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[–] Melco@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Its simple like many Musk projects he over promises and under delivers.

Starlink performance is slow and unreliable. Sometimes you get 100 Mbps and sometimes you get < 1 Mbps with the average being around 25. So it cant even really be considered broadband.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't match my experience. The worst thing about it is ping, but download is mostly always around 100-200.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I've always seen at least 20 down, never as low as 1 Mbps the grandparent comment claimed. I usually see roughly 100 Mbps down, though.

That's based on using it in a few different places in our RV over the summer, some with obstructions from trees in some spots. Regardless of the actual speed, my wife and I were both able to telework and hold conference calls simultaneously without an issue - and my wife would use video (I kept it off, but she used it).

[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Really? Shit. I was planning to move to starlink but let me do some research.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

My parents have starlink and I'm really impressed with it. It's very reliable

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My parents had it. Average was about 40mbps over a 60gb download, minimums were in the low 20s, and it topped out at around 80-100mbps. A fuck of a lot better than 10mbps down 750kbps up, their only other option. I hate Elon as much as the next guy, but starlink is awesome.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i imagine that's a product of the technology and not so much the company. the problems with satellite internet are just physics. it's probably stupid to go with something like this in an area that has fiber available.