Is Starlink Worth Switching To?

It's fantastic from the perspective of someone who was paying the same amount for 3MB/sec. It hasn't been perfectly reliable, but it has been more reliable than the old telco service it replaced. The tech, from the dish down to the apps, is impressive.

Spectrum is fine, and if you're in an area serviced by them, Starlink is liable to provide worse service. If there's a lot of people in the same Starlink cell as you, it's not the fastest or the most reliable. Then again, you could be the only person in your cell with it, too. Best would be to find someone who's in your immediate area to say how service actually is there.

It's definitely very neat, and infinitely useful in rural areas, but suburban wired Internet beats it easily. If you were on dialup or DSL it would be a no brainer, but Spectrum is cable.

It is better than DSL, which I have. If you've got cable you get 10x the performance than I get for 1/2 the cost. Count your blessings.

Granted though there is so much irrational hate for the cable company that one of Starlink's big problems is that there are so many people who live in places like LA and New York City and can afford to burn dollar bills that, without some kind of geofencing, people who don't have a better alternative for 300 miles around would be priced out.