Starlink Public Beta About to Happen?!?!

stinger608 said:
What is the data cap on the Tmobile home internet service?
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There isn't one AFAIK at least it isn't in the documentation. Supposedly they only allow it in areas where they have extra bandwidth to spare. I routinely hit between 1-1.5TB a month and haven't gotten any nasty grams or noticed deprioritization.
 
kirbyrj said:
There isn't one AFAIK at least it isn't in the documentation. Supposedly they only allow it in areas where they have extra bandwidth to spare. I routinely hit between 1-1.5TB a month and haven't gotten any nasty grams or noticed deprioritization.
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I'm going to check on that for sure! In this area, we only have frigging Spectrum and it's over $100 now. They just had another price hike about 2 months ago. I want to soooooo be done with them!!!
 
stinger608 said:
I'm going to check on that for sure! In this area, we only have frigging Spectrum and it's over $100 now. They just had another price hike about 2 months ago. I want to soooooo be done with them!!!
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Make sure to check that you have good signal at your house, particularly in the 2600mhz band. That's where their fast speeds are. Their mid-band stuff is where you can see the cable modem like speeds. Their low band (600/700mhz) can be pretty fast, but can get loaded up when lots of people are on it. They have a lot of 2600mhz these days, but it isn't everywhere because it is much shorter range.
 
Sycraft said:
Make sure to check that you have good signal at your house, particularly in the 2600mhz band. That's where their fast speeds are. Their mid-band stuff is where you can see the cable modem like speeds. Their low band (600/700mhz) can be pretty fast, but can get loaded up when lots of people are on it. They have a lot of 2600mhz these days, but it isn't everywhere because it is much shorter range.
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Shows I have the Ultra 5G at this location.

Does anyone know if you can take your T-Mobile home internet and go to a different state without having to start all over again with the service?

Reason I ask, is we will be going to Arizona in a month or so and then back up here to Wyoming next spring.
 
kirbyrj said:
So far, I've been somewhat surprised by Tmobile 5G Home internet personally. I average about 300Mb down and 40 up with unlimited data at $50/month no equipment fee. Similar speeds with Xfinity would have been around $80-100/month although no xfinity data cap in my area yet. Looks like Starlink isn't an option anymore either though.
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I want to thank you for pointing out there is T Mobile 5G Home internet. Just bought it today to upgrade from my ATT 1.8mbs down DSL internet. Man, what a difference.
 
stinger608 said:
Shows I have the Ultra 5G at this location.

Does anyone know if you can take your T-Mobile home internet and go to a different state without having to start all over again with the service?

Reason I ask, is we will be going to Arizona in a month or so and then back up here to Wyoming next spring.
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I think the TOS dictates that you tell them when you're "moving." Allocation of the service is very geographical based on bandwidth. They definitely don't want people to use it in their RV's for example. Your location on Arizona might not be eligible and Wyoming is or vice versa. Best bet is to either see if both addresses are eligible or to talk to a CSR.
 
stinger608 said:
Shows I have the Ultra 5G at this location.

Does anyone know if you can take your T-Mobile home internet and go to a different state without having to start all over again with the service?

Reason I ask, is we will be going to Arizona in a month or so and then back up here to Wyoming next spring.
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If you have a Tmobile phone you can get some idea of levels with the signal check app from the play store. It'll show you the levels you have and the band you are on. You can also use it to scout around your house and find out where it would be best to place the AP (generally by a window).

I used it to check out my parents' place and didn't go with it because there is no 2600 service there and the 700mhz that is there doesn't have great levels so while it would work, a cable modem works better in that scenario. At my place I have FTTH thankfully.

You can also check their maps but those aren't always accurate in my experience. At my old place they said I had strong 5G service, in reality I had spotty 4G service. If I walked outside it was fine, just my unit was an issue. Likewise at my current place I get 5g but it varies a lot throughout the house, since the house is brick.

chibe said:
I want to thank you for pointing out there is T Mobile 5G Home internet. Just bought it today to upgrade from my ATT 1.8mbs down DSL internet. Man, what a difference.
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When coming from DSL, even the low band stuff would be a big improvement :). Glad you can get it.
 
Are you guys seriously complaining about the possibility of being de-prioritized over people using way less bandwidth?

This is probably the best way they could handle network congestion. They aren't charging any more money or permanently throttling you, any bandiwdth you use during off hours doesn't even count towards your total so you can still torrent all your 360 degree 8k VR catgirl hentai.

It's very similar to what other sateleite ISPs have done in the past. They have actual bandwidth limitations. This isn't like what the Cable ISP monopolies do to get more money because you have no choice.
 
sharknice said:
Are you guys seriously complaining about the possibility of being de-prioritized over people using way less bandwidth?
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I think that part of the issue right now is that we have so much guesswork and jumping to conclusions going on that it's almost impossible to get a real answer about what exactly it means to be "deprioritized". What does service look like at that point? Is it simply a matter of slower speeds during peak hours? Then that seems like it would be no big deal unless we're talking about DSL speeds. Most streaming only uses like 5-10Mbps, so if it gets so slow that you can't even stream then that's a problem. Personally my biggest concern is about latency. Right now Starlink latency is pretty good, and even better than terrestrial ISPs in some cases. Online gaming doesn't really use a lot of data, but obviously latency matters. If being "deprioritized" means that latency all of a sudden gets so bad that you can't game online anymore, then that's a problem.

I will probably hit the 1TB limit either tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday. At least then I'll have some first-hand data. But I think it's also possible/probable that the effects of being "deprioritized" will be very dependent on the number of subscribers in your area.
 
Techspot's got an article about this now: https://www.techspot.com/news/96569-starlink-adds-daytime-data-cap-1-tb-residential.html

Not going to go back through this thread and check if this mentioned, but according to the article, "After the new policies come into effect in December, standard residential users will start each month with 1 TB of "Priority Access" included in their $110 monthly fee for use during "peak hours," 7 am to 11 pm. Data used outside of those hours won't count toward the cap."

So, you know, get yer porn late at night.
 
Well I'm 99.9% sure that I have gone past 1TB so far. It's frustrating because the Starlink page that shows my "official" data usage has a huge lag-time between when the data is used and when it shows up on the page. It was showing ~800GB used as of Sunday night, but still not showing any data used for Monday even though I'm almost certain that I used enough to more than fill that 200GB gap.

The result so far is Zero change from before I hit the 1TB cap, both in terms of speed and latency. However, since there is some indication that this might not take effect until December, then I guess I'll be testing it again next month.
 
Andddd I still haven't gotten more than the "best effort" option here in NW Arkansas lol
 
Jelly said:
Andddd I still haven't gotten more than the "best effort" option here in NW Arkansas lol
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Yep, just like cable systems they are overselling their available bandwidth. I have the RV version and I'm not too happy with it.
 
DooKey said:
Downloads are slow. I hope we get more gen 2 sats in space soon.
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most of the gen 2 currently up aren't even active yet.. takes 2-3 months for them to get to their service orbit plus testing. think the V2 mini's that went up in block 5 are just now going live.
 
I havent bought yet as my current address is serviced by cable but we own very rural property that will require starlink down the road.
This block is completely full and all summer the hundreds of RV’s that come through with roaming dishs just drags it to a crawl according to friends who have the service.
Whats the roadmap for more satellites looking like? Would love to sell now and build with prices at all time highs but fast reliable internet is a must
 
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