Starlink Beta Test

[Fritzo]

LOL, poor man latency. My ping is usually 3ms on a not so great day, 2 on a great day. My download is 5.5x faster and my upload is >150x faster and costs $50/mon. It is called the benefiting of not living in the boonies.

No go live on a mountain in Tanzania and let us know what speeds you get.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Exactly! If I want to live like my cousins from 25K years ago I would go live on a mountain in Tanzania. Otherwise, I would happily accept the benefits of living in a modern society with all the modern amenities they provide.

 

[ultimatebob]

no shit sherlock, no one in their right mind would use this solution if they have cable/fiber available

I noticed that Comcast has been silently updating their speeds in the background and not advertising it:



I only have 300 Mb/s "Blast" service, yet I can suddenly download at speeds over 400 Mb/s now. Frontier's VDSL service isn't offering anything approaching this speed, so they must be getting scared of competition from Starlink and Gonetspeed (a new Fiber competitor now near my area).

I'd rather give my money to Elon Musk instead of Comcast, though. Comcast's CEO would probably spend my monthly access fees on a new yacht, while Elon would spend it on Dogecoin or a spaceship going to Mars

 

[KMFJD]

Some more good news, they'll be turning of the geo fencing so you can travel with it

Movable Satellite Internet: SpaceX to Lift Geo-Restriction on Starlink Dishes Later This Year

Lifting the restriction will let Starlink users operate the satellite internet dish from any location, including a moving RV, according to company CEO Elon Musk.

www.pcmag.com

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Second and third result were across my VPN.ac VPN connection's main and backup links.

 

[KMFJD]

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Second and third result were across my VPN.ac VPN connection's main and backup links.

you're not normally this fucking dense, are you having a bad day?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I guess I am that dense because I am not sure what you are complaining about in my post above. But thanks for attacking me. Much depreciated.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

No go live on a mountain in Tanzania and let us know what speeds you get.

Fudge not even that remote, live in Kansas or like a friend live in the Northeast surrounded by high speed data but the old farm house you purchased costs $16k to get wired by the cable company.

 

[JPS35]

Let the dominion of space wars begin:

Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to winning FCC approval to fly more than 4,000 Starlink satellites in a lower orbit. But rivals say it could increase collision risks.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX is seeking regulatory permission to fly over 4,000 satellites at the same altitude in orbit but its rivals are concerned about the safety risks.

www.businessinsider.com

Bring on the space based lasers...BIG FREAKIN' LASERS!

 

[IronWing]

Anyone have had StarLink long enough to offer an informed opinion on speed and reliability?

 

[KMFJD]

It has gotten a lot more stable, the dish appear to move a lot more, i get way less dead air then i did in the spring/early summer. There are issues during big storms, it does not work very well during the bigger ones.

I have had it hit 300Mbs while downloading from steam, I dread having to use my wisp backup as it's much slower

 

[BarkingGhostar]

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

 

[KMFJD]

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

you having a bad day? still dense as a rock i see

 

[sdifox]

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

It's for people that don't have hardwire options.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

It has gotten a lot more stable, the dish appear to move a lot more, i get way less dead air then i did in the spring/early summer. There are issues during big storms, it does not work very well during the bigger ones.
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I have had it hit 300Mbs while downloading from steam, I dread having to use my wisp backup as it's much slower

Whats the service availability like are there long blackouts or long stretches of sub 5mb down speeds?

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

This isn’t trying to compete with wired connections. It is competing against 5G and data caps or the peeps who have no wired option.

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

That's super good for satelite internet. This service is not to compete with land based internet but to provide where service is otherwise not really available. It is magnitudes better than services like Xplornet, Telesat etc through geostationary satellites.

 

[KMFJD]

Whats the service availability like are there long blackouts or long stretches of sub 5mb down speeds?


This isn’t trying to compete with wired connections. It is competing against 5G and data caps or the peeps who have no wired option.

During the bad storms the ping jumps, lost packets, lack of signal, so far that's amounted to about 30 minutes of downtime since March

 

[highland145]

Hell yeah, I'm piling on BGS too.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Guys, I was teasing because I embraced where the technology has taken me. Gosh, lighten up.

 

[highland145]

Rat bastard.

:Colbert;

 

[gorcorps]

LOL, 50 ms latency. I'll keep my fiber connection with its 2 ms latency. Oh, and its 950 Mbps/950Mbps down/upload.

It's not for you

It's for the folks that either have no hardwire option at all, or the best choice is 6Mbps ATT DSL. Several people at work have larger rural lots that the major ISPs don't run to because it's not profitable enough given how much cable they need to run per individual customer. Three of them signed up for starlink and the 2 that got it already say that it's not perfect, but worlds better than what they had.

 

[gorcorps]

Guys, I was teasing because I embraced where the technology has taken me. Gosh, lighten up.

We don't buy it

BURN HIM

 

[KMFJD]

We did get an email from our rural economic development council, they advised us that we could run a fiber optic line, i think they said it was over $700k just to run the line, locked into a 5(?) year contract then as well, plus monthly charges afterwards....i'd love to move closer to a city so that we could get fast fiber, but i don't think the people in the city would enjoy all the smells associated with a farm.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd rather have dialup than live near near a city. I grew up when everything was shitty. 2.5 channels of tv, fast food was a kfc and McDonalds on the other side of town, and "foreign" food was the pizza shop or Chinese place. Electric went out every time a gnat farted, and you couldn't buy alcohol on Sunday. Those speeds/ping are amazing, and you don't have to deal with comcast. If it goes down every once in awhile, whatever. That shit's luxury. I'm using a crappy walmart cell phone for internet. Even with all the limitations, it's worth it to not have deal with big corp's shading billing and service practices. If the time comes I don't like it, I just quit paying and get something else. No hassle.

 

[Crotulus]

Thinking about whether or not I should go through with Starlink or get my deposit back. My only current options for ISPs are by radio link (current subscription) or ViaSat/Hughesnet satellite. My radio link was for 20Mb down/6MB up service when I placed my deposit for Starlink. My ISP has since bumped this service tier up to 50Mb/15Mb. While the potentially faster download speed of Starlink sounds good for a few dollars more than I'm currently spending, the upload is the same and our real bottleneck (camera uploads mostly). Not all that convinced the faster download and similar upload are worth the cost of the system, extra $20/month and time to get the dish mounted and setup. Also, customer service for the ISP is excellent. They are quick to e-mail about service interruptions, letting me know what happened and when it should be fixed.

What do you all think?
Thanks!