Starlink satellite internet

[Ssayer]

I've been posting on a different thread, and am trying not to hijack any threads. Anyway, I've had the T-Mobile since Nov 28th. T-Mobile is upgrading their service everywhere so there are still growing pains (like yesterday evening), but all in all I am extremely happy with it. I test it often. I've gotten as high as 552Mbps down with it, many times in the 200s, and except for that glitch yesterday evening, I normally get 125+ during high traffic times. Uploads are very nice too! Just an FYI for those on the Starlink waiting list...

 

[Jessie.slimer]

Some nights she goes into hyper drive .. and compared to the POS Xplornet that we had, Starlink is ridiculously superb. There, I said it

I believe my speeds were over 650 when I scrambled to screen shot the test .. by the time I got it, it had dropped to 500. We've had it for going on a yr now, and nowadays our speeds aren't often below 200 down, 20 up. And VERY little seems to phase it . rain downpours, blizzards, you name it and it just keeps ticking away. Buffering is unheard of now .. if you're contemplating Starlink .. just do it.

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Mine has been very reliable as well, but I don't get nearly the speeds you do. I usually see 50-75 down and 20 up, and occasionally triple digits down. Maybe it's a latitude thing. I'm not complaining by any means though. These speeds are much faster than I needed, and insanely faster than anyone in my area still on AT&T dsl.

 

[fergenheimer]

I've been posting on a different thread, and am trying not to hijack any threads. Anyway, I've had the T-Mobile since Nov 28th. T-Mobile is upgrading their service everywhere so there are still growing pains (like yesterday evening), but all in all I am extremely happy with it. I test it often. I've gotten as high as 552Mbps down with it, many times in the 200s, and except for that glitch yesterday evening, I normally get 125+ during high traffic times. Uploads are very nice too! Just an FYI for those on the Starlink waiting list...


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I wonder what the difference is between t-mobile cell service and home internet is. My service uses a t-mobile sim but no t-mobile home internet is available. Definitely no 5G in the area.

 

[Ssayer]

I wonder what the difference is between t-mobile cell service and home internet is. My service uses a t-mobile sim but no t-mobile home internet is available. Definitely no 5G in the area.

I'm seeing a lot of different takes on that. Some say they're only offering it as 5G becomes available. Some say they are only offering it as capacity comes online. Can't hurt to call and ask. Heck, even 4G blew away my 5M/.5M dsl.

 

[bp2008]

I know of one place near that tiepoint that got lit up Dec. 7th, has 50M down and 50M up; I know to you city dwellers that sounds like crap but when you've had ADSL with 1.5M down and 512K up since '09 it'll feel like a rocket blast.

Surely 50/50 is just a budget option, right? If that is their top tier speed then it would suggest they have severe capacity limits on their backbone.

 

[TonyR]

Surely 50/50 is just a budget option, right?

Pretty sure that's correct and that was the speed at a local church. Their web site states up to a gig is available but we'll just have to wait see.

 

[NightLife]

On Xplornet we generally saw similar numbers day to day in the neighbourhood of 30 down, and 1.80 up. A decade of that. I don't recall much of my final phone call to tech .. lets just leave it at that.


One thing which did help a tiny bit was when I went into my routers QoS and disabled it's desire to base my speeds off of internet speed tests. I said F* it and just inputted 2500 up, 2500 down. That ended up producing the best results I could for our modest household. I'm sure any country folk can commiserate .. forget about watching online videos, like Youtube because those bastards began fragmenting their video data across several servers making buffering kinda useless. Early on over the decade with Xplornet I could just fire up a video, hit pause and the whole thing would at least buffer in the background, and I'd return minutes later to enjoy. But then Youtube changed and buffering would only buy me seconds. Watching a Youtube video looked like this .. 2-5 seconds of video, then 5-30 seconds buffering, then another 2-5 or 10 seconds gasp video .. repeat. Once of the first things I thought to do when the Starlink stabilized it's speeds was to look on Youtube for an 8K video to stream .. and stream it did, with nary a buffering and it was a thing of glory after that long decade in internet purgatory.

 

[TonyR]

Watching a Youtube video looked like this .. 2-5 seconds of video, then 5-30 seconds buffering, then another 2-5 or 10 seconds gasp video .. repeat. Once of the first things I thought to do when the Starlink stabilized it's speeds was to look on Youtube for an 8K video to stream .. and stream it did, with nary a buffering and it was a thing of glory after that long decade in internet purgatory.

Sounds like my experience with anything less than 3.0M down here. At Least Amazon Prime (or Netflix? can't recall, it's been so long) would adjust the resolution from 1080p down to as low as 480p to accommodate the available download speed in place of 20 sec. video, then 3 secs. of buffering, then 20 more secs. of video, etc. I would rather have a constant video of reduced res than have a wheel spinning for 3 secs. every 20 seconds........3 hours of that would be like listening to Joy Behar recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

[bp2008]

Pretty sure that's correct and that was the speed at a local church. Their web site states up to a gig is available but we'll just have to wait see.

That is very good pricing. $59.99 for 300 Mbps and $79.99 for gigabit! I imagine if the church only got 50 Mbps then it is not due to a technical issue. DSL loses speed very quickly with distance. But fiber does not. They are probably just on an unlisted service plan. Maybe a "business" plan or possibly just a "low-budget" thing that they don't want everyone to ask for so they don't advertise it.

The internet provider where I used to live also got a lot of government money to install fiber, but the data plans and pricing were a joke compared to your electric cooperative there.

• $44.99: 25 Mbps x 3 Mbps
• $59.99: 50 Mbps x 10 Mbps
• $79.99: 100 Mbps x 100 Mbps
• $109.99: 300 Mbps x 300 Mbps
• $159.99: 500 Mbps x 500 Mbps
• no gigabit tier

 

[fenderman]

I'm still trying to figure out what everyone is doing with these super fast plans. Netflix and porn will be the same on a 100 connection vs a gigabit connection.

 

[Ssayer]

HAHA! Forget super fast, I was just trying to find "better than stone age".

 

[JNDATHP]

I'm still trying to figure out what everyone is doing with these super fast plans. Netflix and porn will be the same on a 100 connection vs a gigabit connection.

I work from home and use a Citrix connection to our hosted cloud. I’m not really interested in the fast download speeds but have to have the faster plan to get the upload speeds.

 

[tech101]

I work from home and use a Citrix connection to our hosted cloud. I’m not really interested in the fast download speeds but have to have the faster plan to get the upload speeds.

Yea, Only reason I have a gigabit is because of the better upload speed with Xfinity - As The only way to even get a 40 mbps upload is to sign up for the gigabit connection.

 

[Mike A.]

Here with promotions and the way that they bundle their packages, if you also have TV service, then the gig service works out to be the same or less than some others. If I had to pay more for it, then I wouldn't. Practically you don't really notice the faster speed in day-to-day use. Things end up being limited elsewhere and you won't go any faster than the slowest link. Did make a big difference when I was saving large backups to another location on the same network.

 

[TonyR]

On the fiber I'm looking forward to 50M up and no data cap...I've a weather cam I'd like to live stream.
And the past 2 spring seasons I have a bluebird cam inside the box that I couldn't live stream because of the poor upload and the data cap I have.

 

[tigerwillow1]

The law of unintended consequences never ceases to amaze me.



Cats are cozying up to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites

 

[NightLife]

Probably used Cat5 cable ..

 

[bp2008]

haha that is awesome

 

[NightLife]

...and note to self; don't ever buy billy goats!

 

[Ssayer]

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