sj
Staff member
Northwest Arkansas
First, if you go to your remote cabin, hangar, or other "happy place" to escape technology or the internet, then you need read no further. Keep on keepin on!
But, if you are living remotely and paying a lot of money for laggy old school satilite internet,cellular with huge data caps, or something else, you might want to check out Elon Musk's Starlink.
This is the string of satellites you see zipping across the night sky from time to time. There are going to be a lot more of them.
Your thoughts about whether or not having 1200 more satellites in the air is really not the point of this post, more to let you know that if you are interested in some seriously high speed satellite internet, it is availalbe.
I signed up for the Starlink beta a while back and got my equipment a week or so ago. Super simple to set up and was pumping out 160mbps downloads and 50mbps uploads in a few minutes.
The kit consists of a router, a power box, a really really long cable, and a motorized dish to track the satellites. It takes about five minutes to set up. I literally just stuck Dishy McFlatface as it is affectionatly known in the back yard with no thoughts about obstructions, etc (which it will tell you have if you need to move it), and have fast solid internet from it for 23 hours a day. If I put it on my roof it would be 24 hours.
The hardware cost was $500. Right now the service is free while it is in beta, but we expect it to be around $100 per month when it goes out of beta. A really cost effective option if you can't get wires run to your house, or are just sick of cable or DSL internet.
I was able to get the beta here in Arkansas, but I don't think they send it everywhere. Alaska seems to get a lot of betas. You can sign up at http://starlink.com
Oh, and in the near future they will upgrade the software so you can have one of these on top of your motorhome and it will supposedly track while you are moving. Pretty cool.
Happy to answer questions if anyone is interested.
sj
P.S. Yes, I posted this with Starlink...
But, if you are living remotely and paying a lot of money for laggy old school satilite internet,cellular with huge data caps, or something else, you might want to check out Elon Musk's Starlink.
This is the string of satellites you see zipping across the night sky from time to time. There are going to be a lot more of them.
Your thoughts about whether or not having 1200 more satellites in the air is really not the point of this post, more to let you know that if you are interested in some seriously high speed satellite internet, it is availalbe.
I signed up for the Starlink beta a while back and got my equipment a week or so ago. Super simple to set up and was pumping out 160mbps downloads and 50mbps uploads in a few minutes.
The kit consists of a router, a power box, a really really long cable, and a motorized dish to track the satellites. It takes about five minutes to set up. I literally just stuck Dishy McFlatface as it is affectionatly known in the back yard with no thoughts about obstructions, etc (which it will tell you have if you need to move it), and have fast solid internet from it for 23 hours a day. If I put it on my roof it would be 24 hours.
The hardware cost was $500. Right now the service is free while it is in beta, but we expect it to be around $100 per month when it goes out of beta. A really cost effective option if you can't get wires run to your house, or are just sick of cable or DSL internet.
I was able to get the beta here in Arkansas, but I don't think they send it everywhere. Alaska seems to get a lot of betas. You can sign up at http://starlink.com
Oh, and in the near future they will upgrade the software so you can have one of these on top of your motorhome and it will supposedly track while you are moving. Pretty cool.
Happy to answer questions if anyone is interested.
sj
P.S. Yes, I posted this with Starlink...
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