SpaceX Starlink Internet beta test

[ExtraSlow]

That woukd be very unpopular pricing. People have pay-for-use.

[ZenOps]

Half off hardware for Canadians! No idea how long it will last.

[ExtraSlow]

Starlink photobombs Hubble. #racists.

[mr2mike]

[spike98]

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You can also get a refund if you purchased at the higher price in the last bit. There is a thread on reddit with details.

[vengie]

Note on Starlink.
I put a Starlink system in all my field service trucks.

What a game changer.

[pheoxs]

How does the monthly / activation fees work? If I bought the roam hardware and only wanted to use it the odd month here and there and not pay the rest of the year how would that go? Basically just interested in using it in the camper on long trips during some summer months but don't want to waste 150 a month all year.

[vengie]

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How does the monthly / activation fees work? If I bought the roam hardware and only wanted to use it the odd month here and there and not pay the rest of the year how would that go? Basically just interested in using it in the camper on long trips during some summer months but don't want to waste 150 a month all year.

You pay as you go.
That said you would pay for the entire month.

You simply log into your account and say "pause" and you won't be charged (except for the remainder of that month).

[spike98]

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You pay as you go.
That said you would pay for the entire month.

You simply log into your account and say "pause" and you won't be charged (except for the remainder of that month).

Note though, this is only for the roam subscription and is $170. The regular subscription cannot be paused.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Note though, this is only for the roam subscription and is $170. The regular subscription cannot be paused.

This just got interesting. I didn't think you could pause.

[spike98]

Only with the roam plans.

Once you go to a roam plan, you cannot go back to a residential plan.

[birdman86]

For guys on starlink what kind of upload latency do you get? My current WISP gives me
~350 upload and I suspect thats causing issues with my homebrew autoguidance server. Way too slow to upload RTK corrections in real time.

Is starlink reliable/always fast or does it depend on the day like my WISP where some days are full speed, others absolute trash?

[jacky4566]

I can test on Monday. We use it for our office of 10 people no problem. Do you have any specific test?

Typically its under 100ms depending on the end server. With the new laser links satellites we are finding that international connections are pretty quick now.

Why are you uploading RTK data? If you have a full internet connection can't you just download that from Tremble, UBlox or any other provider?

[birdman86]

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I can test on Monday. We use it for our office of 10 people no problem. Do you have any specific test?

Typically its under 100ms depending on the end server. With the new laser links satellites we are finding that international connections are pretty quick now.

Why are you uploading RTK data? If you have a full internet connection can't you just download that from Tremble, UBlox or any other provider?

No specific test, I just want to be sure its a reliably low latency ISP. Ookla speed test should be good enough.

I DIY’d an RTK base station to calculate the corrections right there on the farm, its way cheaper than the paid services (like $700 hardware vs $1500+/yr subscription) and is more accurate… But that means I need to upload the corrections to my NTRIP caster in real time, and seems that my slow upload latency is causing issues with that.

End of the day this is all a learning exercise, but I’ve gone too far to stop now.

[spike98]

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For guys on starlink what kind of upload latency do you get? My current WISP gives me
~350 upload and I suspect thats causing issues with my homebrew autoguidance server. Way too slow to upload RTK corrections in real time.

Is starlink reliable/always fast or does it depend on the day like my WISP where some days are full speed, others absolute trash?

Out at the cabin (SE of calgary) this is a typical connection.

[birdman86]

Thanks...a bit slower latency than I expected but worth considering

[2Legit2Quit]

This is from right now, normally it's upwards of 200 Mbps down and upwards of 20 Mbps up but evenings are highest use time when everyone is home streaming tv.



I'm super happy with the service, my wife and I both work from home and have no issues. No lag when I'm remoted into servers, no buffering streaming Disney+, gaming is fine as far as ping/latency goes... Can be 50-100 ms depending on which game and what data center I'm connected to from their side.

In a year of service I can recall 2 outages, one was short and the other was around an hour or so. It's reliable and no good or bad days as far as my year of experience goes. I'm in central Alberta.

[brucebanner]

That's good to hear, my gear showed up this week. In no panic to set it up but good to read more solid reviews about it.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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You pay as you go.
That said you would pay for the entire month.

You simply log into your account and say "pause" and you won't be charged (except for the remainder of that month).

Darn, the Roaming/Mobile hardware is still $759.
Does anyone know how sharing it would work? Could we choose to give our "WiFi" passwords to everyone on the campsite and they could all use it? What's the range like? Will it reach my neighboring cabin?

[vengie]

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Darn, the Roaming/Mobile hardware is still $759.
Does anyone know how sharing it would work? Could we choose to give our "WiFi" passwords to everyone on the campsite and they could all use it? What's the range like? Will it reach my neighboring cabin?

There was a massive sale for $299 for the hardware for the roam package.
Likely to come around again.

You could theoretically give the password to multiple people but you'd reduce the bandwidth.
One of my field techs had three people connected to their system on a wellsite last week to complete some programming.
Anecdotal but I've personally found if you're ~50-75' from the router your service drops pretty dramatically.