$150/mo and a one-time hardware cost (Dishy) of $599 for the roam package. I believe the fixed residential (where you're geofenced to a service address, although this may no longer apply) is slightly less per month.
I'm currently living on a sailboat with my wife working remote in the Caribbean. There are 5g sim cards for pretty cheap but I think you know what it would be like to only use that in the states to do your job. Sometimes the networks here go down all day.
Starlink makes this life possible and it's a dream. Also owning a boat is a lot of work so don't just imagine beaches and cocktails 24/7. I love it though.
I'm in the same situation! Not in the Carribean..yet, but traveling around U.S. coast in a trawler with my husband. Never would have been possible without Starlink. I would have had to wait for retirement that probably would never have come.
Agreed that owning a boat is a lot of work! I need to remind friends it's not all relaxing with cocktails!
It's probably not the entire country, more likely it's the area or the tower he's able to reach. But it would be interesting to know if it's like remote towers on an unpopulated Bahamian island or more major areas.
whatever elon says it is. or more accurately its inversely proportional to how oversold the region is. for much of the west coast, its very not good, especially at peak times.
YMMV, as I'm sure people are preparing to reply to me.
If you have the option to choose another high speed internet provider (>50Mbps) that isn't Starlink, then Starlink probably isn't the right choice. For people who have no other choice, Starlink is a big improvement over traditional satellite internet.
Unless it were one of my only options, I would rather not. I know it’s slim i would personally be targeted but after hearing how Elon disrupted service for Ukraine during an operation, I would rather not put my towards someone like that.
He didn’t disrupt the service, according to the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence:
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KB: This specific case everybody's referring to, there was a shutdown of the coverage over Crimea, but it wasn't at that specific moment. That shutdown was for a month. There might have been some specific cases I'm not aware of. But I'm totally sure that throughout the whole first period of the war, there was no coverage at all.
TWZ: But did he ever put it on and then shut it off?
KB: There have been no problems since it's been turned on over Crimea.
"There was a shutdown of the coverage over Crimea" is the disruption of service. It also sounds like there is a translation barrier, or they are being really careful not to upset elon, lest he shutdown their internet for another month
I live in a rural location. No cable internet. I work in tech. Still, I’d personally not give up the night sky for a faster internet. But I see your point.
There are multiple competing flotillas in the works. Ukraine shows this is a strategic military capability, so China and Europe will subsidiZe their own
This is a rwlaly defeatist attitude thats all to common in tech circles. Somehow techies are able to both say 'technology progress is great and needs to be embraced' but when a bad tech or aspect is pointed out they switch to 'its inevitable, the ships already sailed'
Its both not true and shows a deep misunderstanding of technological development
I think what they're referring to is the global increase in light pollution they cause. This article goes over the consequences for both astronomy and the broader human experience if you're interested.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 171 ms ] threadAnd now it'll be oversold, likely.
Edit: I'm still totally thrilled to have it, don't let my crankiness override that. It beats the snot out of DSL, which I was already lucky to have!
(I have the roam package)
Starlink makes this life possible and it's a dream. Also owning a boat is a lot of work so don't just imagine beaches and cocktails 24/7. I love it though.
Agreed that owning a boat is a lot of work! I need to remind friends it's not all relaxing with cocktails!
How reliable is the service?
Which country, or countries, specifically, has or have all-day mobile network outages on a regular basis, in your experience?
You can see this effect in basically any island country that does not have access to an undersea cable.
> Performance : Includes unlimited high-speed, low-latency internet.
What's high-speed? Would be nice to provide a number
Does it still beat a 3 mile DSL run?
I’m in a discounted area and “only” pay $90 per month, so that probably has something to do with the speeds.
I’m also fairly close to the downlink site - not sure if that has any effect.
There are no other non-satellite options available.
YMMV, as I'm sure people are preparing to reply to me.
If you have the option to choose another high speed internet provider (>50Mbps) that isn't Starlink, then Starlink probably isn't the right choice. For people who have no other choice, Starlink is a big improvement over traditional satellite internet.
25up/3down is the definition of broadband.
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KB: This specific case everybody's referring to, there was a shutdown of the coverage over Crimea, but it wasn't at that specific moment. That shutdown was for a month. There might have been some specific cases I'm not aware of. But I'm totally sure that throughout the whole first period of the war, there was no coverage at all.
TWZ: But did he ever put it on and then shut it off?
KB: There have been no problems since it's been turned on over Crimea.
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/exclusive-interview-wi...
The ship has sailed.
Its both not true and shows a deep misunderstanding of technological development
And the sky seems fine?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01904-2