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I was in the outback staring at an incredible starfield, and the line of starlinks went past totally spoiling the view. 'what a twonk he is', I thought.
I'm very happy for you.
Thing is tho - Starlink is the name everyone knows, like Hoover for vacuum cleaners - other options that don't directly fund a power hungry Nazi who is liable to have tantrum & turn it off when you don't want him to aren't as well known.
Glasses for scale
Come on, as posted below your pic the unit of measure is the banana for length or football pitch for area!
Got about 40 of the different generations including minis. We use then fixed and mobile, had a mini mounted to the roof rack of a car and connected to 12V, works great at motorway speeds. For best connection line up with the app. They do get effected by heavy cloud cover and rain though. Regularly have 50+ users hanging off them, the outage the other week did cause is some issues with our FWs.
Just had an email to say that the data allowance on the Roam package has been upped from 50GB to 100GB, which is handy
Not read the whole thread but my sister just got Starlink. She lives in the middle of a field at the end of a phone line and the wired broadband isn't much faster than dial up so she moved on to mobile broadband. Unfortunately although it's better the signal still isn't great hence the move to Starlink. Connected up to it at Christmas while staying up there........ It's no better than mobile broadband! 😆
I’m interested to know what the critics on this thread see as a viable alternative to Starlink?
oneweb? Hard to get and brutally expensive to my knowledge.
amazon kuiper? Not available and is bezos really any different than musk?
there is a good reason why Starlink is now ubiquitous across any remote work applications. I was speaking to client yesterday who has 6-10 Starlink terminals on each vessel.
I was speaking to client yesterday who has 6-10 Starlink terminals on each vessel.
No, but a lot of the bandwidth is used up by ‘crew entertainment’..
Connected up to it at Christmas while staying up there........ It's no better than mobile broadband!
Ummm then she's doing something wrong because my download speed is > 250Mbps and, unless she's under a mass of trees, it will be the same over the whole country.
I’m interested to know what the critics on this thread see as a viable alternative to Starlink?
There isn't one right now and won't be for some time - you don't get 7000 satellites in orbit quickly.
Just had an email to say that the data allowance on the Roam package has been upped from 50GB to 100GB
I hadn't noticed that ...... very handy. They're also upgrading to gigabit speeds this year.
I’m interested to know what the critics on this thread see as a viable alternative to Starlink?
Reading a book by candlelight
It's no better than mobile broadband!
Well I guess it's in line with an excellent 5G connection, but I don't think that is your point! I think current models need aligning manually rather being motorised, so maybe that's the issue? Also, needs to be no obstructions - but the app will tell you that.
I really wish I didn't have to use it, but for my Dad there really is no alternative. Copper = 0.5 Mbps, no FTTP, no mobile signal.
I have always had >100 Mbps, and over the last year it seems to more regularly be up to 300 Mbps. In some recent literature I saw a graph that would suggest I hadn't imagined the speed improvements in the last year;
I think current models need aligning manually rather being motorised
TBF you can just lei a mini flat pointing straight up and out will give you a very good speed.