slowindown 494 Posted May 26, 2021 There are no options where I live except Hughes net which wasn’t very good and att fixed which pulls from a cell tower. Starlink will be available by the end of the year in my area. we can stream tv and movies with only rare speed issues Pic of the fixed wireless antenna 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 4,073 Posted May 26, 2021 I tested my speeds this morning and got 64mbps down/45mbps up on speedtest.net from servers in Indianapolis, IN and in St Louis, MO. Pings were a bit high to those two cities at 81ms-84ms though. Those two tests were on 4G only since my secondary 5G signals would not connect this morning. Whenever the 5G secondary signals do connect though, my download speeds increase about 30% while upload speeds remain about the same at around 45mbps. Not bad for $50 a month with no speed limits or data caps out in the boonies, 15 miles from the nearest cell tower! 🙂 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 4,073 Posted May 26, 2021 5 hours ago, Fishfiles said: I book marked that speed tester , just tried it agin 201.4 That rips!!!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,147 Posted May 26, 2021 16 minutes ago, retro said: That rips!!!! I am good , the wife appreciates the quality of the picture , so it is worth the pain in her eyes , speaking of eyes , we can actually read the channel guide now Played around with it today , went out and bought a 4 way powered splitter that is 4K , and got both TVs working off the wifi system ------- both TVs play the picture and sound off theTV speakers , just can't get the cable box sound thru the sound system yet -- that 4way splitter was all I could get , got the extra two spots now to add a couple more TVs for them parties , gonna be like a sports bar 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SparkyMark 49 Posted May 26, 2021 12 hours ago, Fishfiles said: " he used a meter and said the number was 17" He's probably referring to the ping time. (Response time - from sending to receiving a response) 17 msec is normal. You can use speediest.net to find out your ping time, download and upload rates. The upload and download rates will usually be much higher if directly connected to the router instead of wifi... but we all use wifi these days. 12 hours ago, Fishfiles said: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SparkyMark 49 Posted May 26, 2021 1 hour ago, retro said: I tested my speeds this morning and got 64mbps down/45mbps up on speedtest.net from servers in Indianapolis, IN and in St Louis, MO. Pings were a bit high to those two cities at 81ms-84ms though. Those two tests were on 4G only since my secondary 5G signals would not connect this morning. Whenever the 5G secondary signals do connect though, my download speeds increase about 30% while upload speeds remain about the same at around 45mbps. Not bad for $50 a month with no speed limits or data caps out in the boonies, 15 miles from the nearest cell tower! 🙂 That's pretty good for 4G. In rural Wales, we used to have to get the sheep lined up to receive a good signal 🙂 (US colleagues - think of Wyoming) 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SparkyMark 49 Posted May 26, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 8:40 AM, CamKnouff said: Just switched over to Starlink, I have no cell reception and can not get a land line. Unlimited data; needed to purchase their dish $800, and $144 a month, a bit of an outlay but much better than previous deal. PING ms 32 DOWNLOAD Mbps 189.51 UPLOAD Mbps 15.18 Previous supplier - went to watch hockey - in 5 minutes of clock time had 3 minutes and 8 seconds of buffing- cancelled and then Starlink became available here; big improvement and now watching and enjoying the play offs. Wow! Those prices have increased. But I'm impressed with the download / upload rates. Do you have any periods of no service? (out of satellite range?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 4,073 Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Fishfiles said: got the extra two spots now to add a couple more TVs for them parties , gonna be like a sports bar I can identify with that! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 4,073 Posted May 27, 2021 I can't help but wonder how all of those Starlink satellites could survive after a few of them get taken out by a meteor shower, some space junk or a rocket launch that requires corrective manuvers but don't quite make it back on trajectory? Because they are spaced so densely with orbits resembling long strings of train cars stretching around the globe... seems like a minor space wreck could cause a major chain of events, sorta like tipping multiple rows of dominos down by bumping any one of them.... if a bunch of those satellites trashed there could be fields of junk scattered all around the earth. Might take out military & communications rigs too, and prevent future space travel launches from navigating through the debris fields if something like that ever happens. I just don't think high density orbits are a good idea. