Starlink

[bdhsfz6]

We've had a number of thunderstorms come through lately. Quite often the Dish TV receiver loses connection & switches to internet streaming to prevent program interruption. Starlink is our only ISP and has never failed to provide an uninterrupted continuation of the program. No buffering delays or glitches. It may well be impacted, but not enough to be noticeable in this case.

This may be the case in some areas, but not all. Here in Northeastern PA, my gen2 Starlink dish has an unobstructed view of the sky, as does my Dish Network TV. During heavy rain or snowstorms, we sometimes loose reception on both. To use the Dish streaming service, I have to switch from Starlink to the Verizon cellular based internet we keep as a backup.

The outages have been getting less frequent though, as more Starlink satellites come on line.

 

[LouNY]

Same up here, any even moderate storm we will lose signal quite often. Heavy rain or snow we are guarantied to lose signal.
Just finished relocating our Gen 2 Starlink from a pole mount off the deck to a roof mount about 40 feet north of the last location. Per the Starlink app I went from just a tiny obstruction on the far East range to none.
We shall see, even with such a minimal obstruction that Starlink said it wouldn't affect the reception some days we would get numerous 15 sec or longer service losses.
We will see how this does.

 

[Oaktree]

Not with Spectrum fiber.

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Is your Spectrum fiber right to your house? When we had them, it was fiber on the road, but "last mile" distribution was coax cable. Never got a straight answer from them as to why.
Here's what I got just now:

The company can make it symmetrical, but it's something like 2.5g down and 1g up. Very few people need 500 up.

Very few need 1G down either.
An internet connection is only as fast as the slowest link.

 

[gsganzer]

My Starlink current speed is 260 down, 18 up. Still better than any of my other options.

 

[WM75Guy]

Is your Spectrum fiber right to your house? When we had them, it was fiber on the road, but "last mile" distribution was coax cable. Never got a straight answer from them as to why.
Here's what I got just now:
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Very few need 1G down either.

Fiber all the way to the modems. I have 2 systems, one 400 Mbps for the house and one at 100 Mbps for the shop. Both have the slower upload speed.

 

[Drstrangeglove]

Is your Spectrum fiber right to your house? When we had them, it was fiber on the road, but "last mile" distribution was coax cable. Never got a straight answer from them as to why.
Here's what I got just now:
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Very few need 1G down either.
An internet connection is only as fast as the slowest link.

True. My wire less system can only do 600 mbits. If wired, I have seen 1.9 gig. My router has a 25gig to the isp. It averages 35meg. And we stream everything.

 

[Tinhack]

Wow. You guys live in another dimension. I just ran mine and here's life in the country. I have Rise Broadband over the air. The antenna is about 3 miles away on a water tower. On top of that, I have 150Gb limit per month. They add $5 for every bit over that it seems.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Wow. You guys live in another dimension. I just ran mine and here's life in the country. I have Rise Broadband over the air. The antenna is about 3 miles away on a water tower. On top of that, I have 150Gb limit per month. They add $5 for every bit over that it seems.

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I'm sure we go over 300Gb with Starlink some months when we update 3 gaming consoles and watch streaming video.

 

[WM75Guy]

Wow. You guys live in another dimension. I just ran mine and here's life in the country. I have Rise Broadband over the air. The antenna is about 3 miles away on a water tower. On top of that, I have 150Gb limit per month. They add $5 for every bit over that it seems.

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I understand your situation. I had CenturyLink DSL at 4 Mbps before Spectrum came in with fiber. OneRing over the air was expensive at $150/mo for not much better speed, 10 Mbps. When Spectrum came in, I jumped at it.

 

[walnutman]

I have Spectrum fiber all the way into the house.
Gigabit plan.
Symetrical ...... downloads same as uploads.

Also have Starlink.. first gen antenna.
Only use it in an emergency if fiber goes down.
Wife brings home the bacon out of her home office so my job is to keep her working LOL.
Actually she has three ways to connect. Fiber, Starlink or cell.

What I really love about Starlink is everything is done on the app.
You can simply turn it off and it stops billing you at that exact moment.