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Apparently my area of PEI is eligible to sign up for Starlink's new Satellite Internet service. It's a bit pricey to get set up. About $650 for the equipment however the monthly cost is comparable to the local internet - $129/month. 

They advertise speeds of 50-150mbs right now with significant increases coming as more satellites come on line. Right now my rural LTE internet is 25mps. I think we'll stay put for now as our internet seems to suit our needs but it's nice to know there is another alternative available.

 

 



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Hearing good things about Skylink. 50-150 download speeds and roughly 20 upload. Also much lower ping rates (communication delays), than other satellite systems. My plan in the city of Winnipeg gives me 15-30 download and no more than 5 upload. I've recently had request an upgrade to fibre optics to facilitate all the virtual calls at work. Even then I'll get 50 download and 50 upload.

If I was in a rural area, I'd be very interesting in that Skylink.

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I am signed up for my next job in northern Ontario. Don't know much about it but its supposed to be fast

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Are Starlink & Skylink the same thing?

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Presently use xplornet. Thinking it's slow and expensive.
Perhaps time to shop around.

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I have Xplorenet LTE which I find pretty good. I do have friends here in PEI with the same service (LTE) and their speeds are half of what I'm getting.

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I have Xplorenet LTE which I find pretty good. I do have friends here in PEI with the same service (LTE) and their speeds are half of what I'm getting.

 My brother had them and dropped them. No good.



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Did he have LTE or their satellite service? The satellite service is terrible. LTE uses cell towers.

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Elon Musks Starlink doing well in Parry Sound, Almaguin - Sudbury.com

https://www.sudbury.com/around-the-north/elon-musks-starlink-doing-well-in-parry-sound-almaguin-3456952



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Xplorenet's satellite connection is pretty decent, my bro has it at his cottage, over the bank north of Goderich, where there's no cell coverage, but I understand it will connect to ground-based wireless if it can, in preference to satellite, and in a lot of rural areas, the service is pretty sketchy.

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Canadian Poncho wrote:

Did he have LTE or their satellite service? The satellite service is terrible. LTE uses cell towers.

 Satellite.



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My brother was opining that Starlink dishes, because of their physical nature will not work too well in our extreme Canadian winter weather. They are developed in the warm southern U.S.



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I would hope that a company that can put rockets into space can figure out how to make a satellite dish hold up to a Canadian winter.

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My brother was opining that Starlink dishes, because of their physical nature will not work too well in our extreme Canadian winter weather. They are developed in the warm southern U.S.

As a telecommunications engineer, I'm yet to see any outdoor equipment meant for global operation that can't withstand the Canadian winter weather.



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Pontiacanada wrote:

My brother was opining that Starlink dishes, because of their physical nature will not work too well in our extreme Canadian winter weather. They are developed in the warm southern U.S.

As a telecommunications engineer, I'm yet to see any outdoor equipment meant for global operation that can't withstand the Canadian winter weather.

 Can withstand the winter or can't?



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seventy2plus2 wrote:
Pontiacanada wrote:

My brother was opining that Starlink dishes, because of their physical nature will not work too well in our extreme Canadian winter weather. They are developed in the warm southern U.S.

As a telecommunications engineer, I'm yet to see any outdoor equipment meant for global operation that can't withstand the Canadian winter weather.

 Can withstand the winter or can't?

 I'm yet to see any that can't withstand the Canadian winter.   Meaning, they can withstand the Canadian winter.



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It's like a bird bath (horizontally mounted). It will lose signal due to snow/ice accumulation. As it is, Bell Expressview dishes (which are vertically mounted) lose signal in extreme snow/ice.



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Lots of positives about Starlink in the comment section of this story.

Musk plans on putting 12,000 satellites in the air.

Big Telos might have something to worry about with Musk's plan.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/starlink-high-speed-internet-rural-ontario-1.5937037



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Temps are pretty uniform at the elevations these things circulate in - regardless of latitude.

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I have Star choice satellite, & they just upped fee to $ 117/mth from $112. Dish fills with snow and looses signal BUT I tried a spray [2 part mix] "something" WET and so far it's worked $ 48 for the 2 spray cans

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