“We moved up to this small village and it was an absolute ball ache when we got our slow connection here,” he said.
Using Starlink, he receives an average of 175Mbps, and up to 215Mbps, meaning games can be downloaded in little over an hour.
On a previous occasion, a game started downloading at the snail’s pace of 0.5Mbps, so he “gave up because there was no point”.
“The ability to be able to download content so quickly compared to our standard BT line is amazing,” said Mr Wilkes.
Mr Musk’s SpaceX company has already launched more than 1,000 satellites into Earth’s orbit as part of its Starlink programme, which aims to beam high-speed internet to those left behind by traditional cable-based providers.
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