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Im sure there’s good Starlink use cases in narrow circumstances (only alternative being HughesNet with massive latency and < 30 megabits down, Ukraine, apparent

Im sure there’s good Starlink use cases in narrow circumstances (only alternative being HughesNet with massive latency and < 30 megabits down, Ukraine, apparently cruise ships) but the more I read about Starlink pricing and constraints (like the predictable latency spikes) I genuinely wonder who it’s for.

grecy 2y ago
It’s for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who have no wired option. It’s a game changer in remote Australia, Yukon and Alaska, etc etc
inemesitaffia 2y ago
There's people who'd want it at $25,000 per dish and $10,000 per month. All the people who waited for months to get one show there's a market You forget all the traditional users of satellite Internet. Islands, Planes, Antarctica, regular ships, rockets, drones etc. Right now it's priced cheap enough for some GA uses.
mensetmanusman 2y ago
Imagine being remote in the world during your wondering:)
nucleardog 2y ago
Like a fifth of the country is considered rural. That’s not very narrow circumstances. I don’t think my options are particularly unusual… my options for broadband are 5/0.3Mbps DSL, 25/5Mbps LTE with a punishing bandwidth cap, or 25/1Mbps satellite internet with a 350GB cap. Friend on Frontier had a 5Mbps plan on a node so oversubscribed that in almost a decade he only saw it get past 1Mbps once… at 3AM one night. The state attorney got involved. For a modern house where we might want to do something crazy like watch TV while someone’s working none of these will really get us there. With Starlink I usually get ~150/30Mbps and no caps. And this isn't "remote Yukon wilderness" or something. I'm right in the middle of three of the largest cities in the country... an hour away from two of them, four from the third. I can get to like 6 different Costcos and three Ikeas within an hour's drive.
Axsuul 2y ago
I live in central Los Angeles and use Starlink as a failover to my cable internet. Sometimes there are outages and Starlink takes over. I've also tested Verizon 5G home internet but Starlink was faster and more affordable.
- laidoffamazon 2y ago
  Starlink at $90 a month was cheaper than Verizon 5G? What was the pricing on that?
  - Axsuul 2y ago
    I'm using it as a failover so on the Roam plan which gives 50 GB/mo for $50/mo. Verizon was $60/mo.

grecy 2y ago

It’s for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who have no wired option. It’s a game changer in remote Australia, Yukon and Alaska, etc etc

inemesitaffia 2y ago

There's people who'd want it at $25,000 per dish and $10,000 per month. All the people who waited for months to get one show there's a market You forget all the traditional users of satellite Internet. Islands, Planes, Antarctica, regular ships, rockets, drones etc. Right now it's priced cheap enough for some GA uses.

mensetmanusman 2y ago

Imagine being remote in the world during your wondering:)

nucleardog 2y ago

Like a fifth of the country is considered rural. That’s not very narrow circumstances. I don’t think my options are particularly unusual… my options for broadband are 5/0.3Mbps DSL, 25/5Mbps LTE with a punishing bandwidth cap, or 25/1Mbps satellite internet with a 350GB cap. Friend on Frontier had a 5Mbps plan on a node so oversubscribed that in almost a decade he only saw it get past 1Mbps once… at 3AM one night. The state attorney got involved. For a modern house where we might want to do something crazy like watch TV while someone’s working none of these will really get us there. With Starlink I usually get ~150/30Mbps and no caps. And this isn't "remote Yukon wilderness" or something. I'm right in the middle of three of the largest cities in the country... an hour away from two of them, four from the third. I can get to like 6 different Costcos and three Ikeas within an hour's drive.

Axsuul 2y ago

I live in central Los Angeles and use Starlink as a failover to my cable internet. Sometimes there are outages and Starlink takes over. I've also tested Verizon 5G home internet but Starlink was faster and more affordable.

laidoffamazon 2y ago
Starlink at $90 a month was cheaper than Verizon 5G? What was the pricing on that?
- Axsuul 2y ago
  I'm using it as a failover so on the Roam plan which gives 50 GB/mo for $50/mo. Verizon was $60/mo.