Starlink Preorders Begin

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I ordered the pre-order and plunked down the $99 to be on the wait list. 
If it works well enough for the first month when I get it, I will cancel 
Centurylink and just use Starlink with Cox as the backup.

Looking forward to it.

On 2/20/21 8:19 AM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> They claim 50Mbps to 150Mbps data rates and latency from 20ms to 
> 40ms.  Initial testing has shown a bit lower than that, upload speeds 
> have varied from 10Mbps to 30Mbps and download speeds from 15Mbps to 
> 120Mbps, which for satellite-type connectivity is pretty amazing, 
> particularly without the usual 500ms latency for those services.
>
> If I were stuck in a rural area with some 3Mbps broadband download 
> (even cities like San Francisco), I'd be all over this for $100 bucks 
> a month and $500 for the dish array.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 5:47 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     and what is 'stellar'
>
>     On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:42 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
>     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Do you hate your incumbent ISP for keeping you in the dark ages
>     with only single digit megabit internet?  Now you can start
>     ordering Starlink services.
>     >
>     > https://www.starlink.com/ <https://www.starlink.com/>
>     >
>     > So far reported bandwidth and latency are stellar (pun
>     intended).  I'm personally looking forward to folks getting an
>     alternative to crappy rural isp's, cheers to Elon Musk for shaking
>     up another stale industry.
>     >
>     > -mb
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