It’s been one year (3 June 2022) since I wrote that I’d dropped my Starlink reservation, which I’d been holding on to since paying for it in February 2021. Just for grins and giggles I checked Orlando’s Starlink coverage again at https://www.starlink.com/map . Sure enough, the area around Orlando all the way up Florida was on the “waitlist.” Hover your mouse pointer over the waitlist area and a pop-up displays “Coming in 2023.” Back in 2022, when I bailed, the map said Starlink coverage for Orlando was coming mid-2022. So here we are one year later, and nothing has changed.

I also wrote in 2022 that my terrestrial internet provider was giving me 200Mb download speeds and costing me about $100/month. In May of this year, my terrestrial service was upgraded to 500Mb download and my cost dropped to $75/month. This is just basic service without TV, as neither my wife nor I watch any TV channels. If we watch anything, it’s streaming from several services, two of which we are seriously considering dropping (more on that in a later post). My terrestrial land line boost is the more remarkable because Starlink’s satellite download speeds have been dropping slowly but steadily due to increasing customers and increased customer demand. I sincerely doubt that Starlink is going to be the major money maker Musk originally touted it as. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone at this point.

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i’m waiting on starlink no more