Recently, some SpaceX Starlink Beta users have started sharing their experiences with SpaceX Starlink on social networking sites, technology forums and other public platforms in order to confirm that the satellite service can provide fast broadband speeds and low latency in remote areas. A user named Wandering-coder posted a post on Reddit about his out-of-the-box testing experience with SpaceX Starlink, and the post drew a lot of attention and discussion.
Wandering-coder took his new Starlink device and portable power supply to a national forest in Idaho, where he connected to the Internet at 120 Mbps download speeds.Wandering-coder himself, after experiencing the SpaceX Starlink out of the box, also stated. “It feels like it’s from the future …… is amazed at how well it works.”
Wandering-coder said on Reddit that he tested it in a national forest about 15 miles from his service address, where there is a shooting range. He made live video calls and some tests, and his power maxed out at 300 watts, while the entire system consumed about 116 watts while running.Wandering-coder’s phone was using Google Fi, but was unable to get service from any cell phone carrier via Google Fi. Wandering-coder adds that, as expected, Starlink didn’t work as well as it should have because some heavy trees and branches blocked the view, so he was only able to connect for five seconds at a time. For a more stable signal, it’s best to make sure you can see the sky as clearly as possible.
What Wandering-coder described above was written on the test site and sent via mobile Starlink.
With the Starlink user terminal/satellite antenna on the ground in a relatively open area of the forest, Wandering-coder conducted a speed test, which measured 120Mbps download speed, 12Mbps upload speed and 37ms latency. line of sight, so the results obtained after testing in another heavily forested location are much worse.
Wandering-coder discourages other Starlink testers from completing the same experiment, as using the service away from the SpaceX service location may not be successful. All things considered, it’s best to keep the “user terminal” at the registered service location until an official, authoritative comment is made,” he said in a Reddit post.
“It feels like it’s from the future”
Not only did Wandering-coder test the Starlink in the National Forest, he also shared some of his feelings and photos from unboxing the device at home.
After unboxing the device, Wandering-coder was quite pleased with the quality and pricing of the Starlink. He wrote, “The build quality of the entire device is excellent and it performs much better than I ever imagined it would.” “It feels like it’s from the future. The thought that I could get a device like this for around $500 when high-end phones on the market today are priced around $1,000 is astounding. So I’m very happy with it.”
Last week, Space X said it had sent email invitations to those interested in the service on the Starlink website, inviting those users to use the Beta devices for $99 per month, in addition to a one-time $499 fee for the user terminal, tripod installation and router end.
When testing the Starlink device at home, Wandering-coder said he put the satellite dish on the ground, and when there was “a certain obstacle” between the dish and the sky, his download speed was 135Mbps, upload speed was 25Mbps, and the delay time was 21ms. He also used the satellite dish in different locations where “bad weather,” “treetops,” “fences,” and “houses” severely obstructed his view. He did not place the antenna on the roof during the test.
Wandering-coder was amazed at the results achieved by the device, even with all the obstacles placed in the way of connection. Streaming, low-latency video conferencing and gaming are all easily accessible through the service,” he says. Even the Beta version seems to underestimate Starlink’s performance, so I’m looking forward to it really maturing.”
While the step of mounting a user terminal on the roof sounds complicated, Wandering-coder says that everything else is actually quite simple:.
It takes about 1 minute to start up after the power is turned on. Then about 1 to 15 minutes is all it takes to properly position the machine. The positioning is all done automatically, so it’s basically plug and play. There is a live Ethernet cable from the antenna array to the power supply, and a live Ethernet cable from the power supply to the router. There’s no setup required other than manually placing the device on the roof and setting the Wi-Fi name and password, and all the tricky work is automated.
Starlink is much faster than traditional satellites
New speed test data, collected by Ookla and released last week by PCMag, found that Starlink’s average download speed was 79.5Mbps and average upload speed was 13.8Mbps in October, when the service’s beta version had more limitations. In the same data, the Viasat Exede service had an average download speed of 24.75Mbps and HughesNet had an average download speed of 19.84Mbps, both from geostationary satellites.Viasat and HughesNet had upload speeds of 3.25Mbps and 2.64Mbps, respectively.
Likewise, Starlink’s low-Earth-orbit satellites were substantially better than their higher-orbit counterparts in terms of wait times, the data showed, with Starlink’s average time difference of 42ms. according to PCMag, Viasat and HughesNet had average time differences of 643ms and 728ms, respectively.
In SpaceX’s invitation to new users last week, it said, “With enhancements to the Starlink system, over the next few months, data transfer speeds will change from 50Mbps to 150Mbps and latency from 40ms to 20ms …… For latency. We hope to reach 16ms to 19ms by summer 2021.”
A Montana resident posted the results of a Starlink speed test with a download speed of 174Mbps, an upload speed of 33Mbps, and a latency of 39ms. the Beta tester wrote on Reddit yesterday, “In rural Montana, our options are still stuck on the global information network, and the The advent of Starlink will change the game forever.”
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