Are there any more reports on Starlink speeds and reliability. Are there any Alaska users out there yet? I'm currently with Matanuska Telephone Association and the prices are fairly high with low speeds and frequent dropped connections. Just trying to explore changing carriers.
Jerry
On another note, they are about to release a new more compact dish which will be nice.
sj
My son bought the hardware and installed it as his house in rural Montana. He quit it after a couple of months. The already available internet through our phone company was more reliable and faster. Perhaps it has improved since then.
If you can get any cell service look into a waveform external antennae. I put up the directional one (around 200$) pointed at my closest cell tower and now have blazing fast 200+mb download speed with T-mobiles internet hotspot. Before it was very spotty and inconsistent.
What kinds of speeds are you getting, Jake?
sj
150 down 14 up at the property and 100 down and 8 up 5 miles away at the Air BnB
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We won't be getting it here for a while (years?).
I would find it very attractive IF I could move it from the house in town to our cabin on a seasonal basis. Apparently, that's not possible (yet?), because it will fail to connect if you move outside your "cell".
It's certainly small enough to be transported in a PA-12/18. I understand that the heater can be disconnected to save power if you're off the grid. Portability is the key factor for me, speed is secondary.
Speaking of "the phone company" I was doing a crane job at the big old Ma Bell building (all brick, no windows, 3 stories, all packed with rows of whatever these things are in the pic) in town a few days ago, and on my way up to the roof got to walk thru the still packed with equipment building. I can't remember the last time I used a hard wired phone, but this place was humming right along, business as usual. Back to satellites....