<story><title>Starlink Premium</title><url>https://www.starlink.com/premium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Why does this seem aimed at the enterprise market (besides the price tag)? From what I&amp;#x27;ve seen, Starlink uses CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation) so it&amp;#x27;s hard to handle incoming connections (given the lack of a public IP address). CGNAT seems like it would be a problem for enterprise customers. Would this be enterprises in cities where they&amp;#x27;d be looking for a backup for a wired connection? I know that a lot of companies have wireless back-ups for their wired connection so I&amp;#x27;m not sure that Starlink would be a better enterprise option for them.&lt;p&gt;The question in my head is whether Starlink is going to slow down their $100-tier signups if they start seeing enough $500-tier signups. People have been waiting for years to get Starlink. If they start getting lots of $500-tier interest, it seems like they&amp;#x27;d prioritize those users for new signups.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>$500 deposit, $2500 total cost for the dish, $500&amp;#x2F;mo for the service.&lt;p&gt;Looks like it&amp;#x27;s targeting the enterprise market.&lt;p&gt;The dish cost is probably closer to the actual value of the dish. The original dish we bought for $500 I think I read actually cost closer to $3k for them to manufacture (I&amp;#x27;m not an expert on this)?&lt;p&gt;Regular service is $500 for a dish and $99 a month which is a great deal for 50-200mbps at pretty low latency. Particularly if you&amp;#x27;re in an area where your only other option is geostationary (which sucks and costs a lot).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>From the page:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Unlimited Service Locations: 
Starlink is ideal for rural and remote locations. Order as many Starlinks as needed and manage all of your service locations, no matter how remote, from a single account.&lt;p&gt;This screams corp fleet management of the equipment, similar to SSO price segmentation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starlink Premium</title><url>https://www.starlink.com/premium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Why does this seem aimed at the enterprise market (besides the price tag)? From what I&amp;#x27;ve seen, Starlink uses CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation) so it&amp;#x27;s hard to handle incoming connections (given the lack of a public IP address). CGNAT seems like it would be a problem for enterprise customers. Would this be enterprises in cities where they&amp;#x27;d be looking for a backup for a wired connection? I know that a lot of companies have wireless back-ups for their wired connection so I&amp;#x27;m not sure that Starlink would be a better enterprise option for them.&lt;p&gt;The question in my head is whether Starlink is going to slow down their $100-tier signups if they start seeing enough $500-tier signups. People have been waiting for years to get Starlink. If they start getting lots of $500-tier interest, it seems like they&amp;#x27;d prioritize those users for new signups.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>$500 deposit, $2500 total cost for the dish, $500&amp;#x2F;mo for the service.&lt;p&gt;Looks like it&amp;#x27;s targeting the enterprise market.&lt;p&gt;The dish cost is probably closer to the actual value of the dish. The original dish we bought for $500 I think I read actually cost closer to $3k for them to manufacture (I&amp;#x27;m not an expert on this)?&lt;p&gt;Regular service is $500 for a dish and $99 a month which is a great deal for 50-200mbps at pretty low latency. Particularly if you&amp;#x27;re in an area where your only other option is geostationary (which sucks and costs a lot).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bubblethink</author><text>Why is CGNAT an issue ? Enterprise here doesn&amp;#x27;t mean on-prem public facing hosting. It just means rich entity that can afford $500&amp;#x2F;month per account. It could be anything ranging from a government office to a small business. You just need the ability to connect to your actual servers in AWS or wherever and transfer at acceptable rates and latency.</text></comment>