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Starlink is Elon musk's audacious plan to use thousands

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of low Earth orbiting satellites to deliver high-speed

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internet access to areas where it hasn't been available

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before the program is still in beta but after weeks of testing

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by Tom's guide in the mountains of Vermont,

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it looks like starlink is ontrac deliver on its promise of high-speed

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internet access. We found it simple to set up the starlink

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package including the dish cabling and Wi-Fi router cost about

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$499 and it comes in one box with everything already connected

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Services a bit steep at $99 a month,

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but that's justified in places where there simply is no alternative

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starlink requires an unobstructed view of the sky to track

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satellites Sailing by and its early stages with just over a thousand

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satellites a lot that can be a bit of a challenge even though

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the motorized dish will automatically move to align itself

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with area size.

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The package comes with a fixed cable that's only a hundred

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feet long. However, and that may not be enough for some installations

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and you can swap out the cable.

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Hopefully correctly aiming the dish will become less of an issue

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as starlink launch has more satellites in our tests.

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We could finally stream 4K movies and download a hundreds of

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emails and Seconds cast on fast.com turned in promising

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if still preliminary numbers with regular download speeds

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of over 50 megabits per second.

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That's much better than the 1.2 megabits per second.

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We're currently getting on a country DSL line.

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There's been lots of speculation about how fast the service

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could eventually be perhaps into the gigabit-per-second

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territory. However, Elon Musk recently tweeted that he thinks

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starlink will be able to deliver up to 300 megabits per second

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in the US by the end of 2120 but those of us in the

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country and that's plenty fast indeed, but Tom's guide.

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I'm John Queen.