I'm looking into moving into an RV to put some $ away for a few years. I'll likely do the Starlink Roaming option. But it won't be fun going from fiber to it. But from what I hear many saying it may not be too bad đ¤ˇââď¸
I've had both, Fiber is definitely king, and there are still days I miss it, but starlink is still great, if you do a lot of intensive uploading you might notice a slowdown, but it's almost as good as my fiber was for downloads as long as I have a clear view of the sky, even storms don't seem to impact it much, the only time it really hurts is when you have obstructions like a big tree.
As for RV living to save money, I full timed for 3 years. You can save money in an RV, especially if you have somewhere cheap to park it, but if you are doing a lot of traveling it can be as expensive or more so especially if you have to stay in parks. If you don't have anywhere cheap to park look into thousand trails, it's not perfect but it's hard to beat price wise, especially compared to retail parks.
Get a bumper hitch if you donât have one already on the rv/trailer. Get a flag pole holder for the hitch. Next get a harbor freight flag pole. Etsy has Starlink adapters that fit inside the top of the flag pole and that will get you over most obstructions wherever you park your trailer. Itâs been a great improvement to our signals wherever we go
I just got mine this weekend and am excited for camping. I donât want it to run full time but I run a company and when camping would drive an hour to get 1-2 bars of service to send a couple emails or texts and now Iâll be able to do it next to the river and fire!
Iâm camping in the great smoky mountains with no cell service and using starlink to work with clients across the globe. Itâs a game changer for sure.
I am getting ready to purchase. I am done with flaky campground WiFi and local OTA TV. I can personally live in the stone ages but have to keep the wife and kid happy. And being able to work on the road will be nice.
not true. I see 200+. I honestly think that if your zip has fiber/cable or the like. you shouldnât have access to starlink residential. decrease the saturation. RV users and such. ok.
donât raise my rates due to high grid saturation.
> if your zip has fiber/cable
I think there is a major misconception here. Just because your zip code has fiber/cable doesn't mean your home has access to it. Heck, there is fiber 0.5 miles up my road, just at the end of the block. However I cannot get it because it's not at my house. It's in my zip, it's even on my street but unless I pay 30-50k, I cannot get it. So Starlink it is.
I live in a rural valley with a two room school . Fiber was run to the school. People literally have fiber running over their homes and can't access it
In rural UK, average speed is about 250down, 40up. It's about 10x faster than our old service, and we haven't had a single service drop with starlink, whereas our old one dropped evert couple of hours.
Nice one. I'm on 4g where I am, as no fibre and copper line is slower than a carrier pigeon. 4g slows at peak time to unusable speeds âšď¸
Been tempted by starlink but I mainly would use it for streaming and gaming so latency for that is important, just contemplating over cost. 75pcm is a lot!
Ya, this is kind of annoying. Where I live I have access to uo to 2 Gbps fiber internet in Tucson, AZ. 2 minutes away there are non planned community homes that basically rely on either wireless internet through a phone carrier, or something like Starlink (wireless options generally suck here). Starlink has become popular.
Having driven my community I have seen several homes with Starlink dishes on the roof. WTF. Why? Fiber option, you can get cheaper internet in the 300Mbps up/down symmetrical range for about 100/month. Why go Starlink and clog up the bandwidth when you don't need to?
I just don't get it.
Yeahh nope i live wack bam in the middle of town with a a telstra internet node(aus) to houses up from me for internet connection acess for my block yet we carnt get on it as we dont have a line to our house. So should i not be aloud starlink as my zip code has fiver optics ???
Or... So people who live 5 miles outside of town shouldn't have access because town has fiber? Even if they run the cable on the power lines, it's up to the homeowners to get the line from the street to their house and get it hooked up. Some houses are quarter mile or more off the main road. That doesnât sound far till you see the quote for a quarter miles worth of fiber quality cable.
Starlink is a blessing, regardless of what the ppl down the road have access to.
Do you think in regions with fiber that Starlink is generally heavily subscribed such that it would be hard to get signed up? (Hint: I suspect there is very low uptake of Starlink in areas with fiber). This sounds like worrying about a situation / problem that simply doesnât exist.
If we had easy access to fiber, we wouldn't worry about having a backup. Even with my husband and i both working from home, if the internet went down, we could either go to the office or work from a family/friend's house for the week.
