Starlink Home version?

[Old Pro]

Has anyone purchased and set up the Home Version of the Starling Satellite system? I see that both Home Depot and Costco are offering at $599 with a $120 a month fee for internet service. If you have, general impressions? Thinking of doing the same.

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[showmemo]

I did awhile back when I only had PTP service. I live outside of city limits, so no providers were running newer broadband to our house. It worked great and that was during the very early adoption period. After that came out, 2 providers came thru and ran Fiber, so I sold my system to a friend that lives on an Indian Reservation in Arizona. He still has it and love it. He games on it, etc. If you don't have good choices for home Internet, it is amazing. If you have options for fiber or even coax, it won't be as good.

 

[pricedm]

I started using Starlink April 2022. Very reliable, no issues. Site is rural southwest Colorado. No alternatives at this location.

Prior to Starlink, we used HughesNet: slow and expensive.

 

[PilotPete]

My mother-in-law lives in a condo where her only option is DSL. I bought her Starlink and she loves the speed, has yet to have an outage, and it just works. It ain't cheap, but it works.

 

[cybercoffee]

I have Starlink as a backup to cable in a suburb of LA. no fiber in my area yet. Starlink is blazing fast even when it's slow.

 

[Woodrick]

Works pretty good. Just not cheap.

 

[EMoeller]

Starlink now has a mobile system (both land and marine based). It is expensive ($2500/either $150 or $250/month) but would allow (apparently) continuous internet while moving.

Wondering if anyone on this forum has any experience with this new system, and more importantly with the CT/CB? I DID watch the Tesla Baja video that showed Starlink - but that is the only thing I could find so far.

 

[Gigahorse]

If you are in a rural area you can NOT beat starlink, you will get small outages during weather events and the upload speed is not great, but if you are in the middle of nowhere it is AWSOME.
If you are in an area with fiber, cable, 5g etc you can likely get way better internet service for $120mo

But if you are out in the sticks Starlink can not be beat

 

[FarAway]

I just order a system for my parents; I will be installing it next week. Standby for the after-action report.

 

[EMoeller]

Yes, I'm rural with really poor cell coverage. A local ISP charges over $100/m for less than 100/20Mb down/up. Starlink would be a little more but it seems like I might get double the speeds. So it is 50/50 for me to get Starlink now, but if my CB could use it when I travel/camp that would sway me to go all in on Starlink.

 

[alex454]

I have very poor cell coverage at my home and I use Starlink as backup internet for my Spectrum Service. I have a critical business need for internet access at home to be productive. Since my Spectrum services runs above ground, except in the neighborhood, on very old power polls, it goes down frequently. I also loose Spectrum if the power goes out. I am using an Ubiquiti UDM-PRO SE to handle failover between Spectrum and Starlink, both operating in bridge-mode. Spectrum is the only land provider and I am required to have pay for Spectrum as part of my HOA. When running on Starlink, it works very well and much better than cell. It is not perfect, but almost unnoticeable compared to Spectrum.

 

[EMoeller]

Thanks for this info. Very helpful in helping me make the leap to Starlink.

 

[PilotPete]

Starlink now has a mobile system (both land and marine based). It is expensive ($2500/either $150 or $250/month) but would allow (apparently) continuous internet while moving.

Wondering if anyone on this forum has any experience with this new system, and more importantly with the CT/CB? I DID watch the Tesla Baja video that showed Starlink - but that is the only thing I could find so far.

They also have an aircraft version. It's only (make sure you're sitting down)...




$25,000

A MONTH!

 

[Woodrick]

Thanks for this info. Very helpful in helping me make the leap to Starlink.

There are different Starlink plans for different uses. The basic are home and roam (which allows for operation from different fixed sites)
And under the BUsiness Plan there's land mobile, which allows operation while mobile, it's $250/mo.

Yes, there is a GPS in the device and yes, they know if you are fixed or mobile, at home or not.
I believe that it is a different dish for mobile use.

 

[pricedm]

Yes, I'm rural with really poor cell coverage. A local ISP charges over $100/m for less than 100/20Mb down/up. Starlink would be a little more but it seems like I might get double the speeds. So it is 50/50 for me to get Starlink now, but if my CB could use it when I travel/camp that would sway me to go all in on Starlink.

Try it....I am confident you will be impressed.

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