires.
Some heavy GIS work. Good ol gov is horrible inefficient as usual, so I work from home most of the time. We recently underwent changes, nationally, to our data storage servers to be more efficient. It is the opposite. To make it worse our office network where I am is terrible. 8mbps download on a good day. 250+ at home. So to counteract these issues I routinely download our entire forest database and re-upload with various changes. This way when at a meeting in person at any office I dont have to bother with Terrible network speeds that could bring a meeting to a dead stop. ‘They’ want to push us to 100% cloud based work which will be horrible for anyone in remote locations like myself.
OK, makes sense. Needs some hellish bandwidth then.
Gotcha. MAybe similar to what is being done with road and bridge construction project around here - although this is probably a lot more simplified and on a very very very much smaller scale. The equipment is literally guided by a virtual map of the area as it is, and as it's supposed to end up. Every detail is "mapped" out.
I had a real nice chat with one of the GIS IT guys recently who gave me access to special high compute servers. It has helped some. But the overall network issues are still a major bottleneck. So bad that some days all of us are just at a standstill. One of our districts did get starlink. But they went unconventional methods to get it and thus got their hands slapped and had to get rid of it. Its crazy how so much red tape causes inefficiencies that are just real bad. I always say, if the public really knew what actually went on in general gov practices, there would be a whole nation of very angry people. Some things are fantastic. But there are so many bottlenecks in areas that simply should not exist.
this in a nut shell is exactly it. Ill see if I can find some links tomorrow to share that are public. But basically thr whole forest is mapped. Roads, trails, etc. But also things we use for procesing and analysis that nobody has a clue about. Like wildlife areas for Griz or lynx or denning habitat, pilleated woodpecker nesting sites and goshawks too. Then other things like soil composition, slope, aspect, errosion factors, visibility analysis, stand structure and age, fire history, man the list goes on and on. AndI manage and manipulate it all. Thousands and thousands of lines of data with each line having dozens of different fields. The data can be overwhelming. I just finished a project, Redd Bull Decision 2 if you want to google it, that took me 4 months just to understand the data as it was partially completed before someone else left and handed to me. So it actually took that long to understand the project history and how it changed over time with different decisions in order to organize the data and analyze for various numbers, like miles of road that will receive surface hardening, or acres of regen harvest inskyline units (steep ground).
