Are you using StarlinkX Internet?
Internet
Do you use StarlinkX internet?
90% (45 votes)
10% (5 votes)
Keep in mind that people often don’t have a lot of choice in this matter. As an example, I used to live in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just outside the city limits. Cruces is a city with a metropolitan population of of 299,000. In fact it’s the second largest city in the state. As of 3 years ago I had exactly one choice for wired internet, DSL. It averaged about 12-16 mbps. Verizon wiring which did offer higher speeds stopped at the city limits.
I lived with that as it was just enough to do the basics. If I needed to do more then Starlink would probably would have been the way to go. I think for a lot of people , at least in the US, it’s a question of need and availability more than anything else.
Tony Gondola · Feb 2, 2026, 07:10 PM
Keep in mind that people often don’t have a lot of choice in this matter. As an example, I used to live in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just outside the city limits. Cruces is a city with a metropolitan population of of 299,000. In fact it’s the second largest city in the state. As of 3 years ago I had exactly one choice for wired internet, DSL. It averaged about 12-16 mbps. Verizon wiring which did offer higher speeds stopped at the city limits.
I lived with that as it was just enough to do the basics. If I needed to do more then Starlink would probably would have been the way to go. I think for a lot of people , at least in the US, it’s a question of need and availability more than anything else.
Hi Tony,
Thanks and that is interesting. I overestimated the Internet supply in the USA and so more or less my Poll is a stupidity. Sorry guys. 😭
Maybe a better question would be, would you use Starnet if it was available among other competitive choices?
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Tony Gondola · Feb 2, 2026, 09:03 PM
Maybe a better question would be, would you use Starnet if it was available among other competitive choices?
I just made a search and it does not seem to be cheap. 🥴
Everyone is feeding at the trough and I’m willing to bet that the customer is the last consideration for all these companies.
I had starlink for about 9 months before we finally got some infrastructure in my neighborhood and upgraded to fiber.
Starlink was great, speeds were plenty fast to keep the whole house going. We were sitting around 330 down, 30 up. Ping was just fine. The only annoying thing was IP geolocation was whatever your nearest base station was, and you’d constantly be getting captchas to validate you weren’t a bot. This is because starlink splits the same external ip among multiple customers, so most servers would intially suspect you’re spamming. It was about 80 bucks a month for us. Initial costs hurt a bit but it’s worth it. Now my starlink stays in standby as a backup WAN in case my fiber goes down.
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I voted no. But I don’t really know. I do know that cable providers have downlink dishes they buy into. I’m a DirecTV subscriber for other reasons.
I’m on my cable system for Internet only, no TV. In my neighborhood we have two choices: Cable, or dog tired MaBell for ISP’s. Satillite is over priced for what is available here.
The phone company has ancient rotten wiring buried here. My next door neighbors up the street have AT&T and it seems like they are always here trying to find the best 2 rotting wires. That is why they are pushing their Fiber Internet. But they have not installed any fiber or cable here since the 60 year old water logged multi pair cable from the mid-1960’s.
Satellite has always been an outliers Internet solution. Folks away from cable or decent phone (hardwired) service could try and get Hughes Net, for one old provider. But the speeds were very sucky back then, and the cost was high.
My wife got talked into some Verizon home based service and as soon as it activated MaBell cut my DSL service like some brat. Then insisted I still had service. Liars! I went down to the Verizon Store and raised hell with them. They gave me some portable modem for their network. But it was limited to 5 Gb per month. We went to play in the desert with our dirt toys and between the older grand daughter and I we burned through 2.5 Gb in 2 days. Not a solution at all. I took the device back Monday and told them to put it where the sun don’t shine.
Then got Cable, in my name only, insuring nothing about any phone service could futz with my Internet.
I got higher speed than my MaBell DSL could hope to be over their rotten wires. And it has only increased in speed as times gone by, no extra charge. And they take care of me.
Some guy brought a gaggle of trainees by, training them to sell MaBell Internet. They got an earful of why I would never consider the Phone company ever again and exactly why. I told the trainer sorry to be so blunt, but as a retired Utility worker, MaBell has the crappiest service anywhere. Selling Fiber Networking when I know damned well they haven’t laid an inch of fiber anywhere around me.
And NO, I wouldn’t even consider Star Link. Why would I support chains of satellites in the sky? Elon doesn’t need my money.