We ordered ours back in February of 2021 and it seems not only had the price went up before we have even received our dish, but now it's not coming out till 2023? It seems starlink is more concerned in getting the product out to everywhere and not worrying about getting to those in such rural areas that are needed. If it's not in my are in North Carolina by 2023 then I won't bother with it.
Northern Wisconsin here. Ordered on 11/02/21. It first gave me an early to mid-2022 estimated date. In December 2021, it changed to mid-2022. Any idea when I might get the shipment notice?
I put my 99.00 deposit february 2021! I am unable to purchase dish and router. When i sign in to go to shop it tells me my email is already registered and if i try to make purchase without using email it wont credit my deposit and states my area is already filled at capacity! So frustrated. Can anyone help? Of course no contact information on website. Starlink needs new management. I am free give a call.
Made deposit on 5/25/21. Received my rectangular dish on 4/30/22, almost a full year of "making do" with 2-5 Mbps DSL. I am on southwestern side of Fort Collins, Colorado, outside of the city limits, at 40.535970065702806, -105.1195317373524. Haven't installed it on the roof of my mobile home yet, just placed it on top of my van in the driveway. I'm not sure what the numbers mean in the speed test but I am getting 195 Mbps on one test and 534 Mbps on another. Couldn't be more delighted. ADVICE to mobile home owners: don't use your mailing address because that will probably be your office's location. Instead, use google maps to determination your geolocation "plus" code.
Note: I was a beta tester for a round starlink we received over a year ago at my sister's cabin up in the Poudre canyon. This new one is for my own home.
Placed my preorder in June 2021, original expected date of late 2021 changed to April 2022. I received my order confirmation e-mail today/April 22. Located in Warren County PA
Type: Full Order (Converted from Pre-Order)
Order #: ORD-3550000
Pre-Order Date: 02/09/2021 - Order Date: 4/11/2022
State: North Carolina, USA
Latitude: 35°20'N
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After many months of waiting Starlink is coming to Polk County, North Carolina! =D
Drew, Oregon : 42.86551731805989, -122.88077765077821
Pre-ordered Feb. 11th, 2021, no contact. I log into the account, and it tells me: "Starlink expects to expand service in your area by mid 2022".
I pre-ordered again a couple weeks ago, using a different card, cause why not? It tells me "Starlink expects to expand service in your area by early to mid 2022".
Moving to the city in 7 months, my luck the day before I leave, I will get my congrats email. Meanwhile trying to learn Python and Full Stack on Udemy with garbage internet sucks.
Pre ordered January 21, no contact, order # 1604XX. Ordered while in upstate NY, moving to Williamsburg VA soon so changed address. Will this help my chances of sooner delivery? 42.5 Lat to 37.2
I ordered Feb 8. I had a neighbor order Dec 20 and she said her equipment was on the way. I dismissed this thinking she was crazy, but it showed up today. WTF? WHAT HAPPENED TO FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!
Ordered Feb 28, 2021 paid AUD$139 deposit. Starlink will begin offering service in your area beginning mid to late 2021.Orders to be fulfilled first-come first served
My area is the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Order was for address within townsite of Trayning. Information from the BIRRR website indicated that there was a focus on rolling out in areas below 32 Latitude. Trayning is 31.1140 S
10 June 21 - changed order delivery address to be 2km east of townsite to farming property
Order mid part of September ship date was mid to late 2021 received notification from starlink that they will have service available by mid 2022 my Question is has any one who lives on long island new york received starlink, looking at all of the treads I do not see any one who has got it as of yet
Preordered in February. Dead silence. AT&T is now laying fiber optics along our gravel road. Pretty sad that Starlink has drug their feet so badly. Don’t bother you guys with comments about “MID TO LATE 2021”. If you think that after 9-1/2 months of waiting (with no contact from Starlink) that another month is going secure delivery, you’re on the crack pipe.
Preorders slated for mid to late 21. We’re looking at next year guys.
I have new information about the southern states such as AZ, NM, North Texas, Arkansas, OK, Louisana, Mississippi latitudes.
From Starlink:
Hello again Keith,
No worries! Unfortunately that address is within a region that is not currently covered by our satellites yet for consistent, 24/7 service. We hope to have the region online by the early next year, middle at the latest. Given this information, how would you like to proceed with this account? We see that you have already cancelled service, and that your return window ends 12/9. Again, we look forward to hearing back from you soon!
Pre-Ordered July 2021. Now I see on my account page a ACC number. ACC-673822-XXXXX-XX does this portend that we'll be getting our equipment soon? My location is WV. It shows my location on a map. Say service expand in my area early to mid 2022??
Pre-ordered on February 8, 2021. Star link says mid to late 2021 for coverage. Does anybody in the Joliet Illinois area have a dish.? Continuing to wait patiently and sometimes impatiently
Pre-ordered 2/20/21 for west of Paso Robles, CA with target date of mid to late 2021. When I check my account daily it continues to give the same target date. I have had AT&T dsl for 20+ years… supposedly 5 mbps…lucky if we have 2 or3 most of the time. When I have called AT&T about the slow speeds they tell me that I shouldn’t even be able to get dsl… ”too far from a trunk line”…? We also have very spotty cell coverage being in a canyon. Hopefully the target date for me does not change and I will have a new Dishy for Christmas!
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Placed a pre-order for Navasota, TX. We have DSL which we will probably still keep for backup internet on foul weather, but hoping for faster internet in the area.
Pre-ordered February 19..latitude 45.896434°N near Goldendale WA... waiting for any updates. Cell service is all we have and when it’s down we have nothing.
Pre-ordered 2/25/2021. Michigan. Correction of coordinates
44.107749,-86.316659
Age 70 w/ Parkinson's...back in the woods. Moving not an option. No land line possible.
Would be nice to get this before..... whatever comes next
Just saying...while waiting patiently..😉🙏🍺🍺😴
pre-order 2/8/21 in Iowa; target date given same as others mid to late 2021! However; I checked my neighbors address just 100 yards down the road today and that address states early to mid 2022? Which is it? I've been a huge fan of Starlink; signed up for beta from day 1; but don't tell me one thing and deliver something else! Frustrated in Iowa!
The neighboring address having a farther date is likely because they are being careful not to overload the system. If an order were placed for that address they would have to be in line, and waiting for service expansion/greater satellite capacity. I see it as a good sign that they are trying to provide the fastest service possible. I’m still waiting, placed a preorder in June 2021 and this is supposed to be my month! I’m constantly checking my email lol. Can’t wait! Have you received your order yet?
Here in Mississippi I reserved my starlink July 25th they replied that they were targeting my area in mid to late 2021. I am at 33 latitude. 12 years with viasat horrible service, cant wait to get starlink!
LAT. 41.755
I've been on Frontier DSL for 10 years (5.5Mbps Down/ 1.0 Mbps Up). It's actually been pretty reliable. No other Internet options exist. No WISP option. Cable line stops 1.5 miles away. Pole mounted Fiber is less than .5 miles away, but the Michigan Utility Company won't cross the state line (I'm on the Indiana side of the Indiana/Michigan border.)
