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37 points

Its simple like many Musk projects he over promises and under delivers.

Starlink performance is slow and unreliable. Sometimes you get 100 Mbps and sometimes you get < 1 Mbps with the average being around 25. So it cant even really be considered broadband.

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Doesn’t match my experience. The worst thing about it is ping, but download is mostly always around 100-200.

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Yeah, I’ve always seen at least 20 down, never as low as 1 Mbps the grandparent comment claimed. I usually see roughly 100 Mbps down, though.

That’s based on using it in a few different places in our RV over the summer, some with obstructions from trees in some spots. Regardless of the actual speed, my wife and I were both able to telework and hold conference calls simultaneously without an issue - and my wife would use video (I kept it off, but she used it).

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7 points

Really? Shit. I was planning to move to starlink but let me do some research.

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12 points

I had Starlink too and it was definitely unreliable. It’s also absolutely atrocious in any kind of weather like heavy rain or snow.

It’s better than nothing for sure, but definitely look into it more, especially if you’ll be relying on it for work.

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5 points

It’s also generally better than dsl.

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1 point

Because it’s satellite!

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6 points

My parents have starlink and I’m really impressed with it. It’s very reliable

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5 points

I was shocked when he got a gov’t contract after he admitted to all that fuckery in Ukraine. Wtf is happening in gov’t???

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i imagine that’s a product of the technology and not so much the company. the problems with satellite internet are just physics. it’s probably stupid to go with something like this in an area that has fiber available.

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My parents had it. Average was about 40mbps over a 60gb download, minimums were in the low 20s, and it topped out at around 80-100mbps. A fuck of a lot better than 10mbps down 750kbps up, their only other option. I hate Elon as much as the next guy, but starlink is awesome.

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