valhalla360
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2oldman wrote:Phased-array antennas are amazing.
I'm camped near someone who has it, loves it. He did caution me that the view of the sky must be unobstructed, and even trees beside your rig can be an issue.
I'm ordering the RV version this week. No waiting for delivery right now. I'll be dumping Directv (getting too hard to aim the dish and I rarely watch it), and cutting my cell phone data plan WAY back.
Thanks Elon. I love new technology.
We've seen lots of them the last 2-3 months traveling around and people seem happy with them.
Our plan is very similar to yours (get the system and scale the cell phones way back).
Only difference is dragging our feet a bit as we will be heading overseas for the winter in a month and then up in Alaska next summer. Overseas, we will be in apartments with wifi or in cell coverage areas, so no need and from the online coverage maps, I can find, once you get north of around Edmonton, coverage largely ends (which makes sense, since they would presumably want to cover high population areas first because there are more customers).
I wouldn't be too worried about speeds. Even if the 100-300MB speeds are severely degraded in real life, it's still comparable or better than the 10-15MB you get with a 4G cell phone in good coverage areas (assuming the cell company doesn't throttle you for using too much data).
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pianotuna
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valhalla360 wrote:
I wouldn't be too worried about speeds. Even if the 100-300MB speeds are severely degraded in real life, it's still comparable or better than the 10-15MB you get with a 4G cell phone in good coverage areas (assuming the cell company doesn't throttle you for using too much data).
My cell phone from Sasktel does up to 85 mb down and 40 up. My Bell cell phone does 25 down and 15 up.
However, at supper time that changes due to congestion at the tower which is 400 feet from me. Then neither phone is what I'd call fast. However I can watch netflix with either phone when they are throttled. Sasktel throttle is 2 ms and Bell is 0.54 ms.
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valhalla360
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pianotuna wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
I wouldn't be too worried about speeds. Even if the 100-300MB speeds are severely degraded in real life, it's still comparable or better than the 10-15MB you get with a 4G cell phone in good coverage areas (assuming the cell company doesn't throttle you for using too much data).
My cell phone from Sasktel does up to 85 mb down and 40 up. My Bell cell phone does 25 down and 15 up.
However, at supper time that changes due to congestion at the tower which is 400 feet from me. Then neither phone is what I'd call fast. However I can watch netflix with either phone when they are throttled. Sasktel throttle is 2 ms and Bell is 0.54 ms.
Wow, that's good. When I do speed tests, it's often in the 1-10mb range. When I use too much and they throttle, it's down around 0.5mb. While it works, there is often buffering or we have to reduce the video quality to make it work.
So if they are offering 100-300mb...even if it throttles back by 90%, that's still 10-30mb, which is plenty for us to have a couple of videos streaming simultaneous (we usually don't do that).
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Gdetrailer wrote:You can now put your head back into the sand and ignore reality. Ok. Speaking of putting one's head in the sand, give me a lecture on climate change.
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My neighbor, north Georgia Mountains, has it with a rectangular dish. He had to wait over a year for his equipment to arrive. He’s says he gets 125mbps while my ground cable gets at best 25. He also says he has not experienced an outage while he and his bride both work from home.
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I just ordered this for RVs. I'll let you know when it ships. Supposed to be 'no waiting'.
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LittleBill
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2oldman wrote:I just ordered this for RVs. I'll let you know when it ships. Supposed to be 'no waiting'.
what's there to know? there is a 40k person facebook group dedicated to rv starlink, it works, when there are no obstructions...
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shipped, got it today.
Pretty simple setup but takes longer than I expected. You can't just plug it in.. you have to have the app. Got some 'not connected' errors and then searching for GPS. Pretty cool how the antenna moves by itself.
The antenna is on the ground and pointing directly at a bush about 8' high, but so far no problem with that. I'm in NM and the antenna wants to point north.
Speed is good, connection solid, so far pretty slick.
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