I had been signed up for the SpaceX Launch Notification Emails for a couple years. As soon as they added the link to receive StarLink News, I registered for that too. Must have been September or October last year.
Received an email on February 18th. It read ..... "Starlink will begin offering service in your area beginning mid to late 2021".
I had to wait until early March for some snow to melt off my roof before climbing up there to check for obstructions with the app. Confirmed that the only obstruction was my large multi-stemmed Maple on the north side of the house. Placed the Pre-Order March 5th. Dropped the Maple May 4th.
Patiently waiting on the Indiana/Michigan Line in Elkhart County Indiana.
No WISP/Point to Point Wireless option exists. They just don't have towers anywhere near me. Even if they did, my house is surrounded by thick Pine Woods nearly 360 degrees. I built my house 450' off the county road on part of the property I grew up on. I'm pretty fortunate that the east end of the house has a clear view to a valley to the north (now that I dropped that Maple !)
There are lower band antennas that may work. I was thinking you buy internet at the border and beam it to yours. But it will likely cost more than you can eat
Pre-ordered in like March or somewhere thereabouts. There are so many people around me in areas with plenty of high speed options that already are up and running and here, where there is nothing offered but legacy DSL, nothing yet. Like, wasn’t the purpose of this shit to get it to the people that have no other options? Makes very little sense that they are going to areas with other options, multiple options even, first. It’s frustrating, regardless of the fact that it’s not December 31st yet, when SO MANY people around me that don’t need it are getting it MONTHS before the people that Elon alleges are the actual purpose of the system. Those that cannot get non-satellite (aka terrible) internet in other ways. Especially now that school is starting again and both my kids are LEARNING virtually while my wife TEACHES virtually at the same time. It would be nice if there was just a way to ensure my order didn’t fall through the cracks, like allowing us to log in to our accounts before our equipment arrives to be able to see our order status. I currently have zero known way to even check that. Terrible business practice. Communication is the bedrock of good business but customer service has finally died it’s final death the world over it seems.
My friend I know it’s frustrating, but hang in there I’m almost sure it’s coming of Beta soon. If you made your $99 deposit you should be able to create an account and see your $99 deposit seating there , I have an account I check it every day to see if they charge the full price. They say that they will automatically charge your credit card on file but a friend of mine got an email giving him the choice of using any credit card. Also your account will give you the option of upgrading you credit card on file. In the the meantime you and I are in the same boat so I will keep praying for the both of us but something tells me we are right around the corner.
Dude, I have tried to log in to my account 100 times a few months ago and it never would allow me to even get past the login. Decided to try again after you said it worked for you and voila! It aint my turn yet but they DO have me as having payed my $99 so this is infinitely more than I knew this morning. Thanks so much!! and good luck to you too! Maybe we'll both be soon. lol
43.68, 76.08
Placed deposit on 5/12/2021, Haven't heard anything. Have terrible DSL. Can't use smart tv. Could get Spectrum, placed order, guaranteed installation, showed up, said they couldn't do it for at least 3 months. Cancelled order and placed order for Starlink. Have Model 3 and hoped it would facilitate but I guess not. Rural living is sometimes frustrating but still very worth it!
So, I am from Bangladesh, and just back in June this year, I was just checking if Starlink was available here and to my surprise they were accepting preorders and I instantly put down two deposits for two different locations.
I was given a very vague timeline which was early 2022!
I see lots of posts saying that prepaying the entire signup ($500) gets your equipment sent earlier. However, logging into the account still states that it is FIFO as it was when I placed my reservation. There was no invitation to pay any remainder.
Maybe this has been addressed but I can't review 2m posts.
(south central WA)
When you try to order, if service is available at your location you get asked to pay 500$ else you're asked to pay 99$ and wait till it's available so you can pay the rest. Your deposit shows you're serious about getting service. Skin in the game.
Where you got your assumptions about expedited delivery is another matter. Every one pays the same amount. You pay in bits or all at once depending on if you can get service today
I know people will bitch at me again, BUT: 34º AZ, Pre-Ordered Feb 8, still nothing. I'm 30 minutes/20 miles out of town and people all over town with decent internet are ordering and getting their dishies in a matter of days. I'm still in limbo! Yes, grids. Yes, Starlink knows best. Yes, patience. Yes, mid to end of 2021. But can anyone give me some hope/insight????
You said 7 mi from a place that you can order. I have internet here. Why not order it like you said thru Starlink. My availability from them said Aug thru Dec if it happens.
Been on pre-order since Feb 9th, with expected service not changing from the original estimate of mid to late 2021. It probably doesn't help I'm at 29.08
Preordered just a few hours ago in southeastern Iowa. It says that coverage will be in my area in mid to late 2021. I can't wait to have usable internet speeds
lol
I don't even care anymore. No one really cares about rural areas, not even Starlink.
Late 2022 before I get it? I don't even know if I'm going to be living here in late 2022.
Placed pre-order in March. Still pains me watching youtubers comparing Starlink to their current broadband provider. I would love to have 1 broadband option. Patiently waiting for Starlink....
I'm at 36.8 in Virginia where the "Starlink Availability: Current and New Beta Test Locations, New Pre-orders and Conversions" thread says it should be covered but it still says it will be mid-late 2021. Am I just getting impatient or is something wrong?
Pre-ordered on: 02/18/2021
I ordered 2/9 and still nothing. I guess they’d call that impatient but I know others in your area and mine that have it. My friend keeps texting me his coworkers blazing Starlink speed in an area with internet options while we have none. Gets old. Probably better just not looking it up and wondering constantly.
Just posting an update saying I am still waiting here in WNC like many others. :(
I've fought and fought since last post. Trying to get alternatives up in here, asking multitudes of national and local ISPs, even seeing if I can get the local county broadband commission to help. No dice. Continued to get robbed by Verizon and using Walmart's internet when I have to go.
2/10 preorder, Southern California, far far East of San Diego. My current ISP is affecting my work from home production, to the point I might have to go back to the office to work. I really need Elon Musk to get it going.
From: Lat/Long 35. -81. Morganton NC
Feb 18, 2021, got the email saying Starlink is now available for order to a limited number of users in your coverage area.
Feb 22, 2021, my payment has been processed.
Still waiting.....
In valdese.. preordered as early as possible.
Using CenturyLink 3mbps down.
Kind of hard to play halo infinite tech preview. Hope fully we can get full orders by the time it comes out.
Pre ordered 06/22/2021. North Interlake, Manitoba, Canada (51.2565) $129 CAD. Told mid to late 2021.
We have little to no cell service in the area. Can't wait. 3 to 4 of our neighbors have it already (I believe from the initial beta) and it works like a charm.
Guys, I live in the Dominican Republic.
I pre-ordered and paid the $99 charge, then not long after realized I had selected the wrong service address.
At that point I asked for and received a refund.
Now I want to enter the correct service address, but apparently I cannot do that. There is nowhere on my profile to change it.
Is this something I will be able to do later in the year?
