Holy moly! It’s available in my neck of the woods but MAN! $120 per month with $599 for equipment and $50 for shipping then tax… this is too rich for my blood, I think I’ll continue with my shitty service and use that $ to continue catching up on my food stockpile
It's very fast unless you happen to be in a high population area where other internet options are usually available. If you're in the boonies you don't have to share bandwidth with many others so it can be very fast.
I'm not sure how that works - there isn't a local network to share bandwidth with. That would happen with cable or wifi/microwave but not Starlink. You are connecting to the satellite(s) zooming overhead. My guess is there are certain parts of the country where the satellites have better coverage - similar to an eclipse where parts of the country get a crescent and other parts get a ring of fire. I bet as more satellites are added and cross over more parts of the country for longer periods the speeds will go up. The speed will be dependent on how close you are to the satellites. You can reach them but they are likely further away for you than the poster from Alaska above.
Elon just sent an email recently saying Starlink now has coverage over the complete USA. He just said coverage - not great coverage.
Most of the first shell of sats were launched into a 53 degree orbit. If you look at https://satellitemap.space/ you see a high concentration of sats at 53 degrees, then very few above that latitude. Above that (alaska) are served by polar orbit sats, but there are fewer.
More recent launces cover the 43 deg.
The more sats they launch the more bandwidth they have. Also, the newer sats V2 mini have about 4x the bandwidth as the older v1.0 and v1.5.
But yes we definitely share BW with those in our cell (15 miles wide) and also with the whole sat in general (20 Gbps). Some people live in areas at full capacity (until more sats are launched)
We've had StarLink for a few months now, and it's terrific. Very occasional brief outages (as the dish scans for a new satellite?) but 15-35 MB/sec download speeds are typical, versus under 1 MB to 3 MB with our old system. Downloading a 2-hr video now takes a couple of minutes or so, not hours.
The big holdup for us now is our VPN, which is fine for most things but sometimes a chokepoint.
Pro tip: you should be getting much faster speeds, you may want to check the rest of the equipment making up tour network for choakpoints (routers, old switches, slow network cards, etc.) A little strategic upgrading may speed you up a bit.
Holy moly! It’s available in my neck of the woods but MAN! $120 per month with $599 for equipment and $50 for shipping then tax… this is too rich for my blood, I think I’ll continue with my shitty service and use that $ to continue catching up on my food stockpile
Just installed it last weekend, but we're getting 170+ mbps download and 25+ mbps upload. Huge improvement over our last provider.
Mine varies greatly throughout the day.
I'm not sure there is any service.
I use it and like it, I take it camping with me so I pay for the mobile plane.
Speeds?
It's fast enough to stream TV.
You have to have a clear veiw of the sky.
It's very fast unless you happen to be in a high population area where other internet options are usually available. If you're in the boonies you don't have to share bandwidth with many others so it can be very fast.
I'm not sure how that works - there isn't a local network to share bandwidth with. That would happen with cable or wifi/microwave but not Starlink. You are connecting to the satellite(s) zooming overhead. My guess is there are certain parts of the country where the satellites have better coverage - similar to an eclipse where parts of the country get a crescent and other parts get a ring of fire. I bet as more satellites are added and cross over more parts of the country for longer periods the speeds will go up. The speed will be dependent on how close you are to the satellites. You can reach them but they are likely further away for you than the poster from Alaska above.
Elon just sent an email recently saying Starlink now has coverage over the complete USA. He just said coverage - not great coverage.
This is effectively correct.
Most of the first shell of sats were launched into a 53 degree orbit. If you look at https://satellitemap.space/ you see a high concentration of sats at 53 degrees, then very few above that latitude. Above that (alaska) are served by polar orbit sats, but there are fewer. More recent launces cover the 43 deg. The more sats they launch the more bandwidth they have. Also, the newer sats V2 mini have about 4x the bandwidth as the older v1.0 and v1.5. But yes we definitely share BW with those in our cell (15 miles wide) and also with the whole sat in general (20 Gbps). Some people live in areas at full capacity (until more sats are launched)
It's satellite not cable internet, you are not sharing local infrastructure.
Each satellite has spot beams which cover a certain area. A 'cell' is about 15 miles wide. Those within that cell share available bandwidth. http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698
Each sat(v1) has a total bandwidth of about 20Gbps which is also shared.
Yeah, that makes sense, I stand corrected.
We've had StarLink for a few months now, and it's terrific. Very occasional brief outages (as the dish scans for a new satellite?) but 15-35 MB/sec download speeds are typical, versus under 1 MB to 3 MB with our old system. Downloading a 2-hr video now takes a couple of minutes or so, not hours.
The big holdup for us now is our VPN, which is fine for most things but sometimes a chokepoint.
I just got it yesterday. 47D13U 47ms latency.
I have had it since April. It is way faster than Hughesnet. I have had download speeds from 12k to 15 Meg but average around 1 meg
Pro tip: you should be getting much faster speeds, you may want to check the rest of the equipment making up tour network for choakpoints (routers, old switches, slow network cards, etc.) A little strategic upgrading may speed you up a bit.
The router came from starlink, and my computer is only 6 months old with a lot of ram. So I'm not sure whT I can upgrade.
We are going to use it at our new warehouse. Not setup yet but we got the hardware. I'll report with results when we do
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