Starlink

[Top Tip.]

Do you get a few seconds delay on Starlink like all the other satellite systems .I tried most of them bar starlink and dumped them ,

I don’t have starlink but I do have very poor 4g. I was staying with my sister in law recently who does have it and I was very impressed.

 

[Adeptandy]

£75 month
4 g is around £15
I posted this in 1 second on 4 g

Can’t even get reliable 3G here

 

[steveR]

Had it 3 months, dish still sits on the picnic bench, very happy compared to BT's offering, only took minutes to set up. binned a BT landline and Sky, can now watch TV via the internet and cheaper tan the options we binned.

VOIP?

 

[Highland Mule]

We’ve got point to point broadband provided by a local company. Their customer service is very good but the actual service provided is often poor (eg non existent just now- windy).
It drives Mrs SJY demented -she’s a doctor and she needs a stable internet connection because when she’s working from home (ie every evening and sometimes during the day), it’s a virtual network (ie using computing power at the ‘far end’ and sending the results through to your computer at home). This just doesn’t work with the connection we have as it keeps disconnecting (even when the speed is apparently good, it must keep momentarily disconnecting, which disconnects Mrs SJY from the VPN). Never much fun when your MRS has AGAIN lost an hours-worth of work and you are sort of implicated in the blame ‘cos you organised the broadband to start with.

I’ve told her to get Starlink if she wants it and thinks it will work (I’ve got no idea if it’ll be stable enough and I’m stuffed if I’m shelling out ~3x the current spend on internet). I can probably fit it ok.

I’ve got to say, for a company like that, their explanations of the tech and how to fit it are woeful. The other thing I dislike from the outset is the price gouging. Best part of £500 for the initial kit but you still need to buy a bracket to attach it to the house so that’ll be another £100?? (for a bracket that should only cost a tenner), and inconveniently they didn’t put an Ethernet plug on their router so you’ll have to pay through the nose for an adapter too. Leaves a bit of a sour taste!

If anyone has experience of using Starlink when using a remote network, I’m interested!

I'm on point to point as well here. My guess is that one of the dishes is a bit loose and is moving in the wind or a tree branch is being blown in front of the beam path. These things really are line of sight and any movement or blockage can put them wrong.

Suggest you get up close to the dish on your house and look along the line to where the transmitter is, or get the installer/ network owners back to have a look for you.

 

[steveR]

As an alternative I have BigBlu satellite. Costs £30 a month and ranges between 5. -20 meg. Which is far better than the 1 Meg I get off BT
But the game changer here is that we can just pick up 5G and a £20 a month router from 3 can pick it up. Except that is intermittent if it’s bad weather

Probably get a better signal on the 5G with an external directional antenna.

Wet trees can be an issue though.

 

[Adeptandy]

VOIP?

Yes, in the home, still have a landline in the office

 

[nelly55]

4g won’t work here and BT copper cable dropping out over 500 times a day,can’t load emails and having to use my phone is no good.Looked at quick link but too many trees ,windmills etc so couldn’t get a direct signal overland.Had no choice really as everything is done over emails,internet now.

 

[Jerry]

This is my starlink right now:

DOWNLOAD Mbps
193.53

UPLOAD Mbps
12.42

Ping ms 31

As regards stability, over 18 months Ive been very happy, no outages more than a few seconds at a time and very rare.

 

[DieselRob]

We used to have the bigblu broadband here and it was shockingly bad, couple of meg download and very unstable. Moved to an internet 4g router from TP link and a £24 a month sim which was a lot better but still not great, recently changed to another TP link router with an external aerial which I haven’t got external yet, it’s just stuck on the inside of a window but it’s a lot better and now managing 10-30meg download depending on time of day. Also upgraded the sim contract and it’s now down to £16 a month

Sounds like the next step is Starlink in future as internet demands increase from kids but I’m really not able to see a justification for spending £75/ month plus hardware for it. I wonder if it’ll ever come down in price

 

[slackjawedyokel]

This is my starlink right now:

DOWNLOAD Mbps
193.53

UPLOAD Mbps
12.42

Ping ms 31

As regards stability, over 18 months Ive been very happy, no outages more than a few seconds at a time and very rare.

Did you go for a premium useage deal or just the bog standard?

