PhillyB77
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I was getting a barely usable 5mbps from Hughesnet....as such I was motivated to make the jump
Starlink satellites
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DanInDenver
Trail Ready
No excuse soon for why you didn’t respond to that text or email.
Once upon a time it was fun to get to somewhere your phone just quit working.
apple.news
Once upon a time it was fun to get to somewhere your phone just quit working.
SpaceX and T-Mobile say your phone will connect directly to Starlink satellites — Mashable
Beta version of the service is coming late in 2023.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Providing cellphone service directly to a space-borne "tower" isn't a brand new idea...No excuse soon for why you didn’t respond to that text or email.
Once upon a time it was fun to get to somewhere your phone just quit working.
SpaceX and T-Mobile say your phone will connect directly to Starlink satellites — Mashable
Beta version of the service is coming late in 2023.
A Virginia company has connected mobile phones directly to satellites
Lynk will start with intermittent text messages and expand from there.
arstechnica.com
... and it has not been without serious issues with which to contend.
NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision”
“This particular region of space tends to produce a large number of conjunctions.”…
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Inukshuk
Rising Sun Member
Marble. You seek Marble. Complete dead zone to literally anything.
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The exceptions being solitude, and good BBQ.
PhillyB77
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Stayed in Marble a month ago at a spot near the lake. They had wifi and total coverage.
It’s really simple to go anywhere and have your phone quit working. It’s called a power switch. I know that doesn’t stop the phone next to you from ringing but it’s a start. 1/2 or more the battle is in our own heads to disconnect.
PhillyB77
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When we go camping we try to find spots off the grid, if there is service we shut our phones off. It's interesting turning a phone back on after 4-5 days and seeing all these messages pop up that you don't have to respond to. Were they really that important?
Inukshuk
Rising Sun Member
100%.
Used Starlink again last weekend. Made it possible for Anna to be there and do 1 hour of work Sunday AM. Made it easier for her to find and meet us at camp.
Was able to download some maps.
Had to resist the urges to check on FB and the Queen's funeral.
Power switch worked great.
J1000
Rising Sun Member
I got my Starlink and set it up today. Already blows away my CenturyLink. I am so excited to wave goodbye to the phone company. I already swore off Comcast so CenturyLink was our only option until now. Going to keep the DSL for a month or two and if the Starlink works then bye bye DSL.
PhillyB77
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Love it! Not quite getting those speeds but close, and for almost 1/3 the cost.
J1000
Rising Sun Member
After a couple days I'm now easily getting over 100Mbps, it peaks over 170Mbps. Ping is lower too, even on an overcast day like today. It's about $30 per month more expensive than Centurylink for us.
Starlink ends its unlimited satellite Internet data policy as download speeds keep dropping
Starlink ends its unlimited satellite Internet data policy as download speeds keep dropping
North American Starlink satellite Internet users have started getting messages that their data allotment is no longer unlimited. Not only did Starlink move its faster download speed tiers from the residential to the business options, but it is now capping them to 1TB of usage per month before...
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DouglasVB
Rising Sun Member
Figures. Over sold and not enough satellites on orbit yet.
Time to dust off Project Loon to augment with Internet balloons!
Time to dust off Project Loon to augment with Internet balloons!
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Where have I heard this?
https://risingsun4x4club.org/xf/threads/starlink-satellites.31014/post-366891
"The problem is that comes with strings such as guaranteed bandwidths to the RDOF recipients. Which then means the high value customers in suburbs and cities must be throttled, making the cost per GB very high compared to cable and DSL. The business model will never pan out long term. When the RDOF gifts are paid off so they can sell bandwidth to whomever (e.g. to city folk with density of customers or the few people who perhaps travel full time) the constellation will never be big enough to compete with fiber backbones."
gungriffin
Rising Sun Member
1tb a month is more than 90% of their users require. This isn't a big deal.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
"These new customers are starting to affect Starlink's Internet download speeds that dropped up to 54% year-on-year in Q2, while the median speed in the US fell to about 60 Mbps.
Before the big subscriber rush, Starlink had its 350 Mbps speed tier listed in the residential sector on its website, while it is now shown in the business options that are much more expensive. Starlink says that standard customers on its fixed Internet plans can expect between 20-100 Mbps speeds, while for business customers the realistic expectation numbers double to 40-220 Mbps."
I get 300/15 Mbps for $60/month in nowhereville, Colorado. For $100/month I could get business class from Spectrum with symmetrical 200/200 and guaranteed uptime. My speeds have been going *up* in 2022, from 200/10 at the beginning of 2022. We used about 300 GB in October, so I do agree 1TB is an healthy upper limit. We don't have any streaming video subscriptions but we do usually have an audio stream going almost all day when we're home. But that only works out to around 6GB per month (64 Kbps about 8 or so hours daily). So it's OS updates and apps and work stuff and whatever downloads.
There are unbreakable laws and those are of physics and economics. It's seeming like Spectrum/Comcast/Centurylink haven't much to worry about this upstart. Starlink is clearly better than Hughes and Viasat but that's honestly a pretty low bar. It's a good and necessary option for rural customers but not really disruptive to the market as a whole.
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J1000
Rising Sun Member
No matter what I pay I'm limited to 40mbps from CenturyLink where I live in Morrison, definitely not nowhereville. All the phone lines in the area are from the 70s from what I understand so they are maxed out. I'll never use Comcast ever again. Those bastards throttle. So the only option left is Starlink and so far I've been happy with it. Sure, I'd rather have fiber but it's not possible.
My nowhereville limit with CenturyLink is 20MB so Starlink has been a huge upgrade and so far has been more stable than my DSL. Still have both as I’m waiting to see how well the heater works in the Starlink dish when the snow really hits.