Starlink

[LouNY]

I just installed my dish and I've got to say, I was super duper totally excited to drill two 1 inch holes through the brick to fit the molded connector. I've installed things like this my entire life and that they consider this a self-install kit is surprising.

If you disconnect the cable from the antenna all you need is a 1/2" hole,
is does disconnect when a good straight pull.

 

[Torvy]

On a positive note, Musk opened up Starlink to try to help Ukraine.

 

[Wakey]

If you disconnect the cable from the antenna all you need is a 1/2" hole,
is does disconnect when a good straight pull.

Does that apply to the new dish? It did not appear to be able to disconnect hopefully I'm wrong

 

[John_Mc]

If you disconnect the cable from the antenna all you need is a 1/2" hole,
is does disconnect when a good straight pull.

Are you speaking about the new dish or the old (round) style?

 

[LouNY]

The new rectangular dish the cable will disconect

 

[LouNY]

It does take more of a pull then feels comfortable, I actually contacted tech services about mine as I couldn't see how that big L shaped connector would fit through a decent sized hole.

 

[Jstpssng]

On a positive note, Musk opened up Starlink to try to help Ukraine.

I read that. I'm sure that it was appreciated. (I edited this post about 8 times to keep from getting a "vacation". )

 

[Fallon]

Elon Musk says Starlink satellite internet service deployed to Ukraine

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www.timesofisrael.com

I didn't realize Starlink service area potential had grown so outside of the USA. Our fiber optic to the house works ok. I was never keen on have dishes.

As much as we want better Internet over here, I think the Ukrainens need it more then we do at the moment. Starlink is better posisioned to actually help in a warzone better than most other companies or even countries. Just need to get some Dishys over there & the birds are already overhead. Need groundstations in the vicinity, but I think some nearby countries would be willing to help out on that front. I suspect the legitamate Ukranien governemet won't object, although the soon to be ilegitamate Russian pupet government might. Not much the Russians can do about it unless they start shooting down satelites & that's going to be in the same league as launching nukes these days.

Geosynchronous satellites orbit over a fixed location. The Starlink birds orbit at a much lower altitude so travel above the surface at a pretty good speed & are only overhead for a small period of time. So they need a large number of birds to orbit so there is always a bird over a given location. Then you need a large number of orbits to cover the whole country. The side benefit is, those satellites cover the rest of the planet, not just the US.

The first generation of Starlink birds didn't have crosslink funcationality. So you need to be able to have line of sight to a bird & that same bird needs line of sight to a ground station to get the signal back down to earth. That means a bird can only cover a few hundred miles at a time. The 2nd generation of birds have a crosslink capability so that they can talk to other satelites. That way if the bird you are talking to can't see a ground station it just forwards the traffic to another bird that can see one.

 

[jk96]

On a positive note, Musk opened up Starlink to try to help Ukraine.

Ukraine receives shipment of Starlink terminals less than 48 hours after Elon Musk promised them

Ukraine received a shipment of Starlink terminals on Monday, less than 48 hours after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the service was activated in Ukraine to alleviate some of the internet disruptions the country is experiencing amid Russia's invasion.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[Root Cause]

bet he didn't use fedex

 

[hornett22]

We're rural. Went with AT&T fixed wireless. Seems to work well.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Dumped DSL and went with Verizon 4G LTE internet 3 months ago. Worked well for the first 2 months with 40+ down and 8+ up 24/7. now however, it drops to 8 down & 1.5 up during peak times in the evening and especially on weekends.

Anyone else notice this?

I may go with Starlink after all if my number ever comes up.

 

[WM75Guy]

My Verizon 4G LTE has been pretty steady. Starts at 60-70 for download and then throttles back to 50. It will slow down to 30 in the evenings sometimes.

 

[TheMan419]

bet he didn't use fedex

I suspect the US Military was sending a plane that way anyway and put those dishys onboard.

 

[LittleBill21]

Dumped DSL and went with Verizon 4G LTE internet 3 months ago. Worked well for the first 2 months with 40+ down and 8+ up 24/7. now however, it drops to 8 down & 1.5 up during peak times in the evening and especially on weekends.

Anyone else notice this?

I may go with Starlink after all if my number ever comes up.

that's going to be different per Cell tower.

 

[bdhsfz6]

that's going to be different per Cell tower.

True but it makes me wonder how slow it will get as Verizon adds more customers per tower.

The same will likely happen with Starlink over time but I doubt it would ever get as slow as the 4G LTE service.

 

[LittleBill21]

True but it makes me wonder how slow it will get as Verizon adds more customers per tower.

The same will likely happen with Starlink over time but I doubt it would ever get as slow as the 4G LTE service.

They prolly have a limit, I have read this before, that they will block people similar to what starlink does.

 

[JethroB]

I just sent a support request to StarLink. Infrequent outages began on Saturday but not too bad. Last night it became unusable. Up until now the service has been great (3 weeks in). I haven’t changed anything or moved the dish. No obstructions. The dish is flipping around and scaring the squirrels.

 

[StickMonkey]

4G LTE internet 3 months ago. Worked well for the first 2 months with 40+ down and 8+ up 24/7. now however, it drops to 8 down & 1.5 up during peak times in the evening.

We used 4G from a local guy (private labeled from T-mobile) for 3 years and decent results. It started to get annoyingly slow during peak times about three months ago.

We just put in a microwave link which has been great -25 M / 35 ms ping- (except in an ice storm).
I put in for Starlink last February but may give up my slot which is coming this month.

 

[LouNY]

I just sent a support request to StarLink. Infrequent outages began on Saturday but not too bad. Last night it became unusable. Up until now the service has been great (3 weeks in). I haven’t changed anything or moved the dish. No obstructions. The dish is flipping around and scaring the squirrels.
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Mine went flakey for half a day contacted support they are supposedly sending a replacement unit out.
I did a quick 5 second power off and back on 5 minutes later it was up and normal.
Prior to that they had asked me to do the rapid 3 times power off/on which resets everything to factory defaults,
and updates the operating software which didn't seem to do much.