I believe this has been touched on before (several times) but I have finally found a system that works! I had DSL for awhile but was at the max distance and got a whopping .75 meg download speed. Then we went to satellite that was expensive but a reasonable speed, about 12-15 meg. Problem was the data cap! 50 gigs could get used up in two weeks of Netflix watching. Then we got a dedicated cellular hotspot, no data cap and it worked well as long as no more than one device was using it at a time. Earlier this year after one of my sons got back from Korea he told us about Starlink! He even bought us the initial equipment ( around $550 if I remember correctly), service is
$99 a month but the slowest speed I’ve seen is 35 megs and no data cap. So far service has been perfect. I could see snow being a problem at times but rain doesn’t seem to affect it at all.

For years I had dial-up. It worked but man was it slow. My phone is faster.

Thanks for the tip.

It's it sounds like Starlink will put all the other providers out of business.
I'm looking forward to it being available in Alaska soon.

I pay $65 for a monthly phone plan with only 10 GB I cant get internet signal other than on my phone. in and out alot. I use the hotspot for my laptop. It don't last me two weeks and I don't watch movies.

I too have been waiting for Starlink but I want to see how the dish works out first. I have not been impressed with any dish service in our nasty weather.

Other providers will have to drop prices or starlink is going to put them out of business.

Starlink is the future and the GOVT is still funding running hard lines in rural areas. Happy to hear Starlink is working for you, it will be what I will be on soon.

Still waiting for Starlink to send us the equipment. Signed up back in March.

That’s strange, I had my equipment within two weeks of sending the payment.

I suspect Starlink is filling orders in lower latitudes first.



After having satellite internet for the last 25 years I would jump at the chance to have a hardwired, land-based system..

Starlink may cut the latency involved with geostationary satellite systems but I anticipate lots of problems as your signal is transferred from one satellite to the next as it comes into view.

WOW, fiber right to my house. 100mb.

Yeah, patiently waiting - apparently they are targeting coverage in our area in mid to late 2021 per the info they provide when I login to our account.

Our local phone provider makes you buy TV and internet to get their services, if you drop the landline they make you boost your internet speed so the fix is in there your paying the same no matter what. If I could find a cheap internet provider it’s TV capability I’d jump on it.

It wasn't that long ago I still had dial up, so I understand the frustration, but I have a hard time understanding how anyone could be excited to pay $500 up front and $100/month for internet. Particularly when most people pay a fraction of that for FAR better service. Wonder what happens when the equipment is obsolete in the next couple years.

I have Viasat and it is very slow.

That's what you get when there is no competition. Rural areas have a customer base that is too small to justify the expense of the infrastructure required for broadband.

viasat has been the fastest service I have had ,phone line won't work were I live ,there's no cable, cell phone works good if i get in my car and drive up to the top of the hill and even then I only get three bars of service..

I would also jump at the chance to have a hardwired land based system, I'm less than 2 miles from Fiber but they wont run it for me. Plus I am building quite a ways off the road, even if they ran it down the road running it in would be very expensive.

I pay $165 for cable TV and good internet monthly service we pay $15 for the recorder in that price and bought a WiFi tower.

We have AT&T fiber optic and we are over 1/2 mile from the county road. They ran it overhead from the county road and had to set 2 new poles as distance between poles is shorter running the optic line. They didn't charge for the run in as we signed up during a no charge for installation. The electric company is now installing it as well here.

When we first got here satellite was the only thing available to us at $100 a month. Heavy rain would put us out of service as did snow when we lived in Illinois. Line of sight was our most dependable in Illinois and cheapest as well. Heavy snow or rain was a factor with it as well though.