Starlink

It's not as good as cable or fiber, but it beats the shite outta a hotspot or traditional satellite internet. I have one for my RV that I use at the campand at tailgates. It's fast enough to stream 3 TVs at once as well as phone usage.
There are dropouts and some slowdowns but those get rarer as more sats are launched.

Short version, if you can get cable or fiber, get that. If you have to use DSL or mobile, have an RV or camp that you'd like to have internet at when you there, starlink is great.

We don’t have fiber in our parish although I can pee on the fiber my neighbor in another parish has from the east side of our property. We don’t have cable access.

We have used HughesNet and Viasat. Viasat was the better of the two. It allowed us to stream although we experienced a lot of buffering.

Then we got Starlink in June 2022. In that time we have buffered less than 10 times. This is while streaming on 2-3 TVs and gaming on an Xbox simultaneously.

Although many people have much better options, it is the only workable one for us as we also sit in a gap between coverages of cellular internet options.

It was a game changer for us.

Starlink is great. Easy to use and fast. Only performance issue is when a satellite moves past and it finds another one. But usually you don’t even notice.

Pricey for bandwidth you get. Great if no other options.

If sky is clear it is stable. Does have lots of short outages (less than 15 seconds). Speeds and latency vary greatly across day.

My solution was to get a Peplink and a backup SIM card as a failover/load balance. More $$ but don’t have other options.

Also, the router it comes with is not great. Have to buy a separate adapter to bypass and use your router.

Keep an eye out for all the cellular based companies adding the 5g home internet to towers nearby.

Lifesaver for me. We moved to the country and had been using Verizon hotspot (3 lines w a lot of hotspot data) or Samsung casting thing to save hotspot, but alway nervous w two kids and work, and it sucked on my firm network. Nothing else is available here at all.

We have enough of a clearing that it’s mostly unobstructed. I’ve just had it temporarily on ground. Don’t want to mount on roof because not all that clear and I also want to be able to grab it for boondock camping trips.

I’m about to mount it on a wooden fence post. It’s so far from house I use mesh wifi in a weatherproof clear container sort of hidden from sight, by Dishy and send it to a node under carport then in nearby window.

We have the Roam account bc Residential isn’t available here yet. Plus it’s plenty fast and we can pause if we go on long trips.

I’m getting 30-100mbps. More like 70 usually when I check.

Does great with Roku TVs and work system. Incredibly easy to set up. I don’t even think it came with instructions except a couple pics on the box.

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Those who have it. Do you like it? Positive and negatives? Thanks.

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Man, I love the shite out of my Starlink. Granted, I use it at deer camp, but I have no other option for internet and I hate Dish and DirecTV as companies.

I stream YTTV, Hulu, Max, Netflix, etc. flawlessly all day long with zero issues.

The only negative I can think of is the initial equipment cost and the monthly cost isn't exactly cheap.

My "deer camp" setup is not exactly "roughing it" by any stretch. I go to "deer camp" a lot all throughout the year and sometimes I don't even hunt. It's my get away.

With Starlink, I have high speed internet and can also stream movies, shows, ball games, etc. through my Apple TV box/Roku Ultra box. That helps keep the kids entertained also when they aren't riding 4 wheelers, or outside doing stuff.

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Finding the best spot for your Starlink antenna is key to getting the best signal with fewer interruptions. Before you order, download the Starlink app, find the most open view to the northern sky, and the app uses the camera on your phone to scan the sky to check for obstructions.

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I have one tree that blocks a little view w the dishy on ground but I have no interruptions that I’ve noticed. I bet it’s hardly obstructed at all with leaves off trees.

My only real unobstructed option that isn’t annoying aesthetically is on roof ridge and w metal high-pitched roof no way.

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Finding the best spot for your Starlink antenna is key to getting the best signal with fewer interruptions. Before you order, download the Starlink app, find the most open view to the northern sky, and the app uses the camera on your phone to scan the sky to check for obstructions.

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My mom lives far in the country with pine trees all about her house. I downloaded the app to check it out but around 88% is the clearest reception I could get.

Is that enough?

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My mom lives far in the country with pine trees all about her house. I downloaded the app to check it out but around 88% is the clearest reception I could get.

Is that enough?

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Man, you'll more than likely have hiccups. If you can get some type of tower, or power pole (how mine's mounted), you can mount Dishy up top and more than likely be good to go. Then again, I don't know your surroundings where you're putting it.

Just so you know how I mounted mine.....I mounted Dishy on an old Dish Network satellite pole. I bought the pipe adapter off Starlink's website and put it right on top of the Dish Network pole, and then the Dishy clicks in and mounts to the pipe adapter.

Now for getting it up there....I'm just a knuckle dragger baw, so I didn't have anything fancy. I used my tractor with an extension ladder to get roughly 1/2 way up the power pole. I used some climbing sticks off one of my loc on deer stands to traverse the remainder of the pole. I put on my tree climbing vest and I also have a lineman's belt that I made a few years back that I clipped to my climbing vest. The lineman's belt is 100% essential and it'll allow you to be safe and get to a comfortable working position. You'll need it because you'll need both hands when you're drilling, and mounting everything. I hate the damn hell out of heights, but felt completely safe with my setup. Falling 30 ft. and breaking stuff or dying isn't my idea of a good time.

If you need me to send you a link on how to make the lineman's belt, let me know. I'll have to dig around until I find it.

That's a pic of my obstruction map below....I have one enormous pine tree to the left of Dishy that obstructs me a little, but I see no reason to cut it down because I stream everything with zero hiccups. It's also no big deal to cut down a tree with a tractor, for me, because I'll use my chainsaw and the tractor's bucket to make the tree fall where I want it to go.

It's ok. I get 80-120 download at non peak times and 16 mbps upload. It's a satellite so you can't expect to get better than fiber. I also have the lowest plan possible. You want better speeds you will need to pay for it.