Starlink terminal

[chris_n]

What's the performance like with Starlink - particularly latency? Has it changed much over time - they're very busy lobbing new satellites into the constellation every few days to increase coverage and capacity, but then I guess the number of users is also increasing?

According to this website (there's always a website) there are now over 6400 Starlink satellites on orbit.

https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html

Latency is not a problem with Starlink in my experience, my neighbour uses it for gaming and says it is good. It is definitely better than my LTE system particularly when it is busy here.

[Tinbum]

Have had it for 3+ years in the Uk. No fibre on our street still and we are getting on for half a mile from the BT cabinet so copper broadband is limited speed.
BT wanted about £5k to install fibre and a 3 year contract - I am not paying for them to install the fibre infrastructure on my street.

We also have copper at a max of 3.5 Mbps and have been told we will have FTP many times by openreach. (They couldn't organise a pxxxxup in a brewery though). Last time I asked I was told we will be able to order it in Jan 2025. I've been using a phone in the loft, with a 3 sim card in it and set on Hotspot for additional bandwidth for years. That's £11 a month unlimited data.

[Stig]

We also have copper at a max of 3.5 Mbps and have been told we will have FTP many times by openreach. (They couldn't organise a pxxxxup in a brewery though)

From my recent experience with them I think they probably could, it would just take 4 months with about 3 attempts before they could actually manage to get the beer out of the barrel and into the glass!
(they did pay me around £300 compensation for taking so long about my fibre connection though, so I'll be in credit until early next year).

[jonc_uk]

We also have copper at a max of 3.5 Mbps and have been told we will have FTP many times by openreach. (They couldn't organise a pxxxxup in a brewery though). Last time I asked I was told we will be able to order it in Jan 2025. I've been using a phone in the loft, with a 3 sim card in it and set on Hotspot for additional bandwidth for years. That's £11 a month unlimited data.

Ah.. you have mobile coverage.

I could probably get a half-decent signal in the loft if it wasn't for the 2 layers of foil-backed Kingspan..

[nowty]

First time I've seen a Starlink Terminal in the UK - and this one is casually plonked on top of a Supercharger power cabinet - this one's in Leicester

Now you've noticed one, you'll see them everywhere. Even on the top of food vans on the South Bank, or a kiosk on a sunflower field at a local farm shop.

Ripple Kirk Hill windfarm also uses one.