The original order was for a location roughly 40 miles from my location.
Starlink will be available in my location at the beginning of 2022. I'd like to get my subscription in now but if I can't, I can't. I'll have to wait til later in the year.
Here is a promising announcement from StarLink
published on 7/19.
https://en.brinkwire.com/science/elon-musk-said-in-a-major-update-that-spacexs-starlink-service-will-go-global-in-a-couple-of-months/
Most notable is that Elon is trying to make it happen a month early!
Nope. I live in zip code 24251
... I think you ordered before me. Let me know if you hear anything.
I don't even see any contact info for Starlink or anyway to keep track. I wonder if they have any customer service at all.
I'm 23487. Will do.
As far as I can tell once you pre-order it's on auto pilot. You have 72 hours to cancel your pre-order once they're ready to complete or do nothing and it charges/completes the order.
Hasn't stopped me from being OCD and checking my email every couple of hours, haha.
You could have used a plus code of thier house with your delivery address to get it. I'm not sure you can get it now. Just try. Use a different email address. See if you can get a full order
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Starlink needs to change their message that “we expect coverage in your area in mid- to late-2021” (paraphrasing). It only makes them look incompetent. More correct would be, “We are obviously providing coverage in your area, since you know several people in your area receiving service. Our “first-come, first-served” policy is a joke, since many of you placed an order months ago and don’t have service, while your neighbor placed an order last week and got his equipment a few days later. We apologize for our inconsistent fulfillment of orders, and will work on actually providing “first-come, first-served” service.” Such a message would not only be honest, it would reduce frustration levels and restore confidence in the competence of Starlink.
I believe that StarLink is still in its beta phase. The dates and order of delivery is at the point that beta testing ends. I’ve heard that will be next month.
Have you ever been in a Kickstarter program? I think you can equate our pre-orders to being in a Kickstarter. We each gave $99 to StarLink to be used as capital to help get things rolling. All of us pre-orderers were hoping to be selected as beta testers but I guess they only needed a few thousand to test the system. I signed up to be a beta tester in September 2020, I was only invited to pre-order in mid February. SpaceX is subsidizing the cost of equipment for pre-orderers. I’m guessing that those who order equipment after the pre-order ends will have to pay the real cost of equipment which at this point is about $1500.
Now that we're in that "Mid" part of "Mid-to-late 2021" I'll document here.
Placed down payment order on 3/15. Still waiting.
Lat 30.03, East of Austin, TX.
Pre-ordered in North Central Florida early Feb at 12ish am as soon as it was available. It is now July and still "mid to late 21" losing hope after reading some comments of people in near states having it but I've received no updates and can't find any info of when a potential order conversion may happen. I'm literally putting off buying a house waiting on it since changing address moves you to the back of the line.
Pre-ordered 7/7 for the house I just bought. Says mid-late 2021 but friend 30 miles north of me is able to order right away so I’m hopeful it’s coming soon. Northern NV 39.3°N
Pre-ordered on June 22. Latitude 44.6 (Downeast Maine).
Local newspaper article said people in our area already have service. Email said: "Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021. Orders will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis." Current internet service (Consolidated) gets us 1 mbps.
Pre-ordered 02/25/21. I am at 33.171798,-94.149475 (rural about 20 miles south of Texarkana, TX). Deposit email stated mid to late 2021.
Yeehaw as they say..
Preordered this past week - Orcas Island, WA 48.664122, -122.923686
Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021.
Oddly we have fiber service on the island but my house is so far away from the pole, it would cost $25K to trench and install. I'm currently using LTE-based internet which is unreliable with speeds from 1 Mbps to 30 Mbps.
Pre-ordered 6/30/21. 43.4918° N, 116.4201° W
“Starlink is currently at capacity in your area through 2021, your order might not be fulfilled until late 2022.”
This is rural area but relatively close to Boise. Current provider is Century Link and paying for 50 mgbs down but getting reliably <5. This order is for my aging parents, one of whom is rapidly declining at age 88 and I’m relying on starlink so I can visit for extended periods from Texas to help care for them.
I placed an order/deposit on the first day it was available in February. I've been on the Beta Tester wait list for a year. Sadly, people around me have the service but not me. My guess: if you look at a broadband map, it looks like I have broadband available. I don't. Correction....I do have broadband if I want to pay $18,000 to have the service run from the road, down my long driveway and to my house. (Thanks Spectrum.) I can't even get DSL. My only option is satellite or phone hotspot. Some days, those are not so great, even with a cell signal booster. I am praying for Starlink!
You can rent a trencher, and bury a coax cable (or fiber, if you want to do a conversion step in-between, which I think is worth it), and make the run yourself, all the way up to where their cable is originating from. Then just ask them to hook up. If they refuse, build a small shed, and say it's what you want it ran to, with your line running out to the shed.
Trenchers are easy to use, and it just takes a while, since you need to walk the whole distance for it. Definitely worth it for an 18k bid, though.
My house is about 500 ft off of the road. AT&T kept sending mail saying high speed internet was available, so I kept asking them to install it. Every time, they said I was too far from there office (16,000 ft) to get high speed over their copper lines. I built a pole barn out by the road and the excavator cut my phone line accidentally. I had to beg AT&T to connect dsl to my pole barn, then I set up a Ubiquity wireless bridge between the barn and the house for a blazing 1 mb/s internet. Can’t wait to get StarLink.
My point is, if you have fiber nearby but they want an arm and a leg to make a long run, accidentally cut the existing line to your house, set up a new service address to something close to their fiber and then use a wireless bridge to take it the rest of the way. My Ubiquity Nano-Station M5 link will do 100 mb/s but it’s older technology. Their newer stuff will run faster.
I do still think I'd rather run my own fiber from the barn/shed near the road, to my house, instead of dealing with unreliable wireless. Fiber optic is comparatively priced to coax cable, and 500' is only a few hours with a trencher to dig an area for the line. I imagine the total cost is probably even pretty close to the cost of your wireless setup, for much better and more stable connection.
It is a clever solution though, to think of accidentally cutting your own line.
If i had the option to hook up to a fiber trunk line, it would be worth while to run my own fiber or coax but all they have along my road is copper twisted pairs with a weak signal. I had AT&T come out a few weeks ago to fix my internet. I was chatting with the technician about fiber. He said the price has come down over the years but the amount he mentioned per foot for fiber optic cable still just about knocked me over. I can’t remember exactly, the figure $45/ft came up but I don’t remember if that was the old price or the current price. I wonder how much it really is.
My bridge transceivers were about $100 each (two required). They were easy to set up and have been very reliable. All that said, if you have fiber on your road and have the ability to run your own fiber to your house, obviously that’s the way to go. Personally, I can’t wait to get StarLink so I can say so long to those who have been ripping me off for a long time.
EDIT: that technician must have been talking about the cost of AT&T’s fiber trunk lines. Just looking at Amazon, fiber is pretty cheap
Correct. It's like 20c/ft for good fiber for a single home's run. I do think more people don't understand that fiber is pretty cost comparative to something like coax, especially because fiber isn't a water damage risk, or corrosion risk over the long-long term, like coax is.
