I know someone who lives is the West Country and have a poor broadband speed of just 10Mbps, with Openreach still today have no current paths of faster broadband or fibre.
What they have been using is Starlink
In summer of 2021 they connected their Sky Q to Starlink and had no connection problems for the two and a half years they had it.
At that time they were getting a reliable speed of 150-170 Mbps download and 25-35 mbps upload.
Their latency around 20ms, occasionally up to 30ms.
More recently, still using Starlink they are now getting a slightly increased speed of 190-210 Mbps
Their latency is 20-25ms, but occasionally hits 30ms.
That is using one of the dish and routers from their orignal purchase in 2021, so they reckon (not that they feel they need to) if they upgraded to one of the latest routers and/or dish or mini dish setups, they might even get another increase in signal.
Back in June, they decide to move to Sky Stream, having three pucks.
They told me that they have had no connection problems at all with any of their Sky pucks, that are all on wifi.
They make the point the Starlink router pushes out a good wifi signal across their five bedroom property on two levels with one puck on the first level and two pucks on second level.
The supplied Starlink router only has one auxiliary ethernet port, but with a switch works fine to supply a few devices on ethernet, for their kids gaming kit and their electric car charger pod.
They recently had an altnet lay a new service down their road providing a 1GB+ service/
They told me they are so happy woth Starlink reliability that they do not feel its worth the move to the service.
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Click here to find outSky Stream with two pucks (Former Sky Q and Sky+ customer), Sky Ultrafast + using Sky SR203 hub. Sky Protect kit tester.
My good journey to Sky Stream from Sky Q.
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