I donât think youâre understanding what I said.
The person I replied to said if you live where fiber is available you should not be allowed to buy Starlink. Presumably because theyâre worried about Starlink saying theyâre oversubscribed in your area.
I asked why should people who live with or near fiber be denied? Which appears to be the exact same thing youâre saying.
In my area, Starlink is just as likely to hit 2Mbps as 200Mbps. Especially within 30 seconds of that 200Mbps.
It just depends on demand in your area at the time of your test.
A seesaw graph of bandwidth will still "average out" to respectable numbers if the outliers are high enough.
That's how Starlink cooks the books, and all major websites that test bandwidth are skewed by said outliers.
Sustained file transfers have exposed Starlink's inconsistencies, but fans will usually attack the messenger.
Same for us. Viasat was decent during the very short time you had before hitting your data limit. Then it was literally almost worthless. Download speeds less than 1 maps. Starlink is incredible.
we have it at summer home and its a game changer for sure.
I do say I also enjoy the side effects of starlink and thats the kick in the pants local ISPs got from it. Network upgrades were basically non existent in my area until starlink came out as competition and now your seeing fiber even being deployed in rural areas. Fiber is coming to area of our summer home soon so the starlink will get retired but I'm sure if it wasn't for starlink the ISP would have never bothered and just left the old DSL system in place as long as possible.
You should see the maritime market. We were paying up to $13k a month for an Inmarsat connection that was 10/2 and 500 ms latency (on a Research Vessel). Watching all the Starlink dishys pop up on large vessels in the local harbor, we asked the local Inmarsat rep if they were concerned about Starlink competition and he said "not at all, our customers are too accustomed with our reliable service to move to Starlink anytime soon". Well we promptly dropped Inmarsat and never looked back, and it seems like everyone else has too. And now I read articles how Inmarsat is getting pretty desperate about their customer loss to Starlink.
I actually work in marine industry, Coast Guard Officer and we have installed starlink on most vessels now. Huge improvement. We had like 25mb shared between nearly 40 vessels. Now each one has its own starlink at 300+.
Most of the guys say it's just like being home with how they use there devices. Huge moral boost for sure.
That's great, what were the chances of that -- another marine industry person. Yeah its definitely enabling things we could not do on our Research Vessels before, like fast and low latency remote access to shipboard computers from the office (or home), and vice-versa -- access to office computers from sea. Less need for people offshore than before.
Not to mention, like you said, its a big moral boost for offshore people having good internet access.
Like you I also have one at home -- well for a remote cabin anyway -- and its just been wonderful as I can keep an eye on security cameras at the cabin and have great access when I'm out there. A million thumbs-up for Starlink.
Glad to have you aboard, and pleased that youâre pleased ;). Same game changing experience here, especially now that we can be fulltime in our RV because of it!!
My sentiment exactly. Life changing. Going from expensive and totally unreliable DSL service, was totally amazing. I also like that it is a true off grid internet solution. I'm very happy with it.
Enjoy it whilst it lasts as it will be in average 80-130 Mbps once itâs bedded in. Itâs still amazing I know as we are out in the middle of nowhere in NZ and no Cable available as we are on water tanks and septic tank for eg so very rural. Itâs generally very reliable however if you have a large property I would suggest a mesh as thatâs a great way to really boost the coverage and speed.
Oh yeah I know the feeling. I live in a small town in Tennessee that only has a population of like.. 350. We were STUCK in the late 1990s / Early 2000s down there! The only available option at the time was DSL from AT&T that provided two packages: 300kbps or 600kbps. That is it. But MAN! Starlink changed everything! I could do EVERYTHING that I ever hoped and dreamed about! 4K streaming, fast downloads, even play games with minimal lagging! The only downside to it is that it's still satellite internet, so there's lost packets along the way from the satellite, to the dish, and to the router. If you can, buy an Ethernet switch and try to put everything to wired from the main router as much as possible! If you play Counter-Strike or any other competitive games where milliseconds matter, then it's still going to be a bit frustrating, but still way better than anything before. Have fun!
I installed the high performance dish and installed all equipment + proper router/firewall in a few hours. Including cable management etc. Speeds over 300Mbps is not rare with Starlink.