 

[Kidds]

Normal kind of results, download is sometimes lower but apart from the test results you would never know. Upload speeds are always around that figure which appears relatively slow but has no implications I have ever noticed.
It just does all the things that the internet should do and that makes me happy. None of the other methods of connecting to the internet did.

 

[JD-Kid]

got it here love it
no cell coverage so can run phone on VOIP did away with landline for phone so saved on that
old satellite provider was alot slower and high cost so worked out cheeper and faster plus can use cell phone at house win win realy

 

[soapsud]

Just to show how the other half live

 

[Danllan]

A neighbour in the valley bottom has recently gone for Starlink having binned BT copper and had no joy at all with other options; from ~2mbps downloand and 0.4mbps upload they now have 102mbps download and 17mbps upload. We currently have speeds on BT copper about twice that which our neighbours had.

We are utterly sick of BT and have had half a dozen firms out to 'survey' and quote for better replacement. The best so far has been Dyfed Telecom, which managed to get 92.5mbps download and 11.9mbps upload in connecting to the EE network. The charge will be £43.20 inc VAT per month, compared to a base of £55 with BT.

Other locals who have Dyfed Telecom dishes have given mixed reviews, most saying that the internet is pretty reliable and consistently fast. But... when there is a problem, DT and EE play pass the buck about getting it sorted.

And that leaves Starlink; I don't think the extra £30 a month is worth it for us, since the only requirement for me will be an upload speed that will allow stutter free conferencing. Experiments have demonstrated that anything over an upload speed of 4mbps is sufficient for that.

And all this is bloody ridiculous, because we have BT fibre going pretty close to us and all our neighbours, but they refuse to connect it to the main exchange. Gits...

 

[Jerry]

Did you go for a premium useage deal or just the bog standard?

Bog standard.

 

[nelly55]

Bt speed today

 

[Danllan]

Ha! By a rather bizarre coincidence, have just had a call from Dyfed Telecom and they can knock the price down to £36 inc. VAT per month. This looks like a goer, giving good speeds at less than half the price of Starlink.

If it all keeps on working...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

That's the 'ping', and from this thread is around 45ms. That's probably on a par with what you're getting on your "poor" 4G connection.

How about you run a www.speedtest.net test on your current setup and report how it is?

I'm parked up with 1 bar 4 g , my ping is 41
The satellite had would have been well over 1000 pings

 

[Highland Mule]

I'm parked up with 1 bar 4 g , my ping is 41
The satellite had would have been well over 1000 pings

I’m guessing you don’t understand what you’re writing.

The evidence above is that Starlink (with 39ms) is better than your 4G, for ping at least. Even dial-up had better than 1000ms ping.

 

[KennyO]

We’ve got point to point broadband provided by a local company. Their customer service is very good but the actual service provided is often poor (eg non existent just now- windy).
It drives Mrs SJY demented -she’s a doctor and she needs a stable internet connection because when she’s working from home (ie every evening and sometimes during the day), it’s a virtual network (ie using computing power at the ‘far end’ and sending the results through to your computer at home). This just doesn’t work with the connection we have as it keeps disconnecting (even when the speed is apparently good, it must keep momentarily disconnecting, which disconnects Mrs SJY from the VPN). Never much fun when your MRS has AGAIN lost an hours-worth of work and you are sort of implicated in the blame ‘cos you organised the broadband to start with.

I’ve told her to get Starlink if she wants it and thinks it will work (I’ve got no idea if it’ll be stable enough and I’m stuffed if I’m shelling out ~3x the current spend on internet). I can probably fit it ok.

I’ve got to say, for a company like that, their explanations of the tech and how to fit it are woeful. The other thing I dislike from the outset is the price gouging. Best part of £500 for the initial kit but you still need to buy a bracket to attach it to the house so that’ll be another £100?? (for a bracket that should only cost a tenner), and inconveniently they didn’t put an Ethernet plug on their router so you’ll have to pay through the nose for an adapter too. Leaves a bit of a sour taste!

If anyone has experience of using Starlink when using a remote network, I’m interested!

We have similar here. Mrs is vet working from home and the local network drops her VPN. It is perfect for everything else and only £35/month.

I might try a 4g router for her.