Starlink Internet Follow Up After 1 Month in UK 

U are correct its x25 speed on the website BUT *u cant control the actual satellites speed* 🤣🤣🤣 only the animation.

Good question

It is way more expensive. Not only the monthly fee, but also the power costs. Reliability also will be worse and much higher latency.

No

He was saying you can measure speed in either, not that they are the same thing

@@yastech7183 yeah that's what he said don't get it mixed up Jordi you can measure speed in either just take your megabit and divide by 8

it is a byte is seven bits

@@gamers-xh3uc 8

@@lukewhale2714 ok my bad

go full fibre

​@@LemonTekkin did you not read what he said?!

I have "fibre" but my location means I actually only get 5 down/1 up (on a good day..) so Starlink is my only hope. Only issue is I do play online games sometimes, so may hook up my desktop to both connections and only enable the fibre one when needed.

I think 5g is a bigger competitor for starlink

I'm ten meters away from Virgin and they wont connect me either. I've bought a Huawei router. Put £10 per month sim in, and covered the house with mesh repeaters. Result: about the same download speed download as bt can offer (30mb) upload is about 10mb, which is faster that bt. It's not great and it does drop out occasionally, but it's this ir satellite, and i cannot afford that.

@@Wombles_Wanderings thanks sharon!

different by 8 bits haha

yes but not legally

@@timothymcmahon1507 not legally? You mean it’s against the T&Cs of the Starlink service?

sure

Are u on xbox or playstation ?

I would like to know this also. I don't expect 10ms ping but anything stable around 50-70 would be ideal for me.

you could get a 4g lte router, basically like your mobile phone's data you can get a sim card on a contract just for the router and get pretty good speeds (~100mbps down, ~15 up is what i usually get) with unlimited data. latency isn't the best but it's not too bad. the only issue i'm having with mine is that i have reset it often to not lag a lot when gaming online shooters and whatnot. general browsing and content consumption is brilliant though.

latency wise the copper should be way better than starlink. what about 4/5G?

@@amgnico currently using 4g in an area of excellent signal... The speeds are great, the ping is ok but just not quite ideal for gaming. On uk servers mines fluctuates between 50-90, ok to gamr on if your desperate but ideally need something bit better.

... unless the mains power is out... taking out landline broadband, and the mobile phone network. Winter 2022/23 will be the start of the l/t problems.

@@LondonCrusaderwas it?

No, not starlink

​@@marzbarvlogs why?

I’ve got virgin ftth and get around 17ms latency, maybe our local network is a little old

2 to 3 ms to what...?

Full fibre but you have a dish and slower speed than my fibre to the cabinet service so still some copper line.

Would be insane, literally constant internet connection wherever you go. Always have signal. Game changer

The network runs behind a CGNAT so no

Depends on how much WISP’s are charging at the time, at $90 a month, it’s probably VERRY competitive with what WISP’s are charging and having probably much lower speeds.

I think they work within a 30 mile radius of your location

All the big cities in U.K. have 5G . He stays in a small town I think

@@chelseafootballc For 5G u need 5G antenas on your phone and for that u need latest phones. Also distance from the tower makes all the difference.

In London (the most dense city) u get up to 80mbps occasionally. Usually no problem to be around 40mbps. In small towns due to lack of signal towers and low bandwidth of 4G network u can be as low as 1mbps in some bad spots (when theres lot of hills around, something coastal towns suffer from). But in general UK's infrastructure is years behind EU. Just now they are working hard on upgrading the centuries old copper lines with fiber cables. Majority of UK is limited to 80mbps at home due to those copper lines....Only Virgin Media managed to push the copper up to 300mbps in some parts with combination of copper and fibre. Bigger cities do have gigabit available but only in some parts. Until recently there was only few choices for ISP provider (BT, VM, SKY, EE....). Now theres lot of gigabit companies popping up everywhere. *TLDR; UK is placed 21st in Mobile netwrok speeds and 47th in Broadband speeds on world ranking on Speedtest.*

@@filipivan5125 Thank you!

My phone struggles on 4g yet it is a 5g phone (Samsung) Mind you i did do a 5g Test and we have not got a tower near me (Cheshire Uk) still awaiting upgrades whilst living on one bar 🙄

Because they are up high.

But if they are higher they have to move even more km

@@fabianthanner8136 its a sped up animation on the website

I'd rather intermittent than sub 1Mbs

Oh I hope your joking

@@mrsoftbanana9197 Nope... Else there would be a million different injectors to choose from.