[davycro]

Received mine this week for a service address on the Navajo Nation. I imagine the wait is shorter for less populated rural areas, which should correlate with need. My old isp charged $60 a month for 1.5 Mb/s down and 750kb/s up. This should be a great improvement.

[sam0x17]

My relatives are in a similar situation -- only satellite available in their area, so ~800ms latency and speeds around 1 MBps, but half a mile away there is literally fiber available, so it's going to be a long time before it gets opened up for them because they aren't considered to be in an underserved area.

[alex_duf]

I'd be curious to know how stable is the connection? notice any drop while on a video call?

[jcims]

I've been on it since February of last year. My day job uses a remote desktop and I'm on video conference calls 4+hrs a day. Starlink was unusable until late summer because I would see 50+ outages of 3 seconds or more during the day. (3 second blips are where it seems to really interrupt zoom and vdi)

It really started coming together in the fall and I would say since November it has been very usable. I would say it's easily as stable if not more stable than the 10/.7M dsl it replaces.

[olyjohn]

This is exactly my experience. Also got it last January or February. I had to keep my DSL line for a few months, but it got good enough for me to finally drop that thing.

[alex_duf]

Thanks!

[AtlasBarfed]

I have starlink in the northern latitudes.

The issues I have with connectivity are probably 99% trees.

When I first started it seemed to need a total view of the sky to get consistent. As the software/flotilla have improved vastly, I use it for zoom and once every couple hours of zooming I may risk a 10 second blip.

I think they are getting better software wise of detecting the usable area of visible sky and utilizing satellites better.

I would think more satellites, more tree tolerance. I currently have my dishy too close to the road since I get the best view that way, I might try moving it back to the backyard this spring to see if it can work well there without worrying about teenagers using it for batting practice or some disgruntled cable employee or it getting stolen.

If you have an unobstructed view of the sky, it should be functionally as reliable as cable internet.