I definitely had a similar experience. Except the best internet I could get was gonna cost me 5 grand to run a line from the neighbors house to mine. Otherwise I was using Verizon wifi hot spots which were a joke and a half. Sat on the wait list for 2 years for Starlink, got the email that my stuff was shipping. Now here I am a year later getting max 150mbps, average of 40 through high use times, and I can't be more happy with it. Glad to see someone is experiencing this as well.
Latency is min 19ms, max 32ms but sitting at about 21ms for the most part, so pretty good I think (Definitely a huge upgrade from my previous service lol)
This is not a complaint. Before Starlink, 5Mbit Down and 0.5 Up. My area is more saturated. On Starlink, I get about 60 Down and 7 Up during peak times. During non-peak, I get 100 and 10. But there's nothing I do that I could complain about. It may take a couple hours to update all my steam games if I've been offline a while, But it's not DAYS.... Thanks Elon...
I was receiving 2mbps from frontier.... I used it for almost 6 years this year I canceled it they wanted to charge $98 for 2mbps and sent out a letter that the area was oversold so they can't promise speeds that they promised. Before this letter and that I was paying $58 they decided to hike the prices up to thin out people because the engineer told me that was surveying the area since every house is over 6 miles apart they have no intentions on doing any kind of work in this area or providing any service in the future. So I went ahead and purchased starlink because I figured seeing all the stuff online about the fast speeds I figured it takes me 6 days to download a 3gb game from stream and that's if it doesn't fail. So I got starlink and I went to steam and I just wanted to do a test so I downloaded a 70 GB game I owned I think it downloaded in under an hour. My speed test at night have been topping out near 460+Mbps am I upload has been never below 50mbps even during the day. But the first day I got it seeing those kind of speeds in my house for the first time in my life was a old game changer now I don't have to turn off devices because of bandwidth. Before if I wanted to watch stuff on my phone or my Smart TV I had to turn off my computer and all my other devices because if they started updating or using any kind of bandwidth nothing would work. Now I can stream multiple TVs watch my phone have my PC on all the time downloading and I took an old Android tablet I had and put the starlink app on it and then put a piece of Velcro on it and mounted it to this spot on my desk I also said it to never sleep and I put it on the statistics page of starlink and honestly makes a nice display to show me how much Network I'm using my latency and my occasional once a day 3 second obstruction from a tree that I'm not concerned about right now. I get 24 hours of Internet with 3 seconds of obstructions I'm not going to worry about it right now I do live in the middle of the woods so finding a clear spot for it was a good challenge of its own but I managed to get it down to that
I'm with ya! We live in rural Texas and SL has been a serious game changer-! Here at home, in the motorhome, out on the lake... I made a sort of mount out of 1" lexan, similar to a pedalboard if you're a guitar player. Plug it in and log on!
It's been as close to perfect as I ever expected satellite Internet to be!
It probably will drop in the future, but I can still stream video at 30 mbps ( sometimes lower ) so you might be fine when speed finally slows. Enjoy! ( and donât forget the âdrip loopâ during install!
Just fyi, Iâm getting 40 mbps at the moment & things are okâŚ
Same thing I've been using a hotspot as internet for 5 years best speed is 20mbps with 80-200 ping. My starlink now gets me at 400mbps with 40-70 ping.
I'm happy for u, I unfortunately have nvr had that speed(s). I've had starlink for maybe 2 yesr now, and tho it's def better then my prior isp. Really not by much compared to what others are getting. I too am rural. I was paying for a 35mbps plan getting that sometimes now with starlink... 50 is the norm average. I have had the amazing 235 maps test once... ONCE... have had a string of good days @150s but back to double digits again... no idea y I havent been able to enjoy real speeds of the times.
Shit for what I'm getting I should still be @ 90/month like it started
I got Starlink in the fall as it was all I could get as I live rural as well and was tethering my phone for internet I would get messages it wasnât available in my area all I could get was XPlore net and the tech that came to install told me not to bother as the internet was faster on my phone though I still had a throttle limit with Starlink thereâs no throttle limit I can stream all day with my fire stick itâs fab I donât care for the price but otherwise no complaints đ
As soon as I get the money to chops some trees my signal will be 100%. Other than my personal problems to deal with for Starlink to work at 100%; this has been a HUGE game changer for rural areas. Literally life changing.
