Starlink review, four months in
I&#x27;ve had Starlink for about 6 months and it is a massive improvement on upload speed at 10-25 Mb. Download speed is a mixed bag wildly oscillating from 5 to 100 Mb and back. It&#x27;s okay for downloading things but it&#x27;s terrible for any sort of video conferencing. There are brief dropouts on average every 6 minutes or so and my obstruction map is better than the author&#x27;s. My neighbor up the street got slightly better service by mounting his dishy on a 20-ft antenna pole above his house.<p>Local ground service is 20 Mb download and 2 Mb upload. And that&#x27;s just barely sufficient for watching streaming video and video conferencing. Gigabit service is but a mile and a half away but no one is going to pay to lay the fiber into our neighborhood. So the last mile and a half is copper from 20 years ago. I think that&#x27;s going to require political will to fix and I don&#x27;t think that political will exists right now nor will it in the near future. We could have paid $5,000 per house to lay it ourself but our own neighborhood couldn&#x27;t come to consensus on that. Now imagine that at a national level.<p>So if they just deliver 100&#x2F;100 within a year or two, this is an epic win IMO and I will cancel ground service. And if they don&#x27;t someone else will so I&#x27;m not worried. But it took Teslas to spark the electric vehicle industry. Now there&#x27;s a lot of choice. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if something similar happens here.