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slowindown 494 Posted May 27, 2021 10 hours ago, slowindown said: Jeep I just tested my att fixed wireless speed and am posting a pic of the results below. I’ll try and remember to check this evening and do the same when I imagine speeds are slower bc of more people at home. Anyway if you’re a reasonable distance from an att tower you might consider that. Our plan is 350 gb. We’ve never gone over, even when kids come home for the holidays and whatnot. We cut the cord so all our tv is streaming. as expected slower at night 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slowindown 494 Posted May 27, 2021 2 hours ago, retro said: I can't help but wonder how all of those Starlink satellites could survive after a few of them get taken out by a meteor shower, some space junk or a rocket launch that requires corrective manuvers but don't quite make it back on trajectory? Because they are spaced so densely with orbits resembling long strings of train cars stretching around the globe... seems like a minor space wreck could cause a major chain of events, sorta like tipping multiple rows of dominos down by bumping any one of them.... if a bunch of those satellites trashed there could be fields of junk scattered all around the earth. Might take out military & communications rigs too, and prevent future space travel launches from navigating through the debris fields if something like that ever happens. I just don't think high density orbits are a good idea. They're not spaced densely. They're initially in a train and spread out. There's also lots of redundancy. Space is mostly empty - that's why we call it space. lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeekanDestroy 24 Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) I couldn't have nothing below 100 this my current speeds but getting 500/500 next month. Edited May 27, 2021 by SeekanDestroy 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CamKnouff 148 Posted May 27, 2021 13 hours ago, SparkyMark said: Wow! Those prices have increased. But I'm impressed with the download / upload rates. Do you have any periods of no service? (out of satellite range?) High $, but remember that is in Canadian dollars. Yes I have had outages, only a few and not for that long, I think one about 15 minutes and a couple of a few minutes. Not sure why? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,147 Posted May 27, 2021 Alright 111 , Spectrum tech just left , he spent 2.5 hours with me and got the surround sound / dual TV set up and tweaked out , actually better than it was with DirectV/ATT , even the Air TV is going thru the surround sound ---- got to say so far I like Spectrum ---- I have one more deal with them coming up , they are going to bore from the street to the house and bury the temporary wire under ground ---- just checked the speed 228.63 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SparkyMark 49 Posted May 28, 2021 14 hours ago, CamKnouff said: High $, but remember that is in Canadian dollars. Yes I have had outages, only a few and not for that long, I think one about 15 minutes and a couple of a few minutes. Not sure why? Ahh - that makes sense 🙂 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,147 Posted May 29, 2021 Another mile stone reached , my desk top never does have commercials or adds on videos or You Tube , where my outside smart TV " did " , so I was told that Google charges $10 per month for no commercials on YouTube ------ once I learned the procedure , it is very easy to stop the ads and commercials , takes about 2 minutes to be ad for free , if anyone is interested 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chevymec 510 Posted May 31, 2021 We went rounds with Charter cable years ago. Our house is off the road a good bit and they said they couldn't run the cable to our house because the quality would be reduced. When I made the statement that yall run cable thousands of miles down the road and it is fine, I got no response other than " we cant do it" Very next day a tech that was in the area came by and asked if we wanted cable. I told him what had just happened and he looked confused. He said that we would probably have to get the cable ran up to the closest pole but they would connect it. I wasn't spending that money. We dumped Direct TV when the prices kept going up. We have had Century link for phone and internet for years now and I have no complaints. Hulu, Netflix, and Motortrend, and Prime is more than we can ever watch. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeepwm69 7,744 Posted June 1, 2021 On 5/29/2021 at 7:03 AM, Fishfiles said: Another mile stone reached , my desk top never does have commercials or adds on videos or You Tube , where my outside smart TV " did " , so I was told that Google charges $10 per month for no commercials on YouTube ------ once I learned the procedure , it is very easy to stop the ads and commercials , takes about 2 minutes to be ad for free , if anyone is interested Well.....we're waiting! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LedFTed 1,142 Posted June 9, 2021 aint that in Mega bits per second instead of MB's per second. i suppose its good, so far.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SparkyMark 49 Posted June 11, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 1:27 PM, LedFTed said: aint that in Mega bits per second instead of MB's per second. i suppose its good, so far.. Megabits is correct. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fishfiles 20,147 Posted June 11, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 9:52 AM, jeepwm69 said: Well.....we're waiting! I can't find that video of how I did it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retro 4,073 Posted June 12, 2021 For ads-free Youtube vids and music on Android phones try the Youtube Vanced app. https://youtubevanced.com/ For ads-free Youtube that works on all Android-based TV devices try Smart Youtube TV. https://troypoint.com/youtube-without-ads/ Smart Youtube TV works great, be sure you install the most recent version and keep the app updated. Both of those apps are free. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites