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There's a billion YouTube reviews on Starlink, everyone is quite positive about it.

Good if you can't get any internet, but very pricy otherwise.

Maybe the new cheaper packages will be more tempting when they arrive if limits aren't too restrictive.

Meanwhile for me, it's still 90 down for £20 with that old devil you either hate or love, 3.

Sorry Elon, £89 per month is too much for me at the moment, I can live fine with my 90 down for £20. :giggle:

Can't complain about the £500 for the hardware though for what you get, I paid just under £400 for my Huawei CPE Pro 2. :rolleyes:
 
Nice article. I've watched a few YT vidoes on it now as well. Speeds vary but nobody seems to report lack of connectivity but on reddit they do.

I also follow @Megaconstellations on twitter and noticed a post that said Oneweb are going to be offering service in Alaska, UK etc In November this year and there was another tweet where they were testing 500mbit and pings of around 30ms. But with not as many satellites as Starlink has, I wonder what their connectivity will be like too.
 
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I will be following OneWeb closer than Starlink, I know that Starlink is going to be a more impressive service from the get go but I gotta support British over American,

I'd like to try both. Just for the heck of it. I don't need it. But I'd like to have a try at it. I'd try starlink now, but the price is pardon the pun, astronomical. I'm also unsure if you can sell/buy the equipment on eBay and sign up for a month.
 
I will be following OneWeb closer than Starlink, I know that Starlink is going to be a more impressive service from the get go but I gotta support British over American,

It all depends upon what OneWeb actually offers in terms of domestic connectivity. So far they've been focused more on the business, maritime (possibly aviation in the future) and public sector markets. But for residential solutions they seem to have been talking about delivering capacity to "communities", which suggests more of a distributed WiFi / fixed wireless style approach (satellite backhaul). The network will be too small to match SpaceX toe-to-toe.

Either way we'll get a better idea of where they're at by the end of this year.
 
I'd like to try both. Just for the heck of it. I don't need it. But I'd like to have a try at it. I'd try starlink now, but the price is pardon the pun, astronomical. I'm also unsure if you can sell/buy the equipment on eBay and sign up for a month.
From what I've read there is nothing stopping you selling on the equipment, but due to the inability to freely sign-up the person you are selling to will be unlikely to be able to take up the service. I'd imagine that will change down the road though as availablity improves as it's been reported that the dish costs significantly more to manufacture than what they are charging at sign-up so I'd have thought it would be in their best interest to allow 3rd party re-selling of equipment.
 
From what I've read there is nothing stopping you selling on the equipment, but due to the inability to freely sign-up the person you are selling to will be unlikely to be able to take up the service. I'd imagine that will change down the road though as availablity improves as it's been reported that the dish costs significantly more to manufacture than what they are charging at sign-up so I'd have thought it would be in their best interest to allow 3rd party re-selling of equipment.

Yes I've read you have to basically beg customer support to transfer it. If they will or not is anyone's guess and they would also have to be in the coverage area. I guess 2nd hand equipment is a no-go at the moment. At least for the beta.
 
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