Does anyone have Starlink?

Yes, someone does.

Im in pensacola/ft walton area and just received the "mobile" (RV, travel) model a week ago. I wanted to do some test/eval for starlink and personal first hand experience. Gotta say, from ordering to receiving/setup, it's pretty damn impressive user experience.

On their website there is a sale for the standard home kit for $149 until the end of April. When poking around to make my order, I found i would also have to pay a one time $100 congestion fee. Which I assume is due to the popularity in our area as we are at mercy of the average ISPs available.

If i have any further service related issues with my ISP, I'm going to make the switch to Starlink for home use. The only thing i haven't tested yet is gaming scenrio due to the latency that's normal in satellite comms. So depending on your use case, standard internet needs seems like a no-brainer. Couple that with your own power backup and you'll have comms when others won't in storm/hurricane situations.

How do you know if Spectrum is old cable technology or fiber ?

I know based off upload speed but it was never here to begin with. Close but never on my street, at least not Spectrum.

Tried looking it up on site but never gives info.

Anyway to tell by the cables they install ? Had a lot of workers install new internet lines a few weeks or months ago. Though as far as I know whenever I look up the other houses 500 to 1000 feet away in our subdivision that always had Spectrum as a chose for ISP it always said old cable technology speeds. Even did it a second ago. Same.

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How do you know if Spectrum is old cable technology or fiber ?

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I’m in the edge of a parish that has a neighboring parish undergoing a massive internet build out under a rural initiative grant. I was told by a Spectrum rep I ran into in a local store that it was a complete fiber buildout. Also, one of my wife’s employees lives a mile away from us and told her about their ‘new fiber internet.’

Since I’m next door to this massive project, I’ve been able to get in on it. I started in September 2024 and had a technician out today to install but they had put the OTE on the wrong pole so I had to reschedule so they can bore under the highway and bury cable across the street to my house. Between starting in September and today, I had Spectrum installed at my mother’s house which is the only one between me and the parish line. On a wired line it’s uploading at 1040 Mbps and downloading a little over 1100. I had to do her house before they would come to mine.

I have no idea how you would be able to look up whether you were getting all fiber or a cable hybrid install. I did read somewhere that they tend to put hybrid systems in areas that previously had cable in order to take advantage of the existing infrastructure.