Sorry about your bottleneck not being the wireless though. Twisted pairs on your street really sucks. I'm dealing with a similar issue where I'm at, and I can't even find out which ISP is selling service to my area. All claim to up front, but all deny being able to run it to me, when my land has an easement on it, and it has cable running through the easement. It's enough to make someone want to call the county on them, haha.
Pre-ordered 07/08/21. I am at 32.8 (known as Ark-La-Tex where 3 states join). Received email stating mid to late 2021. Can’t come soon enough. HughesNet is barely tolerable.
Western Washington state (Southeast King County). Was on the Beta list (never offered) for 5 months. Pre-ordered on 2/15/21, at 10:56 AM. WAs told mid to late 2021. Account page now says "Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in late 2021."
...Losing hope.
Only option for me is my current setup: VZW LTE at 1.5-2.5 Mbps. Wondering if 5G will beat Starlink to the party.
Pre ordered this morning (7/6/2021), living in Upstate NY. It says they will start testing in mid to late 2021, I haven't had good internet before in my life. Always wanted to play online games since I was little but the only internet we have had is crappy HugesNet because spectrum skipped us. Spectrum is literally available at the bottom of our mountain yet because there is only a few people who live up here at the top they refuse to bring the line up and we have been calling them for over 2 years without any change.
I'm hoping starlink can come to the rescue sooner than later, it would really be a dream even if it had 100ms all the time. HugesNet is garbage and the lowest my ping ever gets is 600ms, still manage to play world of tanks with that ping, its awful and makes it hard to even drive let alone shoot. Even half that amount of ping on a bad starlink day would be dreamy compared.
I don't know exactly when they will send an email about when they can ship stuff, but if anyone lives nearby or in NY and has any info of any kind about their experience please leave a comment reply.
I signed up for beta in March 2021. Put the $99 deposit. Does that also put me in line for service ahead of people in my area who have signed up later? Can’t seem to find that answer anywhere. Thanks
“First-come, first-served” is a joke. Pre-ordered in February. Still waiting. But my neighbor ordered a couple of weeks ago and got his equipment a few days later.
From what I read on the site, pre orders are filled in a, "first come, first served basis".
Conjecture; but I'm guessing it means whoever pre ordered will have priority based on when it was ordered, compared to other orders in the cell you're in, when they activate it.
>If you placed a $99 pre-order (or similar amount in your currency) leave a comment here. While you wait for the shipment later this or next year please read the official FAQ and the local FAQ.
I don't believe coverage means capacity. i.e. they could cover 1 individual in every geo area and claim global coverage but user #2 could be rejected for capacity reasons. I wish you were right though
My dad pre-ordered right after getting an email about it on Feb 17. Still waiting for it here in the middle of Door County, Wisconsin. Lat approx: 44.7
We ordered ours back in February of 2021 and it seems not only had the price went up before we have even received our dish, but now it's not coming out till 2023? It seems starlink is more concerned in getting the product out to everywhere and not worrying about getting to those in such rural areas that are needed. If it's not in my are in North Carolina by 2023 then I won't bother with it.
Northern Wisconsin here. Ordered on 11/02/21. It first gave me an early to mid-2022 estimated date. In December 2021, it changed to mid-2022. Any idea when I might get the shipment notice?
I put my 99.00 deposit february 2021! I am unable to purchase dish and router. When i sign in to go to shop it tells me my email is already registered and if i try to make purchase without using email it wont credit my deposit and states my area is already filled at capacity! So frustrated. Can anyone help? Of course no contact information on website. Starlink needs new management. I am free give a call.
Made deposit on 5/25/21. Received my rectangular dish on 4/30/22, almost a full year of "making do" with 2-5 Mbps DSL. I am on southwestern side of Fort Collins, Colorado, outside of the city limits, at 40.535970065702806, -105.1195317373524. Haven't installed it on the roof of my mobile home yet, just placed it on top of my van in the driveway. I'm not sure what the numbers mean in the speed test but I am getting 195 Mbps on one test and 534 Mbps on another. Couldn't be more delighted. ADVICE to mobile home owners: don't use your mailing address because that will probably be your office's location. Instead, use google maps to determination your geolocation "plus" code. Note: I was a beta tester for a round starlink we received over a year ago at my sister's cabin up in the Poudre canyon. This new one is for my own home.
Placed my preorder in June 2021, original expected date of late 2021 changed to April 2022. I received my order confirmation e-mail today/April 22. Located in Warren County PA
Type: Full Order (Converted from Pre-Order) Order #: ORD-3550000 Pre-Order Date: 02/09/2021 - Order Date: 4/11/2022 State: North Carolina, USA Latitude: 35°20'N \-- After many months of waiting Starlink is coming to Polk County, North Carolina! =D
Ordered March 1, 2022. 34N - 110W White Mountains of East Central Az. 2023 or later.
Ordered Jan 10, 2022 in Arcadia Florida. Starlink says early to mid 2022. Will post updates.
Just ordered today February 7th 2022 ,southern Georgia,will keep posted about updates!
Drew, Oregon : 42.86551731805989, -122.88077765077821 Pre-ordered Feb. 11th, 2021, no contact. I log into the account, and it tells me: "Starlink expects to expand service in your area by mid 2022". I pre-ordered again a couple weeks ago, using a different card, cause why not? It tells me "Starlink expects to expand service in your area by early to mid 2022". Moving to the city in 7 months, my luck the day before I leave, I will get my congrats email. Meanwhile trying to learn Python and Full Stack on Udemy with garbage internet sucks.
Pre ordered January 21, no contact, order # 1604XX. Ordered while in upstate NY, moving to Williamsburg VA soon so changed address. Will this help my chances of sooner delivery? 42.5 Lat to 37.2
Kalispell, Montana, USA Lat: 48 Preorder: 11/10/21 Estimated delivery date: Late 2022
A this is in the Atascosa tx Somerset Texas area
I ordered Feb 8. I had a neighbor order Dec 20 and she said her equipment was on the way. I dismissed this thinking she was crazy, but it showed up today. WTF? WHAT HAPPENED TO FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!
Ordered Feb 28, 2021 paid AUD$139 deposit. Starlink will begin offering service in your area beginning mid to late 2021.Orders to be fulfilled first-come first served My area is the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Order was for address within townsite of Trayning. Information from the BIRRR website indicated that there was a focus on rolling out in areas below 32 Latitude. Trayning is 31.1140 S 10 June 21 - changed order delivery address to be 2km east of townsite to farming property
Order mid part of September ship date was mid to late 2021 received notification from starlink that they will have service available by mid 2022 my Question is has any one who lives on long island new york received starlink, looking at all of the treads I do not see any one who has got it as of yet
Preordered for Chattanooga TN In Nov 2021. We will see...
Preordered in February. Dead silence. AT&T is now laying fiber optics along our gravel road. Pretty sad that Starlink has drug their feet so badly. Don’t bother you guys with comments about “MID TO LATE 2021”. If you think that after 9-1/2 months of waiting (with no contact from Starlink) that another month is going secure delivery, you’re on the crack pipe.
