Posted on 07/04/2021 6:37:06 AM PDT by srmanuel
Here is a interview with Elon Musk that was post on YouTube today. If you are interested in the Starlink Internet Service, he makes some interesting announcements that I have not heard before.
Starting in August of 2021, next month, according to Elon Musk, Starlink will be open worldwide for service.
Later this year, a new Satellite 1.5 will be launched with laser interconnection between satellites and all future launches will include satellites with laser interconnection, next year Satellite 2.0 will be launched which is to be significantly more capable than the current satellite...
So if you are interested check it out.
We’re paying $50/mth for DSL that’s good enough for surfing & streaming. No reason to spend $100/mth.
The shorter the wavelength the more information that can be transmitted. Since space is mostly empty you can get away with transmitting with visible light or even shorter wavelengths.
Out here in the sticks - no cable or fiber options exist.
We're making do on a verizon cellular router, but that whole data-throttling-after-15-GB thing is a drag.
Received StarLink about 6 weeks ago and it's a lifesaver. $100/month means we can use our property while maintaining work and school.
Then you aren’t interested, which is fine, but you were interested enough to respond to this thread, I’m not sure why.....
Starlink is a excellent option for millions of people all over the world who are in rural or remote areas where 5G or Fiber will never be available.
I could be wrong, but I think Starlink will be the only company in the world, offering internet service everywhere in the world.
“We’re paying $50/mth for DSL”
Same here. CenturyLink in FL.
But in the past month we’ve found Apple deices ‘stealing’ data bandwidth and inhibiting non-Apple products on the web.
Priority control by ??? ISP ?
Had to establish router limits to allow other devices of ours, equal time.
We had a verizon MiFi hotspot for a while but we don’t get a cell signal where we live now. The phone company offers DSL luckily, plus, even though we’re very rural, we’re close to one of the big phone junction boxes that has it’s own electric service. The installer said we get as good of a signal as he does where he lives in town. If we didn’t have dsl, I’d go for starlink then. Of course I only know about starlink due to already having internet service so maybe not. LOL
Oh I like the tech and if we were better off financially, I’d get starlink because it would be faster than dsl, especially upload speeds. Takes me forever to upload via ftp.
My son at 34602 has at&t dsl at one houss, seller of the a new home he bought also had the dsl. After purchase, at&t refused to transfer dsl to him. The at&t will continue grandfathered accounts, but won’t transfer or issue new accounts on dsl. AT&T is forcing folks to their wireless services and slowly shutting down dsl.
That’s great if you have it. But there are MANY rural areas in the US that don’t have any service other than Hughesnet (which sucks).
Starlink is for people in rural areas not urban, I have a 1gb connection and would love to have starlink if I could
You are lucky enough to have that service available. Many of us are unable to get fast streaming other than using your hotspot, and the service is spotty, at best. So Musk’s appeal is more to the rural areas, where internet service is limited. As a test case, he has established service to the north pole, the Australian outback, etc. I hope the cost comes down as he expands the service. Starlink is still not available in our area, but will be within the next year.
My office was in a suburb of Washington D.C., but for some reason, Verizon offered only DSL at that location. For years I struggled with low bandwidth, long download times, and spotty internet connections. When the pandemic hit, much of my business required Zoom connections that DSL was unable handle. After 25 years, I was forced to dump my Verizon account and switch to Comcast, which offered internet over cable. What a difference that made: super fast connections, almost instant download and transmission of large files, and smooth and seamless Zoom meetings.
We are a beta test site for Starlink, have had his dish on our roof for about 5 months now. Game changer, very rural had about 2 MB per second speed for 19 years now we can finally stream movies, instead of subscribe to Nexflix. We even cancelled Dish Network, Fox is gone. It does cost $100 a month and the Satellite Dish was $500, it points straight up.
Approximately where are you located, in the USA or elsewhere....??
I live on a gravel road in the Ozarks. To get to our nearest grocery store, it's 18 miles with 13 of them being gravel. If we stand in the right spot of the driveway, we get one bar on the cell phone. Just enough to send/receive a text message. I kind of assumed all rural phone companies offered DSL but obviously not. We get 10Mbps, the second fastest plan.
We get on average 148 inches of snow a season/year.
I have a HughsNet Gen 5 Dish on my roof that is slanted and a DirectTV (AT&T) dish in front of it.
So I have this very long piece of thin lumber with a car snow brush attached to it because when we get hit with a lot of snow, the Dishes get snow on them and everything stops working.
I’m wondering how a Satellite Dish that points straight up will do in heavy snow belts?
I've been following the Reddit StarLink list for about six months and don't recall North American users complaining about snow problems. Heavy rain yes.
I’m on the Starlink waiting list as I live in rural Alabama and refuse to pay for shoddy satellite service. The beta tester reviews of Starlink look very promising.
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