​Starlink, yes, I know, BUT...

By BD Bondy
 
I’ve written about Starlink before, and I know a lot of folks aren’t happy with E.M. However, as I’ve said, if you knew the CEO of all the companies you bought from, you probably wouldn't. So, all I can say is that Starlink provided us with the fastest, most trouble free, reliable internet service we’ve ever had.

That said, they were very expensive. Lately though, I’ve been getting ads for Starlink where the Residential Lite plan is $49/month, and the hardware is down to $89. I paid a whopping $600 for our unit and thought I’d be able to sell it for half that or so. I ended up giving it to a friend.
At these prices, I’m even thinking of getting a backup. We use T-Mobile internet, and it’s good, not great. Good enough for us, fast enough, works way better than Windstream, not as reliable as Starlink, but it’s $30/month, so that was a $90 savings, per month, over what we paid for Starlink.

The Residential Lite plan is now $49/month for unlimited data, though the regular Residential plan gets ‘priority’ when and if there’s a heavy usage period. That means the Lite plan may get throttled down. I figure if its regular speed is over 300Mbs and you get throttled down to 50Mbs, you’d still be ahead of the game.

Also, there is a roaming option for some of their devices. You can supposedly put it in a backpack, it’s that small. It’s lower power too. There’s a 12v option for it. It’s limited to 50Gb/month, but for roaming, that may be plenty.   A lot of RVer's use it.  I was thinking of that one for us as well.