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ponytug said:
There is a new firmware release rolling out. I wonder if it is important as it downloaded it and rebooted in the middle of the afternoon.

We have been having snow, and snow squalls that seem to get ahead of Dishy's heating function.

All the best,

Peter
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We have not had any significant snow to test out Dishay’s capabilities, but I wonder if (depending on Dishy’s normal operating position) if manually running a heating cycle, then putting it in “Stow” to allow snow to slide off, then reqctivating it would be a viable option in severe weather?

Also, I looked at my unit and it also has reoriented about 15 degrees more eastward, elevation appears the same.
 
   / Starlink #3,552  
Been getting some repeated time periods of poor service in the evenings. Peak use? Disappointing at best. It is always better when I get back on in the early am. Last night I had to switch back over to my cell hotspot just to have an online conversation with somebody. Now 170 / 11 at 4 am
 
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K5lwq said:
Try putting your iPhone in airplane mode for a minute then turn off airplane mode. When you run the advanced test again you should see a lot better numbers to the router. I do not know why but that works for me.
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Iused to have to do this frequently when using a booster system for our cellular.
 
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WoodChuckDad said:
Inlooked for the advanced test option but I don’t have it.
Here is a shot of the new orientation of dishy. The seem on the roof is about 3 degrees north facing. And that was about what dishy was pointed to before. Now it is about 43 degrees NNE.
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Thread drift warning!

What are those things in a row on your roof?
 
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KilroyJC said:
We have not had any significant snow to test out Dishay’s capabilities, but I wonder if (depending on Dishy’s normal operating position) if manually running a heating cycle, then putting it in “Stow” to allow snow to slide off, then reqctivating it would be a viable option in severe weather?

Also, I looked at my unit and it also has reoriented about 15 degrees more eastward, elevation appears the same.
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Yes, actually the heating was on prior to the snowfall, so that didn't help us.

When I went out to check on things, I could see water dripping off Dishy, but the heating wasn't enough to keep up, and we ended up losing the Starlink satellite signal completely. (3/4"(?) of wet snow) I ended up stowing the dish, which went much faster than I expected, but the snow stuck. In the interests of speed, I climbed up, and with a quick wipe removed the snow. Back on the ground, I "unstowed" Dishy and we were back in business.

All the best,

Peter
 
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I think that was why the early Dish TV systems went to mesh dishes. We had one in the 80s
 
   / Starlink #3,559  
I routinely get over 50Mb/s from Starlink. Often better than that. Today, for instance, when I looked for and ran the advanced speed test I got 149Mb/s from standard test and 175Mb/s from advanced test. Anything over 30-ish is enough to make me happy in my rural environment compared to other options. SL might be in a challenging situation with the growth spurt taxing their existing sat infrastructure but they continue to launch more, better birds and I have no worries that it will continue to be the best solution for rural areas. Plus, I got a $20/month price decrease recently. Color me a happy customer. Now if they would just do better for support inquiries...
 
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Wired connections are always better than wireless. Especially with respect to WiFi. Think of wireless like a room. If there are 2 people in the room you can speak & hear really well. There may be occasional airplane noise or something outside that room that causes interference. Add 20 people to the room all talking & it gets really hard for the original 2 people to communicate. They can still do it, but background noise will often make it hard to hear. You can still get outside noise as well. WiFi works exactly the same way. 2 devices in the middle of nowhere with no interference will be really fast. Add in more WiFi devices (doesn't matter if they are on your network or not) & they start interfering. Any RF interference from electronics, microwaves (they operate at the 2.4ghz frequency WiFi usually uses) will cause problems as well.

I can have very high end WiFi gear sitting a few feet apart & get inconsistent results just because something else happens to transmit when I'm doing testing. So seeing different performance from your iPhone to the Internet vs the wired router to the Internet is quite expected under most circumstances. I live on 5 acres off a dirt road & still get noticable WiFi interference a lot. Anybody in suburbia will get more, living in an apartment with everybody having WiFi will be really problematic.

Using 5ghz instead of 2.4ghz WiFi help. 5ghz has more bandwidth & shorter range. The shorter the range the better as it means your neighbors WiFi is less likely to interfere with yours.

SpaceX Unveils 'V2 Mini' Starlink Satellites With Quadruple the Capacity - Slashdot It looks like Starlink is now launching better satellites already to help improve things on the satellite end. This won't affect WiFi obviously & they really can't do anything about that.
 
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