Starlink

[Zippo1]

Dishy shuts down at 122 degrees F.

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

Man watered dish to cool it down but overheating knocked it offline for 7 hours.

arstechnica.com

 

[John_Mc]

Finally got around to relocating my dish from the picnic table in the side yard to our roof. From the table I had a slight obstruction to the north (a critical area for our location).

The obstruction analyzer said the picnic table was causing a gap in coverage every 45 minutes or so (which was pretty much what we were seeing: they typically lasted only for seconds, but on rare occasions as long as 20 seconds).

After moving to the rooftop, I was on a zoom meeting for 2.5 hours. ("Live" video conferences are a tough test, since you can't buffer those.) The only problem was a single stutter in the video feed which lasted about 2 seconds. (Hard to say whether that came from my end or the folks on the other end.)

 

[Avenger]

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned here yet, or not. But a friend of mine just told me about his site:

Starlink Status

Starlink Speedtest and Ping Analytics - Contribute now with a quick Speedtest or even a Autoamtic Speedtest Station.s

starlinkstatus.space

Maybe some useful info there on the actual status of Starlink.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Elon Musk's Starlink satelllite service gets federal approval

Elon Musk has a lot of plates to keep spinning yet so how he marches on.

 

[Fallon]

Elon Musk's Starlink satelllite service gets federal approval

Elon Musk has a lot of plates to keep spinning yet so how he marches on.

Setting up an ISP in a foreign country (Mexico in this case) is trivial & mostly politics if you have a couple hundred (or is it a couple thousand now) satellites swarming the whole planet already. I'm assuming they are playing nice & putting a downlink in country. They could put one anywhere on the planet & provide service across borders.

 

[rekees4300]

Update from Elon Musk "SpaceX expects to service more than 500,000 customers within a year".

Elon Musk says Starlink will be available worldwide in August

 

[Alan W.]

Update from Elon Musk "SpaceX expects to service more than 500,000 customers within a year".

Elon Musk says Starlink will be available worldwide in August

Of what year. I think hes being a bit optimistic.

 

[cqaigy2]

Starlink is currently at capacity in your area through 2021, your order might not be fulfilled until late 2022. You will receive a notification once your Starlink is ready to ship.

 

[BigBlue1]

Bummer!

 

[Alan W.]

Starlink is currently at capacity in your area through 2021, your order might not be fulfilled until late 2022. You will receive a notification once your Starlink is ready to ship.

Starlink is still taking orders for my area and stating service will be mid to late 21. Thats the same they told me when I preordered earlier this year.
Where did you get the at capacity information.