hornett22
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We're rural. Went with AT&T fixed wireless. Seems to work well.
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bdhsfz6
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Dumped DSL and went with Verizon 4G LTE internet 3 months ago. Worked well for the first 2 months with 40+ down and 8+ up 24/7. now however, it drops to 8 down & 1.5 up during peak times in the evening and especially on weekends.
Anyone else notice this?
I may go with Starlink after all if my number ever comes up.
Anyone else notice this?
I may go with Starlink after all if my number ever comes up.
WM75Guy
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My Verizon 4G LTE has been pretty steady. Starts at 60-70 for download and then throttles back to 50. It will slow down to 30 in the evenings sometimes.
TheMan419
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I suspect the US Military was sending a plane that way anyway and put those dishys onboard.
LittleBill21
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that's going to be different per Cell tower.
bdhsfz6
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True but it makes me wonder how slow it will get as Verizon adds more customers per tower.
The same will likely happen with Starlink over time but I doubt it would ever get as slow as the 4G LTE service.
LittleBill21
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They prolly have a limit, I have read this before, that they will block people similar to what starlink does.
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I just sent a support request to StarLink. Infrequent outages began on Saturday but not too bad. Last night it became unusable. Up until now the service has been great (3 weeks in). I haven’t changed anything or moved the dish. No obstructions. The dish is flipping around and scaring the squirrels.
StickMonkey
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We used 4G from a local guy (private labeled from T-mobile) for 3 years and decent results. It started to get annoyingly slow during peak times about three months ago.
We just put in a microwave link which has been great -25 M / 35 ms ping- (except in an ice storm).
I put in for Starlink last February but may give up my slot which is coming this month.
LouNY
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Mine went flakey for half a day contacted support they are supposedly sending a replacement unit out.I just sent a support request to StarLink. Infrequent outages began on Saturday but not too bad. Last night it became unusable. Up until now the service has been great (3 weeks in). I haven’t changed anything or moved the dish. No obstructions. The dish is flipping around and scaring the squirrels.
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I did a quick 5 second power off and back on 5 minutes later it was up and normal.
Prior to that they had asked me to do the rapid 3 times power off/on which resets everything to factory defaults,
and updates the operating software which didn't seem to do much.