Is It Time To Say Goodbye To Starlink? Starlink Alternative Testing 

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Hello all, I am from Germany, 25 miles away from the Telekom headquarter and the fact that they aren’t able to provide fast internet here in our small village was the reason to buy Starlink. This works great and obviously during the last 6 months that I use it some more satellites were brought into the orbit and the reliability and speed even got better and better. Before the dish was delivered I too tested the newest versions of t-mobile gigacube and the Vodafone equivalent. Both couldn’t convince me, because without any antenna outside, the limitation is always that the signal has to come through the concrete walls. I love my dish and today, with your tutorial of how to repair a broken Starlink cable, I was able to provide the Starlink experience to our neighbors. I cut the cable, used an already existing hole in the wall and brought the cable into the house. Long story short: thanks Joseph for your videos, wish you and your beloved a nice 🐣 Eastern 😘👍

You’re mirroring our exact path. Looking forward to more. Thank you

awesome presentation....so very helpful

Love these vids, living down here in coastal Oaxaca-Copalita Mexico. Thank god for Starlink, Hughes/Viasat are horrible here. But, we only have 1 ground station for Starlink(forgot what the word is) near Mexico City I believe, but still get consistent 100-200 Mbps dpwn but only less than 10 up. No big! Before was horrible with a data cap maybe 10Mbps down with Telcel. I've learned a lot J, thanks.

Thank You very very much!!!

Welcome to the T-Mobile family Joseph! Regards, Rick

I ordered 'Best Effort' last week for central texas and before the equipment delivered, SL sent me an email that I was upgraded to regular service.

We gave in and did the best effort. The day our dish shipped, they converted us to Residential. If you're holding off because of that, do it. We also have a dish that is best effort and it was just so great. It has been so much better than all the other alternatives we tried.

I have to much invested in Starlink. Mesh TP installed speed have increased And since they have put the minis up getting better service. I did try TMO a while back waiting for Starlink, 4 G because I had not upgraded my T Mobil phone yet. I did get billed at 50 a month. And having trouble getting my 38 and change back from them. So customer service sucks. However, thanks to your videos I am happy now with starlink with the information that you give. I do have to move my dish being, I do get obstructions from tome to time, north facing. Many trees in the way. Again thank you for all your information that you share and I have shared your videos to our community network.

¡Gracias!

i I've had T-Mobile home internet for over a year. It's my backup and it's nice to have but with only receiving two bars at best is not the best all the time. If it was better connected and I got 5g all the time I might consider switching. My starlink has greatly improved in the past 6 months so pretty happy with that. Since your video about the dishes realigning I've seen a noticed improvement. Live in northwestern NC.

On waiting list for Starlink but have local phone line providing 30-40 down which gets me by. I want T-Mobile but when I respond to their ads, they reply with "stand by". Sounds like Starlink! I like your plan. Thanks for sharing all the data. Just two in the house so demands are not near what you deal with. Thanks again for the good work.

Love your videos!! I also love Starlink!!! Keep up the Starlink videos.

We have had Starlink for a few years SF bay area. I placed an order as soon as it's been available. I signed up for the take it anywhere as soon as that was available. It's been awesome here on my boat or in my RV out in the desert of Nevada and all places in between.

I have 4 xboxs 1 Nintendo switch and 2 smart t.v.s on starlink and most of the time we are online with all the devices in our home and it don't skip a beat.

I live in semi-rural southern Nevada, halfway between Las Vegas and Death Valley, CA. Once I found out that T-Mobile 5G home internet was available here, I decided to give it a try, given a two-week free trial period. I am so glad I did. I consistently get 150 - 200 download and 50 - 75 upload compared to 50 - 125 download and 10 - 20 upload with Starlink. T-Mobile never slows down at night, whereas Starlink slowed down every night. No buffering at all streaming video with T-Mobile vs. frequent buffering with Starlink. And pricing? My cell phone with Metro by T-Mobile and T-Mobile home internet bundled with autopay runs me a meager $75/month for unlimited everything.

Really very helpful and well put together..I appreciate it . Thank you

I have Starlink RV (Roam) on my Class B camper van (Thor 20A). Also got the TMobile 5G home router. Running it in 12V power and it's awesome (300Mbps down about 15 Mbps up)! I'm keeping Starlink as backup when I'm out in the boondocks without cell/5g coverage. I'll unpause only when I need it.

I am wait listed on T-mobile home internet lol! Great episode 👏👏👏Thanks!

Excellent advice

Thanks!

