Starlink

[dfkrug]

Just got my Frontier fiber working this week. 500Mbps up and down, $48/mo. Replaces dual-bonded copper DSL, 28M/2M for $90/mo. Does not really seem any faster, tho I only run one device at a time, using web browsers or streaming with Roku.

The real test is when I upload another video to Utube. My last 3min chainsaw vid took 30 min to upload. I don't run any games.

Upgrading to fiber took a year. Maintenance on the copper has really gotten bad. I mainly want the fiber for better reliability and lower cost.

I considered Starlink, but I have too many trees.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Unless you run a business from home or have a houseful of kids who game & stream video, most homes don't need that much bandwidth.

I went from 2MB down & .5MB up DSL to 30/5 wireless internet and noticed a big difference in performance. When I switched to 200/50 Starlink, there was no noticeable improvement at all. It's just my wife and I who surf the net and stream the occasional movie though so YMMV.

 

[ning]

Every jump in net performance I've had has been significant in number, and until the last one, in "feel".

My previous, which was just hotspotting the LTE off my phone for a few years, I would get about 10-14Mbps down, and everything was fine... videos took a discernible amount of time to download, but that was a relatively rare thing, and it was only 5-10 seconds most of the time.

Now with a "5G home internet" (which according to the cell monitor app it's really a very fast 4G LTE, idk) that's 2-300Mbps, I can set a funny video to download, switch apps and send it to someone and the download is done before I get to the place where I can send it.

For everything else, like real work, I don't notice a difference... in fact, for most of my work things got better as soon as I stopped using Starband (geostationary satellite up & down) because of the killer latency - the T1 line I moved to at that point filled every need, only the emergence of so much photo & video sharing in non-work has made any difference to what I use.

 

[nikdfish]

Starlink now supports the ability to add a guest Wifi network with residential accounts. I guess it was in a recent firmware update. You just go into "settings" on the starlink app & click on the "add network" option. There is a slider button to enable the "guest" option then set up a network name & password.

Guest network users can access the internet but not the local network or star link functions.

 

[ultrarunner]

I keep getting solicitations for fiber. i can see the tower, but last look they wanted over $50k to run to property, to house supposed to be free. Can buy a lot of Starlink for that.

I was 15k to run Comcast and the crew was simply amazing all underground bore with several boxes along the path…

The cost was rolled into a $330 month plan for 5 years.