Does anyone use Star Links “on the go” service? How do you like it and is it user friendly? Any other options?

Our internet has been down for two days at the house, and running crazy slow before that. Real dog and pony show with our rural provider. I’m the king about getting SL that I can use when at our cabin in Canada as well as turn on here in NE when home internet goes out.

You might ask the question on the wilderness forum. I have read about it there recently.

we have Star Link at the house. not sure what "on the go" means...

for home use, we like it a lot!

download speeds usually 7-8 times what local can provide.

I have installed it on a few boats and have not heard any complaints yet. I actually use it when I am at the marina as it is faster than the marina inter webs connection.

Not off subject, but I seen the Star Link in the Sky for the first time last fall. My son & I were waiting for our evening pickup from Elk Hunting, along a road in the Mountains of Colorado. All lights were off, just sitting there. I had looked up and seen the long Star Link System over head and said to my son, what -is that? He looked towards a tree and seen a mass in the branches and flipped on his light. He thought it was Lion, but I pointed at Star Link. He said, oh that is Star Link. He had seen it a few times before, but it sure freeked me out for the first time seeing it!

Thanks guys.

On the go, or mobile, is the plan you can take on the road with you and turn off for the months you don’t use it. It’s $150 month vrs $120 but when you turn it off your not charged. Is my understanding anyway.

I don't have it, but I can tell you what I've heard from people in the remote village of Pilot Point Alaska, where I spend some time. Some of the folks use the fixed location and others use the "RV" version. I haven't heard of any difference in the quality of service between the two. Everyone I know is pretty enthusiastic about it.

The local provider that people used to use cost $389 a month, and it had the speed that was similar to the old dial-up that you might remember. I have thought about getting Starlink, but I'm afraid that I couldn't get my crewmen out of the cabin if I had it.

HA! I think your right about the crewman waggler! I know I’ve gotten more done around here while the internets down.
Glad to hear the service seems the same.

Might be what campers use many have satellite hook ups from what I’ve seen.

We have the RV service so we can take it with us wherever we go, I think you can pause it for the months you don't need it. Been very happy with our Starlink.

I also just had it out with my rural provider. I just bought starlink this December as kind of a Christmas present. It just became available here, I had be wondering about it for awhile. I wasn't sure what to think b/c there wasn't anything to read up on how to set it up before it arrived but I figured I could handle it. The 30 day return policy sold me. I figured if it didn't work I'd send it back. I got the mobile one. I figure for $20 a month its worth it so I can take it anywhere I want to.

It arrived. There was a rectangle antenna if you will, maybe 1x2 foot. It was on an arm and after I mounted the feet it was on a stand. Its motorized don't try to adjust the tilt.

You wouldn't believe how easy it is to setup. Set the thing out in the yard pointing North at the sky. Run that cord back to the router and plug it in. The cord is clearly a weather tight connection.

Then there is a second power cord you plug into the router and plug it into 110. That's literally all it took to set it up mechanically. Its cold here and I just left the whole lot outside plugged into an outside outlet. The router is sitting on a window sill outside of the house and the cord is running across my back deck and out into the grass. Its probably been that way for a month now.

Anyway other than that you download an app and the app finds the router and or the satellite and you punch a couple of buttons and its working. I was impressed. If you can download an app and follow a few basic instructions it shouldn't be any trouble to setup.

My rural carrier advertised 20 mb/s and I usually got 3 and was lucky to get 8 sometimes. They locked me in at 3 and I told them to pound salt.

Starlink advertises 100 mb/s. All my tests have been ran on cloudy crappy winter raining days and I connect at 30 mb/s about everytime I check.
I think I have checked it and had a strong 8 a few times but its just how it goes sometimes with clouds etc.
(thats with me inside and the router outside of the house!)

One morning early I must have caught it right when the satellite went by and I got a speed test at like 180 mb/s but that was only that one time and I was leaving so I'm not sure how long it lasted.

It didn't take much to get mine going and I've literally just left mine all laying outside in the rain and haven't had any trouble. Never not had signal yet.

You wouldn't want a tree line or anything to the North of you. I was surprised actually I figured itd want to be South.
Its flat here and my first tree line to the north is about 300 yards.
Looking North I have a pretty good view of the sky. Mine sets about 45* tilted up and sees all sky.
It has a little heater on it and melts snow off of it when there's snow on it.

I'd invest in it if it was a public company. Maybe sometime soon.

Yes, you can turn off the mobile plan and not get charged for months you don’t use. I’m thinking of getting the home unit for the house and the mobile plan for Canada cabin and camper.

I’m a little concerned about tree blockage. Kinda hard to get an unobstructed view of the sky, horizon to horizon here and in Canada.

That is correct ... its month by month pay as you go. With no geo fencing. So you can use it anywhere

There is an app for a phone that you can walk around your yard with and determine what spot might be best for an antenna. I don't have SL and have not used it but many people here do have it. Never heard a complaint yet and there are trees everywhere. My buddy has his sitting in his yard and it it currently under three feet of snow and still work fine.

That’s great to hear.

We've had this for over a year. Had one brief outage in that timeframe. Getting 75MB service in our area. ETA-the mobile service is second tier to the in home service...meaning in home/non mobile gets priority if you're in a high usage area. Less users in the area would likely see an increase in that speed.

