The $500 equipment buy in is what is stopping me. I live in Eastern Washington where they initially placed these satellites into service and have excellent coverage.
I currently have wireless internet and pay $80/month for 20mbs down and 10mbs up. It mostly stable but when I have an issue the provider is Johnny on the spot to make corrections. Plus this is month to month service with no contract.
We got our Starlink dish up and running about 3 weeks ago.
We had microwave internet before and the big problem was slow speed and frequent packet loss which lead to very unreliable downloads of larger files, like system updates.
Starlink is not perfect, but it is worth the monthly cost for sure. The old internet was $80 for an advertised 12 Mbps which was an actual 8. Every time I test Starlink it is 40 to 150 Mbps and latency is 40-80 ms. All for $100/month.
To me, the $500 initial cost was worth it.