{"id":115414,"date":"2020-11-04T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/starlink-beta-has-outperformed-most-internet-in-the-us"},"modified":"2020-11-04T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:22:53","slug":"starlink-beta-has-outperformed-most-internet-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/starlink-beta-has-outperformed-most-internet-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starlink-beta-has-outperformed-most-internet-in-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems Starlink will give other service providers a run for their money. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Managing Expectations<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX made its expectations clear from the beginning: The space company called the public test a \u201cBetter Than Nothing Beta\u201d and suggested users might see speeds of 50 to 150 Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarlink will forever change the game,\u201d one user from rural Montana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Starlink\/comments\/jltvk8\/way_out_in_rural_montana_where_our_alternative_is\/\">said on Reddit<\/a> as they shared their 174 Mbps download speeds. Another beta tester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Starlink\/comments\/jltvk8\/way_out_in_rural_montana_where_our_alternative_is\/garcgy0\/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3\">boasted of their results<\/a> in Seattle, which were slightly lower but still better than 95 percent of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Starlink will give other service providers a run for their money. \ud83d\ude42 Managing Expectations SpaceX made its expectations clear from the beginning: The space company called the public test a \u201cBetter Than Nothing Beta\u201d and suggested users might see speeds of 50 to 150 Mbps. \u201cStarlink will forever change the game,\u201d one user [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}