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Starlink for home?
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Agreed. For home, for business, for mobile use, whatever; it is amazingly simple to use in my experience.
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As a elated question - Can you take the hardware with you if you move to a different location/state?
You need to have a Starlink Mobile account to do that. Costs a bit more I think. Check the Starlink website.
I think he means "Do I have to buy the hardware again or can I take what I have to a new place and subscribe there?"
Strictly speaking, yes you can move and use the same equipment, but whether they will allow you to activate in the new place _could_, in the future be subject to capacity limitations. For now, Starlink doesn't have waitlists in the USA.
You either need to convert to the mobile offering, or do a change of address (which is only possible if the new location is not saturated).
You can generally move to mobile/roaming, and then convert to the new address once/if capacity becomes available.
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I am going to make the argument that if you have access to decent, reliable, high speed internet via other means, StarLink is not really for you at this time.
StarLink latency is higher than either Cable or Fiber, and may be higher than fixed point to multipoint wireless (WISP), and is also higher than fixed 5G installs
StarLink bandwidth is lower (Especially when in congested areas during prime time) vs any of the other above alternatives, and may even be lower than some forms of DSL (ie non-bonded ADSL; VDSL, VDSL2 and G.Faster are higher bandwidth than StarLink).
Capacity upgrades to the most part are simpler in Fiber and Cable than for StarLink, but the number of StarLink Satellites being launched up does help in general once they are participating in the network.
StarLink in general is best in either rural areas, as available bandwidth directly relates to the number of subscribers in a given area, and locations where you really have no other option.
StarLink with the roaming option that can be activated and deactivated service wise month by month is great for people who go camping, RVing, Boating, etc.
A friend of mine used to live ~2,000 linear feet (cable path) from Comcast's network, and they quoted $22,000 to build out to his house so that he could become a paying customer. ADSL service at his location was 3Mbit down, 640Kbit up. StarLink would be perfect for him.
In some cases I would even take Tmobile or Verizon fixed point 5G services over StarLink where available as an unlimitted service.
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Yeah, I guess we all made the assumption that the OP had really bad Internet service, which may or may not be true. One of the problems with Starlink is that you need to have an unobstructed view of the northern sky. The entire northern sky, down to like 20 degrees from the horizon. So that usually means a roof mount with no trees nearby. If you have some other wireline Internet that gives you 100 Mbps or better of service, that will be be better.
But if you are getting by on old DSL, wireless Internet, really crappy cable TV (as not Cox or Spectrum), then Starlink would be better.
But if you are getting by on old DSL, wireless Internet, really crappy cable TV (as not Cox or Spectrum), then Starlink would be better.
So Starlink is an Internet replacement, not a DirecTV/cable replacement.
How do you get your Internet (some people refer to it as WiFi) now?
If you have a stable high bandwidth Internet connection, then you can replace DirecTV with various streaming services. I did that a few years ago, and am now using YouTube TV to watch linear TV (not to be confused with YouTube … different service), and am subscribed to Netflix, Espn+ and a few other streaming services. it isn’t as easy to use as DirecTV, there are pluses and minuses.
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