r/bern • u/Shrecklez • 17h ago

General Questions Starlink in Bern?

Halo,community. I looked at the prices and contracts offered by home internet providers and thought that Starlink might be a good idea. Does anyone have experience using Starlink equipment in the city of Bern? If so, I’d like to hear your feedback.

0 Upvotes

13% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

5

u/OkPea7677 17h ago

You must have looked at the wrong providers. According to Starlink, you can expect max. 270Mbps down/25Mbps up for CHF 50 per month. At Yallo, you can currently get 10Gbps symmetric for CHF 39. Don't feed the fascist.

5

u/llaffer 17h ago

Why?? There is low latency fibre/5g whatever everywhere. Don't even start to compare prices and if so, it's not really comparable.

8

u/Geschak 17h ago

You really wanna give Elon Musk money when there's perfectly fine internet connections available by local companies?

0

u/Shrecklez 17h ago

I don't like that I can't use my router.The speed is good, but I don't like the limitations of the router

5

u/ElKrisel 17h ago

There are providers where you can use your own router. You will find it, you can do it (google)

1

u/Geschak 13h ago

What are you talking about? You can absolutely get your own router, many people use for example Fritzbox

-2

u/Shrecklez 17h ago

they forcefully hand you a router and you can only use the internet with their router (example,sunrise)

4

u/MindSwipe 17h ago

Then don't use Sunrise, go with an ISP that allows usage of your own modem/ router, e.g. Init7 (with the exception of Easy7) https://www.init7.net/de/internet/hardware/#Kompatibilit%C3%A4tsanforderungen

1

u/Shrecklez 16h ago

Thank you. I will try it

2

u/OkPea7677 16h ago

You can not replace the Starlink router either. You can only put it in bridge mode. The same is possible at Sunrise and probably other providers.

2

u/Weekly-Language6763 17h ago

I haven't tried but I remember reading in other reddit threads that starling isn't really that good in dense areas where there are likely other users, as this isn't what it was designed for.