Used explorer net for the last 2 years, believe it's owned by Hugh's. It was 10 down and 2 up and I loved it. Just bought a starlink and it's much better. Sat is only option in Yukon. Still just after ordering starlink, explorer boosted my speed to 25 and 5. Too bad they were a day too late. What were they thinking? Bye the way, having to barely exist on 300 GB per month is definately a first world problem. TV never had to be 4k. Thanks for the video

The 2 primary attractions to Starlink are usage in rural areas with zero cell, and portability. Not found any alternate to fill these requirements but still good info.

i can speak for tmobile its deff the best internet going as far as wireless goes. its what im using while i wait for my starlink.

I live on a remote island so for me, as long as any of these companies can actually provide me with good internet I'm not worried who it is, anything is better than what I have now

Love the video. I have been watching all your Starlink videos once I found out that it is now available where I live. I'm in a small town in Northern Colorado that gets NO cell service, other than texting. I have to use a land line for my phone cause in an emergency cell just isn't going to work. So I can't use the T-mobile or Verizon internet service either. I have been using HughesNet for the last 4 years and it is absolute garbage! I was very excited that Starlink is now available and when I put my address in the Starlink order page they said I will get a system in 1 to 2 weeks. Once I have it I will be able to get rid of HughesNet and Dish TV and saving me 300+ dollars a month. And since it's just my wife and I, I'm sure 1TB will be plenty! Thanks for all your work and I can't wait to get my Starlink! 😁

Thanks

Great combined info! I would already have T-Mobile home if they serviced my area, unfortunately i live in the sticks, not available. By the way I recently dropped Verizon hotspot with 25mb down 5-10 up with 300gb data on a business account for $60 per month, it wasn't great and would not support WiFi calling, but otherwise served us for 1 1/2 years until we got starlink. Thanks for all you do! Happy Easter!!

Love starlink. We live way out in the country and it's the best internet I've ever seen or had.

Thanks for all the info. You are this family's go-to for Starlink info.

So I am in the UK> I have been in a house for years with a 1Gbps leased line. I then had 5G but I travel a lot and often had to move to get 11/12mbps on the best cell network in the area. I would spend ages working out which provider I needed to give me some service whilst I was away. (this is in an RV) but now I am in it gull time and I have Starlink. It's nice to not have to worry about coverage - and also i get better latency on Starlink than I did on the 5G.. SO for me, for now it's starlink all the way

Excellent information, I don't think I'll get Starlink thanks.

I live in the sticks of northern Idaho, and previously my only option was my Verizon hotspot on my phone, which was mostly crap. A week with Starlink and I think i've officially moved into the 21st Century! Average 170 Down and 13 Up..... coming from 1.4 Down and 0.4 Up.

Wow 50 a month before the coupon. Good for you! The mobile companies up here a dismal at best kinda like your AT&T. Great info J

As an Aussie who can't get NBN nor ADSL and satellite is useless as piss. Starlink has been my best internet ever

Thanks to you, I got my Starlink all lined out with my poor DSL as a backup using one of the routers you suggested. Yesterday I saw them installing fiber under my road. So, It's looks like I may be putting my RV service on "pause" soon if the price is right.

As experienced and active “RV” and full business Starlink, the T-Mobile “home” or “small business” 5G router/service is great. Same for ATT true unlimited 5G is also same level as T-Mobile. ATT uses great portable/fixed (either way) battery back up Netgear router. We use both T-Mobile and ATT for business applications. Flawless. Either with built in antenna or external directional to a sector in a tower. ATT (NOT UVerse) seems faster over time. 300mbs down 32mbs up. T-Mobile is around 100-128mbs down, just under 30mbs up. External directional antenna increase sped a bit (both direction), and lowers jitter to under 30ms. FYI.

You can adapt the T-Mobile home gateway to have external proxicast antennas. Puts your download speeds off the charts. The same as Starlink and at times better. 😉

From those tests, both T-Mobile and AT&T are suffering with bufferbloat. That means if you’re uploading or downloading, this will noticeable slow other devices and interrupt things like VOIP and video calling. In comparison Starlink is doing amazingly well on bufferbloat.

