Man of Honour
It's expensive because it's the only type of solution on the market in this sort of use case, also it's still new really. Also you're helping pollute our night skies with more clutter!!!!!
Starlink - anyone using it?
- Thread starter Dirk Diggler
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Soldato
That's because we're not the target for this service. If someone is looking at Starlink (or other LEO services) then it's primarily because their choice is pretty limited, ie - GEO links or shoddy copper/mobile service. And compared to traditional GEO links, it's pretty reasonable given what they're offering.I can even game online fine ALL for £18.95 p/m,so looking at Starlink prices and pings it is certainly not a good deal ,for me anyway
'Ackchyually' there are other LEO services (Telesat, OneWeb/Eutelsat etc) but Starlink is the most well known and, i believe currently, offers the biggest coverage.
Man of Honour
Ackchyually!!!!!
Are any of the others residentially available options? I just checked and none of them offer anything to residential addresses, so yeah Starlink is the only one of its kind
I have quite a few out in the field, probably about 12-15, mix of ones that are allowed to move geographically and some that arnt, some commercial, some not. Other than the silly proprietry connection its been really good where we havent been able to get 4/5g or a leased line etc. Very stable even in poor conditions, speed/latency top notch, be better if it was a bit cheaper !
With std kit or high perf for business?
Soldato
Ackchyually!!!!!
Are any of the others residentially available options? I just checked and none of them offer anything to residential addresses, so yeah Starlink is the only one of its kind
mixture as it was available as personal before commercial so standard+portability, we were limited to 3 per account address, as with most things musk though the stats/bandwidth/options/geo movement all changed over the months - i have meraki mx68's on the inside that report good speed but sometimes they arnt the easiest thing to trust... done 400gb of throughput per device in the last 30 days with occasional overnight reboot
its hard to know if there is much difference without reviews being a musk follower.
I dont have experience of Meraki just Aruba,Velocloud and Fortinet how do you find it.
So for us the process is we try to use cradlepoint 5g (either w2005 or e300 with an antenna) - if we cant get good 5g then we look at 4g, if we cant get that we use starlink, 3 pc's and an access point and a printer using it, given these are mostly quite remote places line of sight to the sky is good, which is key to it working.
Meraki, product is great, company is terrible, support is rubbish but the product is so reliable that I dont often find i need it... not sure whether that makes it good or not to be honest..
I looked at Velo, looked good, how you find that?
I dont think anyone support has been as good as it used to really. I like the solution for a lot of ways but i am at msp.
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We’re hopefully moving soon and Starlink seems like our only option, we’re currently enjoying City Fibre so it will be a shock for us
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I'm quite tempted by a refurbished kit for half the price.
We use 4g at the moment, and it's not bad but I like the idea of faster and more reliable service that I think starlink would provide.
We use 4g at the moment, and it's not bad but I like the idea of faster and more reliable service that I think starlink would provide.
Soldato
Is this the old Nordnet offering where your landline is used for the uplink?
After being strung along by Openreach for months ("FTTP is definitely coming next month... ad infinitum") we just ordered Starlink, somehow didn't realise it had no contract otherwise I'd have done it ages ago.
Getting approx 190/10, we're in the middle of nowhere and were getting around 15/8 on 4G before. The download speed is definitely a nice upgrade but was hoping the upload would have been a little better
Getting approx 190/10, we're in the middle of nowhere and were getting around 15/8 on 4G before. The download speed is definitely a nice upgrade but was hoping the upload would have been a little better
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Yeah, the upload speeds do put me off a bit. For working from home, upload is quite important.
Soldato
How much had you invested in your cellular solution? Or was it just a 4G router stuck on a window sill?
Not a massive amount but I did have a £100 4G antenna outside, inside we barely get any 4G signal so I needed that as a bare minimum. I didn't' invest too much in any of it because the Openreach guy told us we'd have fibre by Sept-2023... but that came and went.
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So, I've finally ordered a refurbished starlink package for £200, plus a long wall mount and ethernet adapter.
Once this storm passes I'll go and have a look for suitable sites to install using the app.
Hope it will be good.
Once this storm passes I'll go and have a look for suitable sites to install using the app.
Hope it will be good.