WiFi

As you know I have been whining and complaining about the internet service down here. Well, a lot of people we know are signing up with Starlink.

It’s a bit pricy but well worth it. Our biggest question was whether we could suspend service while in Canada. Well, we can as there is no contract and we will own the equipment. We decided to bite the bullet and ordered it. It’s a bit cheaper here but still $575 CDN for the equipment and then $75 a month. The download speeds are up to 300 megabytes so it is pretty fast—also, very few interruptions even through bad storms apparently; not having experienced that ourselves yet.

They said delivery could take up to two weeks but John and Ronda got theirs in about three days. So we wait and see. We have nothing but the sky here so should get a good signal with no problem. I’m not sure how I’m going to run the wiring yet but I’ll figure that out when it gets here.

We asked Blanca about anchoring it to the wall. She said to drill all the holes we want as Mexicans don’t worry about things like that. That makes life a little easier.

Then we may look at an OTT+ service to provide live tv. They cost about $20 a month and provide about 8,000 channels from all over the world.

Update

Our Starlink receiver arrived after four days and was really easy to set up. Just use an app to find the best location, plug it in, turn it on, and wait for the dish to align itself. I had to do a rough run with the wiring as there was a game on and I had to watch it, although I shouldn’t have bothered. At first, the download speed was only 1o-20 MB. Even at that speed, we noticed how much better things were.

The following day I changed the location and got 75 mbps…much better. The download speed depends a lot on how much of the sky the dish can see. Ours covers about half and has a clear view of most of the sky. The dish will realign itself to find a better signal. Before we got the dish I had to reset my laptop every time I wanted to log on. Now, no problem.

I’ve moved the dish several times to get the best location. At the moment we are getting up to 170 mbps. I’m reluctant to move it again as this is a pretty fast speed. But we’ll see.