J - consider this for your bonding project… Raspberry Pi4 w Speedify and a Wi-Fi adapter for each (starlink and TMobile and other) - then a 5G Wi-Fi for the home devices to connect to or Ethernet into a router that feeds the home. That is what I’m working on for my mobile church solution. 😅

Hi Joe, I have had the TMobile gateway the one you were holding. I had att U-verse mine sucked as well. Would reboot 5 or more times a day. I'm happy with my unit. But every 20 to 27 days it reboots it's self. I get about 150 to 400 down. But my upload usually 50 to 80 upload. Keep up the good work you do

Great video with comparisons. These T-Mobile and Verizon home services are probably work well for those folks living in town however, for those people living in rural areas are probably already having to use cell phone boosters in order to get their cell phone working. I wonder how those home services are going to work? Maybe, the starlink may be still the best way to for those folks living in middle of nowhere…. I’m just making a wild guess….🤔

Happy days getting fiber, rural Wexford county Michigan. Using T-Mobile now 2-6 down 1.5-3 up

I have to disagree on one thing. With TMobile home I have never lost signal even once. Not once. Now that TMobile has updated to UC 5g the signal is really good. With a 5G signal you can get 400 down. Better to stay on antenna 71 to keep your upload. Love you show.

Goodbye to Starlink? I think not!

As I've said, We have fat copper available. Though it's 50 or 60 year old infrastructure. Spectrum bought the company. I got the spectrum 100 for 29.99 a month. It's still spotty. The lines need replacing. It's why I left the previous company. The previous company was charging over 100 a month for 100mb service that we were lucky to get 25mb on a good day. I can handle spotty service for 29.99. So we are doing spectrum and starlink dual wan.

Seriously…. I’m leaving from La Paz, Mx and sailing or Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia tomorrow morning (+2600miles/~28 days). Starlink is my 2nd option to my Winlink HF radio connection. I grew up with dial telephone and 2 dimes in a pay phone. I’m very happy with what I get, and when I don’t I’ll read a book. T-mobile isn’t going to cut it..😎

I have done exactly what you did, only before you did it. :) I find T-Mobile 5G to be slower, but still perfectly acceptable. It seems to be very reliable. Certainly, the price is right. I'm holding on to Starlink for the time being, but considering disconnecting because of their higher price. My primary ISP is Frontier fiber. Their price is very good and there's no throttling or cap. It's very fast (500/500) and works best although their customer service could use a little polish, in my opinion. Their installer said my fiber goes back to their server without need for amplification or relay. That's impressive! I had Spectrum (300/10) for quite a while, but their competition beat them in service and price. They were quasi reliable, with about two outages a month for many hours each.

We added an external panel antenna to T-Mobile gateway. Great improvement. Occasionally hit N41 band (tower out about 20 miles) and get over 100M down! T-Mobile no charge for equipment. $50/month for service month-to-month. This is much better than CenturyNoLink who can't deliver the promised 6M down and 600K up (on a very rare day).

I absolutely love StarLink, I use it everyday for work and gaming. I have DSL running all streaming services so I don't go over any soon to be caps. The power goes out a lot where I live and all I have to do is fire up a generator and I am back working. Oddly enough I also like seeing the dish mounted knowing I did the work to get it there. The product is amazing. Everything is a true engineering marvel.

Great content, very, very helpful.

If I have had alternatives I would have considered them. Where my cabin is there is no cable, no cell signal, no DSL. My only alternative was Starlink.

Another GREAT effort from you! I gave up Viasat after about a year and a half wait for Starlink and I am very happy. I have 2 questions for you. 1. How do I find out where my POP is? 2. On the Starlink at I have 13 devices listed on my network. Some of the devices are listed as UNKNOWN DEVICE. If I know what the device is, say a printer, How do I change/rename this Unknown Device to Printer? Thanks for the wonderful vids.

I just ordered my T-Mobile 5G link. I plan to test it side-by-side with my current cable provider. Satellite internet hasn't sold me just yet. Internet can come in some crappy packages and I'm tired of paying for crap when gold is promised! Wish me luck!

LOL. My alternatives are Hughesnet, Viasat and dial-up. I think I'll stick with Starlink until/if Project Kuiper becomes available.

I assume you know about a dual Wan Router where you would get the best of starlink/Tmoble Thx for sharing... Good Luck....

i dont tink so j but time will tell icredible video as always a big hug jc

I live outside city limits and have 20mbps with CenturyLink DSL. It isn't the best with multiple TV's, computers, tablets, and cellphones. I tried the T-Mobile 5G modem and had great speed between 11pm and 4am, then it dropped to terrible speeds all day. After three months, I had to get rid of it. I just hooked up my StarLink yesterday and the speed ranges from 38mbps to over 100mbps down throughout the day. I'm going to give it 30 days before I make the decision whether to cancel CenturyLink or not....

I love this video, get all the city people off the star link system so I have better service. Yes I have no cell signal for 20+miles. Either way, I love the video.

