All in all the math does work. And in simple terms Starlink will always beat the pants off of TRIA Internet providers. It's easy to understand. 22 up, 22 down to the earth station and 22 & 22 for packet travel distance. Right? That's 88k miles the way TCP/IP has to work. UDP may be a little different. BUT.
No matter what. Unlimited data. Read back a bit.
My friends who's only choice is a TRIA (Hughesnet) system for Internet have to be VERY careful of data usage.
They put up hunters for a week and in a flash their data was used up. Slammed in the face and capped.
"Until the next billing cycle". They never can stream Netflix.
For around the same price that Starlink is charging for monthly service. For unlimited data versus... forget about it.
It doesn't come to light until you realize where I live. The headquarters of the defunct Adelphia and now Zitomedia.
Many times I've consulted with clients who have had their "High Speed Broadband" since conception and before streaming services and devices flooded the market.
The sail right along (but have "That Spinny Thing") often while watching Netflix, etc.
Then right around the middle of the month their service screws up. So they call and a field tech is dispatched.
He comes out. Snips the old RG connector. Crimps on a new one. Checks signal. And takes off.
SOMETIMES. To retain the customer they disable the cap that was turned on when they reached the data limit.
But they don't tell the customer what voodoo is going on to make the problems go away.
That is 100% a fact.
Comes to find out that they have had the same service since inception. And were "Grandfathered" into a plan that isn't even offered any more. The old 10 MBPS plan with "X" (piddly amount of) data.
A phone call to discover that the "High Speed" plan is something not even sold any more.
And a modem with 4 down and 2 up that even customers who discover the next up plan is 50 MBPS can only get MAYBE 18-20 download speeds. The are never told they need to swap the modem.
It's even worse if they have their VOIP service.
Bottom line? Tell customer service to wipe the old plan off the face of the earth. A Wally World 16 down/8 up Arris modem in hand. Provision it for the 50 MBPS plan. And save 10 bucks a month.
The modem they payed for monthly as rent from the ISP was bought time and time again.
So any satellite Internet provider should be paranoid of Elon. Because they got used to raking in the bucks from people who had no option. Monopoly of crappy service and having to pay out the wazoo for better.
I Wonder 2 things. Could you strap a Dishy on top of your camper and hit the highway and stream or game or watch YouTube while eating up a gallon of gas every 6 miles? Would you need some sort of whatever Dish or Direc makes you do "plan" to mobilize your Dishy?
And could you watch your favorite streamed program when it rains like the dickens or is moderately snowing?
User input invited for that one.
Rant over. lol!
