Starlink

[lostcreekranch]

We're just above the 29th so .. who knows?

 

[mikester]

Got my system yesterday. Sets up in 5 minutes. Takes about 15 minutes to lock into a satellite. Getting Initial speeds of 50MBit down and 10-20MBit up. Averaging 40-50ms pings with jitter running between 1-10ms.

Performance has been variable but in general it's way snappier than my xplornet point to point. Xplornet throttles data differently and tends to have a lot of lag when downloading large files like updates or streaming video. i.e apple updates are throttled to dial up internet speeds and take forever to complete. xplornet's bandwidth management policy sucks big time.

So far I see download speeds ranging from 40-110MBit and uploads are 10-20MBit. Starlink upload speeds are better than xplornet's average download speeds so far. Xplornet has 11 hops to the internet, Starlink is 5 hops.

I'm currently getting gouged by xplornet who charges $100/month for 25 down and 1 up service that rarely gives me 50% of what I'm paying for and experience frequent network outages on the xplornet backbone. I see xplornet is starting to promote a 50MB download service for $110/mo and $300 for hardware. I'm guessing that would let me see regular 20MB download speeds.

The writing is on the wall for xplornet.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Just checked our Excede. 19.2 down / 4.99 up which is better than normal 12 down / 3 up.

 

[riptides]

We're just above the 29th so .. who knows?

Beta is advertised as 37 to 54 degrees as of this AM.

My Southern friends are now checking in, so it is definitely expanding.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Hopefully we'll see a successful Starship landing soon. In time it should launch like 400 Starlink satellites at a time.

 

[ernemats]

Beta is advertised as 37 to 54 degrees as of this AM.

My Southern friends are now checking in, so it is definitely expanding.

Where did you find that information?

 

[riptides]

Where did you find that information?

reddit has various Starlink forums available. Pre-Order placement and actual Beta locations. The mod keeps a running ticker on coverage.

I also have a lot of friends in various parts of the country that do the same type of work, and have the same poor internet connectivity issues. So we are trying to one up each other. So far...sitting at 38.6, I am getting crushed. LOL. And I was fastest on the pre-order. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[riptides]

Hopefully we'll see a successful Starship landing soon. In time it should launch like 400 Starlink satellites at a time.

I cannot find it now, but on an AM newsfeed, Musk owns 1/3 of the orbiting satellite community already. That's amazing.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Reaction: Joe Rogan Interviews Elon Musk (Ep. 251) - YouTube

Starting around 9:22 is a one minute blip on how Starlink is not for city usage and why.

David Lee has reduced Joe Rogan recently 3.5 hour interview with Elon Musk down to 15 minutes.

 

[ernemats]

Thanks for the information riptides. I signed up Tuesday and waiting for an invite