Starlink anecdotes

[cptbarkey]

Hi. I am getting Starlink in a week or so at the family property. Its rural and the only options has been terrible dish network, or a few local cell tower ISPs which were also terrible. It would cost tens of thousands to get fiber or something else that a regular city gets. I'm looking for anyone who has anecdotes on your experience with it.

I am not looking for political commentary, or your Elon Musk hate essays. I've written plenty of them myself, but I have no other choice at the moment.

My use case is: I plan on working remote there occasionally, ms teams calls are a must, remoting into servers, and the occasional netflix would be nice. I can tolerate a little lag here and there but right now with dish its click a link, wait 30 seconds.

thank you!

 

[Rand]

With your low expectations I'd think it will work quite well.. except during severe weather.

There will be satellite lag, but those are in near earth orbit and alot closer than you would think
30-60ms lag not too shabby.

 

[#18FAN]

In one word my experience
AWESOME

 

[Danno]

Reddit - r/Starlink for some good real-life comments. Wealth of knowledge.

 

[cptbarkey]

With your low expectations I'd think it will work quite well.. except during severe weather.

There will be satellite lag, but those are in near earth orbit and alot closer than you would think
30-60ms lag not too shabby.

I can live with 30-60ms, no plans on playing Quake 3 Tournament where less than 20ms matters haha

 

[#18FAN]

I can live with 30-60ms, no plans on playing Quake 3 Tournament where less than 20ms matters haha

I know many laughs at this number but I lived my life in a horrible service from anyone else. Big thing is I don't really ever have any issues ever I just tested and generally will be at 100+

 

[cptbarkey]

I know many laughs at this number but I lived my life in a horrible service from anyone else. Big thing is I don't really ever have any issues ever I just tested and generally will be at 100+
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That is more then enough for my plans! Thank you sir!!

 

[eljefino]

I'm psyched it's reaching into more southern latitudes! Hating an ISP is par for the course, whether it's the cable company or that Elian guy. Competition, or even the threat of it, makes companies behave.

Don't they make a portable edition? It may make sense to be able to take it to your real house in case everything else fails.

 

[OVERKILL]

I know several people with it including my off-grid buddy who had unreliable tower-based service previously and Starlink is leaps and bounds above anything else in that area.

It will serve your needs and then some.

 

[PandaBear]

Have a former neighbor who moved to our semi-rural area (Los Altos Hills) and they couldn't get internet reliable enough for work till Starlink. It was great as long as you are not expecting those gigabit speed. It should be good enough for work from home.

I think Starlink opens up a lot of location that would not formerly be good for middle class jobs. You sort of need internet if you want to work from home even in a remote job in a remote area. This should gradually also make these area popular and eventually also make 5G internet accessible for them as well.

 

[Klutch9]

My only experience with Starlink was on our cruise last year. We used it to FaceTime our son almost every day, and the calls were always smooth. I know the cruise ship had its own APs but they were served by Starlink. It seemed the only real downside was the latency. YouTube videos would take a second to start, but once they did there was no buffering. I’m sure I tested and measured the latency but I can’t remember what it was.

 

[cptbarkey]

Closing this thread out, installed it last week. Quick and easy. Wyze camera has been very responsive and had a clear conversation with her the backyard while i was 62 miles away on my couch.