Starlink has now made available its $80/month Residential Lite satellite Internet plan across the US, adding a number of Eastern states to its coverage.

The plan is a third cheaper than the Residential plan available with the same Standard Kit, and comes with 200 Mbps typical peak speed. Granted, Starlink has an even cheaper, $40 Internet plan, but it is not only limited to select area without a congestion fee, and is capped at 100 Mbps download speeds.

Starlink pegs the Residential Lite plan as achieving typical download speeds of 80–200 Mbps, depending on the coverage load, and uploads of up to 35 Mbps. It was previously only available in Western and Central US states, with a big chunk of the East not covered by the more affordable $80/month option that still offers quite decent Internet speeds.

Now, however, the dead Starlink Residential Lite coverage spots that coincide have shrunk dramatically, and most users in the US can take advantage of the cheaper satellite Internet plan offer. Areas with high congestion fees are still excluded from the Residential Lite plan availability map, though, as Starlink has more than enough customers than its network can handle there.

Those who are currently subscribed to the standard $120/month Residential plan in the newly covered eastern U.S. regions can now switch to the cheaper Lite offer, if they don’t need the 400+ Mbps speeds that the pricier Starlink Residential plan offers.

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Wooed by tech since the industrial espionage of Apple computers and the times of pixelized Nintendos, Daniel went and opened a gaming club when personal computers and consoles were still an expensive rarity. Nowadays, fascination is not with specs and speed but rather the lifestyle that computers in our pocket, house, and car have shoehorned us in, from the infinite scroll and the privacy hazards to authenticating every bit and move of our existence.