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)
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.