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We use the "consumer" version a lot. I think I have 6-7 units out there. We have had great luck with it
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We use the "consumer" version a lot. I think I have 6-7 units out there. We have had great luck with it
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
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- Price, Utah
I have the RV service also. I don’t use it for my primary internet since I have fiber at my house. I use it for the scoring system we use at races as well as take it when I am traveling. I have used it for watching Hulu with no issues.
One of my secondary companies has used it to send out a live video stream without any issues. We also tested it at a friends summer cattle and guest ranch on top of the Tavaputs Plateau for WiFi calling and it worked great. They had Hughesnet and that service had some 5+ second delays in audio and the Starlink had zero delay. They had 23 people hooked to it accessing data and calling was still great. Their lodge is cinderblock so they added a second router to get better wifi coverage inside.
Your scenario kind of surprises me
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
You guys suffering with poor performance and Starlink may just need a better router/modem. Our home internet with comcast was absolutely abysmal until they suggested I buy a new and much more expensive router. It was $400 that I didn’t want to spend, and I really didn’t think it would solve the problem, but it’s been great ever since we upgraded.
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
The Starlink has an integrated "modem"/wifi unit. We've had absolutely no issues with our multiple units. Pretty impressed with it.
We bought a business unit for $2500. Probably not buying another of those to be honest
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
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- Price, Utah
I could never justify what the costs are to upgrade to the business unit. What is the real world experience compared to the home unit?
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
higher bandwidth, supposedly more priority on requests, etc. $500 per month. 350 Mbps with 40ish ms latency. Support for up to 20 devicess. (consumer only supports about 5 devicess but we have significantly more than that attached). Real world, it's better but that comes at a cost. Not worth it to the business I work for.
UNSTUCK
But stuck more often.
The only thing I can think of is that the starlink modem points right into the back of a tv. Would that kill signal? Even that tv is slow and buffers a lot on Netflix at night. Could I hard wire a better modem into the starlink modem instead of hard wiring to my computer?
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
No idea and I'm not traveling to a job site to find out
. Older TV would have magnets in it. I would think a modern flat panel wouldn't be much of an obstacle? Definitely worth moving to somewhere else in the house to test?
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
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- Pleasant Grove
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
My modem sits outside on my back patio and I have no problems in the house. I even connected the TV in my motorhome to it a couple months ago while it was in my garage and did not have any issues. Buffering may not be a connectivity issue to the modem. It could be a an issue between the dish and satellites. Have you ever opened the app while it is doing it to see if it is warning you of drop outs?
Something doesn't seem right.
Jesser04
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anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
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- Price, Utah
That is a rare sight to see that many together.
Jesser04
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- Kaysville Utah
16 of them. They’re at a park by our house pretty comfortable around humans.
Corban_White
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- Payson, AZ
You can definitely wire a different wireless router into the Starlink modem and use that instead. That is how I always do it (not Starlink, but every other ethernet provider I've had).
Jesser04
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- Kaysville Utah
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Damn, it just needed an oil change!
anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
Well sort of. A new transmission was going to be in my near future. This one has about 180k on it and when it gets warm form things like climbing a steep mountain road, it will not shift down into 1st or 2nd. Driving around town, traveling the freeway it is fine. No slipping, just will not go into low gears when getting hot. A friend of mine turned me onto a guy selling the complete drivetrain out of a 2018 Rubicon with only 34k miles. He pulled it to do an LS swap. A rebuilt transmission was going to cost me around $2700 and I picked his entire drivetrain from the harmonic balancer to the transfer case yoke for $3,000.
I don't have time to mess with it, so I am having my regular shop I take vehicles to swap it for me. Since everything is bolted together, they decided to lift the body off so he can use his fork lift to R&R everything.