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Broadband Satellite From Starband

StarBand, by SpaceNet, offers high speed internet service via satellite. Broadband service coverage area for StarBand includes the 50 United States, in addition to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. StarBand is the oldest satellite internet company in the United States.

The consumer will need to purchase a satellite dish, a mount, a feed arm, coaxial cable, and a satellite modem in order to connect to StarBand. This equipment will need to be installed by a certified technician, who will align the satellite dish for the best reception. Like all satellite-delivered high speed internet, the connection can be temporarily disrupted by precipitation, including rain and snow.

For the consumer, StarBand offers three tiers of service from which to select. Each of the tiers offers included virus and spam filtering services. As is true for most internet service providers (ISPs), the downloading or downstream (from the internet to the user’s computer) speed is usually faster than the uploading or upstream (from the user’s computer to the internet) speed.

StarBand High Speed Internet Pricing Tiers

  • StarBand Nova 500 – This tier provides download speed up to 500 kilobits per second (Kbps) and upload speeds up to 100 Kbps. Included in the service are five email accounts, with 10 megabits (MB) of storage per email account.
  • StarBand Nova 1000 – This tier offers download speeds of up to 1.0 Megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speed at a maximum of 128 Kbps. Included are 10 email accounts that have 10 MB of storage for each account.
  • StarBand Nova 1500 – This pricing tier provides downstreaming speeds up to 1.5 Mbps and upstreaming speeds up to 256 Kbps. With this tier there are 15 email accounts included, with 500 MB of storage for the primary account and 100 MB of storage for each of the additional accounts.

Test your internet speed using the internet speed test to find out if StarBand is right for you.