Elon's Starlink Internet Service
The most recent info from the beta testers for the Starlink service. Hardware costs to be a beta tester $499. Monthly service $99/month. No information thus far on end user experience or expectatio...
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The early reviews I have read about the Starlink Beta tests are extremely promising, and consistent with the speed tests listed above. 100 - 120Mb down and ~30Mb up. Latency is also good, ~20ms.
As of now they don't have the satellite to satellite backhaul operational, so you have to be able to see a satellite, and the satellite must also be able to see a ground station. Once the sat-sat link is running, then it can be a truly global network service.
For now they are fixed operations only because of the reason above, and because that is all they are licensed for. However they already have some marine terminals deployed, so mobile operations are definitely coming soon.
As of now they don't have the satellite to satellite backhaul operational, so you have to be able to see a satellite, and the satellite must also be able to see a ground station. Once the sat-sat link is running, then it can be a truly global network service.
For now they are fixed operations only because of the reason above, and because that is all they are licensed for. However they already have some marine terminals deployed, so mobile operations are definitely coming soon.
