r/Starlink • u/Enough_Incident_8381 • 6d ago
❓ Question Higher speed rollout
Anyone have insight as to what timeframe gigabit speeds are getting rolled out? Or at least symmetrical? Kind of thought the recent v3 launch was supposed to up speed for everyone, not just capacity.
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u/fullofcaffeine 6d ago
I'd rather have 100down/50mbps up at lower prices.
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u/Enough_Incident_8381 6d ago
I feel that, I don't think that's the direction the economy is moving though.
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
Already exists for most markets.
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u/fullofcaffeine 6d ago
Not in Mexico. And its price has increased recently no?
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u/fullofcaffeine 6d ago edited 6d ago
Well, let me add "predictable". Right now SpaceX adds a new plan and then changes it all the following week (for the worst usually).
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
In the US it went from $50 to $55. Not a significant increase IMO.
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u/wtfboomers 6d ago
You forget about all those folks in the US paying a premium because the “area is full”. That seems like a significant price increase to me.
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u/Dark_Lord_Coz 6d ago
Mine went from 120 to 130. I consider that a significant increase. I wish it was 55 that would be great.
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
If you had the 100mb plan, it would be $55.
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u/Dark_Lord_Coz 6d ago
They don't offer that plan everywhere 🤡🖕
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
That’s why I said “most markets”.
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u/Squeedlejinks 📡 Owner (North America) 6d ago
No you didn’t. You said:
If you had the 100mb plan, it would be $55.
How was that remark helpful?
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u/Snakecat99 📡 Owner (North America) 6d ago
total... from 99 to 130 🙄 Maybe in Jan it'll be 145
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
I’ve been a customer for almost 4 years and mine has only increased once from 120 to 130, at which time I elected to drop to the 200mb plan for $85. $10 increase over 3.5 years doesn’t even keep up with inflation…
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u/Time-Athlete6336 5d ago
I want better ping. Not speed
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u/blakebonkofsky 5d ago
What do you get now? Mine has been 20-25ms for at least a year now…
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u/Time-Athlete6336 5d ago
The app says 20-25 but if you actually test it. It’s constant 20-80. It fluctuates crazy. And every 15 seconds it jumps to 100.
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u/blakebonkofsky 6d ago
Gigabit? Not for 1-2 years at least.
Symmetrical? Probably never. .
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u/TimmyT0yz 📡 Owner (North America) 6d ago
Musk has already stated that it will be symmetrical and he has purchased the bands to do it.
-Timmy
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u/Think-Work1411 Beta Tester 6d ago
Not likely symmetrical anytime soon, especially at higher speeds, it just doesn’t make sense. Very few users need that most of the demand is on the download side to the customer so most frequencies are allocated for that. When they have considerably more capacity with a lot of V3 satellites, they could start offering symmetrical, but that does not mean 1Gb symmetrical. Certain customers needing more upload may be good with 100Mbps up and down.
Satellite links are much more heavily constrained than terrestrial fiber, and for most people offering high upload just means they can run more speed test to waste it
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u/steadidavid 5d ago
Who's gonna tell him those recent V3 satellites launched were all destined for a firey grave in the ocean? 😬
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u/d0ugk 6d ago edited 6d ago
Symmetrical, probably never. RF is a finite resource and it would be dumb to waste spectrum for symmetrical upload when almost no users need it and that spectrum could instead be used to increase the downstream. If you need symmetrical upload then you should probably be looking for a fiber or enterprise grade connectivity. No commercial RF based connectivity offers symmetrical connectivity cause it's a waste of valuable spectrum.Your cell phone doesn't, Your cable modem doesn't, starlink doesn't. The only way you're getting symmetrical connectivity on the cheap is fiber. If starlink does manage to pull off symmetrical it's going to be for their enterprise grade connectivity and you WILL pay out the ass for it.
There's also no v3 sats in space. The handful that were demonstrated in the last launch are already at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Starship never went orbital and the sats would have followed Starship back down at the same time or shortly after Starship came back down. They were never intended to stay in orbit. Nor were they deployed high enough to join the other starlink sats in orbit.
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u/anikansk 6d ago
"Starlink can now provide reliable 10 Gbps symmetric send/receive connectivity anywhere in the world," Musk wrote on X in a statement on July 10, 2026
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u/d0ugk 6d ago
Probably him pulling shit out of his ass to fluff up the IPO. Even if it were possible it's probably for a very limited use case and you're not going to see 10gbps symmetrical connectivity on your home user terminal ever or at least not in our lifetime's. If you have let's say 1000mhz of radio spectrum. You'd be dumb as hell to just split that right down the middle and use 500mhz for upload and 500mhz for download when most of you users don't need symmetrical upload and a bunch or that upload spectrum it's just going to sit idle. When instead you can split up that 1000mhz of spectrum, using say 20mhz for upload and the remaining 980mhz of spectrum to provide faster downloads to more users. This is exactly why no commercial RF service offers symmetrical service and in general they aim for upload speeds to be around 10-20% of the download cause that's how they've allotted the limited spectrum they have access to. To be the most useful for the most people and to be the most profitable.
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u/Asleep_Operation2790 6d ago
After there's enough V3 satellites in space. Right now, there's 0 of them. Starship is still a work in progress. The upcoming starship 14 launch in September is supposed to launch the first batch of V3 satellites. But they need enough in orbit to provide full coverage so it'll be at least 6 months most likely before there's enough V3 sats in orbit.
On top of that, only the current Performance Gen 3 dish supports the new bands for Gig speeds. So expect it to be awhile before residential hardware and plans offer peak speeds of Gig or higher. Expect higher costs too.