| I was chuckling a bit at your 'just worse' comment. I do not know whether you have had any actual experience with it, but just to add a few anecdotes: - I ordered starlink for testing even though I have Telekom DSL in a small town. Did not even install it the first day (as I had to put it up on a pole), then Telekom failed for me and lots of my neighbors. No phone, nothing. The next day I installed starlink and had Internet again at 200Mbs (faster than my DSL, albeit more expensive at first, they have since reduced price to parity). It took 7 days for Deutsche Telekom to fix the issue. And that repeated every once in a while. I have since setup a failover with PRIMARY usage via Starlink. - A customer of ours has Telekom and Vodafone Cable. The entire VOIP runs over Telekom , but is so slow as to be unusable (Rather big city in Germany) for that many people. They got cable as a secondary web surfing link. Number of failures over the year 2022-2023 was not funny, we had a LOT of calls to make to get this back up. - Another customer, still big city but on the outskirts in the industrial area does not even get any good DSL at any sensible cost. He installed Starlink with us and its his primary connection for years now. Including daily and hour-long video calls. - A school I know has had a huge number of issues with their fiber internet connection often resulting in very intermittent internet which disrupts classes etc. So to say its always better is just not true and having some alternatives definitely dont hurt. |
This is part of the issue. You really do need to "Suck it and see" when it comes to starlink. Is the ground station over subscribed? The Satellite? Its not like their support will tell you anything.
There's nothing wrong with having alternatives, I put my father on to starlink because his area is perfect for it. But there are cheaper alternatives in metro areas. I was slinging 2-300M 60GHz links for cheaper than starlink 6 years ago. 60GHz is getting cheaper and faster at an impressive pace. I worked on a POC in canada for 5GHz at 80MHz that was doing 150M for residential. Half the price of Starlink.