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44 minutes ago, immamac said:

We have one for the tailgate and mobile shows for OTF. Its internet when cell towers are overloaded, but that's it. Its pretty shitty in urban settings and rural its just OK. 

What kind of speeds are you getting? Also, do you have trouble connecting at all, or just slower speeds? 

28 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Does it work in moving vehicles as was promised?

Yes

3 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

What kind of speeds are you getting? Also, do you have trouble connecting at all, or just slower speeds? 

Tops out around 40 down and 25 up 

Usually getting sub 20 down sub 8 up

Fine for our use-case but not good. 

15 minutes ago, immamac said:

Tops out around 40 down and 25 up 

Usually getting sub 20 down sub 8 up

Fine for our use-case but not good. 


So good enough for a couple streams, plus a couple clients browsing. 
 

That’ll work.

They’re not power users, so total speed isn’t priority. Reliability is the key issue. 

11 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:


So good enough for a couple streams, plus a couple clients browsing. 
 

That’ll work.

They’re not power users, so total speed isn’t priority. Reliability is the key issue. 

Correct. It's reliability has been meh. Cell is far superior unless the network is mega congested. 

It could be where you are too. My parents can consistently pull 100 down but only 2-3 up out in Dripping springs. I was able to get similar numbers out in Vermont before I sent them the unit. 

8 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

It could be where you are too. My parents can consistently pull 100 down but only 2-3 up out in Dripping springs. I was able to get similar numbers out in Vermont before I sent them the unit. 

We've been all over Texas on campus etc. Just giving my real world experience. 

I’ve seen speeds that low too. I’m not surprised to see poor performance in the city. 

They probably haven't significantly upgraded their bandwidth for the last few years. 

I'm visiting my folk's place right now. That storm last night made me discover a small blip of service. We had a power outage during the heavy part of the storm. it was pretty quick, like power out, power back on. But it knocked out Starlink long enough to need to reboot. Reconnecting took a lot longer than normal. Usually we're talking under 5 minutes, but we couldn't reconnect consistently for about an hour. So trying to connect in a rainstorm does present an issue. Sure, this is a very narrow edge case, but it's something.

 

Speeds have come up to normal again

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Edited by Captain Ron

Alas parting is such sweet sorrow. I was able to get Spectrum at my parents house while visiting. Ordered yesterday, installed today. Cancelled Starlink not long after  timing was perfect  today was the last day of their billing cycle. Went from Starlink speed (at best 200/10) for $120 a month to 600/25 for $50 a month (promotional price). No regrets  

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