I purchased starlink for RV's so I could set it up when I am out at the deer lease in west Texas (Sonora area). I received it last Monday and used it at the lease Friday through Tuesday.

My experience with it as follows:

Easiest setup you could ask for. Set your dish out in the open, plug the cable to the dish and run the cable to router router provided. Plug the router into the wall, open star link app and follow the instructions. It comes with a stand so I just set it out there on the ground away from everything. You don't have to worry about pointing it anywhere as it will point and track itself.

My connection speeds out there averaged around 80 Mbs with some test over 100+. Web pages loaded pretty much instantaneously. In fact, it worked better out there than at my house where I have fiber. Call me crazy but I think starlink reacts faster than fiber or it feels like less latency than fiber.

I watched netflix, prime video, you tube tv etc. with zero buffering issues. It seems like the only thing my 1GB fiber connection at home does faster is download large files once it gets going.

My opinion this is a game changer for those out in rural areas with no decent internet access. being able to work remotely at the lease is going to allow me to take longer trips. Once the network is fully up and going where the entire country has access I may seriously look at using it over fiber at my house.

The question remains though: Is this as fast as it will ever be or will it only get slower as more people use it?


Also - you can run speedtest from your browser to see what your latency is.

javajaws said:

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The question remains though: Is this as fast as it will ever be or will it only get slower as more people use it?


Also - you can run speedtest from your browser to see what your latency is.

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There is a new generation of satellites that should increase capacity by allowing them to communicate between each other more effectively. I have read that it has been getting slower as more people have signed up though. That's a reality of pretty much all residential ISP's. Bandwidth is always limited at some level and residential networks are always going to be oversold and rely on intermittent use by customers in order to keep the experience from being too bad.

They did recently go from an unlimited plan to limiting things to 1TB a month. It seems like a lot, but if you stream video, you can burn through it surprisingly quickly.

I think for people in rural areas it really could be a game changer. Stuff like HughesNet will be put out of business if Starlink gets fully deployed.

https://imgur.com/a/2E1XdvS

My speeds have picked up significantly lately. I am in CS near Snook. Used to get 30-75 down and under 10 up. This is a random test done for this thread.

What is the cost and availability now?

My parents are in the country 50 Mile SW of San Antonio and pay $200+ per month for HughesNet and get like 50GByte per month or something crazy low as far as monthly data. Mom won't let the grandkids have the wifi password cause they over-run it in about 2 days...

I have told them about it, but last time I checked it was a limited area and 6 month+ wait.

TMoney2007 said:

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javajaws said:

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The question remains though: Is this as fast as it will ever be or will it only get slower as more people use it?


Also - you can run speedtest from your browser to see what your latency is.

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They did recently go from an unlimited plan to limiting things to 1TB a month. It seems like a lot, but if you stream video, you can burn through it surprisingly quickly.

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It's still unlimited. Residential users in their home cells just get bumped down to RV/best effort priority for the rest of the billing cycle. Starlink pushed out the start to Feb.

For the OP, it wouldn't matter since he's already in an uncongested cell and getting great speeds on RV. That's better than what I usually get on residential.

They say they dont have good coverage in certain areas but in my experience in the lower 48 from ND to Eagle Pass, they have coverage everywhere.

No data caps that I'm aware of.
Shows up 4-5 days after you order it.

I've had it for about 6 months in south Fort Bend county. My experience has been marginally, at best, better than my previous 12mbp ATT DSL. And they say it's not impacted by rain. That's flat wrong. It will shutdown in rain just like Dish/DTV. It may get better as more sats are deployed but not worth the cost currently unless you have no other option.

I got it and installed it at my house out in San Saba, TX. Not but a few folks within a 10 mile radius of us. Last speed test pulled 247mb down and 16mb up. Wish it was a bit more symmetrical but it is serving us well so far.

Are the upload speeds good enough for Wi-Fi cameras? Taking delivery today for one that is going to Rocksprings after Christmas. Cell service is not good out there so primarily will use for Wi-Fi calling, web browsing and video streaming (replacing old directv sat). I thought it would be neat if we could set up a camera or two near the house to use as game cameras we could monitor from home.

Snoopy03 said:

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Are the upload speeds good enough for Wi-Fi cameras?

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I have a handful of solar-powered Reolink web-cams that I use to monitor an off-grid cabin. Starlink works like a champ for live viewing and cloud uploads.

Yea they are good enough for cameras. Running a 5 camera Arlo system at our property. Works like a champ.