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Starlink is now available across the United States
- qup 3y agoWell, after years on the wait-list, I got ahead of general availability by six weeks. Nice. And now it'll be oversold, likely. Edit: I'm still totally thrilled to have it, don't let my crankiness override that. It beats the snot out of DSL, which I was already lucky to have!
- TedDoesntTalk 3y agoCost?
- toomuchtodo 3y ago$150/mo and a one-time hardware cost (Dishy) of $599 for the roam package. I believe the fixed residential (where you're geofenced to a service address, although this may no longer apply) is slightly less per month. (I have the roam package)
- qup 3y agoYeah, mine is $120/mo for fixed
- TedDoesntTalk 3y agoYikes. I want to give the finger to xfinity/Comcast, but I’m paying $50/month or possibly less.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoI would recommend championing municipal or coop fiber for your use case.
- Auracle 3y agoIt’s not for people that have access to cable internet (or better).
- netllama 3y agoits already oversold in most parts of the US. peak perf is atrocious, with 100ms latency to the gateway.
- hengbinfang 3y agoreally cool, looking forward to where it'll go
- Difwif 3y agoI'm currently living on a sailboat with my wife working remote in the Caribbean. There are 5g sim cards for pretty cheap but I think you know what it would be like to only use that in the states to do your job. Sometimes the networks here go down all day. Starlink makes this life possible and it's a dream. Also owning a boat is a lot of work so don't just imagine beaches and cocktails 24/7. I love it though.
- bkuehl 3y agoI'm in the same situation! Not in the Carribean..yet, but traveling around U.S. coast in a trawler with my husband. Never would have been possible without Starlink. I would have had to wait for retirement that probably would never have come. Agreed that owning a boat is a lot of work! I need to remind friends it's not all relaxing with cocktails!
- bicx 3y agoI’ve been working remotely in wilderness areas of the U.S. in my RV, and it’s been great. I wouldn’t have attempted this without Starlink.
- 15457345234 3y ago> Sometimes the networks here go down all day. Which country, or countries, specifically, has or have all-day mobile network outages on a regular basis, in your experience?
- gouggoug 3y ago> Product & Service Overview > Performance : Includes unlimited high-speed, low-latency internet. What's high-speed? Would be nice to provide a number
- netllama 3y agowhatever elon says it is. or more accurately its inversely proportional to how oversold the region is. for much of the west coast, its very not good, especially at peak times.
- BenjiWiebe 3y agoI'm curious what you call not good, though. <20Mbps? <10? Or 70? Does it still beat a 3 mile DSL run?
- EdwardMSmith 3y agoI have it at my cabin, and get anywhere between 100-200mb/s down and 10-20mb/s up. I’m in a discounted area and “only” pay $90 per month, so that probably has something to do with the speeds. I’m also fairly close to the downlink site - not sure if that has any effect. There are no other non-satellite options available.
- coder543 3y agoOfficial numbers are provided here: https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1400-28829-70 https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1400-28829-70 YMMV, as I'm sure people are preparing to reply to me. If you have the option to choose another high speed internet provider (>50Mbps) that isn't Starlink, then Starlink probably isn't the right choice. For people who have no other choice, Starlink is a big improvement over traditional satellite internet.
- sharts 3y agohttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-definition-broadband-both-useless-and-harmful https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-defin... 25up/3down is the definition of broadband.
- hk1337 3y agoUnless it were one of my only options, I would rather not. I know it’s slim i would personally be targeted but after hearing how Elon disrupted service for Ukraine during an operation, I would rather not put my towards someone like that.
- signatoremo 3y agoHe didn’t disrupt the service, according to the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence: ———- KB: This specific case everybody's referring to, there was a shutdown of the coverage over Crimea, but it wasn't at that specific moment. That shutdown was for a month. There might have been some specific cases I'm not aware of. But I'm totally sure that throughout the whole first period of the war, there was no coverage at all. TWZ: But did he ever put it on and then shut it off? KB: There have been no problems since it's been turned on over Crimea. ———- https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/exclusive-interview-with-ukraines-spy-boss-from-his-dc-hotel-room https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/exclusive-interview-wi...
- wenebego 3y ago"There was a shutdown of the coverage over Crimea" is the disruption of service. It also sounds like there is a translation barrier, or they are being really careful not to upset elon, lest he shutdown their internet for another month
- inemesitaffia 3y agoYou can't turn off something that was never on
- monkaiju 3y agoNot worth the destruction of the nightsky or the waste of replacing the satellites every <5 years
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- manuelmoreale 3y agoI live in a rural location. No cable internet. I work in tech. Still, I’d personally not give up the night sky for a faster internet. But I see your point.
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- AtlasBarfed 3y agoThere are multiple competing flotillas in the works. Ukraine shows this is a strategic military capability, so China and Europe will subsidiZe their own The ship has sailed.
- monkaiju 3y agoThis is a rwlaly defeatist attitude thats all to common in tech circles. Somehow techies are able to both say 'technology progress is great and needs to be embraced' but when a bad tech or aspect is pointed out they switch to 'its inevitable, the ships already sailed' Its both not true and shows a deep misunderstanding of technological development
- Dylan16807 3y agoWith millions of customers, I wouldn't say the replacement satellites are that bad. And the sky seems fine?
- feetsoup 3y ago
- inemesitaffia 3y agoWhere's the bandwidth? Lots of people have peak time issues
- _xerces_ 3y agoInteresting large holes in the coverage map that look to be the Great Lakes and the National Radio Quiet Zone.
- uslic001 3y agoExcept parts of West Virginia according to the map. Same area you can't have wifi.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoRadio astronomy