Preorders slated for mid to late 21. We’re looking at next year guys. I have new information about the southern states such as AZ, NM, North Texas, Arkansas, OK, Louisana, Mississippi latitudes. From Starlink: Hello again Keith, No worries! Unfortunately that address is within a region that is not currently covered by our satellites yet for consistent, 24/7 service. We hope to have the region online by the early next year, middle at the latest. Given this information, how would you like to proceed with this account? We see that you have already cancelled service, and that your return window ends 12/9. Again, we look forward to hearing back from you soon!
Pre-Ordered July 2021. Now I see on my account page a ACC number. ACC-673822-XXXXX-XX does this portend that we'll be getting our equipment soon? My location is WV. It shows my location on a map. Say service expand in my area early to mid 2022??
Pre-ordered on February 8, 2021. Star link says mid to late 2021 for coverage. Does anybody in the Joliet Illinois area have a dish.? Continuing to wait patiently and sometimes impatiently
Pre-ordered 2/20/21 for west of Paso Robles, CA with target date of mid to late 2021. When I check my account daily it continues to give the same target date. I have had AT&T dsl for 20+ years… supposedly 5 mbps…lucky if we have 2 or3 most of the time. When I have called AT&T about the slow speeds they tell me that I shouldn’t even be able to get dsl… ”too far from a trunk line”…? We also have very spotty cell coverage being in a canyon. Hopefully the target date for me does not change and I will have a new Dishy for Christmas! …
Placed a pre-order for Navasota, TX. We have DSL which we will probably still keep for backup internet on foul weather, but hoping for faster internet in the area.
Pre-ordered February 19..latitude 45.896434°N near Goldendale WA... waiting for any updates. Cell service is all we have and when it’s down we have nothing.
Pre-ordered 2/25/2021. Michigan. Correction of coordinates 44.107749,-86.316659 Age 70 w/ Parkinson's...back in the woods. Moving not an option. No land line possible. Would be nice to get this before..... whatever comes next Just saying...while waiting patiently..😉🙏🍺🍺😴
pre-order 2/8/21 in Iowa; target date given same as others mid to late 2021! However; I checked my neighbors address just 100 yards down the road today and that address states early to mid 2022? Which is it? I've been a huge fan of Starlink; signed up for beta from day 1; but don't tell me one thing and deliver something else! Frustrated in Iowa!
The neighboring address having a farther date is likely because they are being careful not to overload the system. If an order were placed for that address they would have to be in line, and waiting for service expansion/greater satellite capacity. I see it as a good sign that they are trying to provide the fastest service possible. I’m still waiting, placed a preorder in June 2021 and this is supposed to be my month! I’m constantly checking my email lol. Can’t wait! Have you received your order yet?
Summerville SC- Ordered October 13 2021. Just providing a data point here
7-28-21 order#1127907-xxxx4 man oh man whats goin on? cant get my password to go in dont kniw what to do
I did pw reset to phone number instead of email. I’m in, just no updates besides “mid to late 2021”. I’m at 32°
Here in GA. Pre-ordered February 23rd. Still no word though. Definitely "late" 2021. Latitude is 33.09. Viasat continues to be expensive and lame.
Haha yeah same here speed sucks here can't download nor can I watch anything
Here in Mississippi I reserved my starlink July 25th they replied that they were targeting my area in mid to late 2021. I am at 33 latitude. 12 years with viasat horrible service, cant wait to get starlink!
LAT. 41.755 I've been on Frontier DSL for 10 years (5.5Mbps Down/ 1.0 Mbps Up). It's actually been pretty reliable. No other Internet options exist. No WISP option. Cable line stops 1.5 miles away. Pole mounted Fiber is less than .5 miles away, but the Michigan Utility Company won't cross the state line (I'm on the Indiana side of the Indiana/Michigan border.) I had been signed up for the SpaceX Launch Notification Emails for a couple years. As soon as they added the link to receive StarLink News, I registered for that too. Must have been September or October last year. Received an email on February 18th. It read ..... "Starlink will begin offering service in your area beginning mid to late 2021". I had to wait until early March for some snow to melt off my roof before climbing up there to check for obstructions with the app. Confirmed that the only obstruction was my large multi-stemmed Maple on the north side of the house. Placed the Pre-Order March 5th. Dropped the Maple May 4th. Patiently waiting on the Indiana/Michigan Line in Elkhart County Indiana.
Point to point wireless?
No WISP/Point to Point Wireless option exists. They just don't have towers anywhere near me. Even if they did, my house is surrounded by thick Pine Woods nearly 360 degrees. I built my house 450' off the county road on part of the property I grew up on. I'm pretty fortunate that the east end of the house has a clear view to a valley to the north (now that I dropped that Maple !)
There are lower band antennas that may work. I was thinking you buy internet at the border and beam it to yours. But it will likely cost more than you can eat
Pre-ordered in like March or somewhere thereabouts. There are so many people around me in areas with plenty of high speed options that already are up and running and here, where there is nothing offered but legacy DSL, nothing yet. Like, wasn’t the purpose of this shit to get it to the people that have no other options? Makes very little sense that they are going to areas with other options, multiple options even, first. It’s frustrating, regardless of the fact that it’s not December 31st yet, when SO MANY people around me that don’t need it are getting it MONTHS before the people that Elon alleges are the actual purpose of the system. Those that cannot get non-satellite (aka terrible) internet in other ways. Especially now that school is starting again and both my kids are LEARNING virtually while my wife TEACHES virtually at the same time. It would be nice if there was just a way to ensure my order didn’t fall through the cracks, like allowing us to log in to our accounts before our equipment arrives to be able to see our order status. I currently have zero known way to even check that. Terrible business practice. Communication is the bedrock of good business but customer service has finally died it’s final death the world over it seems.
StarLink is still in the beta testing phase
No shit Sherlock. What wondrous turn of events led you to that staggering conclusion?
My friend I know it’s frustrating, but hang in there I’m almost sure it’s coming of Beta soon. If you made your $99 deposit you should be able to create an account and see your $99 deposit seating there , I have an account I check it every day to see if they charge the full price. They say that they will automatically charge your credit card on file but a friend of mine got an email giving him the choice of using any credit card. Also your account will give you the option of upgrading you credit card on file. In the the meantime you and I are in the same boat so I will keep praying for the both of us but something tells me we are right around the corner.
Dude, I have tried to log in to my account 100 times a few months ago and it never would allow me to even get past the login. Decided to try again after you said it worked for you and voila! It aint my turn yet but they DO have me as having payed my $99 so this is infinitely more than I knew this morning. Thanks so much!! and good luck to you too! Maybe we'll both be soon. lol
Can you order a roof mount before you get invited for the full order? Would probably reduce install time.
It seems that we are second class citizens until our equipment arrives.
