Elon Musks Starlink internet service is right around the corner. Rural internet speeds at 100mbs. No more crutches to keep Windstream standing.
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https://urgentcomm.com/2020/09/25/starlinks-network-faces-significant-limitations-analysts-find/
"Starlink’s network faces significant limitations, analysts find"
"Starlink, the satellite Internet provider from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will be able to support just 485,000 simultaneous users at 100Mbit/s across the entire US, according to one firm’s new estimates. And that kind of performance won’t even be available until the end of 2026, when Starlink floods Earth’s skies with up to 12,000 satellites."
LOL
All these posts supporting win DSL speeds. Speed doesn’t mean S, if it doesn’t work. And that’s exactly what win sells. Unreliability, and speeds NO WHERE NEAR what you pay for.
Starlink isn’t a threat? Keep lying to yourself.
You guys remind me of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Clicking her heels together and chanting, “There’s no place like home there’s no place like hom....”
Say what you want but slow dsl is better than no dsl. However once another carrier enters the market we’re moving our services.
“People that buy Starlink will be largely disappointed, that’s just fact“
Windstream customers have been disappointed for over a decade, at least their bill will be lower with Starlink.
Any service at all would be better than Windstreams 1990 Paradyne DLAMs they have serving a majority of their customers. I went into a collo where windstream is still collocated and they have 6 racks. 4 full of DSLAMs, one rack is a UE9k for copper POTs lines and one transport rack with a Lucent DMX from 1995 and a bunch of M13 muxes. This is their layout in 95% of their colos. And the cabling is run across the floor in most cases. Its amazing they are still in business and any customers at all are UP in that rats nest of cabling. Its all copper/TDM. Take a collection of the countries worst CLEC networks and I give you Windstream!
Best effort services are what they are. Why pay 50 bucks a month to Windstrean for 3mb download thats best effort when you can roll the dice and get much better satellite best effort service? As previous folks have said. Rural users will get the best impact for this and that's Windstrams bread and butter.
Good for SL but it's a beta test, a few accounts and a few sats. StarLink will never have the bandwidth to serve everyone in the rural US. They're capable of 20Gbs per satellite with about 2,500 passing over the US when they reach their 12,000 sat world wide goal in 5 years. People in extremely remote areas will be the ones that benefit the most because of population density to connected satellite ratio. More populated areas will be first come first serve reaching maximum supported very quickly.
200mb down and 40mb up? Wow we could never beat those speeds at half the price and no install few and still make a higher margin because we don't have to send $h!t into low earth orbit... How will any terestial ISP survive?
"People that buy Starlink will be largely disappointed, that’s just fact"
Max Confirmed Speeds:
Ping: 18 ms
Download: 203.74 Mbps
Upload: 42.58 Mbps
$99/mo for beta testers right now.
$500 install
It was expensive but worth it, the price will come down with the install base.
People that buy Starlink will be largely disappointed, that’s just fact
Recent online posts have also revealed their initial pricing:
Called the “Better Than Nothing Beta” test, according to multiple screenshots of the email seen by CNBC, initial Starlink service is priced at $99 a month — plus a $499 upfront cost to order the Starlink Kit. That kit includes a user terminal to connect to the satellites, a mounting tripod and a Wi-Fi router.
'I was reading they would cover all of the US sometime next year. That would be the final blow for Windstream.'
Windstream (The LR 5) WAS the final blow for Windstream
WIN will continue to underserve the rural. 5G needs more cell density that 4G services. That is a huge outlay on infrastructure investment and the ROI is 8-10 years out. Starlink will serve those that are too rural or underserved.
StarLink will no doubt help out a lot of folks but won't come close to covering everyone without broadband access. Even in 2026 when they're expected to have 12K satellites up the total bandwidth over the US at any given time will only be 48,500 Gbs.
Starlink won't have the bandwidth to serve all the rural areas, not by a long shot. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of that will go to commercial applications anyway like Tesla's Semi. WS needs to get their FWA in order faster though. CBRS could be a game changer but needs to be turning up now.
I was reading they would cover all of the US sometime next year. That would be the final blow for Windstream.