I received and installed my new Starlink antenna this week. I am super impressed, to say the least.
The antenna costs $499 and the service is $99/month.
We are just outside Bar Harbor, Maine for the summer, and it is now possible to change service address through the app so it is portable, as long as the area of the country can be reached by Starlink.
Up til now, we've been using an unlimited Verizon Mifi Jetpack with a SureCall cell signal booster while traveling, and wired Xfinity internet at our winter lot in Florida. Both of those services cost about $80/month each.
I've been using the Starlink now for 4 days, and have yet to get below 100 mbps download speed. I would get 30 mbps on a great day with my Jetpack. As I type this, I checked my speed - 245.5mbps down, 8.84 up. And my downtime for service in the last 12 hours was 41 seconds.
I know it's not completely available in the US yet, but Elon Musk claims that it will be by the end of 2021 - and every month or so he launches another rocket with 60 more satellites, so it's rapidly changing. So far, I'm sold and after some time of assuring reliability, I'll cancel my Dish TV, Mifi, and Xfinity. I've never seen anything like it in a portable unit.
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Paul,
How do you set it up, manually point? It looks BIG, how is it for traveling?
The antenna came shipped in a box with a 3-step picture instruction sheet. Literally. Contents of the box were the antenna with 100 ft. of cable, the tripod stand, the power supply, and the wifi antenna. I took the antenna out of the box, mounted it in the tripod stand (the first step), fed the cable from outside through the kitchen slide seal, and plugged in the antenna cable and wifi antenna cable in the power supply (step 2), put the tripod on top of the kitchen slide and turned plugged in the power supply (step 3). The antenna searched for about 15 seconds and it was done.
I then opened the Starlink app, named my new Starlink network and set the password, and within 15 minutes for the whole process I had super fast wifi.
Probably one of the easiest plug-and-play wifi networks I've ever experienced.
2015 Redwood 38RL
2016 Ford F-350 CC KR DRW 6.7 Powerstroke