Starlink will be available in my area in mid-2022. The equipment will cost $500, and the service will cost $99 per month.
No; wait. It will be available in late 2023. The service will cost $110 per month, and now the equipment costs $600.
Elon keeps moving the carrot.
I now have what is known as "best effort" Starlink. It means I pay the full Starlink price, but the service is a lot slower. I see insane speeds (by my area's standards) when I use various speed tests, but what Starlink doesn't tell you is that tests are rigged. I may see 100 Mbps when I test, but I download at 3 Mbps a lot of the time.
It sounds great not to have a contract, but Elon doesn't have a contract, either, so he can do anything he wants. When the price here went up, I wasn't asked to consent. I was informed.
Starlink is much better than the garbage phone-line service I had at first, and it's better than the cell-based service that replaced it, but it's not fantastic.
No; wait. It will be available in late 2023. The service will cost $110 per month, and now the equipment costs $600.
Elon keeps moving the carrot.
I now have what is known as "best effort" Starlink. It means I pay the full Starlink price, but the service is a lot slower. I see insane speeds (by my area's standards) when I use various speed tests, but what Starlink doesn't tell you is that tests are rigged. I may see 100 Mbps when I test, but I download at 3 Mbps a lot of the time.
It sounds great not to have a contract, but Elon doesn't have a contract, either, so he can do anything he wants. When the price here went up, I wasn't asked to consent. I was informed.
Starlink is much better than the garbage phone-line service I had at first, and it's better than the cell-based service that replaced it, but it's not fantastic.