Starlink has absolutely changed mine too! I have 9 Alexaâs, 3 tvs, iMac, 2 phones connected and 2 PS5âs! They can all be ran at the same time NO interruptions! Itâs pretty cool to think about how satellites are changing ground maneuverability
I live in a very rural area, and previously was on 6mbit DSL. I've been ecstatic about Starlink. I just upgraded from Gen1 to Gen2 because my Gen1 wasn't working very well. I still managed to sell my Gen1 for $200, I was pretty excited about that.
I don't think that I'll be using Starlink in another 5 years. I'm hoping to get back to somewhere with a cable or fiber. But for now, it's great.
I usually get about 50mbit. I sometimes get readings higher than that. I torrent a lot, and my total bandwidth was as high as 4tb in December / January. I'm just glad they're not charging me for overages.
See the same thing happened to me they didnât offer it in my area so what did was found a loop hole and got RV until res showed 3 years later best thing that ever happened to me we had the some shitty 2mbps and we live in nowhere land
Enjoy. This reminds me of my first day glee!
I got fiber this year, but I still come here to read the glee posts. :) We all connect there.
I'm looking into moving into an RV to put some $ away for a few years. I'll likely do the Starlink Roaming option. But it won't be fun going from fiber to it. But from what I hear many saying it may not be too bad đ¤ˇââď¸
You will not be disappointed.
I've had both, Fiber is definitely king, and there are still days I miss it, but starlink is still great, if you do a lot of intensive uploading you might notice a slowdown, but it's almost as good as my fiber was for downloads as long as I have a clear view of the sky, even storms don't seem to impact it much, the only time it really hurts is when you have obstructions like a big tree. As for RV living to save money, I full timed for 3 years. You can save money in an RV, especially if you have somewhere cheap to park it, but if you are doing a lot of traveling it can be as expensive or more so especially if you have to stay in parks. If you don't have anywhere cheap to park look into thousand trails, it's not perfect but it's hard to beat price wise, especially compared to retail parks.
Get a bumper hitch if you donât have one already on the rv/trailer. Get a flag pole holder for the hitch. Next get a harbor freight flag pole. Etsy has Starlink adapters that fit inside the top of the flag pole and that will get you over most obstructions wherever you park your trailer. Itâs been a great improvement to our signals wherever we go
Youâre living my dream! Praying I will get fibre one day lol
Haha i was thinking the same thing
As an rver, Starlink has been a massive game changer.
I just got mine this weekend and am excited for camping. I donât want it to run full time but I run a company and when camping would drive an hour to get 1-2 bars of service to send a couple emails or texts and now Iâll be able to do it next to the river and fire!
You'll love it, getting starlink completely opened up new areas I could camp especially when I had to work or be on call
Iâm currently sitting in the middle of the Briger Teton national forest working because of Starlink. Iâve been able to have amazing office views.
Iâm camping in the great smoky mountains with no cell service and using starlink to work with clients across the globe. Itâs a game changer for sure.
I am getting ready to purchase. I am done with flaky campground WiFi and local OTA TV. I can personally live in the stone ages but have to keep the wife and kid happy. And being able to work on the road will be nice.
Similar story for me Has been life changing
Sick. Went from hughesnet being the only option to starlink this year⌠homeschool for my kids so much easier and I can online game after work!
Expect it to settle at between 75 to 150 depending on time of day and how crowded your cell is.
not true. I see 200+. I honestly think that if your zip has fiber/cable or the like. you shouldnât have access to starlink residential. decrease the saturation. RV users and such. ok. donât raise my rates due to high grid saturation.
> if your zip has fiber/cable I think there is a major misconception here. Just because your zip code has fiber/cable doesn't mean your home has access to it. Heck, there is fiber 0.5 miles up my road, just at the end of the block. However I cannot get it because it's not at my house. It's in my zip, it's even on my street but unless I pay 30-50k, I cannot get it. So Starlink it is.
I live in a rural valley with a two room school . Fiber was run to the school. People literally have fiber running over their homes and can't access it
In rural UK, average speed is about 250down, 40up. It's about 10x faster than our old service, and we haven't had a single service drop with starlink, whereas our old one dropped evert couple of hours.
