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Evening all, I live just outside of Tunbridge Wells but cannot get Fibre. The Sky Superfast I have rarely gets above 10mbps download and 1 mbps upload. So I''m looking at Starlink. It's £40 pcm more expensive but I think I will also cancel my Sky TV package since I rarely watch anything that is not on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Netflix or Amazon. So all in should save money. But want to check to see if it is any good and if you experience any outages etc
Yes, have had it here for little over a year. Its bloomin' fantastic. In addition to myself and my wife who both work from home, I've three data hungry kids who are constantly streaming / gaming during the holidays. We have had absolutely no issues at all. Makes BT fibre look positively archaic.
interesting. And where are you? Is there any way of checking the speeds before you commit?
Looked at it for the van, but the upfront cost at the time was lots and the need to set up the thingy outside in a clearing meant it wasn't practical for us.
Not a fan of the satellites, either.
Something about Elon musk and the steam from my own piss.
We’re in rural County Durham. They won’t sell you the kit if they don’t have enough coverage in your area.
Yeah I hear you @joshvegas I did look extensively at any other option, but it just knocked the competition clean away. “Up to 3mbs” from BT, a very flakey 4g from Three, build my own long range wifi receiver to piggyback onto McDonald’s free WiFi down the valley.
We got it a couple of months ago. No other practical options where we live.
Trees mean we don't get aittle bit of obstruction but have seen dl speeds of 250mbps and never had a failure of any significance.
I'm outside the house away from the router, it's pissing down and I'm getting ~30.
Makes BT fibre look positively archaic.
Huh? I'd be asking for a refund if my bt(openreach) fibre had upload speeds as rubbish as that.
regularly use them for work have about 15, have 40+ laptops running from them with no issues.
Expense outlay unless you catch one of their deals and expensive monthly cost too.
If you really have no other option though then that’s the price you pay. Doesn’t look like it’s good as full fibre though going off those figures.
Three years on the Elon dish, has been very reliable, 200 to 300 mega elons per second down and around 25 up. Latency around 24 to 30 milliseconds.
Way better than i thought it would be. Chews a bit of electricity mind and the dish defrosts snow, ice etc.
Expense outlay unless you catch one of their deals and expensive monthly cost too.
We got a refurb deal... But now they're providing hardware FOC in Oz.
the satellites really look awful on a big night sky.
Tried 4g aerial and router before getting starlink. Had to get dish installed high on roof cos of trees. Very good speeds. No other choice in mid wales…
Another user in Aus here. I picked up a $199 hardware deal last year.
It’s expensive monthly, but I’ve had top notch performance and no drop outs. The same can’t be said for the NBN here! Our previous FTTN connection would drop out as soon as it rained, and often required a technician call out to fish around the rats nest of cables under the street.
One thing to watch - our gen2 (I think) router has crap WiFi range. I bypass the Starlink router to an old asus one and get much better signal inside and outside the house.
Is there something wrong or odd that I am not understanding with that screen shot @hot fiat ?
We're with Sky and sat in a crappy wifi spot, I still get 20Mpbs upload.
Don't think I've had an upload sub 10 for 10 years!
Just for contrast, rural broadband here too with c.10mb download and 1mb upload and, honestly, it's fine. Two of us work from home so Teams calls galore, pretty much everything we watch is streamed, it's occasionally a bit laggy but not enough to make me want to give that rocket-building gobshite any of my money.
We tried it, but returned the kit after a week or so. We've been on EE 4G data SIM for years, working from home, so occaisionally have a minor heart attack when the local tower goes down, but it's mostly fine. Working off 4G we typically get 60-90Mbps download, so Starlink popped that up to about 150, but for 3 times the monthly cost. The earliest we are due to get fibre where we live is 2028, which pretty much translates as 'never', so may need to bite the bullet at some point.
In it's favour, it was very easy to setup, although to actually make it work long-term, we also would have needed a mounting bracket to get the dish clear of obstructions - it needs to point south, not north (it says somewhere in the blurb that it needs a clear LoS north), and also needs a Starlink ethernet adapter (c£35), if you want to plug it into your own Mesh system within the house, which we need, as our house is mostly granite walls, so kills wifi.