Satellite (Starlink) Beta

[Hardhat Harry]

Got notification today that I was selected for the Starlink Beta with T-Mobile.

 

[AnnDroid]

That sounds exciting! Does T-Mobile work well in your area?

 

[Bkdodger1]

Excellent keep us informed on your experience with it

 

[Hardhat Harry]

That sounds exciting! Does T-Mobile work well in your area?

Locally, yes, however, about 5 miles east and we lose cell signal. Our house is within 1 mile of a four lane divided highway, recently designated as an Interstate highway. 5g service is great, and our T-mobile Home Internet service is outstanding and 99.999% reliable.

 

[mustang7757]

I have it on in my s25u and pixel 9 pro xl and haven't seen it used yet, mostly I'm in good coverage.

 

[Hardhat Harry]

Today was the first chance to use the Starlink connection. To give you an idea of our local coverage, my latest Speedtest was 763 Mbps down 71,6 up. 11 miles from the house, no T-mobile service at all. Phone showed the Starlink connection availability, so I s3nd a couple of texts to my son in Tennessee...messages sent and replies received. Works as advertised. YMMV. I thought it was pretty cool. Last time I used Starlink was through a WiFi connection on a cruise ship.

 

[mustang7757]

Today was the first chance to use the Starlink connection. To give you an idea of our local coverage, my latest Speedtest was 763 Mbps down 71,6 up. 11 miles from the house, no T-mobile service at all. Phone showed the Starlink connection availability, so I s3nd a couple of texts to my son in Tennessee...messages sent and replies received. Works as advertised. YMMV. I thought it was pretty cool. Last time I used Starlink was through a WiFi connection on a cruise ship.View attachment 368947

Thanks for sharing

 

[PGrey]

Yeah, I used this a couple of weekends ago too, we travel back/forth to a ski area that's somewhat isolated and I got the notification (signed up early as well) and tested it a bit.
Nice to have for anything backcountry (I think, traveled a lot with pack and/or skis w/o for so many years it's odd to think of, in some ways), for an emergency. I was on a climb (mixed glacier/alpine) back in the 90's and we had a broken ankle, which required an extra day of camp, while two went to the car to seek a helicopter extraction (tough raising lowering someone over a boulder field one way and then over a glacier/features on the other side to get back to the approach trail). Tough couple of days with limited extra food, and stressful for injured, this would've been handy.