Starlink

[immamac 42835]

We have one for the tailgate and mobile shows for OTF. Its internet when cell towers are overloaded, but that's it. Its pretty shitty in urban settings and rural its just OK. 

[High Plains Drifter 11028]

 

Does it work in moving vehicles as was promised?

[Mikey4 2476]

44 minutes ago, immamac said:

We have one for the tailgate and mobile shows for OTF. Its internet when cell towers are overloaded, but that's it. Its pretty shitty in urban settings and rural its just OK. 

What kind of speeds are you getting? Also, do you have trouble connecting at all, or just slower speeds? 

[immamac 42835]

28 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Does it work in moving vehicles as was promised?

Yes

3 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

What kind of speeds are you getting? Also, do you have trouble connecting at all, or just slower speeds? 

Tops out around 40 down and 25 up 

Usually getting sub 20 down sub 8 up

Fine for our use-case but not good. 

[thunderlounge 7813]

15 minutes ago, immamac said:

Tops out around 40 down and 25 up 

Usually getting sub 20 down sub 8 up

Fine for our use-case but not good. 

So good enough for a couple streams, plus a couple clients browsing. 
 

That’ll work.

They’re not power users, so total speed isn’t priority. Reliability is the key issue. 

[immamac 42835]

11 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

So good enough for a couple streams, plus a couple clients browsing. 
 

That’ll work.

They’re not power users, so total speed isn’t priority. Reliability is the key issue. 

Correct. It's reliability has been meh. Cell is far superior unless the network is mega congested. 

[Captain Ron 12866]

It could be where you are too. My parents can consistently pull 100 down but only 2-3 up out in Dripping springs. I was able to get similar numbers out in Vermont before I sent them the unit. 

[immamac 42835]

8 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

It could be where you are too. My parents can consistently pull 100 down but only 2-3 up out in Dripping springs. I was able to get similar numbers out in Vermont before I sent them the unit. 

We've been all over Texas on campus etc. Just giving my real world experience. 

[Captain Ron 12866]

I’ve seen speeds that low too. I’m not surprised to see poor performance in the city. 

[kevwun 15762]

They probably haven't significantly upgraded their bandwidth for the last few years. 

[Captain Ron 12866]

I'm visiting my folk's place right now. That storm last night made me discover a small blip of service. We had a power outage during the heavy part of the storm. it was pretty quick, like power out, power back on. But it knocked out Starlink long enough to need to reboot. Reconnecting took a lot longer than normal. Usually we're talking under 5 minutes, but we couldn't reconnect consistently for about an hour. So trying to connect in a rainstorm does present an issue. Sure, this is a very narrow edge case, but it's something.

 

Speeds have come up to normal again

Edited November 5 by Captain Ron

[Captain Ron 12866]

Alas parting is such sweet sorrow. I was able to get Spectrum at my parents house while visiting. Ordered yesterday, installed today. Cancelled Starlink not long after  timing was perfect  today was the last day of their billing cycle. Went from Starlink speed (at best 200/10) for $120 a month to 600/25 for $50 a month (promotional price). No regrets