Rural Internet? Starlink is great!

[Minner]

I've had Starlink since Dec 2023. My Wife and I both work from home and are heavy VOIP and video users on calls and it handled it with no problems & was extremely stable. Spectrum starting offering gigabit fiber in our area in March 2024 and we used both until Spectrum proved to be stable as well. Starlink speeds were consistently 200Mbps plus for both and up and down. I did have a perfectly clear view by eave mounting it. It easily handled everything we used it for including working from home, 4K video streaming, you name it. I am fan.

I keep Starlink as a backup since it is month to month payment and I can activate it within an hour so if Spectrum goes down and I only have to pay for that one month of service. Expensive yes, but we both work from home and cannot work without Internet. The single outage of Spectrum I've had was 4 days. Starlink took over within an hour and we were both back online and working.

Starlink is completely worth it the price per month and for the gear. It is easy to setup and monitor and if you have nothing blocking its view to the sky, you can literally throw on the ground, connect power and have Internet. If the price of the Roam gear ever comes down or goes on sale, Ill be buying that as well to take whenever I travel.

I was under the impression that with the regular home internet, the $120/month deal, that you could not shut it off on a month by month basis.

I bought Starlink for a piece of land I got access to but had to cancel my subscription as I won’t need it for a while yet.

 

[l33571]

I was under the impression that with the regular home internet, the $120/month deal, that you could not shut it off on a month by month basis.

I've done it with no issues. The caveat is that they can deny re-activation if your area is over subscribed. You also can't move a stationary system without notifying Starlink. The roaming and other solutions/plans such as RV, boat use, etc. do allow you to move around at wil. You do have to pay for the entire month once you activate it. I done it twice with no problems. YMMV.

 

[LARGO9]

When Elon Musk would launch one of his rockets full of Starlink satellites I would go out side and lookup and see no less then 15 units all in a row going across the sky at night

 

[js415]

I recently bought a Starlink system to use in our travel trailer, while camping in remote areas.

We used it a couple of weeks ago for the first time, and it worked great, with the exception of one time. During the day and right up until 10PM or so, I was getting 200Mbps all day long.
We used this to control two TV's, and streamed football games all day long. Also used for web browsing and WiFi calling on phones, since we had NO phone service.

The problem started around 10PM at night. The service slowed down to almost nothing. The TV would not stream, and browsing speeds were worse than dial up.

I'm curious to know of others have seen this happen, or if it was just a "one off" situation. We have the GEN3 unit, and the ROAM package. Ours is $160.00 a month, and I can turn it off and on for the months I do not plan on using it. I paused it when we returned home, and I am currently not paying for it.

Using the App, it takes me about 5 minutes to set it up. 5 more minutes and I'm up and running. I love it so far. I just need to figure out the late night slow down issue to be 100% convinced.

Jerry

 

[basstracker89]

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That says it all.....

 

[C Drill97]

We have starlink, no other offers at our house. So far it’s great and we’ve had it for almost a year. Only advice is make sure connections on cables are solid and wood recommend putting dielectric grease on them considering it will be in the weather. (Not sure it makes a difference.)

 

[GFB]

People saying this is too much probably don’t have a good idea what people in rural areas were paying before and how terrible the service was. Starlink is excellent for people who need it, whether that’s rural people or RV type people. I don’t think people on fiber with a household full of people binging video games and streaming services is likely to find Starlink satisfactory.

 

[TresMonos]

For the last 3 years we've suffered with Windstream and T-Mobile home internet as back up. Between the two, we were paying $150 a month and were lucky to see it top out at 25 Mbps. Starlink is running a deal where the service is free until the end of the year because we were in the path of the hurricane.

This was a great choice. So far. Hope it's consistent.

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Now you can get your porn from space.....

 

[palmettomoon]

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[Gingerbeard Man]

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