Starlink Internet

[Northern Pilgrim]

Been seeing a lot of chatter lately online about Starlink and the variety of uses it has, from the Ukraine being used on the front lines to massive rollout for North Carolina disaster response.
Even though a lot of us here on CiK are using internet less and less, it seems like this has some utility, especially for digital nomads and others that may be fleeing the west for whatever reason.
Anyhow, here's a thread to discuss and share if anyone has insights/personal experience that could benefit the group.

 

[RedLagoon]

I ditched whatever NBN you call internet here for Starlink. It's been great so far.

 

[McKinnsley]

Its let me move my family onto a small rural farm in Eastern Europe and maintain my online business.

Connection to dish is about 200-300mb with great pings and reliability. Perfectly suitable for most requirements.

Their wifi router is pretty weak, so prepare to spend a bit more to get their Ethernet pass through and your own router of choice. The image attached is on their provided router albeit through a 1m solid concrete wall in a stables building.

The dish pulls on average 35 watts, peaking at 60 watts. Latency is around 25ms averaged.

I highly recommend starlink - its a gamechanger for off grid/rural applications.

NOTE: Starlink is a US company so you will get DMCA warnings for torrenting anything hollywood. Any leaks on a VPN and you will get a warning email. Use a cloud downloader if you use torrents.

 

[Thomas More]

I haven't used it, but a co-worker whose house is up in the mountains uses it. She could barely get internet before, with really low bandwidth and frequent dropouts. She said Starlink was reliable and fast.