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I've heard mixed reviews, the big problem seems to be stability, at least around my area. I've heard it goes down frequently in heavy rain and snow (I'm in Canada), and people have had problems with satellites being blocked by trees (lots of trees in Canada).
For people with no access to Internet as is that's still a huge upgrade, but for people who were hoping it would open up the possibility of moving to and working remotely in more rural areas without good wired internet coverage it's a total letdown.
Hasn't gone down since March. Went down yesterday. Worldwide outage. My previous sat system went down frequently. Like once a week. Was 30mb down at full. Usually managed 15 most days. Sundays were pretty much unusable. Other options were dal at top 15.
So starlink is a fucking god send.
I think it is exactly that. Yes trees impact but you don't put the dish there. We had a good damn cyclone. It was fine. We were the only people in the area who had internet. The road washed out along with fibre. Can't get a better recommendation than that.
I love that you have 6 downvotes probably purely because you dared to say Starlink is good for your use case. Haven't you heard the news that Musk is bad therefore you're a bad person too for using Starlink?
I was just saying this to my partner. Down voted for just stating my case. I even end with fuck musk.
Can't win em all. I seem to have 6 down voted on all my comments. So im guessing someone doesn't like me and is writing a script or bot to diwnvote me.
If that doesn't mean I've made it. What does
That's awesome. Sounds like geographical location really impacts performance right now, hope we get better service up here soon.