Starlink Satellite Internet

I switched to an unlimited plan cuz we would hit the 1.2gb limit during a busy month. Kinda nuts

 

Guess I've never hit it before.

 

I'm not missing Comcast.

 

I believe they ship you only a modem and you have to buy the wi-fi 'routers' separately. At least that's how my Dad got his setup. He ordered a router for each room so he could ensure total coverage.

 

For any of those that have the Ver 2 actuated dish, Starlink is discounting their Ethernet adapter for 17 bucks. I grabbed one just in case.

Since I bought my Starlink RV in February 23 the coverage has increased so much I can now use it at home. Some pictures show how many trees I have. Where the dish is located I can't see the north star and that's 40°.

 

It has a long cord that goes to the satellite dish and you can put the modem inside.

 

anyone do this?

 

I got the email with that offer....two weeks too late. My sister just got Starlink.

 

it's always available under your starlink account.

 

I was looking to ditch cable for our internet last year. Tried the T-Mobile 5G home internet for a few weeks and found that even with a good strength 5G signal the speeds were too slow for our household usage. I was considering Starlink and if we had an RV or vacation home I'd have gone that route. Turns out the cable company just offered fiber in our neighborhood and it's much cheaper (for now at least) and faster than cable was so I went that route. If they jack the price way up it's nice to know Starlink is an option.

Speeds with the fiber set up:



We have a middle of the road plan as far as speed. It's like $40/mo right now.

 

Watch for throttling clauses. Many providers start slowing speeds if you do too much streaming. That's why I got the Starlink.

 

Phuk that upload speed and low latency are amazing

 

3 pieces - Dish, power supply, router. The dish is connected to the router via a 40' (I think) cord and then sends out a good signal. I didnt have issues in my condo or my house. I bought the 100" cord to use at the house and will be selling it off here soon as I do not need all that cord in the camper or for home back up, which is what I use it for now. Anything over 100' on the cable recommends an in line booster. That said, I had zero issues with service when I had clear skies.

 

I think that is the part I bought by mistake over a year ago lol... I need to find that and throw it up on that auction site. Unless anyone here needs one too... Beautiful setup!

 

My son is very happy with the latency, he does a lot of gaming.

 

Been 5 months and so far mo issues but I'll have to check into it.

 

I did find a way around this throttling. Use an old, decommissioned cell phone and set it up to see your wifi and turn on wifi sharing. The ISP sees the cell phone but doesn't see the TV streaming Netflix and doesn't throttle the speeds.