Starlink

redneckjeep87 said:
No doubt! Hell I have been on the wait list for our area since it started. SL, not that you can find ANY way to get in touch with them, says that our area is full currently but we can do the best effort bs. Price has gone up for hardware, price has gone up for monthly service......yet your not going to cut me a break cost wise for less than residential service at the residential rate.....oh wait, also not even going to tell me the speeds we will be looking at.

We currently have a tmobile station. It works. But it fucking sucks. Constantly have to restart it, at least once a day usually. Half the time if the TV is on your phone wifi won't work. The tmobile service has VASTLY gone downhill lately, even worse than when they bought sprint out.
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That’s kinda where I’m at with it, I’d like to give it a try but not crazy about knowing I wont have full capable speed but still paying the same price.
 
The tmobile unit costs us 55/month. When we got it, it worked damn good. Not that I fire up the Xbox often at all....well not really in a year and a half or so since the kid has gotten older, but I was even able to get it downloading games etc as well as forza online.

If the SL service would be at least double the speed of tmobile even with the best effort crap, I would probably do it. But if it is going to be the same service/ same buggy bullshit of working/networking etc....than screw that.

I'm also pissed that I cannot find ANY contact info for SL to find out what the service is going to actually be
 
trevoringle said:
Has anyone on here still on the waiting list been given the “best effort” option? Just got an email asking if I’d like it but was wondering if anybody else has tried it yet. From google searches it says it’s basically running the same as Starlink RV but still much slower than residential. Sucks it’s still the same price as residential but know it’s going to be slower.
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That's basically where we're at with SL... ordered for an "open cell" (months ago) in the same county, but 16 crow flies miles away.
Paying the additional "Portability" fee due to use OUTSIDE of that cell.

While triple the CenturyStink monthly, it's been more stable/reliable than the DSL and minimum triple the bandwidth...
Just received some networking bit (SL Ethernet adapter, Eero's 6+ pucks, and 8-port PoE(+) switch... going "all in" with SL and dropping one DSL circuit ASAP! (my wife's DSL circuit is a "Business class", paid for by her employer, so it will stay as "backup")
Will depend on how long it takes to get everything moved to the basement, along with UPS and CAT5E cabling back to current location (opposite end of the house) for hardwired devices (Arlo cams, employers IP vid phone/docking station, & Eero puck for this end of the house)... as the "pattern is full" until early next week
 
Caver Dave said:
That's basically where we're at with SL... ordered for an "open cell" (months ago) in the same county, but 16 crow flies miles away.
Paying the additional "Portability" fee due to use OUTSIDE of that cell.

While triple the CenturyStink monthly, it's been more stable/reliable than the DSL and minimum triple the bandwidth...
Just received some networking bit (SL Ethernet adapter, Eero's 6+ pucks, and 8-port PoE(+) switch... going "all in" with SL and dropping one DSL circuit ASAP! (my wife's DSL circuit is a "Business class", paid for by her employer, so it will stay as "backup")
Will depend on how long it takes to get everything moved to the basement, along with UPS and CAT5E cabling back to current location (opposite end of the house) for hardwired devices (Arlo cams, employers IP vid phone/docking station, & Eero puck for this end of the house)... as the "pattern is full" until early next week
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Got a router that supports two wans? Automatic fail over or traffic split.
 
shawn said:
Got a router that supports two wans? Automatic fail over or traffic split.
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Thought about those options, but steered clear due to a couple issues:
Aside from some higher end router$$$$ (Ubiquity/Meraki/etc.) or Warez (Linux/Speedify/etc.) running on another computing device, many voiced "displeasure" in how/when the failover happened or difficulties splitting protocols between the 2 connections.

The other, thankfully, is that if we drop or can't get online for 5 minutes (guesstimation of how long it will take swap ISPs feeding the 1st Eero), neither employer is gonna blow a gasket... so if we drop during a meeting/call, we just back-channel the outage and wait for each VPN (both autoconnect) to green...
 
Bringing this thread back up.....

For the past year, I have been using a T-mobile unlimited account from Calyx. Worked great. 125-250mbs down. We are in a little dot of a 5G UC coverage area on the map, just because of elevation. It worked great for almost a year. For the past month, speeds have ranged from around 3 mbps to maybe 20. I found one place down beyond the shop that I hit 250 when I was walking around with the hotspot yesterday doing speedtests. Ten feet either direction, and I lost the strong signal. I do have a 4g unlimited ATT hotspot, but speeds vary, usually slower than T-mobile at it's worst and not as steady.

So, maybe tmobile messed with the tower provisioning or antenna positioning in the past few weeks. I need Zoom on occasion, and it's not reliable at those speeds (upload speed is usually about 10% of down).

Only choices in the area are phone co (but speeds are dismal out here, maybe 2mbs, and I'd have to bury 2200' of wire), and Starlink.

So....what's the latest on Starlink? Who has it? How is it working for you?
 
kaiser715 said:
Bringing this thread back up.....

For the past year, I have been using a T-mobile unlimited account from Calyx. Worked great. 125-250mbs down. We are in a little dot of a 5G UC coverage area on the map, just because of elevation. It worked great for almost a year. For the past month, speeds have ranged from around 3 mbps to maybe 20. I found one place down beyond the shop that I hit 250 when I was walking around with the hotspot yesterday doing speedtests. Ten feet either direction, and I lost the strong signal. I do have a 4g unlimited ATT hotspot, but speeds vary, usually slower than T-mobile at it's worst and not as steady.

So, maybe tmobile messed with the tower provisioning or antenna positioning in the past few weeks. I need Zoom on occasion, and it's not reliable at those speeds (upload speed is usually about 10% of down).

Only choices in the area are phone co (but speeds are dismal out here, maybe 2mbs, and I'd have to bury 2200' of wire), and Starlink.

So....what's the latest on Starlink? Who has it? How is it working for you?
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Do it. Everyone I know that has it is happy with it.
 
Direct TV, is now offering their streaming / TV services, by WiFi. I have Direct through AT&T, by Satellite. My TV is also connected to my WiFi, for some services. I'm a bit surprised Direct hasn't contacted me to see if I want to discard the Satellite dish. Then again, my Speed is probably too slow.
 
Thought several times of replying to this thread but I have nothing to offer to it. Then I realized I started it lol. We bailed out a year ago and got our money back. Still not available in my area. Friend down the road stayed in and is beta testing now in our area. He is getting the advertised speed with no latency problems.
 
I've probably said it elsewhere on here, but we started out with the Starlink Roam service because we could get the equipment and start using it pretty much immediately. My wife signed up for the residential service at the same time as the Roam and we got an email like 3 months later saying Residential was available in our area. Guess we just hit the timing right because a guy at church had been on the waitlist for like 2 years and got the email at the same time.
 
It's fucking great. Should be available everywhere now. Only downside is cost, but if it's no/shitty internet or starlink, pretty easy choice.
 
I have it for our offices. We are out in a rural area that has three options. Phone line, Starlink and a brand new fiber pipe that’s run down the road and they are trying to convince the few businesses to sign on at $1000/mo to pay for the damn pipe to be installed down said road.

I opted for the Starlink 1TB link at $250/mo. My review? It works … when the weather isn’t bad or even heavy over cast. I have 60 people at my facility pulling data, and it struggles. To the point that I could probably justify the added cost of fiber due to loss in productivity from speed and delays.

If you have no other option, it works. If you have hardline options, you’ll find more reliability in hard line.

screenshot of our reported performance.

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