Starlink

[John_Mc]

My Starlink hardware arrived today. We did a temporary installation by putting the dish out on our picnic table and running the cable in through the window with some old foam rubber as weatherstripping to seal up the gap.

It took about 10-15 minutes to go through its startup routine and make a connection to the internet. The results of the first speed test:

It's working well so far. The slowest speed I've seen is 55 mbps down / 14 up. It's unusual to get less than 75/18. Most speed tests fall in the 80-140 mbps down / 18-30 up.

In our first few hours, we had a couple of brief outages. They've been only seconds in duration. We were warned to expect this during the Beta test phase. As more satellites get launched and they continue to tweak their software, it should get better.

 

[cqaigy2]

Nice!

 

[ernemats]

Super nice, glad it is working good. Can't wait till they get to PA.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Thanks for this awesome first report.

 

[riptides]

My Starlink hardware arrived today. We did a temporary installation by putting the dish out on our picnic table and running the cable in through the window with some old foam rubber as weatherstripping to seal up the gap.

It took about 10-15 minutes to go through its startup routine and make a connection to the internet. The results of the first speed test:

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It's working well so far. The slowest speed I've seen is 55 mbps down / 14 up. It's unusual to get less than 75/18. Most speed tests fall in the 80-140 mbps down / 18-30 up.

In our first few hours, we had a couple of brief outages. They've been only seconds in duration. We were warned to expect this during the Beta test phase. As more satellites get launched and they continue to tweak their software, it should get better.

Oh...oh.... that's SWEET. 18-30 up!

 

[forgeblast]

That is so awesome!! I cannot wait for PA to get it. Im currently getting 2mbps and frontier said thats the best we will ever get lol.

 

[shooterdon]

John,
Thanks for posting your results.

 

[rekees4300]

My Starlink hardware arrived today.

Welcome to the world of REAL broadband. :thumbsup:

 

[rekees4300]

Who knew? ... Starlink Is Currently Serving More Than 10,000 Users

SpaceX's Starlink Is Currently Serving More Than 10000, Users | PCMag

 

[dmccarty]

My Starlink hardware arrived today. We did a temporary installation by putting the dish out on our picnic table and running the cable in through the window with some old foam rubber as weatherstripping to seal up the gap.

It took about 10-15 minutes to go through its startup routine and make a connection to the internet. The results of the first speed test:

View attachment 685413

It's working well so far. The slowest speed I've seen is 55 mbps down / 14 up. It's unusual to get less than 75/18. Most speed tests fall in the 80-140 mbps down / 18-30 up.

In our first few hours, we had a couple of brief outages. They've been only seconds in duration. We were warned to expect this during the Beta test phase. As more satellites get launched and they continue to tweak their software, it should get better.

JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS am I. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I have seen reports on other websites of seconds long outages. I think the guy is either in southern AK or Washington. He is on boat. I wonder if the outages are because of latitude...

15 up is unreal. <droooooooollllllllll>

55 down is well, I don't know what we would do with all of that bandwidth. The other speeds are just a dream... :laughing:

Later,
Dan