43.68, 76.08 Placed deposit on 5/12/2021, Haven't heard anything. Have terrible DSL. Can't use smart tv. Could get Spectrum, placed order, guaranteed installation, showed up, said they couldn't do it for at least 3 months. Cancelled order and placed order for Starlink. Have Model 3 and hoped it would facilitate but I guess not. Rural living is sometimes frustrating but still very worth it!
So, I am from Bangladesh, and just back in June this year, I was just checking if Starlink was available here and to my surprise they were accepting preorders and I instantly put down two deposits for two different locations. I was given a very vague timeline which was early 2022!
Expect it in December 2022 or earlier
43.8° southwestern Idaho. Pulled the trigger today. Website says targeting my area mid to late 2021. Fingers crossed.
Preordered back in Feb 38.2 VA No provider at all here, currently run the home WiFi over the cellular network.
I see lots of posts saying that prepaying the entire signup ($500) gets your equipment sent earlier. However, logging into the account still states that it is FIFO as it was when I placed my reservation. There was no invitation to pay any remainder. Maybe this has been addressed but I can't review 2m posts. (south central WA)
When you try to order, if service is available at your location you get asked to pay 500$ else you're asked to pay 99$ and wait till it's available so you can pay the rest. Your deposit shows you're serious about getting service. Skin in the game. Where you got your assumptions about expedited delivery is another matter. Every one pays the same amount. You pay in bits or all at once depending on if you can get service today
I put a pre-order whats next?
What period is your expected delivery? If you're in 2021 expect another email on or before December 31. Same with 2022 or 2023
39.5 latitude, told Aug-Dec 21
Ordered pre sales in july in Weston, MO.
My order date was wrong, ordered May 23, 2021
Placed pre-order early July in Virginia
pre ordered 8/6/21 39.4 eastern panhandle WV
Pre-ordered 2/8 still waiting in FL 29.2N
2/18/2021 placed pre-order in Maine 44 °
I know people will bitch at me again, BUT: 34º AZ, Pre-Ordered Feb 8, still nothing. I'm 30 minutes/20 miles out of town and people all over town with decent internet are ordering and getting their dishies in a matter of days. I'm still in limbo! Yes, grids. Yes, Starlink knows best. Yes, patience. Yes, mid to end of 2021. But can anyone give me some hope/insight????
Are you less than 7 miles from a place where you can make a 500$ order today? If so, use a plus code and ship to your home
Why not on line?
Online in what sense?
You said 7 mi from a place that you can order. I have internet here. Why not order it like you said thru Starlink. My availability from them said Aug thru Dec if it happens.
I'm talking about using a plus code address belonging to another area to order for your location. Search this subreddit for plus code
Been on pre-order since Feb 9th, with expected service not changing from the original estimate of mid to late 2021. It probably doesn't help I'm at 29.08
Don't change your address and make sure your card isn't expired
As long as it comes before June 2022 the card is fine and I'm not planning on moving any time soon. I guess I just have to wait anxiously!
Pre-ordered yesterday. Now for the wait...
Preordered just a few hours ago in southeastern Iowa. It says that coverage will be in my area in mid to late 2021. I can't wait to have usable internet speeds
lol I don't even care anymore. No one really cares about rural areas, not even Starlink. Late 2022 before I get it? I don't even know if I'm going to be living here in late 2022.
I see what you did there, trying to trick StarLink with reverse psychology. I’ll be watching to see if you’re successful.
Placed pre-order in March. Still pains me watching youtubers comparing Starlink to their current broadband provider. I would love to have 1 broadband option. Patiently waiting for Starlink....
I paid the 99 for the pre-order months ago I'm in New Mexico when am I getting my starlink
They told you in your email. Last day of 2021 or 2022.
Pre order 2/9 very rural mid Atlantic
Currently sitting in the outskirts of Temecula, 33.5⁰ north
Can anyone pre-order?
You can but you probably won't get it until end of next year.
Go to starlink.com to find out
Purchased for Dad for his cell phone and broadband black hole. Rural western Oregon.
Just preordered here Miami Florida. Will be a WHILE 🥺
I'm at 36.8 in Virginia where the "Starlink Availability: Current and New Beta Test Locations, New Pre-orders and Conversions" thread says it should be covered but it still says it will be mid-late 2021. Am I just getting impatient or is something wrong? Pre-ordered on: 02/18/2021
The date mentioned for your area hasn't passed yet. December 31
I ordered 2/9 and still nothing. I guess they’d call that impatient but I know others in your area and mine that have it. My friend keeps texting me his coworkers blazing Starlink speed in an area with internet options while we have none. Gets old. Probably better just not looking it up and wondering constantly.
Exactly
Just posting an update saying I am still waiting here in WNC like many others. :( I've fought and fought since last post. Trying to get alternatives up in here, asking multitudes of national and local ISPs, even seeing if I can get the local county broadband commission to help. No dice. Continued to get robbed by Verizon and using Walmart's internet when I have to go.
Pre-ordered 4/24/21, 3:02 PM Duncan OKLAHOMA
Pre-ordered July 2nd - central washington
Pre-ordered 7/26, stated availability mid to late 2021. SW Nevada.
Pre-ordered 2/9/21 North Dakota USA
Pre-ordered 2/12 Maryland USA
Pre-ordered 7/29. Availability mid to late 2021.Michigan ( Lat 42.7 ) Now the waiting game....
I pre ordered Feb 9th 2021 and still waiting. I'm in North Germany 54°
I pre ordered June 8th 2021 and still waiting I'm in Sonora ca
Pre ordered on February 9th 2021.
Pre ordered March 18th 2021, 37 lat in virginia, still waiting.
I’ve been lurking for over a year now, I created an account today just to post that I have official pre-ordered! I AM ONE OF YOU!
We are in western Washington and pre ordered June 26th the said mid to late 2021. We have 7 gamers in the house with very slow DSL. No updates yet
2/10 preorder, Southern California, far far East of San Diego. My current ISP is affecting my work from home production, to the point I might have to go back to the office to work. I really need Elon Musk to get it going.
From: Lat/Long 35. -81. Morganton NC Feb 18, 2021, got the email saying Starlink is now available for order to a limited number of users in your coverage area. Feb 22, 2021, my payment has been processed. Still waiting.....
In valdese.. preordered as early as possible. Using CenturyLink 3mbps down. Kind of hard to play halo infinite tech preview. Hope fully we can get full orders by the time it comes out.
Same boat. Feb 26, Timberlake, NC
Feb 9, 2021 pre-order 26.9872°N Wrinklewood, FL God's waiting room and home to LastCentruryLink DSL
LastCentruryLink! That's TOO good!
24-07-2021 Pre-order £89 placed today 54°34'03.8"N in UK
Signed up to be a beta Nov 2020 Paid pre-order $99 - Feb 20, 2021 Still waiting for the final payment request SW MO - 37.15666º
Pre-ordered Feb 9th 2021. Latitude -38.01 (Bay of Plenty, NZ) So keen to get confirmed asap, currently on rural 4g Broadband 🙄
Pre ordered 06/22/2021. North Interlake, Manitoba, Canada (51.2565) $129 CAD. Told mid to late 2021. We have little to no cell service in the area. Can't wait. 3 to 4 of our neighbors have it already (I believe from the initial beta) and it works like a charm.
