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.