FWIW- 75MB is enough to work from home and do Zoom meetings.

I’ve seen mine over 400 mbps. Usually around 200. The thing is amazing.

I have one at my camp on the Yukon Coast it works great. 5 or 6 people on at once some times. go live from out in the yard when Ethan is ptarmigan hunting. Post videos to Youtube, make phone calls, check Trapperman.com
Once in a while i have trouble getting on. But that just me. Some of my buddies have the mobile Starlink and post Facebook videos from all over the place.

I may get the Northwestel system just to stop supporting Elon Musk.

Today was first time cellular text messages have been sent thru star link,,,,,,huge for folks working/living remotely


Don’t understand why anyone would not support Elon musk??

Easiest thing I ever hooked up. I had internet before I realized that I was done.

Usually people who receive free crap find conservative minded (logical) people a threat, they buy into the democrat victim/racist BS

We love our star link

On of the few buys now days that impressed me. So simple a caveman can set it up and worked better than advertised. Had it over a year now, no problems. Was with hughesnet, what a poor service and company.

Good to hear all the positive reports! I’m ordering the home package today. Probably add the mobile package for Canada cabin and camper later on.

There are tons of reasons not to support Ellon Musk but somebody else will start that thread someday.

We’ll be waiting,,,,,

We would be interested in just one reason. Why wait for someone else? Spill the beans

I wouldn't do it right now they have a much better system coming out this year from what I hear.

Had to get it now. Our current provider still hasn’t came out to fix whatever connection problem there is on their end.

Anyway, FedEx delivery has been delayed due to weather since Tuesday. This morning our road was drifted in at a few spots and We’r last on list for the grader, if at all. So I parked one of the Enticers at the end of road with a note for FedEx driver.



And it worked! LMAO

I have it and get speeds of over 220 mbps I have 107 now. Our local internet provider really is bad, I cant even upload a picture most days, and I run a internet business.

Elon Musk is the best thing that happened to the USA in a long time. I cant wait to get his Tesla phone when it comes out. It will connect to his Starlink satellite's and have service everywhere.

No doubt, Elon is the man of the century.

Do you have any trees by your dish jeff? Mine says “possible interruption due to obstruction. There’s a few tree tops in the bottom of the scan.

I am under a big hill to the north of me with bushes, so that blocked it a bit, and I have some obstructions on the bottom of the scan but not much and it says "all good"

It used to be more obstructed, and go out a couple times a day for a very short periods, but starlink put up more satellites, and my dish turned itself 180 degrees and it stopped going out completely, and got really fast.

Starlink up here in Alaska is great! The last dish internet I had was well over $400 a month and the upload speed was horrible. Well worth the money

Glad to hear, thanks much guys.

Real glad the FedEx guy left it in the snow machine box. I thought his proof of delivery photo was hilarious!

I got it hooked up and my phone was easy and crazy fast! Apparently my computer is not set up to receive Wi-Fi since internet came in n through phone line. Crap! Going to have to get a new computer now.

If your computer is old and does not have a wi-fi setting, you don't have to get a new computer! You just need a wi-fi dongle. You can buy one on ebay or amazon for a few bucks. Walmart may sell them, not sure?

https://www.amazon.com/wifi-dongle/s?k=wifi+dongle

Cool, thanks Yote!
I ordered an adapter plug from starlink that will allow me to plug router directly into my computer. The kids thought the antenna might not work on this computer, not sure why.

Question to those in the know. I know the old satellite signals were different but back in those days a heavy storm/clouds/certain weather could mess up the signals.

Is the star link system beyond that?

Osky

I live in the stormiest place on earth. It dont effect my internet speed a bit, even in a bad storm with zero visibility. It has great speed.

It has a built in heater in the dish so melts snow and ice.

My old Hughs Net would go out when it rained or snowed.

I have had the residential service for over a year. Using the Gen2 dish. Love Starlink ! No issues at all even though I always see obstructions show up on the app.
Plus I live in one of the coldest parts of Alaska (eastern interior) and have had zero issues with the cold even after a week into the -50's with a low of -65. Did not notice any
difference in performance.
The new Gen3 dish doesn't even have the positioning motors any longer.
You won't regret getting Starlink. I cancelled our sat phone because using our iphone with wifi calling over Starlink is flawless.

Musk will go down in history as possibly the most influential individual of this century.

More for what he's doing for free speech in this country, than maybe anything else.

Although the space travel and AI technology might surpass the free speech eventually.

Hope he (Musk) gets his phone deal done soon. I can’t wait to kick Verizon to the curb.

I been following this thread hoping to see someone mention streaming TV.
I live on a one lane gravel horse trail Amish road in NE Ohio bordered by state game refuge. There is no phone lines or cable going down the road so I pay and arm and leg for Direct TV and Hughs net. Spending over $250 a month for internet and TV. We don't have enough internet to stream tv and it looks like Star Link is the answer but a little leery about spending more money. Is there a cap on data for Star link where if I exceed the fair use limit I get reduced speed or have to pay for a higher dollar plan?

No cap on data.
I had Hughes Net it sucked bad, and expensive. You can stream anything with this fast internet. I would not wait you will be much happier.