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whaletacochamp t1_ivq742c wrote

Get starlink and only go to /r/starlink for advice on mounting and to answer little questions here and there. That sub is the bitch fest - there are TONS of people with much better options who got starlink just to be part of the craze, and now spend all of their time complaining about little inconsequential things. Starlink also makes it TOO easy to track things like speeds and outages, so you get people who are all fired up simply over the numbers their app is showing them, meanwhile their service is totally 100% fine.

Our only options were consolidated or hughesnet. Consolidated is well known to be awful, and hughesnet sold us some pretty solid lies, so we went two years with Hughesnet. I paid $200/mo for 25mbps and 25gb data. I NEVER had more than 8mbps, my data would run out in a week, and we would be throttled down to 3mbps. It would be another $50/mo to get enough data to not be throttled.

Switched to starlink and speeds haven't been what was promised (promised 100mbps or more at first and I run right around 60 most of the time) but the system has worked completely flawlessly for me. We couldn't stream ANYTHING before and now we have had three devices streaming at once with no issues on multiple occasions. My dish is in a spot with some obstructions - the app says to expect an outage every two minutes. Outages certainly occur, but most are less than 2 seconds and are completely unnoticeable. The longer ones are completely unnoticeable unless im on a video meeting in which case it will be a small lag that quickly catches up. I have only had one major outage for about an hour and it ended up being an issue that affected users world wide.

TLDR: I pay half as much for 10x better internet through starlink. Take what that sub says with a grain of salt. We are also one of the lucky areas of the country that isn't over capacity yet, so I would order soon.

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quickly t1_ivrcf4z wrote

Starlink is legit. We have it up in the middle of nowhere in the Adirondacks and I’m amazed at how good it works.

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RetiscentSun t1_ivw1l3q wrote

Yea, starlink has been a game changer for me as well. It makes WFH actually viable, and ridiculous situations like not being able to take a FaceTime call from my niece because somebody else is doing a video call already.

I will say I’m not looking forward to the Fair Use Policy update in December but it probably doesn’t affect most people.

Also sadly it’s not currently open all over VT now: https://i.imgur.com/Z3fE6EE.jpg although I think you could just op for the best effort service or whatever in places where it’s not currently open.

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whaletacochamp t1_ivw2mae wrote

Yeah it has been getting popular in VT.

I won’t ever use anywhere near 1tb so I don’t care much about the fair use policy in practice but I agree about it being not cool in principle

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