I live outside of Laramie and two neighbors got Starlink last spring while I stuck with our local DSL. One of them claims their download speed jumped from 12 Mbps to 150 Mbps in just three months. The other neighbor says the service drops out when it rains hard and they miss the steady connection. My DSL has been 10 Mbps for five years without any drama. Has anyone else tried both and seen a real difference where you live?
I picked up a $40 signal booster for my T-Mobile hotspot last month because my usual spot in the house only gets 1 bar. Hooked it up in the living room window like the instructions said, and for the first week it seemed okay. Then my speeds started dropping to like 2 Mbps at night, way slower than before. Turns out the booster was actually picking up interference from my neighbor's new solar setup and amplifying the noise instead of the signal. I learned the hard way that cheap boosters can mess with your connection if you don't know what frequencies to filter. Now I'm back to just taping my hotspot to the highest shelf in the kitchen. Has anyone else had a booster backfire on them like this?
Read the reviews, watched the videos, seemed legit. Hooked it up to my HughesNet dish and my speeds actually dropped from 3 Mbps to 1.5. Wasted a whole Saturday on the roof too. Has anybody actually gotten one of those things to work or are they all scams?