Anyone who follows me have experience with Starlink? I'm really fed up with the landline monopoly ISP in my area and mostly want to stick to them by switching.
Discussion
I’ve used starlink quite a bit in my somewhat big city through work. Also have a friend who has it at home in a rural area on the other side of the country. It’s been reliable and fine for most uses. I can try to answer any questions.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Are there data caps? Or weird monthly prices increases after x months? Generally anything shady that isn't obvious from the website....?
I have a website client who is in her late 70s. She and her late husband had Starlink (and neither of themvery tech savvy at all) and they loved it. Said it was great because it always worked, and they could take it anywhere they went. Hope that helps.
Don't know but inquiring minds would like to know
Works great in a very remote location for people I know. It did have a hardware failure after one day and they shipped a new kit with no hassle and it has worked well since then.
I'm remote-ish but also on a main road so have pretty good land service, but my ISP pisses me off and I don't like being held hostage by a terrestrial near-monopoly with no competition.
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Having options is good but who knows where Starlink leads us.
What do you mean?
As in what type of control they have or may garner.
Roger that.
My ideal is a wide-reaching (like tens of thousands of miles) mesh network of local mesh subnets that voluntarily choose to peer with each other. Until we have that, landline ISPs seem like the least sovereign and optionality-preserving choice. pile onto that the fact that my local ISP routinely goes offline or does "unplanned maintenance", and I can't take the service with me if I leave my house, Starlink (with good e2e encryption, Tor, etc.) seems like the lesser of the evils.
But you can also read this as: "my ISP customer support is so fucking infuriating that I'll take any opportunity I can to tell them to go fuck themselves and move to a competitor" 😆
Local ISPs are brutal for sure.