Significant Drop off in home internet speed

JC8 wrote:

I live in a suburb/semi rural area with limited options for other providers and I suspect that they are focusing on adjacent areas with higher density of customers or potential customers. 

I know what you mean about the limited choices in some areas because I’m in one of those areas, and just keeping my fingers crossed that my new T-mobile home internet will stay as good as it has been in my first month of use.

Being five miles away from the tower and getting an average of 80 Mbps on the B66/n41 combo, with no drops below 45 or so, and good ping, I've been elated about it. My former DSL provider (CenturyLink) lists the max speed available in my neighborhood now as 1.5 Mbps, even though I got 7 Mbps before.  I was paying $45/month only because I complained when they tried to raise the price to $55/month one time.

I read one guy's comment where he was paying $110/month for Spectrum and when he told them he was trying T mobile, they immediately offered him a special price of $20/month for a year and now he's keeping both services. But T mobile only got better for him so he plans on dropping Spectrum in a year when his discount is over.

So if this really doesn't work out, if I were you I wouldn't go into much detail with AT&T if you want to get their 17Mbps service back. Casually tell them you're considering StarLink and just calling to see what AT&T has to offer. But I think StarLink right now, except for people who have no alternative or have lots of money, would be a bad choice because 5G is improving and spreading. I'm expecting to see price wars that haven't happened since dial-up among a lot of companies.