Rural Internet? Starlink is great!

[Gingerbeard Man]

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.

 

[harrycalahan]

Whats the regular service price?

 

[Gingerbeard Man]

Whats the regular service price?

$120/mo.

 

[Rolling_trip]

$120/mo.

 

[Ken Ford]

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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I’m really considering this. How about an update next month?

 

[harrycalahan]

$120/mo.

Stupid expensive (to me) but Im already paying $100/mo with charter for flakey 100mb service. Id rather throw some more money at Elon than these bastards.

 

[Gingerbeard Man]

I’m really considering this. How about an update next month?

Will do. We are keeping the others active until the end of the year just in case.

 

[Gingerbeard Man]

Stupid expensive (to me) but Im already paying $100/mo with charter for flakey 100mb service. Id rather throw some more money at Elon than these bastards.

Yeah, combined we were paying $150 for two services. As long as it's fast and reliable, this will end up saving us $30 a month.

 

[l33571]

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.

 

[palmettomoon]

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That gif should be a "legal" post on 'for sale' ads.