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Starlink Mini 2

Starlink Mini 2

robertjfclarke

Comments (194)

  • rmm
    This has completely changed my industry (hard rock mining). A lot of the time drillers would be in the middle of nowhere looking for resources and would be sometimes days away from providing results (which also lead to lots of dodgy situations where drillers would know some results before market…) now it’s instant live feed. It’s made revising drilling plans trivial. Very cool
  • Gshaheen
    Maybe it's just me, but the heart of going camping, adventuring, out into the wild, going to the beach, etc (essentially, getting away from it all), seems in nearly direct opposition to having internet at every single one of these places.
  • noodlesUK
    I want so badly for starlink to offer a sensible well priced self-service B2B offering with fleet management. Any kind of fixed, high bandwidth IoT device that currently has a SIM card could easily use a starlink. As it stands SMBs who want this have to screw around with residential starlink and live in fear that they’ll get banned.
  • modeless
    Removable battery is cool. Does "quick-swap" mean you can switch the battery while it's operating? I always thought it would be a good idea for devices like this to have a tiny secondary battery or large capacitor in the main unit that would let it keep going for a few seconds while you swap the main battery.
  • asats
    And it seems to have a normal USB-C port now! Excellent, having to order that old weird cable of theirs was a pain, especially when one broke out in the wild.
  • Tepix
    Starlink Mini improved the power consumption a lot. Does Starlink Mini 2 improve things further? The page lacks specs.I read elsewhere the battery has 71Wh and lasts 4.5h. That's 15.77W/h if it indeed uses 100% of the battery's capacity.
  • artdigital
    I wanted to get one so bad because I’m a very frequent travelled and the idea of Starlink sounded so interestingI just checked a few weeks ago and “Roam” does no longer include international coverage at all. Only “Roam unlimited” does, and only for 30 days at a time which entirely defeats the purpose for me. Also no way to replenish this quota or buy additional, you have to go back to your country for it to reset.My SIM card already gives me 14 days of roaming included, so Starlink is just marginally better for my use case.I’m sure it’s regulations related but still a bummer :(
  • sdorf
    Starlink Mini 1st has been on 'clearance' for $149 for a while. Wonder if this is a worthwhile upgrade for truck camping or if the Mini 1 is still a good deal. No indication on price yet?
  • PStamatiou
    It seems like the launch requires purchasing it with a bundled 1 year subscription for $999. I hope they sell it standalone like the old Mini. I'm planning to pick one up to have as primarily backup internet and just pay the standby fee to have it paused as needed.
  • tsxng
    This is great for national park. I've been looking for a portable network device that can be attached in my car for a long time.
  • drecoe
    Got a lot of usage with my Mini when traveling across the southwestern US and Mexico, but they no longer allow travel usage outside US/Canada which is a huge bummer and forced me to switch back to cell coverage which isn’t nearly as good.
  • soundworlds
    Because this is so useful to several industries, governments absolutely cannot let Elon maintain a monopoly on what may become fundamental infrastructure. We've already seen what happened in Ukraine.
  • domelian
    Very soon is going to be top1 present for birthday
  • roughly
    The upside of Starlink is it’s not easily blockable by a terrestrial nation state; the downside of Starlink is it’s easily blockable by a single fickle trillionaire. That first problem’s been a bear to work around for the entire Internet era, that second one’s gonna be the challenge going forward.
  • fedpost
    Excited to see how the huge cottage industry of people trying to package minis into weapons systems react to this. It looks like it'll be slightly more of a pain in the ass than the previous version but maybe Elon threw the MIC a bone and made them disassemble-ableYes, this is really a thing, yes, I'm being sarcastic.
  • JaggerJo
    Would be a great product.. if only Elon would not be involved..
  • Epimethus
    Comrade, what is SKU number for the Ratnik version?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratnik_(program)
  • fox833
    I use Starlink on my small boat near shore in PNW - where there is no mobile network, works perfect, DC cable is inconvinience, battery is much more useful imo. Great upgrade
  • 34679
    Man, I literally just set up my Starlink Mini about 2 hours ago.
  • sergiotapia
    For some reason this page tanks my CPU and slows down my PC to a crawl. On Omarchy/Brave browser.
  • baoooooooooooo
    4.5 hours on battery surprised me - cool that it's built in, but yeah these things are power hungry. 25-35W kinda surprised me.I guess it makes sense, space is a long way away after all...
  • sourcecodeplz
    would be useful if it could also reverse charge your phone
  • ralphington
    I'm deeply disappointed in this company's leadership and refusal to continue launching commercial payloads
  • 0c3ca83
    When do you think I could subscribe to some service like this, but without funding global fascism? Are the EU based services available for North America?
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