Not a fan of Elon and his company and I hate what these sats have done to the night sky and astronomy. I have installed one of the Starlink systems and given it a run through. Setup was really easy and there is no aiming at all. It was fast from the start and got faster after a day. Like near 200Mbps on the down load. The pings were on a par with the local cable provider to the same servers on the west coast as well as the east coast. For a fringe area this is a fantastic option. To bad that this was
Rural India is very far behind on its network connectivity. The fact that Starlink can enable broadband access far and wide should be seen as an opportunity to expand services and opportunities to the rest of the world. Countries in Africa and Europe and regions of the US all have poor connectivity outside the more populated city areas, and the telephone and cable companies are not invested enough in the opportunity to connect people. There are lots of remote locations that are just too expensive to connect
I'm an amateur astronomer, and am not bothered by Starlink so far. Only the first few launches were really visible. Now I have gone out looking for them and can't see them. They are only really visible for a very short window after sunset and before sunrise. I haven't had an marked increase satellite trails in my images. Have always had things go through the shots: meteors, planes, rocket bodies and satellites. Fairly easy to process out when stacking. I did have one night when my subject lined up with the
I just want one active backyard terminal in Middleofnowhere, Canada.
We are just finishing the last couple of necessities (like a working toilet) for the rural off-grid house we are building. In a couple of weeks, we should be able to move in. Since we are spoiled in town with fibre, I tried to time things so that the Starlink service would be up and running by move-in day and placed our order mid-September. Haven't heard a thing since. I'm not too bothered about it, as my internet dependence is minimal an
I put my deposit down in February, and haven't heard anything since regarding getting our service (southern oregon; it's odd though, there's a few people on our road who have it.. so it's definitely offered out here).
Previously we were on vilesat, whose operations as an ISP are borderline fraudulent. We're about 30 miles from the nearest 'city'; and our only other option has been cellular hotspots, which are vastly better than vilesat, but very low allotments of bandwidth each month (100gb per line) -- bu
Rural India is very far behind on its network connectivity. The fact that Starlink can enable broadband access far and wide should be seen as an opportunity to expand services and opportunities to the rest of the world. Countries in Africa and Europe and regions of the US all have poor connectivity outside the more populated city areas, and the telephone and cable companies are not invested enough in the opportunity to connect people. There are lots of remote locations that are just too expensive to connect
I just want one active backyard terminal in Middleofnowhere, Canada.
We are just finishing the last couple of necessities (like a working toilet) for the rural off-grid house we are building. In a couple of weeks, we should be able to move in. Since we are spoiled in town with fibre, I tried to time things so that the Starlink service would be up and running by move-in day and placed our order mid-September. Haven't heard a thing since. I'm not too bothered about it, as my internet dependence is minimal an
I put my deposit down in February, and haven't heard anything since regarding getting our service (southern oregon; it's odd though, there's a few people on our road who have it.. so it's definitely offered out here).
Previously we were on vilesat, whose operations as an ISP are borderline fraudulent. We're about 30 miles from the nearest 'city'; and our only other option has been cellular hotspots, which are vastly better than vilesat, but very low allotments of bandwidth each month (100gb per line) -- bu