Starlink as a landline?

[GarethM]

17 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

i get netflix free anyway. I did just call them up though as im out of contract and they quoted £59. I pay extra as I have 3 boosters running in line to get high speed fibre to my office at the end of the garden.

 

Have you tried one of those internet via your plug dongles ?. Put one in a few years back for an old boss, think it uses the earth terminal and some witchcraft.

[Steve Bullman]

Yeah had those in the old house. Don't work in the office due to how the electrician wired the electrics to the garden.

[GarethM]

22 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Yeah had those in the old house. Don't work in the office due to how the electrician wired the electrics to the garden.

Fair enough, what about one of those ubiquity dish repeaters.

 

There's a Australian farmer using them for remote water station monitoring with camera etc.

[Steve Bullman]

13 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Fair enough, what about one of those ubiquity dish repeaters.

 

There's an Australian farmer using them for remote water station monitoring with camera etc.

None of these suggestions will help Elon get wealthier though 

[markieg31]

True dat

[GarethM]

19 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

None of these suggestions will help Elon get wealthier though 

Very true, if they send those astronauts to the moon tho I'm sure Elon will have hit the jackpot.

[Peter 1955]

Have heard nothing but praise for Starklink, we'rea tad rural, and the copper wire doesn't support sensible speeds. Many ( business ) neighbours have full satellite dishes, an increasing number of folk got the Starlink kit early on, when you had to buy the gear outright, and then pay about £75 per month, I think. 

We went wireless with EE, one of the first trials of the kit, offered to problem BT users. It took us from frequent dropouts, serious buffering when streaming, and a max speed below 2meg, to 20meg on a good day, and no dropouts. The bad news is, it costs me nearly £50 a month, but wait:

Galloping over the horizon is Quickline, who will be my saviours. 200meg for £20 a month, marvellous. Win, win. 

However: they have put the cables in round us a while ago, and promise connection late February. ( The more savvy among you will have noticed that they fell at the first hurdle, the cables are still just sticking up from the ground, and nobody is connected to anything ). They ring me up regularly, and ask me to sign up as " an expression of interest ". Well folks, I'm definitely interested, but until I see a cable outside my house, I'm not signing anything. 1200 metres from my house, the cable turned right at the t-junction, back to the main road. 

We're to the left. 😪 

Watch this space.  

[Squaredy]

8 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

How did you find the install? Did it come with all the necessary bits and cables and were they long enough?

 

I'd also be curious to know if it drops at all during very heavy rain, I know freesat TV can do but that's a different technology. It wouldn't put us off as our copper phone line drops in very wet weather anyway.

 

As for you landline phone, do you need it or can you just use the mobile phone via wifi? Or route a landline number to the mobile via wifi.

Install was really simple.  There are only two cables; one from your power socket to the router, which is not very long, but was fine for me; and a 15m cable which goes from the router to the satellite thing on the roof.  Not sure that would work for everyone, but my office building is just one storey so I drilled straight through the wall and went up.

 

I will  report back here about extreme weather but It isn’t affected by normal rain or mist.

 

I could use my mobile with it I am sure but I have a landline that many customers ring and have had for many years, so I will transfer the number over once I have proved it is all good.

[Steven P]

6 hours ago, Peewit said:

I'm interested in the Starlink option. My broadband with BT goes up to nearly £40 a month at the end of March and I don't even get a landline. 

How different is it to a TV satellite dish? My house is surrounded by trees and TV sats don't work very well. I have to use a digital aerial and freeview. Wouldn't want to pull the pin if it isn't going to work. 

 

Starlink can point pretty much straight up, Satellite TV is a lower angle and is affected more by the trees - many more starlink satellites out there

[topchippyles]

3 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

Nope, just the fastest option they have. To be honest though. every time the speed goes up ive not really noticed any difference. You only need to speed to reach a certain level to stream...beyond that seems a waste unless you're downloading and uploading huge files constantly. Most people aren't

 

Gamers are the big data users Mr steve.