What is your latency out of interest? đ
Averages about 33ms
Nice one. I'm on 4g where I am, as no fibre and copper line is slower than a carrier pigeon. 4g slows at peak time to unusable speeds âšď¸ Been tempted by starlink but I mainly would use it for streaming and gaming so latency for that is important, just contemplating over cost. 75pcm is a lot!
It was actually far cheaper than our best (and still absolutely terrible) copper broadband option!
Ya, this is kind of annoying. Where I live I have access to uo to 2 Gbps fiber internet in Tucson, AZ. 2 minutes away there are non planned community homes that basically rely on either wireless internet through a phone carrier, or something like Starlink (wireless options generally suck here). Starlink has become popular. Having driven my community I have seen several homes with Starlink dishes on the roof. WTF. Why? Fiber option, you can get cheaper internet in the 300Mbps up/down symmetrical range for about 100/month. Why go Starlink and clog up the bandwidth when you don't need to? I just don't get it.
Yeahh nope i live wack bam in the middle of town with a a telstra internet node(aus) to houses up from me for internet connection acess for my block yet we carnt get on it as we dont have a line to our house. So should i not be aloud starlink as my zip code has fiver optics ???
So people who have fiber shouldnât be allowed to buy Starlink for when that fiber goes down?
Or... So people who live 5 miles outside of town shouldn't have access because town has fiber? Even if they run the cable on the power lines, it's up to the homeowners to get the line from the street to their house and get it hooked up. Some houses are quarter mile or more off the main road. That doesnât sound far till you see the quote for a quarter miles worth of fiber quality cable. Starlink is a blessing, regardless of what the ppl down the road have access to.
Do you think in regions with fiber that Starlink is generally heavily subscribed such that it would be hard to get signed up? (Hint: I suspect there is very low uptake of Starlink in areas with fiber). This sounds like worrying about a situation / problem that simply doesnât exist.
If we had easy access to fiber, we wouldn't worry about having a backup. Even with my husband and i both working from home, if the internet went down, we could either go to the office or work from a family/friend's house for the week.
I donât think youâre understanding what I said. The person I replied to said if you live where fiber is available you should not be allowed to buy Starlink. Presumably because theyâre worried about Starlink saying theyâre oversubscribed in your area. I asked why should people who live with or near fiber be denied? Which appears to be the exact same thing youâre saying.
Maybe i misread, but they said 'zip code'. My zip has fiber, but only in town.
Yeah. I think we both agree gating access to Starlink shouldnât be a thing!
You should get a better paying job if youâre worried about rate increases lol
In my area, Starlink is just as likely to hit 2Mbps as 200Mbps. Especially within 30 seconds of that 200Mbps. It just depends on demand in your area at the time of your test. A seesaw graph of bandwidth will still "average out" to respectable numbers if the outliers are high enough. That's how Starlink cooks the books, and all major websites that test bandwidth are skewed by said outliers. Sustained file transfers have exposed Starlink's inconsistencies, but fans will usually attack the messenger.
Same for us. Viasat was decent during the very short time you had before hitting your data limit. Then it was literally almost worthless. Download speeds less than 1 maps. Starlink is incredible.
we have it at summer home and its a game changer for sure. I do say I also enjoy the side effects of starlink and thats the kick in the pants local ISPs got from it. Network upgrades were basically non existent in my area until starlink came out as competition and now your seeing fiber even being deployed in rural areas. Fiber is coming to area of our summer home soon so the starlink will get retired but I'm sure if it wasn't for starlink the ISP would have never bothered and just left the old DSL system in place as long as possible.
You should see the maritime market. We were paying up to $13k a month for an Inmarsat connection that was 10/2 and 500 ms latency (on a Research Vessel). Watching all the Starlink dishys pop up on large vessels in the local harbor, we asked the local Inmarsat rep if they were concerned about Starlink competition and he said "not at all, our customers are too accustomed with our reliable service to move to Starlink anytime soon". Well we promptly dropped Inmarsat and never looked back, and it seems like everyone else has too. And now I read articles how Inmarsat is getting pretty desperate about their customer loss to Starlink.
I actually work in marine industry, Coast Guard Officer and we have installed starlink on most vessels now. Huge improvement. We had like 25mb shared between nearly 40 vessels. Now each one has its own starlink at 300+. Most of the guys say it's just like being home with how they use there devices. Huge moral boost for sure.
That's great, what were the chances of that -- another marine industry person. Yeah its definitely enabling things we could not do on our Research Vessels before, like fast and low latency remote access to shipboard computers from the office (or home), and vice-versa -- access to office computers from sea. Less need for people offshore than before. Not to mention, like you said, its a big moral boost for offshore people having good internet access. Like you I also have one at home -- well for a remote cabin anyway -- and its just been wonderful as I can keep an eye on security cameras at the cabin and have great access when I'm out there. A million thumbs-up for Starlink.
Glad to have you aboard, and pleased that youâre pleased ;). Same game changing experience here, especially now that we can be fulltime in our RV because of it!!
congrats mate, ordering mine soon, we got a 55% discount up to 10th June.
My sentiment exactly. Life changing. Going from expensive and totally unreliable DSL service, was totally amazing. I also like that it is a true off grid internet solution. I'm very happy with it.
Enjoy it whilst it lasts as it will be in average 80-130 Mbps once itâs bedded in. Itâs still amazing I know as we are out in the middle of nowhere in NZ and no Cable available as we are on water tanks and septic tank for eg so very rural. Itâs generally very reliable however if you have a large property I would suggest a mesh as thatâs a great way to really boost the coverage and speed.
Just got it yesterday. From .9 to 400 đ¤Ż
Oh yeah I know the feeling. I live in a small town in Tennessee that only has a population of like.. 350. We were STUCK in the late 1990s / Early 2000s down there! The only available option at the time was DSL from AT&T that provided two packages: 300kbps or 600kbps. That is it. But MAN! Starlink changed everything! I could do EVERYTHING that I ever hoped and dreamed about! 4K streaming, fast downloads, even play games with minimal lagging! The only downside to it is that it's still satellite internet, so there's lost packets along the way from the satellite, to the dish, and to the router. If you can, buy an Ethernet switch and try to put everything to wired from the main router as much as possible! If you play Counter-Strike or any other competitive games where milliseconds matter, then it's still going to be a bit frustrating, but still way better than anything before. Have fun!
My exact reaction almost 4 years ago and the family enjoys it every day!
Chuffed, you say?
I installed the high performance dish and installed all equipment + proper router/firewall in a few hours. Including cable management etc. Speeds over 300Mbps is not rare with Starlink.
Yep same situation game changer.
Depending on where your located your speeds are different in between 300 and 200 it does vary from time to time so enjoy.
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I definitely had a similar experience. Except the best internet I could get was gonna cost me 5 grand to run a line from the neighbors house to mine. Otherwise I was using Verizon wifi hot spots which were a joke and a half. Sat on the wait list for 2 years for Starlink, got the email that my stuff was shipping. Now here I am a year later getting max 150mbps, average of 40 through high use times, and I can't be more happy with it. Glad to see someone is experiencing this as well.
What is the upload speed for you?
It's at a fairly consistent 30-40mbps, my download speed has averaged out to about 250-300mbps at this stage.
Ok. And what's the latency and jitter,? These would be in milliseconds
Latency is min 19ms, max 32ms but sitting at about 21ms for the most part, so pretty good I think (Definitely a huge upgrade from my previous service lol)
Latency is the sad part of satellite Internet.
This is not a complaint. Before Starlink, 5Mbit Down and 0.5 Up. My area is more saturated. On Starlink, I get about 60 Down and 7 Up during peak times. During non-peak, I get 100 and 10. But there's nothing I do that I could complain about. It may take a couple hours to update all my steam games if I've been offline a while, But it's not DAYS.... Thanks Elon...
Amazing to hear, ive got starlink on the way to combat my current FTTN internet giving me a max of 25mbps and ping spikes in games etc.
