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Starlink yea or nay?

Meh, tried it to compare to my existing FirstNet, was only slightly faster 😕

The $80 more a month I could not justify for the slight increase in speed, sent it back.
 
east_beast said:
I've had it for a few months now. No issues. Way better than the shitty speeds could get through the cable company and they wanted $12k to run new cable.
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Had to run $4k of cable at my house in Mississippi to be able to work from home. I feel ya.
 
so does the equipment come with a new router for inside the house as well as the antenna? i could probably mount it on my existing receiver pole since its already wired into the house. then i need to get my wifi extender to play nice with the new router.


the app shows 4 different starlinks. i guess i can use the High Performance Starlink?
 
Texas97 said:
so does the equipment come with a new router for inside the house as well as the antenna? i could probably mount it on my existing receiver pole since its already wired into the house. then i need to get my wifi extender to play nice with the new router.


the app shows 4 different starlinks. i guess i can use the High Performance Starlink?
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It comes with its own wifi router. You can order an ethernet adapter for it and run whatever you want.

Advice, buy any and all accessories through the Starlink ap or website. They're almost always cheaper, especially so compared to Amazon. The shipping was fast as well.
 
Ted_Kaczynski said:
It comes with its own wifi router. You can order an ethernet adapter for it and run whatever you want.

Advice, buy any and all accessories through the Starlink ap or website. They're almost always cheaper, especially so compared to Amazon. The shipping was fast as well.
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seems im going to have to run new cable, as the existing cable will not work with this dish and router. thats what i am seeing. may not be a huge deal but could be some work involved.
 
Texas97 said:
seems im going to have to run new cable, as the existing cable will not work with this dish and router. thats what i am seeing. may not be a huge deal but could be some work involved.
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As long as you have power and a weather proof secure box, put the Starlink where it's needed then use the ethernet adapter to connect to existing Cat5,6,7,X cable up to ~300' to your house and install your router there in your house, shop, whatever. You can run another ~300' of cable from that device to another or other devices wherever as well.
 
Texas97 said:
so does the equipment come with a new router for inside the house as well as the antenna? i could probably mount it on my existing receiver pole since its already wired into the house. then i need to get my wifi extender to play nice with the new router.


the app shows 4 different starlinks. i guess i can use the High Performance Starlink?
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Yes, I'm getting good range out of the Starlink router in the house too. I ran about 125' of direct burial CAT5 to my shop and it's good enough for most things. I haven't tried streaming video much but I can upload/download fusion360 files and play music fairly well.

Starlink has changed our life honestly because our only options were DSL or cell hotspots which were hit or miss. I'm in WebEx meetings all day and Starlink has been reliable with the exception of about three outages in two years that I can recall. The last one was due to a solar flare where Starlink shut down the satellites to deploy the solar shields for about an hour.

There are hacks around the proprietary Starlink cable but I just used it as-is, it has seals like a weatherpac connector and it rains a lot here.
 
Hopefully it can compete against our only internet provider.

I currently pay $110 a month for 10mb DSL and that's the smallest plan that doesn't have a data limit. The smallest is $70 a month for 250GB

Had cable at my old place, was 1gig speed and around $70/month.
 
Ted_Kaczynski said:
As long as you have power and a weather proof secure box, put the Starlink where it's needed then use the ethernet adapter to connect to existing Cat5,6,7,X cable up to ~300' to your house and install your router there in your house, shop, whatever. You can run another ~300' of cable from that device to another or other devices wherever as well.
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great advice.
 
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Just did this random test on a random speed test site, out on my shop computer. I am listening to spotify, in the shop while its being tested, Shop computer is wifi connected, and a good 80-90' from the stock starlink wifi router, (1.5 year old system)

Wife is inside working and is in an online meeting. Youngest watching shows on her tablet.
 
Pook said:
Sure, we could set something up using zoom or whatever.
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It would be a good test. I can set you up with an invite to a mock class. I just need to make sure that the bandwidth is good enough on your end to do everything I need it to do. Then I can teach from anywhere.
 
rugger said:
It would be a good test. I can set you up with an invite to a mock class. I just need to make sure that the bandwidth is good enough on your end to do everything I need it to do. Then I can teach from anywhere.
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I can hop on too if you want more participants.
 
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Test I ran today, just now. Wife is working and in a meeting, I am out in the shop, listening to spotify, while working in solidworks.
 
Any feedback on the “roam” service? We don’t have a permanent address and my wife needs reliable internet for work. I’ve read that the residential users get priority, just curious on any experience. Thx
 
I had roam for a couple months, didn't have any issues. My brother has it now. A lot of his neighbors have residential at his place in the country and we didn't have any issues watching games on Sunday while the kids were streaming their shit. 3 kids and two wives on their phones, us watching football and using our phones.

It's nice that he can take it down from his place and we can set it up at the deer lease opening weekend. I've thought about taking my residential unit out there to see if they really give any kickback setting it up out there. Roughly 200 miles. I've heard anything over 45 miles from the registered address will throw a flag.
 
COcamper said:
Any feedback on the “roam” service? We don’t have a permanent address and my wife needs reliable internet for work. I’ve read that the residential users get priority, just curious on any experience. Thx
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Mine is roam and it has been flawless all over the Southeast. You'll just need a view of a clear northern horizon or at least a 3/4 open overhead sky. But the roaming gets great throughputs like posted above and no latency to speak of ever. The ap will show you obstructions as it sits and you can fine tune it accordingly.
 
Does Starlink allow you to have email addresses through them or are you stuck with gmail or some other crap?
 
Submitted my order last night, should have it in a week or 2.

Was playing with the Starlink app outside, I get around 7-8% obstruction in the location I am hoping to set the dish. Any input on if this is acceptable or if I need to start figuring out a better location? I'm sure I will run into other areas with more obstructions, anyone have experience with more obstructions?

I ordered the ethernet adapter, any other accessories that I should get ordered?

Thanks
 
Sceep said:
Mount of some sort if you aren't just gonna toss it on the ground.
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I'm kind of planning on "tossing it on the ground" as we don't have a permanent address at the moment, is there a portable "tripod" style mount anyone has used with success? I could see how that would be useful to get it off the ground and up a little bit, but I don't want anything big and bulky...
 
COcamper said:
I'm kind of planning on "tossing it on the ground" as we don't have a permanent address at the moment, is there a portable "tripod" style mount anyone has used with success? I could see how that would be useful to get it off the ground and up a little bit, but I don't want anything big and bulky...
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Mine has been just sitting on the ground with the included tripod mount for a year. Might do something about that here before the snow flies thie year.
 
dont know if its been brought up... but its always getting better too!


been on starlink well over a year now... in that time the average speed has gone up 5x.


they offer bigger satelites recievers you can buy to better the connection. in the last couple years almost all the working boats around here have been hooking up to starlink, many of them buy the vary large stationary reciever.


i just test at 142 down speeds, 10 up. i was lucky to get 30 at first, dont remember the initial up speeds... zip code is 98221 for ref
 
This is the first day we've had it when it's been heavily overcast and rainy that I've been pushing it hard. Running into quite a few streaming issues so ran a speed test out of curiosity and it's definitely struggling in the weather.

Getting 7mbps down today. I'm usually at 30+.

Just something to consider if you're in the PNW or somewhere like that with a lot of consistent cloud cover.
 
Sceep said:
Mine has been just sitting on the ground with the included tripod mount for a year. Might do something about that here before the snow flies thie year.
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I just bought the adapter kit to use our pre-existing DirecTV satellite mount. Ran it for about a month just sitting on the deck on the tripod making sure we were gonna stick with it first though.
 
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