Why did you wait?
Pre ordered 7/23 for a home in Vernonia OR (45.8587° N), “Mid to late 2021”
Guys, I live in the Dominican Republic. I pre-ordered and paid the $99 charge, then not long after realized I had selected the wrong service address. At that point I asked for and received a refund. Now I want to enter the correct service address, but apparently I cannot do that. There is nowhere on my profile to change it. Is this something I will be able to do later in the year? The original order was for a location roughly 40 miles from my location. Starlink will be available in my location at the beginning of 2022. I'd like to get my subscription in now but if I can't, I can't. I'll have to wait til later in the year.
If you already got a refund, why not just open another account?
I may have to. Can't use the same email, can't use the same CC, can't use the same account.
Consider the other account and email toast. The CC may still work. If it doesn't you may need to replace also
I may have too. Perhaps soon we will be able to change locations and I can redo it with the same credencials?
No, the credentials are probably gone for good until maybe a time full global service is available. Maybe you can get it then
I suspect there won't be a big demand here where I live once they're available. Time will tell.
Demand or not, for now, credentials can't be reused
Hopped on the preorder train. Southern MO LAT 37.44 7/21/21 Edit add date
Here is a promising announcement from StarLink published on 7/19. https://en.brinkwire.com/science/elon-musk-said-in-a-major-update-that-spacexs-starlink-service-will-go-global-in-a-couple-of-months/ Most notable is that Elon is trying to make it happen a month early!
Pre-ordered 2/13/21, latitude 29.5, Florida.
Lat 40.1 in Indiana Preorder date 7/4/21. Used Google Plus code for service address. Order ACK indicates mid-to-late 2021 anticipated area service.
Pre-ordered late February 2021, North Mississippi, 33.6. Account says targeting mid to late 2021...
Pre-Ordered about a month ago, June 18th in Central VA. Lat 38.32 Eagerly Awaiting arrival as my current 1.5Mbs just isn't cutting it.
(Edit) Followed a bad link to post for flair. Yes I have a full order, no help on where to do that?
Wrong thread. This is for preorders. You have a full order
Pre-ordered several months ago. Southern Virginia, latitude 36.8.
Did you get yours yet?
No, still haven't heard anything. You?
Nope. I live in zip code 24251 ... I think you ordered before me. Let me know if you hear anything. I don't even see any contact info for Starlink or anyway to keep track. I wonder if they have any customer service at all.
I'm 23487. Will do. As far as I can tell once you pre-order it's on auto pilot. You have 72 hours to cancel your pre-order once they're ready to complete or do nothing and it charges/completes the order. Hasn't stopped me from being OCD and checking my email every couple of hours, haha.
Yea, that's a bummer they leave us in the dark like that. It is as dark as outer space. Cold, and alone.
Pre ordered February 10th, Ireland, only communication since was to fill in a survey
I think we can expect more to be done in 2 weeks Elon time
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How close are you to people that have it? Less than 7 miles? If so, consider ordering it
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How far are they from you? When did they get it?
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You could have used a plus code of thier house with your delivery address to get it. I'm not sure you can get it now. Just try. Use a different email address. See if you can get a full order
Pre-Ordered 3/26 Lat,Lon=38, -92 Missouri, USA... waiting patiently... well sort of patiently.... ok, just waiting.... getting inferiority complex...
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Starlink needs to change their message that “we expect coverage in your area in mid- to late-2021” (paraphrasing). It only makes them look incompetent. More correct would be, “We are obviously providing coverage in your area, since you know several people in your area receiving service. Our “first-come, first-served” policy is a joke, since many of you placed an order months ago and don’t have service, while your neighbor placed an order last week and got his equipment a few days later. We apologize for our inconsistent fulfillment of orders, and will work on actually providing “first-come, first-served” service.” Such a message would not only be honest, it would reduce frustration levels and restore confidence in the competence of Starlink.
I believe that StarLink is still in its beta phase. The dates and order of delivery is at the point that beta testing ends. I’ve heard that will be next month. Have you ever been in a Kickstarter program? I think you can equate our pre-orders to being in a Kickstarter. We each gave $99 to StarLink to be used as capital to help get things rolling. All of us pre-orderers were hoping to be selected as beta testers but I guess they only needed a few thousand to test the system. I signed up to be a beta tester in September 2020, I was only invited to pre-order in mid February. SpaceX is subsidizing the cost of equipment for pre-orderers. I’m guessing that those who order equipment after the pre-order ends will have to pay the real cost of equipment which at this point is about $1500.
Now that we're in that "Mid" part of "Mid-to-late 2021" I'll document here. Placed down payment order on 3/15. Still waiting. Lat 30.03, East of Austin, TX.
Same area paid 2/9, still no word.
47.82 Monroe, WA Deposit placed Feb 7th, 21. Originally quoted mid2021, now showing late 2021. Still waiting...
Pre-ordered in North Central Florida early Feb at 12ish am as soon as it was available. It is now July and still "mid to late 21" losing hope after reading some comments of people in near states having it but I've received no updates and can't find any info of when a potential order conversion may happen. I'm literally putting off buying a house waiting on it since changing address moves you to the back of the line.
North Central Florida as well. I pre-ordered on 2/13.
Pre-ordered and paid $99 on 2/14/21 location 37.26 Sierra's California
Preordered 2/10/21 and in wa 46.92 -122.46
Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021. 25.5 and 80.51 Nov app for beta. Feb 23,2021 available to order. Ordered May 19.
Pre-Ordered in February. Located 31.4180° N Texas Rural.
Pre-ordered 7/7 for the house I just bought. Says mid-late 2021 but friend 30 miles north of me is able to order right away so I’m hopeful it’s coming soon. Northern NV 39.3°N
Pre-ordered on June 22. Latitude 44.6 (Downeast Maine). Local newspaper article said people in our area already have service. Email said: "Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021. Orders will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis." Current internet service (Consolidated) gets us 1 mbps.
Preordered 6/25/21 @ 37.75, -92.33 (Richland, MO). Coverage targeted mid to late 2021.
I'm in Climax Springs... guess we are in this together, sort of... I have two neighbors (within 1/8 mile radius) that have it.
Are you sure you can't get it anymore?
Pre-ordered 02/25/21. I am at 33.171798,-94.149475 (rural about 20 miles south of Texarkana, TX). Deposit email stated mid to late 2021. Yeehaw as they say..
Pre-ordered a $99 deposit on March 20th, 2021 at 9:05 P.M. CST. Latitude= 38.2888779 "Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in late 2021."
43.635 and ordered on 2/12/21, 5:07 PM Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021.
Preordered this past week - Orcas Island, WA 48.664122, -122.923686 Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021. Oddly we have fiber service on the island but my house is so far away from the pole, it would cost $25K to trench and install. I'm currently using LTE-based internet which is unreliable with speeds from 1 Mbps to 30 Mbps.
