[smoldesu]

Starlink is quite good. I've been using them for a few months now after switching from a more traditional, smaller WISP (and before that, godforsaken Hughesnet). It's really hard to beat Starlink, especially at the price. Unless you have a local telecom willing to run CAT6 out to your house, you can't really find speeds like it. Latency is low enough to game on, bandwidth is zippy (and unlimited), and the uptime puts 4G hotspots to shame.

If I had one complaint with it, it's probably the hardware itself. For $500, the installation kit is fairly barebones. On top of that, the router is pretty obviously "beta hardware" too, as well as the software and even parts of the dish itself. I'd be a little disappointed if I opened a Comcast installation kit with the same trappings, but I'll give Starlink some credit for pulling together such an impressive infrastructure/consumer hardware product at a non-alienating price.

[jagger27]

> Unless you have a local telecom willing to run CAT6 out to your house, you can't really find speeds like it.

Is CAT6 all that common? 100m runs seems pretty limiting in a rural setting. I think even the fibre that was strung up to my house in a fairly dense inner city neighbourhood has a longer run than that to the hub.

Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

[tim--]

> Is it possible to provide power to signal repeaters with POE to get around the ~100 meter limit?

Yes, but at that point you may as well just run fiber. These days, the SFP modules are cheap (20km SFP for ~$80).

The loss of signal on a CAT6 cable will be much greater then on fiber. When too much noise is introduced on a CAT6 cable, speeds will drop considerably. Packet loss will be quite high.

[jagger27]

That's what I figured. CAT6 isn't exactly cheap.