Anyone make the jump to starlink yet?

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I'm considering it but wanted to see if anyone has any experience with it as of yet in the area. Mostly concern about down time as its still in testing.
 
I have Starlink in Tenafly. It's not as fast as Optimum but it does work very well and the 30ms pings are not noticeable.

I bought it for Park City and that's where it was activated. I shipped it back to NJ and for shits and giggles parked the service location pin on Manhattan and it accepted it! I found the edge of the cell at CNBC in Englewood Cliffs. It's close enough to my location that I can pickup the signal despite the cell right over me not being active yet.

Good Stadia does not work well as expected right now but I suspect Musk has a magic wand.


Service is amazing. But keep in mind it only works where you register it and that's about a 25-30 mile radius. Farther away than that and the dish just doesn't work at all.

Also, don't be one of those people with a 500 foot high tower in the back yard to get service. My dish is practically pointed at my house and I get 200MBps most of the time. Only downside is every few hours there will be a 10-15 second obstruction but even the streaming services work fine. I guess they buffer far enough ahead. Stadia needs real time so it's horrible quality in order to keep up. No 4k.

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I know you asked about StarLink but I made the jump from Verizon DSL at 2.83Mbps for $75 a month to T-Mobile 5G Unlimited Home internet at 300+Mbps for $50 a month. Couldn't be happier works great for everything even iRacing and other gaming getting way better pings than my DSL did around 15ms usually. I'm only getting three bars some people hook external antennas up to the modem and get upwards of 600+Mbps. My only compalint is the modem/router is pretty bare bones so if you like to configure stuff for your network you might find it a bit lacking.
 
I had TMO home internet also. But TMobile gives away data for free so I had to leave. Their 5G works well. Verizon fucked themselves good skipping midband auctions. I can't believe they pay extra for it!
 
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Perhaps... I think if anything they'll merge it into one of the other services that is similar. It's actually a really amazing experience. It hogs data but the quality is really really good. Hopefully they can find a way to make it work.
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I wanted it to succeed but they need more studios commiting games, do you game on anything else or is this your only exposure to modern gaming
 
Also there's no contract, equipment, taxes or other fees with the T-mo home internet it's just $50 a month so easy to try out if you have good 5G in your area to see if it works for you. Not sure what data there giving away for free unless your talking about the breaches they had a while ago, but what big company hasn't been breached. I'm not making any excuses for them though they should really step up there security on that end but it's also kind of a issue with any personal info in the "cloud" with any company. Still a worry, but I've been with them for about 4-5 years now and had no issues knock on wood. Twice on At&t I got one of those dreaded letters saying my info may have been compromised. And man I wish they had fiber in my area those gigabit speeds are sweet!
 
Yes by "free data" I was referring to their open, non firewalled, poorly trained tech staff from the top right down to the store employees not following proper procedures.

Also, they still send codes via text and no way to stop it and add to the rampant SIM swapping problem (because of the bad security) and it's a tragedy.

Not entirely sure why the feds haven't stepped in. I believe TMobile was hacked at least twice maybe three times last year alone.
 
SCOTTscale said:
Yes by "free data" I was referring to their open, non firewalled, poorly trained tech staff from the top right down to the store employees not following proper procedures.

Also, they still send codes via text and no way to stop it and add to the rampant SIM swapping problem (because of the bad security) and it's a tragedy.

Not entirely sure why the feds haven't stepped in. I believe TMobile was hacked at least twice maybe three times last year alone.
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No worries there's a setting in your account you can turn on (yeah you have to turn it on!! like why would you not want it on??) to tell them not to switch your SIM to some random person who calls in now! 😀👍 Hopefully it actually works so I'll keep knocking on wood (bouncing off trees with my bike) and hope it does, because I don't want to be dealing with any of that nonsense.
 
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