I live in a area with trash cell coverage. Starlink is literally my only option. I've tried every sat internet provider, every mobile broadband provider. Starlink blows them all away if you live in rural areas. Att even put up a new tower less than 4 miles from my house and my house is at such a low elevation the signal misses me.

I vote Yes on T-Mobile as it’s been good for me. It’s very simple. your model is different. Mine is a tall standing round router. No buttons. A touch screen on the top of the router. [ this video, the mic, is giving that alien/electronic feedback ] do you know what I’m talking about?

Getting Nomad Internet on Friday to try it out

A spreadsheet comparison would have been nice.

I got my system in less than two weeks here in East Coast Canada, Plus it was half price for the system with residential service, They told me it would be a month wait to get it

I think you will get better speeds if you hook up an external antenna to the t-mobile...ahhh... I heard that you just mentioned that. I definitely get way better speeds with an external antenna. Though I'm using a modem/router that I got from China. I have had some down time with my tmobile internet.. but it hasn't been bad at all...

I've had a very, very similar experience. In the townhouse, I just dumped AT&T after 25+ years. Constant promises of fiber that never happened, shitty speeds, high costs, and attempts to charge for service when I wasn't even there forced my hand. Switched to T-Mobile, and voila! At my Canadian lake house, I had extremely expensive, (and shitty 6Mbps), ADSL. There are no other options here, and not even cell coverage. Went with StarLink a week or so ago, and voila! Now to be fair, StarLink is more expensive on a monthly basis, but the service is in no way comparable. I also paid about $250.00 CDN for the hardware, so not bad at all! And zero charges when I'm not here, either. Absolutely the right way to go - T-Mobile 5G if you can, and StarLink if you can't. So to AT&T and Westport Telecom - "Buh-bye!"

I work from home and need to use a work computer that hooks into the router. We use VOIP for all phone calls. I finally got the email from Starlink saying I can order - my concern is what happens if it doesn’t work right with the voice over internet phone system.

Hey JC, great videos! I already setup a dual WAN setup with Starlink and T-Mobile connected to a Firewalla Gold in router mode. When "bonded/sharing" I get flakey results. When T-Mobile is set as my failover, things work a lot better. I suspect it's a double NAT issue but am not sure. You can't put the T-Mobile router into passthrough mode. I did run a script to disable the WiFi radios to cut down on interference with my mesh WiFi system. Be curious to see how your testing goes!

I didn't hear where you mentioned it, but with T-Mo you get deprioritized at 150Gb. Where I live, it was pretty stable even with only two bars at about 40Mbps...but at 6pm-Midnight when all my neighbors get home from work we all destroy the local tower's bandwidth and I get 3k pings if I get a response at all. It's functionally useless during that time. You know...the main time I want to use it. Those deprioritization limits need to go way up for me to even think about replacing my Starlink dish. Verizon and AT&T's deprioritization limits were even lower last time I checked.

I left a message before. I have TWO Star link mobile units that are "Paused". I tried the T-Mobile unit a few months ago and was getting 500mb down. It costs 1/3 of Starlink and works while cloudy and rainy times.

Thanks for the review, my starlink has been very good, T-Mobile sounds like a very good option if you can’t get starlink or afford it, would also be nice to see if you can travel with it ie RV

There a number of videos for adding an external antenna to T-Mobile gateway. The speeds you are reporting for ATT universe are what I've gotten playing with T-mobile gateway in an 'un-served' area though the speeds do vary through out the day nighttime seems to be better

JCristina 💯 agree with you about services out there with data cap's/limits, we live in Australia country area where decent NBN would never be available to us so we used to hotspot for gaming and had sky muster for downloading and watching videos BUT!! The only problem was the data cap, 80gig on peak & 180gig off peak data allowance was ridiculous always gone within 2 weeks. I started watching some of your content regarding starlink and obviously sceptical I bit the bullet and went for it and purchased starlink late last year 2022 luckily after they introduced the reduced price. Wow...! have never looked back and absolutely love it, with a family of 6 all gamer's sometimes 5 connected at once playing with next to no issues at all, sure it's costly but for us nothing could compare. Still watch a lot of your videos in regards to starlink and enjoy every minute of them, keep up the solid work and I'm loving Elon Musk more an more... FYI the speed we're getting are around 230down/15up & 35 latency

Starlink Haiti users are experiencing problems to receive starlink equipment. All equipment are retained at customs. I don't know if you can get information or spread out the word. And while equipment are retained at customs, Starlink is charging for the monthly fees.

