Starlink

[steelslaver]

I am currently camping where there is no cell signal at all. But, we got it a Starlink setup and I can cruise the net and make phone calls when I am taking a break from fishing. Wife can get her work stuff taken care of from the middle of nowhere. Easy setup . Happy camper so far

 

[SMSgt]

Can you tap into the Ukranian network and take out a few Russian tanks?

 

[Kanewpadle]

That's not camping!

 

[pmanton]

We're totally impressed with Starlink.

 

[Rudi]

I have not camped in many years. Being out of touch was easy back then.

 

[LVSteve]

I have not camped in many years. Being out of touch was easy back then.

It's still easy. Just turn off your cell.

 

[BC38]

It's still easy. Just turn off your cell.

Or go where there is no cell service...
I went to the StarLink website to check out their pricing.
$120 a month seems a little steep to me...

 

[THE PILGRIM]

One of the many reasons that I Love Josie Wales is it may be the most quotable Movie on the Planet.
So many I can't remember or recover all of them.
So now I'll misquote the Bartender.
'It's nice to see a big spender in town.'

 

[oink]

We have Starlink here at the house. Cable and fiber aren't available. All we could get before Starlink was ATT ADSL at a maximum or 2.7 mbps down and about 256 kbps up. Starlink speed varies some, I guess due to the available satellite. But it's always way faster than what we had. Let me check: 99.80mbps down and 23.50mbps up. Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

It may not be fast to those of you in areas where you get unthrottled fiber but I'm very thankful to Elon.

 

[DesertFox]

Just canceled mine. Fiber to the home is only a couple weeks away. Costs will be less than half for 3 times more performance. Starlink is great when there are no alternatives or if your gig is rolling around the great outdoors, perpetually camping out of cell signal.

Personally think Elon is a douchebag alien from outta space...

 

[LVSteve]

We have Starlink here at the house. Cable and fiber aren't available. All we could get before Starlink was ATT ADSL at a maximum or 2.7 mbps down and about 256 kbps up. Starlink speed varies some, I guess due to the available satellite. But it's always way faster than what we had. Let me check: 99.80mbps down and 23.50mbps up. Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

It may not be fast to those of you in areas where you get unthrottled fiber but I'm very thankful to Elon.

That's way faster than what I pay for/need here. Just the two of us and not being gamers means that ~30 Mbps down and ~6 up is plenty.

 

[CalifEd]

That's way faster than what I pay for/need here. Just the two of us and not being gamers means that ~30 Mbps down and ~6 up is plenty.

Another Clint Eastwood quote.
"A man's got to know his limitations"

 

[pmanton]

I just tried Oink's speed test. 211.97 down 27.17 up.

 

[steelslaver]

I am not a big Musk fan either way, but this works
.
The wife still works and can do the majority of it remotely. There are lots of great areas in Montana that don't have any cell service at all. But with this we can be anywhere we want and she can do her work. Right now we are in the Missouri river Breaks on the Charles Russell Reserve. Full fishing. You never know what you're going to catch next. Catfish, burbot, sturgeon, sauger, Walleye, Small mouth, turtle, northern, drum, carp, shad, plus you can trap crawdads galore. Wee.

Yes it is more than other services, but it comes with freedom and once hunting season is over, we can shut it off until we want to start camping in the spring.

 

[BC38]

I am not a big Musk fan either way, but this works
.
The wife still works and can do the majority of it remotely. There are lots of great areas in Montana that don't have any cell service at all. But with this we can be anywhere we want and she can do her work. Right now we are in the Missouri river Breaks on the Charles Russell Reserve. Full fishing. You never know what you're going to catch next. Catfish, burbot, sturgeon, sauger, Walleye, Small mouth, turtle, northern, drum, carp, shad, plus you can trap crawdads galore. Wee.

Yes it is more than other services, but it comes with freedom and once hunting season is over, we can shut it off until we want to start camping in the spring.

Yeah, if you're in a must-have-it situation and you need it to go wherever you go - including areas where cell service is poor or non-existant - then the monthly rate doesn't sound too bad.
We pay more than that for our xFinity services - but that includes landline and TV in addition to internet.
Sounds like there's some really good fishin' where you are. I'm jealous.

 

[llowry61]

Elon is strange, but most of the visionaries are at the least quirky. He has done a lot, and I am sure he will not disappoint us in the future.

Those speeds are really good for a satellite provider.

On a side note, I had never seen the satellites go by the house before. One night the wife and I saw a string of lights that resembled several International Space stations in a row moving across the sky.  I thought I had finally seen a UFO, nope it was a Starlink satellite. Pretty cool to see.

Glad you are mobile while the wife is still working.

 

[BC38]

Elon is strange, but most of the visionaries are at the least quirky. He has done a lot, and I am sure he will not disappoint us in the future.

Those speeds are really good for a satellite provider.

On a side note, I had never seen the satellites go by the house before. One night the wife and I saw a string of lights that resembled several International Space stations in a row moving across the sky.  I thought I had finally seen a UFO, nope it was a Starlink satellite. Pretty cool to see.

Glad you are mobile while the wife is still working.

If you get far enough away from major population centers you can see the StarLink satellites. We sat on my buddy's deck in Washougal Washington and watched a string of them pass overhead.
Elon's vision is to build a geodesic "net" of them surrounding the globe to make StarLink accessible from every inhabited part of the planet.

 

[SMSgt]

I watch Elon's rockets go up about once a week. Watching his boosters return with such perfection is astounding. That he can do that repeatedly is even more astounding. It's like the Navy pilot who always catches the number three arresting cable. An exception to the rule.

 

[DWalt]

Presently there are about 6000 Starlink satellites in low earth orbit of a planned total of around 34,000. The plan is to use them all in conjunction with the supermega xAI computer to be built in Memphis. The idea is to have an unimaginably (for today) huge computer with absolutely unlimited capacity and capabilities, linked by satellites into everything, everyone, and everyplace on earth and that computer will do and control everything imaginable. And that is not idle speculation or science fiction. Every human will ultimately be somehow inseparably tied into it.

 

[BC38]

Presently there are about 6000 Starlink satellites in low earth orbit of a planned total of around 34,000. The plan is to use them all in conjunction with the supermega xAI computer to be built in Memphis. The idea is to have an unimaginably (for today) large computer with absolutely unlimited capacity and capabilities, linked by satellites into everything, everyone, and everyplace on earth and that computer will do and control everything imaginable. And that is not idle speculation or science fiction. Every human will ultimately be tied into it.

WOW! That really does sound like a Sci-Fi vision of the future - or maybe even something right out of Revelations!

While I don't doubt or dispute what you are saying, a lot of people might view your statements as being somewhat hyperbolic.

Though anyone who has been paying attention knows that Elon has made no secret of his trans-humanistic ideologies.

So, please share the links and other information that you have, that expose Elon Musk's plans for the StarLink satellite network, and the AI that will control it, to basically assume control over and enslave all of humanity.

Seriously. I'm fascinated by this idea and want to learn more about Elon's plans for our future. You seem to know more about this subject than I do, so please share...