Happy Starlink customer here! It's a bit expensive, and not as fast as fiber, but does VOIP for the phones with no issues, plays movies with no issues, and supports the "Rocket Man" instead of the terrestrial players.
Waiting for phone service (T-Mobil's service is very poor out where I live so can't be on board with their partnership in that).
If I had the cash and the lifestyle, the place I see value is the mobile hotspots.
I imagine it'd be pretty rad to go out into the wilderness camping with some friends and family and having access to halfway decent internet, certainly better than the internet used to be on copper.
It is not as fast as fiber in either bandwidth or latency, and you would be delusional to think it would be. FttP (fiber to the premises) is much faster than anything Starlink puts out.
Starlink max throughput is 40-220 Mbps down / 8-25 Mbps up with 25-60ms latency per their documentation
Fiber has a higher maximum throughput (100 Gbps options, which is not the ceiling) and best case latency in the low micro-seconds. Starlink simply cannot compete on that front -- and nor is it trying to.
These are also numbers on their fixed options; they list latency at <99ms for mobile, which is much slower than cable.
Happy Starlink customer here! It's a bit expensive, and not as fast as fiber, but does VOIP for the phones with no issues, plays movies with no issues, and supports the "Rocket Man" instead of the terrestrial players.
Waiting for phone service (T-Mobil's service is very poor out where I live so can't be on board with their partnership in that).
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If I had the cash and the lifestyle, the place I see value is the mobile hotspots.
I imagine it'd be pretty rad to go out into the wilderness camping with some friends and family and having access to halfway decent internet, certainly better than the internet used to be on copper.
Starlink is way better than halfway decent internet. It's just as fast as cable internet, including latency
It is not as fast as fiber in either bandwidth or latency, and you would be delusional to think it would be. FttP (fiber to the premises) is much faster than anything Starlink puts out.
Starlink max throughput is 40-220 Mbps down / 8-25 Mbps up with 25-60ms latency per their documentation
Fiber has a higher maximum throughput (100 Gbps options, which is not the ceiling) and best case latency in the low micro-seconds. Starlink simply cannot compete on that front -- and nor is it trying to.
These are also numbers on their fixed options; they list latency at <99ms for mobile, which is much slower than cable.
You can see according to the FCC's 2021 Fixed Broadband report that latency is notably lower even for services like Frontier's DSL, which is ~11ms.
Expected latency of cable is 13-27ms, substantially lower than Starlink's range. Expected latency of fiber is 10-12ms.
Additionally, I had ~50 down and ~12 up in around 2012, and it was costing around $30/mo. Residential is $120/mo.
It's really cool tech, but bold claims are not even supported by their actual documentation.
Of course not as good as fiber optic lol. You said "half way decent internet"
Latency also has distance to factor into it along with method of transfer (fiber optic def wins)