Starlink Overview for RVers & Boaters - Part 2: Selecting Your Data Plan

The second part of our video series overviewing Starlink for RV and boat nomadic use. This video covers the various data plans Starlink offers, and how to choose the right one to match your nomadic needs.
From fixed locations, portable and in motion usage.
Be sure to also catch the other videos in this series going over the Pros & Cons and Equipment.
For our full Starlink guide (including the other videos):
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0:00 Intro
0:28 Starlink Data Plans
0:52 Portability Types
1:30 Priority Levels
2:19 Plan: Mobile
4:10 Plan: Mobile Priority
5:48 Plan: Standard
7:44 Plan: Priority
9:17 Picking Your Plan
10:38 Wrap-Up
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[@bineausmiami]

You guys are awesome thank you for all the information. I'm an RV er and have starlink already since 2 years but I'm always amazed by how detailed your information is. Thanks so much Cherie and Chris by the way you guys look 😃👍 great

[@Bigfishfun333]

Great!

[@Dimmer333]

It would be awesome if you sent someone to do some speed testing at La Posa Long Term Visitor Area in Quartzsite Arizona around January during the peak snowbird season.

[@harleysoltes]

A most excellent review of the plans. I had been very confused till now. I am in the USA but my boat is in Europe and that is where I want to install and use my Starlink. Should I buy it in the USA and take it with me (Gen 3 not in EU yet)? If I do, should I activate it here first using Global Roam then pause till I go to Europe (I don't yet need offshore use..all coastal). Or should it be purchased in EU when I get there? I assume they will gave a Gen 3 there before Summer.

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

If your primary use will be EU, it is likely easiest to purchase and activate there.

[@dannyxavier18]

Can you use the standard $90/$120 fixed location option and use it while camping away from home? Instead of a mobile Roam plan

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

Yes. As covered in the video, you will need to update your address at each location.

[@florensdejong12]

Can i use the normal high performance model in motion ? Like the standard actuated version ?

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

Hi there. I assume you are referring to the original High Performance dish with the pole and the motors since you compared it to the Standard Actuated. Technically that dish was never approved for in motion with the pole option although it was originally sold as a marine unit. There should be no reason it wouldn't work with the correct Mobile Priority plan, but you would be on your own to come up with a design to mount it flat since no one ever designed a flat mount for that dish since the Flat HP dish came out soon after and was officially designed for in motion use. That dish is quite a bit larger and also weighs quite a bit more than the Standard Actuated so securing it would be important. We can't advise you to go this route so it's at your own risk.

[@teekev125]

If I opt for a plan that restricts me to my home continent, I live in the US. If I decide to go to the Caribbean, is that considered North America? If you chose to take Y-not to the Bahamas, would you have to change anything?

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

Yes, the Caribbean is in North America - anywhere marked as Land on their maps will be usable with the Mobile Regional plan. Ocean areas will require Mobile Priority data.

[@jws3925]

Can you pause the Standard plan for a month at a time?

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

No.. but as mentioned in the video, you can cancel and restart. Which is essentially the same thing.

[@696johnboy]

Thank you for helping me decide not to get starling at this time😀

[@FulltimingBrinkley3950]

I wish they offered an unlimited plan that doesn’t include priority data for the in motion Starlink. I need in motion with a permanent mount on my 5th wheel but refuse to pay $250/month just so I can have a permanent mount Starlink. Give me an in motion permanent mount Starlink with unlimited standard service and I’d be very happy.

[@MobileInternetResourceCenter]

You can switch your plan to Mobile (you may need to cancel and restart service - really no big deal), and just purchase Priority data as you need should Starlink ever enforce their terms that require Priority Data for high speed in motion use.