Anybody here use Starlink?

[Perplexed]

This is much the situation on my street, only with five houses, two of which would not care about fiber optic. Windstream has FO in the subdivision across the street, and they’re claiming they’ll get an extension to my street sometime this year... Maybe.

Update: we called Windstream (Kinetic) last week for the latest info, and they admitted they have no plans to bring their fiber optic 200 yards across the main road to just a couple houses on my street. They did lower my monthly fee $5 (woo woo) but per mbps download, I’m still paying more than 10X what the folks with FO across the street are paying. So I’m giving Starlink another look, but man, the startup fee of $600+, and paying several hundred dollars per year more for service, are giving me pause even with 3X to 10X the download speed I currently have.

 

[retrieverman]

Update: we called Windstream (Kinetic) last week for the latest info, and they admitted they have no plans to bring their fiber optic 200 yards across the main road to just a couple houses on my street. They did lower my monthly fee $5 (woo woo) but per mbps download, I’m still paying more than 10X what the folks with FO across the street are paying. So I’m giving Starlink another look, but man, the startup fee of $600+, and paying several hundred dollars per year more for service, are giving me pause even with 3X to 10X the download speed I currently have.

I would’ve had second thoughts too if I had another viable option, because Starlink ain’t cheap. However, I was paying really close to the same money for slow and intermittent service with Viasat. It was a no brainer for me, and I still have no regrets.

 

[adamsredlines]

That whole program for rural connectivity was an absolute scam on the people. The "providers" just burned through the money and yes, they put down thousands of miles of fiber optic...but with zero intention of actually hooking people up. (IMO)

Fiber optic cable is run all in my area, the cable run is 46 feet from my front door, and has been for at least two years now, with no intention of servicing any of the people in the area.

Absolute waste of taxpayers dollars.


And another annoyance, now out here there's all these signs for underground cable, and junction boxes and all that junk....for no benefit to anyone in the area. My neighbor now has a 4x4 post with a junction box and a orange sign, in his front yard...that he can't move, or use the service its supposed to provide.

 

[dennishoddy]

I bought and set up the Starlink roam at our current location tonight.
One more RV park advertising robust WiFi that is junk. They don’t understand bandwidth nor procedures to reset the router’s on a regular basis.
I’ve given up trying to tell them small home routers won’t support 300 users.
Pretty impressed with the ease of setup and speeds we have never experienced.
Roam program allows the user to move around the US on a month by month payment with no contract.

I’ll get the pole mount ordered shortly. Don’t like leaving a $500 dish laying on the ground.

 

[adamsredlines]

Congrats! I think you'll be happy with it. I know I still am.

 

[-Pjackso]

FYI -
For whoever is interested.....
Starlink Standard is on sale for $299 (was $499).
Sale runs until Oct 5.

I think we'll get one for RV purposes.

Starlink

High-speed internet. Available almost anywhere on Earth.

www.starlink.com

$299 for All: SpaceX Discounts Standard Starlink Dish Nationwide

SpaceX is offering the discount until Oct. 5 and giving $100 service credits to new customers in certain US states.

www.pcmag.com

 

[RidgeRunner45-70]

We live in Westport off the 412. Got our package on sale Gen 2 for $299. So much better than Cimtel or Hughesnet.

 

[adamsredlines]

In case yall didn't know, Starlink rocks!

 

[adamsredlines]

I have a friend on the coast of central California, who also has a vacation house in the Virgin Islands.
He's a certified Musk hater...but...uses Starlink in both houses LOL. I would have thought his place in Cali would have a good "traditional" option, but apparently not.

 

[crispy]

In case yall didn't know, Starlink rocks!

I install it professionally for the company I now work for. I started out installing for a local P2P ISP and replaced a lot of SAT dishes (HughesNet, WildBlue, etc) for people in favor of a local company. Now, over 10 years later, I’m installing Starlink and replacing P2P clients lol. Starlink is very impressive as a sat provider and I highly recommend it if you can’t get a cable provider of some kind.