I had T-Mobile home internet before Starlink was available. I swapped over because, even though the speed tests were similar for both, I got constant buffering when watching things online with T-Mobile. It was very inconsistent and the router (I had 2 since 1 died) would stop working at least once a day and wouldn't work until I rebooted it. I really wanted it to work since it is so cheap.

I have ATT fixed wireless and Starlink. I would do just ATT but they data cap at 350 gb. I used a switch to combine them. Now I used 200 gbs from each.

Strange that you say it’s hard to get Starlink. We are in New Zealand and they have dropped the price to NZ$199 that’s about US$120 and it gets delivered within 10 days.

Moved to Starlink, because in busy/peak times like everyday 6pm - 9pm is busiest time, when all coming back home and starting using 4g/5g around and all of them using same anthenas towers and everyone have bad internet. I think same will be happening on you, if you have a lot of people living around you. Thats why I moved to Starlink.

Honestly I think Starlink is the best for my area on a good day I get 150 downloads but wirh Verizon I get here 3 download

You should get Speedify to sponsor a video and you put them together

I'm on best effort now for a year and it's the best 110 I've spent a month and I've only had 1 outage that I didn't even realize because I was sleeping and I had to reboot the satalite and boom I'm back online..

I'm glad your removing yourself from Starlink. I'm being serious too. It's a great asset to have if you are remote. Sounds like you have plenty of other choices as a city dweller. Cheerio.

Hi JCristina :) did you look in to the "calyx institute"?

Nice to know... You mentioned ways to help identify T-Mobile antennas (and/or other providers) and their characteristics. Could you please provide that information or links?

Luv luv my Starlink ❤

Gotta have solid cell service for those options though. Out where I'm at I get about one bar and my cell will default to wifi calling through Starlink. We had a cell outage for 3 days and I didn't know due to wifi calling.

13:55 im pretty sure tvl and digicel or maybe just tvl do contracts here in vanuatu

Haven't been offered best effort yet. But, our roam service has really slowed down with all the upgrades to residential around us. We live in a 3 cell area around Yelm, Washington that didn't get bumped up to residential available. So close!!!

Spectrum fiber optic cable being installed. TV, 500 mg internet, one cell phone service for $152/month.

Problem is the ping and packet loss is bad for the T-Mo setup. Good luck trying online games with it. Starlink better (at least in my situation). I use the T-Mo for backup and to download stuff when I don't want to load down SL.

I've checked the alternatives and none of the LTE residential are in my area... I was planning to get a hotspot (which would basically be an extra $50/mo plus the external entenna) to run on a Synology router with dual LAN but Starlink finally get me upgraded.

Can you explain how I can get best effort? I've ordered the residential but I'm stuck on a waitlist. Please help!!

I'll keep my starlink as long as we still are using 1TB of data. All the other providers around me have data caps lower than that.

I don’t see any alternatives to Starlink anytime soon if ever in my area in rural western NC. We don’t even have cell service here from any carrier. I have HughesNet as a backup but it’s pretty much useless. I couldn’t be happier with Starlink. I finally was able to cut the cord with DirectTV after 20 years.

Using both starlink(primary) tmobile (backup) had problems with starlink couple times. First time replaced 75' cable and ethernet connector. 2nd time replaced everything including dish.

I can't wait to see your report on t-mobile after you do this.

That's what we have here..FIOS and Tmobile and I like it because I can take the Tmobile with me..i will be calling them soon because i never get more than 2 bars,and see what they work out...

Starlink and T-Mobile are partnering with each other. We are witnessing a paradigm shift. SpaceX has been using TMobile TeleCom infrastructure for years, for all of the Tesla updates. Starlink was created by SpaceX in order to eventually phase the use of TMobile for their own Tesla OTA updates. Now, TMobile is looking to partner with Starlink to potentially use their LEO satellites and the partnership the other direction is to connect Starlink stations to leverage T-Mobile's existing backbone. The people paying for Starlink is simply a way for SpaceX to hedge the cost of their internet roll out. Soon, T-mobile phone users will simply be routing through Starlink..and Starlink users will be routing via ground stations using TMobile's network. It's an interesting blend of tech pivots.

We had T-mobile home internet before we had starlink. It was great You can even hack it to add an external antenna and I did. We loved our T-mobile .Unfortunately one day our speed drastically slowed down. I called tech support and I was told that T-mobile home internet was no longer available in my area. This was after having it for over a year and a half. There was nothing I could do about it. By luck starlink just became available in my area. If T-mobile were to come back I would get it as a back up.