Does anyone use Starlink for their internet? Can you talk me through it like a child please?

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We will need this when we move to a new build as the Fibrenest on the site is awful apparently.

Has anyone ordered the free Starlink kit from them direct? How long did it take to arrive? it says 2-4 weeks which is a long time without broadband as we won’t have a TV aerial either.

Alternatively you can buy the kit from Curry’s and then use it straight away - has anyone done this and was it easy to do?

Any help appreciated please. I have no clue!

Interested, as we’re moving very rurally and this may be available but it seems very expensive.

We’ve had it for a couple of years.

Rural northern Italy.

Opened box. Dithered. Looked at pictures. Set the dish on the drive (it’s still there). Fed the wire through a window (have since cut a notch in the window frame so window can be shut). Plugged it in. Faffed about with my phone over the dish to find North, but the dish was moving itself about until happy. Waited a bit while it chatted to a satellite (I presume).

About 30 minutes from upbacking the box we had super fast internet. It’s only ever gone slow during a major storm + small tornado. Rest of the time as long as we have power, it works.

Did take a long time to arrive though. Which was painful with slug slow Telecom Italia internet.

Thank you! The issue is it can take up to 4 weeks to be delivered. I can’t really order it until we are in our new build but 4 weeks is a long time to be without internet.
You can buy the kit in currrys though apparently so may just buy it outright

Yes, just order through Currys

You then have to sign up on the app and choose the service.

There is a Roaming option or a Residential option

We use the roaming option as we need to move around

There are various speed options - it's very reasonable these days - comparable with 'normal' broadband.

I'm using it ATM 110Mbps down and 29Mbps upload speed

I think the mini has a lower capped speed compared with the Starlink I have.

Amazing thank you!!

Have used mine on and off for years. It's fantastic.
All you need is the hardware kit - which you can buy, then the app on your phone and you're good to go.
If you haven''t got it mounted, don't worry, you can just put it on its stand outside where it can find the satellites and you can get online in a few minutes. We lived in a very rural place for about three years and it was the only way we could get any kind of internet.
We're in a small town now which doesn't have fibre to the house, so we're using starlink again. We just put it on the stand in the back garden and run the cable through a window to the router. We will get someone around to do it properly... eventually.
Massively powerful and only £40 a month atm.

I was potentially looking to buy another one last-minute last week and Amazon seemed to be far more expensive than Currys.

I didn't need one in the end as someone 'found' one we could use

We have brought one with us from Australia to France as DH needs to be able to work and we are in a house with no internet. It’s brilliant but I think expensive (apparently we had used half our monthly allowance within a week so we are now on an unlimited plan. I’m not asking!).

These are the subscription tiers where I am

Got it a couple of months ago. It did take about 3 weeks to arrive. Since they introduced the cheaper tariffs, they completely underestimated the demand. In theory, you can just plug and play, but I got a man in as he fixed the aerial on the side of the house to get a good signal and fitted boosters around the house via our cat5 cabling.
I'm really pleased with it. The signal is rock solid with speeds consistently just over 100mb. If you know when you are going to be moving, I would have thought you could order before you move in.

So helpful thank you all. We have a date to move but I’m nervous of ordering too soon in case it arrives earlier than expected. It’s also a new build so no door number on the door or anything and no one would be there. I’ll just buy the kit from curry’s I think and get it going the day we move in. Cheers!!

We live rurally, no fibre, and loved to Starlink a few years ago. We both work from home so pay for the fastest one and since we moved to it we haven’t lost a day of work / lost connection once.

We had to do a big renovation and had run cables from the bottom of the garden up to the garage so our receiver is on the roof of the garage and the cable is extended and runs into the house underground.

ww tested it just plugging it in on the patio and it was almost plug and play.

I can’t deny it’s expensive but it works.

Is there good mobile phone coverage? A router with a slot for a data sim, will be much cheaper than starlink, and you won't be funding a neo-nazi. You might need an external antennae. What do you mean by fibrenest is awful, it's FTTP so should be good, expensive yes and on some new build estates, the management company will not allow other providers access to the ducts so you get no choice.