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That said, download speed isn’ t everything. With satellite-based communications, interruptions can occur, especially if you have a partially obstructed view of the sky. At the end of the day, as long as we can comfortably stream on two TVs and browse the net on two other devices simultaneously, we are happy and, most of the time, we’ ve been able to do that.
So while I was very happy with our Gen 2 system, I was keen to see how the Mini and the Home worked by comparison. The only way to do a fair comparison was to run speed tests on all the systems. But there’ s a problem. Starlink download speeds are not consistent. You can run the test one minute and get 300mbps and immediately after run it again and get 150mbps. Also, the further away you are from the wi-fi router, the slower the final download speed will be. So publishing actual speeds is not going to be helpful.
What I can say is that the Home system achieved faster download speeds than the other two, which were too close to separate. At one point I recorded 308mbps on the Home system but then, a few minutes later, it dropped to around 70mbps. You can see what I’ m getting at. The speed will vary as the satellites move across the sky. Even the type of satellite and the number of other users in your area will make a difference.
The surprise out of this was the speed of the Mini. While it never reached the peaks of the Home system, it was consistently between 70mbps and 150mbps, with peaks of 175mbps. Very similar to our Gen 2 system.
Left to right we have the Mini’ s tiny power supply, the Gen 2 router with internal power supply, and the Gen 3 Home router and seperate power supply.
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