Starlink as a landline?

[Mesterh]

2 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

Shame we can’t follow the European model of just locking onto the strongest available network.

I didnt know that was how it worked in Europe, seems very logical. Im on vodaphone and its complete garbage, crappy signal and 5G is more or less non excitant. I might look into going back to EE, the reason I left them as the monthly charge doubled for excising customers but was cheaper for new customers! 

 

Thats only if I verify my age on pornhub to make it worth the extra cost like.

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, Dan Maynard said:

Three and Vodafone?

Merged a year or two ago, but Three never had their own genuine network.

Existed on parts of Hutchison (Orange) and T-Mobile.

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

They haven’t.

O2 merged with Virgin Media.

 

I knew it was someone, thought it was Vodafone, sorry!

[Dan Maynard]

14 hours ago, Squaredy said:

It’s quite a scandal isn’t it?  I went on a cruise in 2018 stopping in 7 different European countries and then Russia.  With the exception of Russia every country automatically locked onto the best local signal.  Automatic roaming.  And as soon as we were back in the UK I was stuck with the useless network I was on (Tesco who use O2 I believe).

 

I left Tesco mobile soon after and now get better reception, but still really poor at work.

 

Even in the EU it was quite a battle to get high roaming charges removed if I remember correctly.

The Honest eSIM allows you to roam quite a few apps including nav and messaging, I don't have it but was working in Lincolnshire this week and the phone signal is rubbish on my network up there. From £3.75 a month might be worthwhile in Wales?

 

honestmobile.com/smart-sim

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[Squaredy]

3 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

The Honest eSIM allows you to roam quite a few apps including nav and messaging, I don't have it but was working in Lincolnshire this week and the phone signal is rubbish on my network up there. From £3.75 a month might be worthwhile in Wales?

 

honestmobile.com/smart-sim

Interesting, thank you.

[Squaredy]

Well, I have just placed an order for Starlink for my business site.  Grand total cost £19 for all the kit (special offer right now I believe) and £35 per month for unlimited data at a max speed of 100MBS.  I never own the kit so if I want to switch it off I have to send it back.  No minimum contract.  Realistically I have not yet heard a bad report on its performance even in this immediate area so I doubt I will send it back.

 

Only trouble I had is that my existing connection is so slow the Starlink website struggled to even load.  Got there in the end though.

 

I went for the domestic package even though it is for my work site - the difference seems unimportant to my needs.

 

And apparently when it arrives I just pop it on a roof or a pole and plug it in to the mains and the supplied router.

 

Hopefully then once I have used this for a few months and am happy it is reliable I will transfer my landline number to it with a separate provider which will cost me about £10 per month.

 

Incredible.  £45 per month for landline and fast broadband and loads of calls (for an extra £5 per month I could make this unlimited including international).

 

I will report back here how it actually pans out.

[Paul in the woods]

I'd be very interested to hear how you get on, we could look to do something similar at home.

[Steve Bullman]

On 23/01/2026 at 20:21, Squaredy said:

To be honest I don’t mind making Musk a tiny bit richer.  If he gets rich by providing something no-one else can I take my hat off to him.

 

Contrast that to my current situation where I pay £100 a month to XLN for a barely usable copper line; and £18 to EE for a completely useless 5g router.

Give it to musk or give it to BT to be swallowed up by their ridiculous bonuses. I know what i'd rather.

[Rich Rule]

I don’t see what some people have with Musk.

 

If it works, give the man the damn money or do without it.

 

Hope it works out and you get better coverage.

[Squaredy]

48 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

Hope it works out and you get better coverage.

Thank you.  It sure as hell can’t be worse!