Anybody here use Starlink?

[adamsredlines]

On this same discussion, my frustration is there's new fiber optic buried in the road about 20ft from my front door. They did that last year under one of Bidens infrastructure handouts. I learned yesterday, they used all the money and have abandoned the project, so no Fibre optic out here as promised. Bah. But yay for Starlink! Glad I didn't keep waiting for Fiber.

 

[dennishoddy]

Are you satisfied with the Starlink service to date?

 

[adamsredlines]

Yep, been great. Had one outage but that was system wide. I'm assuming it will at worst stay the same, but possibly get better with it in the air. This weekend we are supposed to get our first good snow, so will see how that effects reception and how well the snow melt function works.

This was a last test with it on the ground, before putting it in that air. I'll give it a few days to adjust and do it's thing in the air and try again.

 

[adamsredlines]

On the ground, it had a few obstructions but "learned" them and corrected itself to not go that direction. That took several days to learn.

This has zero from the start. Yeehaw.

 

[TerryMiller]

Worlds slowest install is basically done.

It's about 24' up, using the long arm bracket and 150ft cable, buried in conduit about 2ft deep.

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Good thing you didn't fall from that tower...

...you could have been impaled by a long dead deer or something.

Talk about zombie kills.

 

[crispy]

So the app tells you your signal as well as speed test results? That’s nifty!

 

[adamsredlines]

Yep...speed test, obstructions, turn on/off/auto snow melt, stow antenna, etc. Tons of info!

 

[dennishoddy]

Yep...speed test, obstructions, turn on/off/auto snow melt, stow antenna, etc. Tons of info!

Have you tried it with Wi-Fi security cameras? Years ago, we had Hughes satellite. The latency was so slow that Wi-Fi cameras would not work at all.
I understand the Hughes is in high orbit and the Star Link in low earth orbit which should put the latency a lot faster. Just looking for some firsthand observations.

 

[adamsredlines]

No sir

 

[retrieverman]

Are you satisfied with the Starlink service to date?

Starlink is hands down better than any internet we’ve ever had, and there’s been no problems so far.
My oldest son is here from Dallas and is shocked at how fast it is.