Posted: 6/21/2025 4:11:48 PM EDT
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currently have viastat for the past few months it has sucked. I'm only up here [rural bowling green MO ] on the weekends and I don't stream movies or play games so cannot be a overload issue. Sucks today with no cloud in the sky. Who had starlink and what do you think? One problem is I don't have a clean line of sight to the north. Thanks |
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Have had Starlink for over a year. Absolutely love it. We have some wisp type providers but the service sucks. Starlink has been fantastic. There is a link in the survival forum somewhere where it’s discussed. |
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Discussion from the past few months. https://www.ar15.com/forums/outdoors/Ordered-starlink-tonight/19-708180/ Posting via Starlink now, it's been pretty good quality, at least equal reliability and better speed then the previous wi-fi to the water tower in town with the local ISP. Wife and I stream a lot and it never had a problem. We kept the wi-fi as backup for a while but will be dropping it soon. Starlink does drop out in a bad storm the way the wi-fi did. Expensive compared to in-town options. They ran fiber down my road and Spectrum is advertising heavily now, but I don't know what it costs to get the 1/4 mile from house to road. |
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| We've had Starlink since February - zero issues at all. I mounted it on the side of our enclosed sunroom as our main roof is concrete tile, and the line of sight was slightly better. Of course the local cable company just ran underground fiber up our road two weeks ago. I don't think I'm going to switch over unless they really sweeten the deal. |
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We've got it on one of our vans at work. It seems to work flawlessly and quite fast. The antenna is mounted solidly on the roof and it doesn't seem to matter where the van is parked, as long as the sky is above (as in, it won't work in a parked garage). I'm continually impressed. It's one of the rare products that just works as advertised. |
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Originally Posted By TheGrayMan: Starlink is life-changing if you live rural. It also crushes the other satellite internet services... like a proverbial bug. My buddy uses it as his primary residential and says the same. I have it as a backup and for travel and mobile in my various pursuits. It’s amazing for that. |
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Two questions: How much does it cost per month? Can you buy the mini/portable version for home use and take it with you when you go camping? |
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Originally Posted By juslearnin: Two questions: How much does it cost per month? Can you buy the mini/portable version for home use and take it with you when you go camping? $120 per mo. Was paying $80 per mo for shit service and also paying $160 for satellite TV. Stream everything now so saving money. I think you have to have a regular StarLink account first and then add the mini but I’m not certain so hopefully someone can confirm or correct me on that info. |
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Originally Posted By juslearnin: Two questions: How much does it cost per month? Can you buy the mini/portable version for home use and take it with you when you go camping? You can use a mini at home but the down sides are likely slower speeds than the regular dish and a higher monthly cost. |
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Originally Posted By juslearnin: Two questions: How much does it cost per month? Can you buy the mini/portable version for home use and take it with you when you go camping? -You can pause the service. -You can move it, for extra fee. -You can use it "on the move", for an extra fee. -You can change the priority level, for an extra fee. -There are different models getting smaller and smaller which may affect performance and the options above. They can go out with heavy rain above, and I assume if snow collects on the antenna. There is a heater in most of them to melt snow. Speeds vary but is in the 70mbs - 120mbs range for the regular service. That is good enough for a couple of streaming services at high res, and normal browsing on top of that. Ping time is in the 50 - 100 ms range a lot of times which is pretty good for "reaction" games but not great. (Mine is 5 - 15 ms on fiber.) |
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it's all we used for years and moved with it. We live in really rural ozark mountains and my wife can be in a teams meeting while I surf AR15.com and upload a few gig video to YouTube. Nothing is better than starlink |
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| I now have cameras at my house and they are connected via Starlink. I can watch them at the house and remotely without issue. |
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle: I now have cameras at my house and they are connected via Starlink. I can watch them at the house and remotely without issue. If you're doing this, you should be using a VPN. Unfortunately, Starlink uses CGNAT, so you don't get an externally-accessible IP address to use as a VPN endpoint (some of the commercial plans may offer this, but those are big $$$). But some VPNs actually **DO** work over starlink. First-and-foremost on that list is Ubiquiti's included solution (which I think is wireguard) with their Dream Machine Pro. Use the "wifiman" app on your phone, and you can VPN into your network over the satellite link, and view all of your network resources, including cameras. |
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Rural OK here, went to Starlink a few months ago and could not be happier. Just did a test and got 310 mbps down, 15 mbps up. It is typically higher, I usually run in the 400's down. When my kids are visiting, it will show 15-17 devices connected plus live streaming games/tv and there are no issues. And for the record, I am the least techy guy you will meet and I was able to set it all up in about 30 minutes. |
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: I'll say the only negative I've had is that we have spotty service or it'll cut out during extremely heavy rainfall - like 0.5".hr+ downpours. Zero issues otherwise. I wanted to circle back around and let everyone know what I ended up doing. T-mobile has 2 bars of service at my farm house [it is on a hill [Tmobile has zero bars down the hill]] and I took their service 2 weeks ago and cancelled viastat. So far T-mobile has been 100%, even in torrential downpours. It is also less than either viastat or starlink. I'm happy so far. |
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Who pays for replacement if using Starlink and it gets hit by lightning? My DSL has been hit twice in two weeks. The phone CoOp replaced their equipment for free. I would go with fiber but the only option is hung on poles by the Electric CoOp. Not good for storm damage reliability. Maybe the phone CoOpwill get buried fiber to me by 2030. |
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