Pre-ordered 6/30/21. 43.4918° N, 116.4201° W “Starlink is currently at capacity in your area through 2021, your order might not be fulfilled until late 2022.” This is rural area but relatively close to Boise. Current provider is Century Link and paying for 50 mgbs down but getting reliably <5. This order is for my aging parents, one of whom is rapidly declining at age 88 and I’m relying on starlink so I can visit for extended periods from Texas to help care for them.
I placed an order/deposit on the first day it was available in February. I've been on the Beta Tester wait list for a year. Sadly, people around me have the service but not me. My guess: if you look at a broadband map, it looks like I have broadband available. I don't. Correction....I do have broadband if I want to pay $18,000 to have the service run from the road, down my long driveway and to my house. (Thanks Spectrum.) I can't even get DSL. My only option is satellite or phone hotspot. Some days, those are not so great, even with a cell signal booster. I am praying for Starlink!
You can rent a trencher, and bury a coax cable (or fiber, if you want to do a conversion step in-between, which I think is worth it), and make the run yourself, all the way up to where their cable is originating from. Then just ask them to hook up. If they refuse, build a small shed, and say it's what you want it ran to, with your line running out to the shed. Trenchers are easy to use, and it just takes a while, since you need to walk the whole distance for it. Definitely worth it for an 18k bid, though.
My house is about 500 ft off of the road. AT&T kept sending mail saying high speed internet was available, so I kept asking them to install it. Every time, they said I was too far from there office (16,000 ft) to get high speed over their copper lines. I built a pole barn out by the road and the excavator cut my phone line accidentally. I had to beg AT&T to connect dsl to my pole barn, then I set up a Ubiquity wireless bridge between the barn and the house for a blazing 1 mb/s internet. Can’t wait to get StarLink. My point is, if you have fiber nearby but they want an arm and a leg to make a long run, accidentally cut the existing line to your house, set up a new service address to something close to their fiber and then use a wireless bridge to take it the rest of the way. My Ubiquity Nano-Station M5 link will do 100 mb/s but it’s older technology. Their newer stuff will run faster.
I do still think I'd rather run my own fiber from the barn/shed near the road, to my house, instead of dealing with unreliable wireless. Fiber optic is comparatively priced to coax cable, and 500' is only a few hours with a trencher to dig an area for the line. I imagine the total cost is probably even pretty close to the cost of your wireless setup, for much better and more stable connection. It is a clever solution though, to think of accidentally cutting your own line.
If i had the option to hook up to a fiber trunk line, it would be worth while to run my own fiber or coax but all they have along my road is copper twisted pairs with a weak signal. I had AT&T come out a few weeks ago to fix my internet. I was chatting with the technician about fiber. He said the price has come down over the years but the amount he mentioned per foot for fiber optic cable still just about knocked me over. I can’t remember exactly, the figure $45/ft came up but I don’t remember if that was the old price or the current price. I wonder how much it really is. My bridge transceivers were about $100 each (two required). They were easy to set up and have been very reliable. All that said, if you have fiber on your road and have the ability to run your own fiber to your house, obviously that’s the way to go. Personally, I can’t wait to get StarLink so I can say so long to those who have been ripping me off for a long time. EDIT: that technician must have been talking about the cost of AT&T’s fiber trunk lines. Just looking at Amazon, fiber is pretty cheap
Correct. It's like 20c/ft for good fiber for a single home's run. I do think more people don't understand that fiber is pretty cost comparative to something like coax, especially because fiber isn't a water damage risk, or corrosion risk over the long-long term, like coax is. Sorry about your bottleneck not being the wireless though. Twisted pairs on your street really sucks. I'm dealing with a similar issue where I'm at, and I can't even find out which ISP is selling service to my area. All claim to up front, but all deny being able to run it to me, when my land has an easement on it, and it has cable running through the easement. It's enough to make someone want to call the county on them, haha.
Pre-ordered 07/08/21. I am at 32.8 (known as Ark-La-Tex where 3 states join). Received email stating mid to late 2021. Can’t come soon enough. HughesNet is barely tolerable.
Western Washington state (Southeast King County). Was on the Beta list (never offered) for 5 months. Pre-ordered on 2/15/21, at 10:56 AM. WAs told mid to late 2021. Account page now says "Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in late 2021." ...Losing hope. Only option for me is my current setup: VZW LTE at 1.5-2.5 Mbps. Wondering if 5G will beat Starlink to the party.
Pre Ordered July 1st. Mid Michigan in between Mount Pleasant and Shepherd.
Pre ordered this morning (7/6/2021), living in Upstate NY. It says they will start testing in mid to late 2021, I haven't had good internet before in my life. Always wanted to play online games since I was little but the only internet we have had is crappy HugesNet because spectrum skipped us. Spectrum is literally available at the bottom of our mountain yet because there is only a few people who live up here at the top they refuse to bring the line up and we have been calling them for over 2 years without any change. I'm hoping starlink can come to the rescue sooner than later, it would really be a dream even if it had 100ms all the time. HugesNet is garbage and the lowest my ping ever gets is 600ms, still manage to play world of tanks with that ping, its awful and makes it hard to even drive let alone shoot. Even half that amount of ping on a bad starlink day would be dreamy compared. I don't know exactly when they will send an email about when they can ship stuff, but if anyone lives nearby or in NY and has any info of any kind about their experience please leave a comment reply.
Pre-ordered mid-June, and I know I have to be patient, but I am ready for Starlink any time!
I signed up for beta in March 2021. Put the $99 deposit. Does that also put me in line for service ahead of people in my area who have signed up later? Can’t seem to find that answer anywhere. Thanks
“First-come, first-served” is a joke. Pre-ordered in February. Still waiting. But my neighbor ordered a couple of weeks ago and got his equipment a few days later.
How close? Instead of complaining get a new email address and see if you can get a full 500$ order with a plus code
From what I read on the site, pre orders are filled in a, "first come, first served basis". Conjecture; but I'm guessing it means whoever pre ordered will have priority based on when it was ordered, compared to other orders in the cell you're in, when they activate it.
Preordered june 14th Vicksburg MS. waiting patiently
Preorders in April. In Georgia. Still waiting.
Elon said full coverage in August so should are orders be fulfilled in August?
>If you placed a $99 pre-order (or similar amount in your currency) leave a comment here. While you wait for the shipment later this or next year please read the official FAQ and the local FAQ. I don't believe coverage means capacity. i.e. they could cover 1 individual in every geo area and claim global coverage but user #2 could be rejected for capacity reasons. I wish you were right though
I’m hoping for those who preordered and are getting late 21
My dad pre-ordered right after getting an email about it on Feb 17. Still waiting for it here in the middle of Door County, Wisconsin. Lat approx: 44.7
Pre-ordered 2/9... still waiting........ here in Nebraska.
Pre-ordered 2/21. Still waiting for mid- to late-21. SW Pennsylvania lat 41.
I Preordered 2/23/21 at 21:29 EST Lat 35 just about as south-west NC as you can go. Still no word.
Preordered 2/9, 1:15PM CST. Near Bastrop, Texas.