Yeah, I have no experience with Starlink, but all any ISP wants is that you pay 
your bill and don't make extra work for them.  If there's nothing abnormal 
about the usage then I don't expect they would care.

That said, our company has Verizon cell phones, and when I looked into LTE 
devices for out-of-band management, it was not very expensive to add one to our 
account.  I don't know anything about Starlink equipment, but you can get 
little industrial routers with a carrier approved LTE chipset and stick a SIM 
card in it.  Depending on the temperature and moisture expected in that 
container, that might be a factor.  I suppose it's easier to predict Starlink 
performance though.


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If you're low usage, they won't have a clue. Just get the cheapest 100 Mbps $55 
plan if you want full speed. If you can get by with the standby for $10, try 
that.

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 12:28 AM TJ Trout 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There are some cellular cameras that operate only using solar, not sure how 
good they are but might be a good application for one

On Sat, Aug 29, 2026, 10:16 PM TJ Trout 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Even the $10 plan will probably work.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2026, 11:49 AM Ken Hohhof 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

IANAL, but I would just order 100 Mbps residential and DIY install.  If you 
don’t want any of the perks of Business service like priority and the high 
performance dish and I think maybe you can get a non CGNAT IP address, why 
should they care?



From: AF <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2026 12:52 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [AFMUG] OT Starlink



One of my main businesses these days is manufacturing blades for 
microtrenching.  I have a potential large customer that wants a stock of blades 
on site.  But of course they don't want to pay for them until they use them.  
So I am thinking of outfitting an 8' or 10' shipping container with solar and 
starlink so I can have lights and camera inside and a camera outside.  Place 
the container full of blades in their yard.  Combo lock of some sort.  They 
will be asked to text the serial number of the blade they take.



The question is, I wonder how likely it would be for starlink to bust me for 
using a cheap residential account for this?  Or would a 5G modem be a better 
solution?





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