Starlink

Starlink installed (well, unboxed and working - cable through the window and ethernet adapter)

Speedtest.net image

Getting 259Mb/13Mb with 40ms latency (have seen 150Mb/8Mb as a low point).

Any questions happy to answer!

It doesn't like the falling snow though!

Snowy Starlink Outage

(Blue in the picture is searching for satellites)

Edited by Jabes (Sun 11-Dec-22 22:17:35)

Does it cope ok with rain?

In reply to a post by Jabes:

It doesn't like the falling snow though!

Snowy Starlink Outage

(Blue in the picture is searching for satellites)

In my HUMBLE OPINION, there is NO viable alternative to FIBRE TO THE HOME JUST LIKE MAN HAS ZERO INFLUENCE ON THE CO2 LEVELS SCIENCE FACT if you research properly

In reply to a post by tommy45:

JUST LIKE MAN HAS ZERO INFLUENCE ON THE CO2 LEVELS SCIENCE FACT if you research properly

I am extremely interested in this statement. Could you please supply the links I need to research properly.

PS Hope you don't mind but I've only typed in justified case as I've always viewed posting in capitals as the modern day equivalent of the way that some people used to write letters to commentators and pundits with whom they violently disagreed using green ink.

No need to shout..

In reply to a post by burble:

Does it cope ok with rain?

Haven't had a problem in the rain, only issue has been the snowfall.
It has a heater that melts the snow off the dish, but it was just while it was falling

In reply to a post by tommy45:

In my HUMBLE OPINION, there is NO viable alternative to FIBRE TO THE HOME

When I can, I'll be connected by a cable again. But there is no other viable fast solution here and since no-one else has posted their experience I thought I would share for others.

I moved from a property where I installed FTTPoD so am very aware of the differences!

I've had one brief outage due to very high rain fall in the last 15 months. Not the sort of rain we see often in the UK though.

In reply to a post by Jabes:

It doesn't like the falling snow though!

Snowy Starlink Outage

(Blue in the picture is searching for satellites)

I had that problem with Sky years ago, when snow used to settle on the dish and also when it poured down, I thought in this day and age these problems would have been sorted, certainly by Musk and his millions

In reply to a post by seb:

No need to shout..

I am deaf in one ear, so sometimes it helps

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by Jabes:

It doesn't like the falling snow though!

Snowy Starlink Outage

(Blue in the picture is searching for satellites)

I had that problem with Sky years ago, when snow used to settle on the dish and also when it poured down, I thought in this day and age these problems would have been sorted, certainly by Musk and his millions

Nothing to do with Musk, its all to do with the laws of physics and antenna characteristics

They have addressed the snow settling issue, the dish will automatically attempt to melt any snow that settles on it. It doesn't work for really heavy snowfall. But fine for the sort we get in most of the UK.

As another poster pointed out, the laws of physics mean there is no way round really heavy snow/rain impacting the signal.

Aside from the brief outage I quoted above, the service has been solid. It's certainly a good substitute for a fixed connection - and delivering better results than I would be able to get over 5G right now

It has definitely worked out better than 4G did for us, so far.

I'd still jump at the chance of FTTP to replace it, but I have no idea if that will ever arrive here.

I haven't quite gone as far as cancelling our backup Smarty 4G option, but I probably should.