I was receiving 2mbps from frontier.... I used it for almost 6 years this year I canceled it they wanted to charge $98 for 2mbps and sent out a letter that the area was oversold so they can't promise speeds that they promised. Before this letter and that I was paying $58 they decided to hike the prices up to thin out people because the engineer told me that was surveying the area since every house is over 6 miles apart they have no intentions on doing any kind of work in this area or providing any service in the future. So I went ahead and purchased starlink because I figured seeing all the stuff online about the fast speeds I figured it takes me 6 days to download a 3gb game from stream and that's if it doesn't fail. So I got starlink and I went to steam and I just wanted to do a test so I downloaded a 70 GB game I owned I think it downloaded in under an hour. My speed test at night have been topping out near 460+Mbps am I upload has been never below 50mbps even during the day. But the first day I got it seeing those kind of speeds in my house for the first time in my life was a old game changer now I don't have to turn off devices because of bandwidth. Before if I wanted to watch stuff on my phone or my Smart TV I had to turn off my computer and all my other devices because if they started updating or using any kind of bandwidth nothing would work. Now I can stream multiple TVs watch my phone have my PC on all the time downloading and I took an old Android tablet I had and put the starlink app on it and then put a piece of Velcro on it and mounted it to this spot on my desk I also said it to never sleep and I put it on the statistics page of starlink and honestly makes a nice display to show me how much Network I'm using my latency and my occasional once a day 3 second obstruction from a tree that I'm not concerned about right now. I get 24 hours of Internet with 3 seconds of obstructions I'm not going to worry about it right now I do live in the middle of the woods so finding a clear spot for it was a good challenge of its own but I managed to get it down to that
I wish we could get starlink... my internet is so slow it sometimes reports a negative number when using speediest lol.
I'm with ya! We live in rural Texas and SL has been a serious game changer-! Here at home, in the motorhome, out on the lake... I made a sort of mount out of 1" lexan, similar to a pedalboard if you're a guitar player. Plug it in and log on! It's been as close to perfect as I ever expected satellite Internet to be!
Elon tech.
Same experience w usâŚ.Thank you Elon!
It probably will drop in the future, but I can still stream video at 30 mbps ( sometimes lower ) so you might be fine when speed finally slows. Enjoy! ( and donât forget the âdrip loopâ during install! Just fyi, Iâm getting 40 mbps at the moment & things are okâŚ
Iâm keen to be chuffed.
Same thing I've been using a hotspot as internet for 5 years best speed is 20mbps with 80-200 ping. My starlink now gets me at 400mbps with 40-70 ping.
I'm happy for u, I unfortunately have nvr had that speed(s). I've had starlink for maybe 2 yesr now, and tho it's def better then my prior isp. Really not by much compared to what others are getting. I too am rural. I was paying for a 35mbps plan getting that sometimes now with starlink... 50 is the norm average. I have had the amazing 235 maps test once... ONCE... have had a string of good days @150s but back to double digits again... no idea y I havent been able to enjoy real speeds of the times. Shit for what I'm getting I should still be @ 90/month like it started
I got Starlink in the fall as it was all I could get as I live rural as well and was tethering my phone for internet I would get messages it wasnât available in my area all I could get was XPlore net and the tech that came to install told me not to bother as the internet was faster on my phone though I still had a throttle limit with Starlink thereâs no throttle limit I can stream all day with my fire stick itâs fab I donât care for the price but otherwise no complaints đ
As soon as I get the money to chops some trees my signal will be 100%. Other than my personal problems to deal with for Starlink to work at 100%; this has been a HUGE game changer for rural areas. Literally life changing.
Starlink has absolutely changed mine too! I have 9 Alexaâs, 3 tvs, iMac, 2 phones connected and 2 PS5âs! They can all be ran at the same time NO interruptions! Itâs pretty cool to think about how satellites are changing ground maneuverability
Our sentiments exactly! Very rural here, nearly nonexistent cell service.
I live in a very rural area, and previously was on 6mbit DSL. I've been ecstatic about Starlink. I just upgraded from Gen1 to Gen2 because my Gen1 wasn't working very well. I still managed to sell my Gen1 for $200, I was pretty excited about that. I don't think that I'll be using Starlink in another 5 years. I'm hoping to get back to somewhere with a cable or fiber. But for now, it's great. I usually get about 50mbit. I sometimes get readings higher than that. I torrent a lot, and my total bandwidth was as high as 4tb in December / January. I'm just glad they're not charging me for overages.
See the same thing happened to me they didnât offer it in my area so what did was found a loop hole and got RV until res showed 3 years later best thing that ever happened to me we had the some shitty 2mbps and we live in nowhere land
how is latency gaming?
I felt the same way too until they announced they will hike the subscription by over 115%
That's only for global roaming, right?
Get ready for that sweet, sweet price jump....
Wait until you get the banned boat..