12-01-2020, 11:25 AM
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#81
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Edmonton,AB
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Looking at the mapped out beta tests in Canada it looks like only Southern areas across Canada have gotten the beta invites so far
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01-08-2021, 10:45 AM
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#82
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First Line Centre
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Just ordered the service from starlink as I was invited into the beta. Anyone else get it? Upfront costs are a little high at $750 just to get the equipment and monthly service fees of $130. Still beats $155/month for 150 GB and 25 mb/s. Not to mention the 800ms latency...
Also curious where in the sky the dish has to be aimed? I've heard it's northerly and a lot more vertical than traditional dishes.
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01-08-2021, 10:48 AM
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#83
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Niceland
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What area are you in, I have been trying to get on beta test in rural Northern PA for months.
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01-08-2021, 10:55 AM
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#84
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First Line Centre
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I'm SW of Calgary.
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02-11-2021, 10:42 PM
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#85
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Paradise
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Just got the invite and ordered/signed up for Beta in mid-northwest Alberta. Woot-Woot.
Oh lawd pumped to go from 3-5Mb/s to 50-150.
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02-15-2021, 05:45 PM
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#86
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Had an idea!
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Is there even an invite stage still? I thought they had moved to first come first served basis?
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02-17-2021, 07:29 PM
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#87
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Azure
Is there even an invite stage still? I thought they had moved to first come first served basis?
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Got a email from an application but responded a few days late and it threw me back to the registration. I imagine they are releasing them in batches so if you are not quick on the draw you are SOL until the next one gets served.
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02-18-2021, 04:48 PM
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#88
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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My boss just went from 1mbps in a rural area by Okotoks to 150mbps. He can finally stop coming into the office and work remotely like the rest of us now!
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02-20-2021, 08:48 AM
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#89
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Had an idea!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sluggo
Got a email from an application but responded a few days late and it threw me back to the registration. I imagine they are releasing them in batches so if you are not quick on the draw you are SOL until the next one gets served.
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That is what I assumed.
The stories that people are posting how this changes their life is amazing.
And we are already starting to see better pricing and plans from other rural providers.
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02-21-2021, 05:53 PM
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#90
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First Line Centre
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Starlink user here in rural BC. No WISP worth using here (and I've used them all at one point or another.) I built my own radio system using Ubiquiti radios to relay signal to me from a local town about 26 km away. Works well, if somewhat bandwidth limited. It's rock solid and has been in place for 6 years. Typically 15-30 down, 15 up.
Starlink: less stable during the beta (I can't use corporate VPNs because I drop too many packets at the moment) but for everything else...stellar (yah, it's a pun)! Average is better than 75-80 Mbps down, around 20 up, topped out about 180 Mbps down, 80 up.
I have Dual WAN failover enabled, so when SL craps out, my old system kicks in. Love it! And when the beta ends and the stability increases and the snow leaves so I can put Dishy where I want...even better.
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02-23-2021, 10:30 AM
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#91
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Had an idea!
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Quote:
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company’s Starlink satellite internet service “will double” speeds to customers “later this year,” as it continues to build out the global consumer network.
“Speed will double to ~300Mb/s & latency will drop to ~20ms later this year,” Musk said in a tweet on Monday, responding to a user who showed speed tests ranging between 77 and 130 Mbps.
In a following tweet, Musk added that Starlink will reach customers around “most” of the Earth by the end of 2021 and is expecting to have complete global coverage “by next year.”
He emphasized that Starlink, like other satellite broadband services, is intended for customers in “low to medium population density area.”
“Cellular will always have the advantage in dense urban areas,” Musk said.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/22/elon...this-year.html
On reddit, most of the users who are tracking the outages over long periods of time are saying the system has consistently gotten better.
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03-06-2021, 11:03 PM
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#92
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Paradise
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Quote:
Originally Posted by taxbuster
Starlink user here in rural BC. No WISP worth using here (and I've used them all at one point or another.) I built my own radio system using Ubiquiti radios to relay signal to me from a local town about 26 km away. Works well, if somewhat bandwidth limited. It's rock solid and has been in place for 6 years. Typically 15-30 down, 15 up.
Starlink: less stable during the beta (I can't use corporate VPNs because I drop too many packets at the moment) but for everything else...stellar (yah, it's a pun)! Average is better than 75-80 Mbps down, around 20 up, topped out about 180 Mbps down, 80 up.
I have Dual WAN failover enabled, so when SL craps out, my old system kicks in. Love it! And when the beta ends and the stability increases and the snow leaves so I can put Dishy where I want...even better.
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This is my plan too. Have a second wifi router set up with 2 WAN ports Primary will be Starlink, secondary my Telus hub. When its stable enough i will cancel Telus.
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03-13-2021, 02:07 PM
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#93
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Had an idea!
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Users are reporting longer downtimes but some speed increases up to 300Mb/s.
One of the investors in Starlink also said that each launch of 60 satellites adds another TB/s of bandwidth.
Have yet to see the supposed congestion that we are expecting as more countries / users come online.
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03-14-2021, 11:30 AM
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#94
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#1 Goaltender
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I would say at this point in the beta there are still a lot of random disconnections and downtime for me personally. I've had it since December 2020. I wouldn't say the downtime is very long or anything but if you are an online gamer you will likely be pretty annoyed getting disconnected all the time. Have other people had a similiar experience?
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03-18-2021, 04:10 PM
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#95
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Edmonton,AB
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I can't afford starling right now but I phoned xplornet and asked what they can do to keep me a customer they are taking 25 percent off my monthly bill for the next 6 months so I'll take that hopefully in 6 months starlink will be out of beta and more stable for gamers and I can save up till then
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03-18-2021, 08:48 PM
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#96
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robo
I can't afford starling right now but I phoned xplornet and asked what they can do to keep me a customer they are taking 25 percent off my monthly bill for the next 6 months so I'll take that hopefully in 6 months starlink will be out of beta and more stable for gamers and I can save up till then
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Nice leverage play. I do that with my Sirius XM every 6 months too.
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03-21-2021, 12:15 AM
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#97
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by 1_Flames_Fan
Nice leverage play. I do that with my Sirius XM every 6 months too.
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I should ask what you pay. I HAVE to get a deal on it here.
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03-29-2021, 03:52 PM
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#98
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First Line Centre
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...and here in the middle of Everywhere, BC where not many people live and Starlink is doing well, what shows up in my mailbox today? A mail (addressed!) from Telus telling me that they are installing Pure Fibre in my area "soon" (May-Oct)....I was just about to buy a 40' mast to improve my SL reception and get a clear view of the sky. Sigh, I hate Telus, but I just don't see how I can't take them up on that.
SL speeds are indeed increasing, at least on the download side. Most times now I'm 100 Mbps+ (highest is 180 Mbps so far), but upload still pretty much sucks at around 20 Mbps. Given that I move some large files and work on remote servers, upload counts for me as a big thing, so on Fibre I'll have (more or less) symmetrical speeds.
The only thing that chaps me about Telus is that if I get Optik I'll only be able to get BC TV, where right now I have Bell satellite - with an Alberta address - so I get all the Flames games! :-)
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05-18-2021, 09:09 AM
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#100
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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They'll spread out over time as they move to their designated orbits.
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