StarLink worth the astronomical price tag?

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7 ай бұрын

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@voltare2amstereo 7 ай бұрын

$139/m Australian. When a standard plan from Telstra or Optus is ~$95. For many in Australia with 50mbit max or worse, satellite with 300ms ping, it's worth the extra $45. Caravanning crews love it

@matthewleggott 7 ай бұрын

For aereas where normal connections are no good and 4G/5G its a good option, for sat internet its really cost effective and actually decent to use compared to the older sat stuff. You get what you pay for and in remote areas its worth it if no alternatives.

@Apex180 7 ай бұрын

astronomical would be paying business type costs and while the hardware cost stings a little this is still cheap when you fully look at what you are getting.

@jan-dr1xl 7 ай бұрын

The bsb Squarial makes a comeback

@johnmaguire9305 7 ай бұрын

You can get an adapter to allow extra rj45 outputs. It can take a couple of hours for the antenna to find its optimal position.

@LoftechUK 5 ай бұрын

I’ve had Starlink since it first came out for my Motorhome and love it. Best mobile Broadband you can get…… you can’t get better mobile latency anywhere

@zstation64 7 ай бұрын

I had Starlink for over a year, worked great. Now have FTTP (they finally got out to the sticks where I am), gigabit each way now. Starlink was a game changer though, meant I could work from home - with the old BT broadband I couldn't as it was only 6Mb down 0.7Mb up.

@bigteddy66 7 ай бұрын

No wired broadbaand where I am. I have a small dish that picks up line of sight from a transmitter a few miles away. 24 quid a month works great.

@voltare2amstereo 7 ай бұрын

You can add ethernet with the $69 ethernet adaptor (not sure what it is in uk

@pallsmortion4750 7 ай бұрын

Looks out of this world

@BMW-Tourer 7 ай бұрын

Could you have no cut it in the middle, take the slack out and then wago one of the ends back in inside the house?

@kobirelf97 7 ай бұрын

No you can't because it voids the the warranty and it's not as simple as just a bog standard power cable

@georgeprout42 7 ай бұрын

Don't forget it uses 100-150W of angry pixies. Roughly £250-400 per year with the Jan 24 capped price of 29p/kWh. That's one hell of a "line rental".

@hermand 7 ай бұрын

That's quite substantially over estimated - it pulls 150+W during initial power on, but it drops down ~60W, and possibly even less when not actively in use.

@georgeprout42 7 ай бұрын

@@hermand it's always active, it needs to track even if you aren't using it for internet. My figures came from people that have one, just under 100W was the minimum recorded. Your best case of 60W for an unused system is still £150. The point still stands.

@hermand 7 ай бұрын

@georgeprout42 You're wrong and there is oodles of information to support this.

@georgeprout42 7 ай бұрын

@@hermand congratulations on not backing that up with any form of evidence.

@hermand 7 ай бұрын

@@georgeprout42 You first.

@SuperFused 7 ай бұрын

Hello Chris, luv the channel but wish you could make some longer videos. As for James I still haven’t got a clue why you employ him, he’s like a tailors dummy that stands up a corner out of the way until you tell him to do something. Just saying 👍🏻

@joshflanders9535 7 ай бұрын

Yes if you want to give these companies the middle finger for isp

@montystelevision3238 7 ай бұрын

Cheap internet providers are just that. With crap customer service and poor TX and RX rates. You get what you pay for in life.

@MartinE63 7 ай бұрын

We can’t get fibre, either FTTC or FTTP, as we and hundreds of others are repeatedly ignored by openretch whilst all those around first had access to FTTC and now FTTP. No idea why. We will be the very last to get it if at all. The copper infrastructure is knackered with faults taking months to ‘fix’ only to fail again a day or two later. We were considering starlink but really despise Musk and all he stands for. Fortunately even though we are not in the declared coverage area we can get a really good 5G signal, giving 660Mbps down, 150Mbps up and at a tiny fraction of the cost of starlink.

@thingamajig4102 7 ай бұрын

Doesn't look to have clearance to rotate around, needs an extension pole

@davebrown8544 7 ай бұрын

I get over 500 up and down with Vodafone. Just saying.

@hermand 7 ай бұрын

On what infrastructure? Because unless they have it in the area, then it's just useless isn't it. I've not seen anything that comes close to that on 5G though, which makes it sound like you're on Fibre. And as Voda use BT FTTP........

@davebrown8544 7 ай бұрын

It’s fibre.

@hermand 7 ай бұрын

@davebrown8544 So utterly is to your average starlink customer. People don't pay for it for fun, they pay for it because they don't have an alternative.