Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by integer42 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:55AM (#24978107)

When 4g/LTE was new, a coworker was an early adopter of whatever cellphone that was one of the first to support it. They were getting somewhere ~250 mbps on speed test.

Fast forward to everyone having 4g phones, now in practice I see like 1-2% of those speeds typically.

I have no idea the inner workings of starlink's protocol, but these aspects of wireless seem inevitable. once theres more simultaneous connections than in limited beta, each connection gets a smaller time slice or less frequency band, no?

I do not see how its solved either.

Currently I have rural DSL, approximately 3mbps down, 1 mbps up, but cheaper and reliable. The one person who has starlink beta is posting 200+ mbps screenshots but if everyone here connects I'm skeptical the result isn't slower, less reliable, more expensive than what's already here.

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Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by kalleboo on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:21AM (#24979371)

I can see that just over a day. During off-peak hours, I've speedtested around 260 Mbit/s on LTE on my iPhone (it's 10:20 PM on a weekday and I just got 230 Mbit down[0]), but during peak hours (commute hours or lunch rush), it drops to like... 20 Mbit

[0]https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/4226615772

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Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US by fomine3 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:05AM (#24986705)

IIRC initial LTE (UE category 3) only supports max 100Mbps (on spec) by 15MHz bandwidth. So I had measured max 50Mbps on 75Mbps (on spec, 10MHz) network.

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