<story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven&apos;t cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it.  If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you.  There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&amp;#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &amp;quot;shortcomings&amp;quot; are irrelevant.  With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; internet.  Reasonable speeds and no caps&amp;#x2F;throttling.&lt;p&gt;The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.&lt;p&gt;Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>My biggest gripe is the fact I can&amp;#x27;t transfer it to my cousin, who lives on a farm with 300 Kbps DSL, 70 miles away.&lt;p&gt;Back when preorders started, it wasn&amp;#x27;t obvious how slow Starlink would be to expand, and it also wasn&amp;#x27;t obvious transfers wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a supported feature for many months.&lt;p&gt;Even so, my cousin also signed up in hopes to get Starlink, and 11 months later her date was moved from &amp;#x27;late 2021&amp;#x27; to &amp;#x27;late 2022&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;And yes, I&amp;#x27;ve tried many address hacks to see if I could get my dish moved there, none have worked.&lt;p&gt;They shouldn&amp;#x27;t have dropped the &amp;#x27;beta&amp;#x27; moniker last year if the service is truly so far from its final state (IMO).</text></comment>
<story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven&apos;t cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it.  If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you.  There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&amp;#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &amp;quot;shortcomings&amp;quot; are irrelevant.  With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; internet.  Reasonable speeds and no caps&amp;#x2F;throttling.&lt;p&gt;The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.&lt;p&gt;Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>&amp;gt; If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you.&lt;p&gt;We bought a property in a very rural area in mid 2020.  One of the hard requirements was verified high speed Internet access.&lt;p&gt;Our home has good performing Comcast.  But I also pay $100&amp;#x2F;month and have a Dishy on my roof.  Fortunately our home is very tall and we&amp;#x27;re able to get about 95% visibility, since our home is in the middle of a forest.&lt;p&gt;Why am I paying an extra $100&amp;#x2F;month?  Because our Comcast has outages.  It&amp;#x27;s not surprising since we&amp;#x27;re at the end of miles and miles of above ground cable that has hundreds of trees pushing up against the wires and poles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a pretty well off &amp;#x27;tech person&amp;#x27; so an additional $100&amp;#x2F;month to cover a few hours of use makes sense.&lt;p&gt;(Wireless coverage is terrible around here, so that was never a backup possibility.)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty convinced that Starlink is not only going to revolutionize many people&amp;#x27;s lives, but it&amp;#x27;s also going to be a cash cow for SpaceX, in large part funding their Mars ambitions.</text></comment>