One consideration for anyone in the Villages using Starlink, but has access to Fiber or even cable based internet. Starlink is very robust in weather overall compared to older DirectTV etc. That said, it can be effected by heavy rain, hard to get passed the laws of physics. In most cases, I've seen data rates slow, but in very heavy rain you can have complete outages for a brief period. For anyone that has cruised recently, most major cruise lines have or are in process of switching to Starlink. Very impressive service, but you may have noted you lost internet (or it slowed way down) or TV during very heavy storms...... and the cruise ship antennas are far more robust than the home version.
Starlink is a GREAT service, but was not meant to replace fiber/coax where available in the near term. Fiber is the best solution if available. As indicated above, Starlink for remote areas, cruise liners, airplanes, RVs etc it is a God send.
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