Starlink

[jhurkot]

Got a email from them today, pricy, and a 15 min time limit to order, and 129 a month

We were paying 80 dollars for 1/10th the speed. Also cancelled satellite tv. Don’t need it now.

 

[pano-dude]

I placed an order last week, got an email saying it was shipped yesterday.

Have Explornet and Telus hub, both are brutal. Average 3mbps and paying $250/month so With the savings each month the system cost will be covered in 6 months

 

[rknight111]

I Placed the beacon on my house and then is says Better than Nothing Beta, Hardware CA $649 Shipping CA$ 65, wants me to type other stuff in name, address, etc . That's a bit to get started but already spend $250 putting a tower on my roof that gets me crummy internet. End up using my cell phone all the time as I cant get anything. I'll review the plans and then purchase.

 

[rknight111]

Order Confirmed, with an account number. Money taken off my visa card. Lets see what happens. $749 already taken off my company Visa card

 

[jhurkot]

Order Confirmed, with an account number. Money taken off my visa card. Lets see what happens.

What type of mount are you using?

 

[rknight111]

Weird, I gave my location and confirmed it, was able to order. Tyler lives about 6.75 k south of me and it says its not available from your location.

 

[rknight111]

What type of mount are you using?

Not sure, I have a 10' pole on my roof can i mount it on there?

 

[rknight111]

Here’s what I get now with CCI wireless

 

[TylerG]

Weird, I gave my location and confirmed it, was able to order. Tyler lives about 6.75 k south of me and it says its not available from your location.

My dad can get it too but not over here yet.....

 

[Cdnfireman]

We were paying 80 dollars for 1/10th the speed. Also cancelled satellite tv. Don’t need it now.

How are you finding the streaming TV for variety? Can you get the local news etc in real time?

 

[TylerG]

How are you finding the streaming TV for variety? Can you get the local news etc in real time?

Amazon Prime you can get global News on

 

[jhurkot]

How are you finding the streaming TV for variety? Can you get the local news etc in real time?

We have Amazon prime, Apple TV, and Netflix but also looking at youtubeTV(85 channels and sports). I forgot that local news was on Amazon prime.

 

[jhurkot]

Not sure, I have a 10' pole on my roof can i mount it on there?

Yeah that should work. They have this on their site but depending what you have you might have to fab something up. I’ve seen people use satellite tv dish mounts.

https://shop.starlink.com/products/ca-consumer-mount-pipeadapter

 

[rsaint]

What is pricy?

The 129 a month with no explanation

 

[jhurkot]

The 129 a month with no explanation

What do you mean by no explanation?

 

[rsaint]

What do you mean by no explanation?

My email would not break it down the 129 monthly fee which is 50 more than we are paying now, the concerning part is there will be unplanned outages for extended times. Unless I am missing something.

 

[jhurkot]

My email would not break it down the 129 monthly fee which is 50 more than we are paying now, the concerning part is there will be unplanned outages for extended times. Unless I am missing something.

Ohhh I see. Yes outages are a possibility. I’ve been tracking downtime and it’s common to have 4-8min per day of downtime. Worst I’ve seen is 20minutes. Reliability is still better than our previous set up. What is the download and upload speed of what you currently have? Just run a test on www.fast.com if you’re not sure.

 

[rknight111]

Im on there website now looking at the dish stuff. Is there plans, by brother in law is looking and you cant even see this stuff until you sign up.

 

[jhurkot]

Im on there website now looking at the dish stuff. Is there plans, by brother in law is looking and you cant even see this stuff until you sign up.

Different service plans you mean?

 

[rknight111]

Different service plans you mean?

Data Plans? Limits, nothing on there website