Starlink is very good

[Brian Hall]

Wow...That's all? That is very cool.

 

[Doodski]

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Very very nice. That sure beats the days of using a compass, level, home made angle of the dangle meter and compound angle ready rod and bolt adjustments.

 

[Brian Hall]

It was real time when I was aligning it the first time. I'm going through a separate router now.

 

[Chrispy]

Very very nice. That sure beats the days of using a compass, level, home made angle of the dangle meter and compound angle ready rod and bolt adjustments.

You had to do that when there were only a few hundred sats or ?

 

[Doodski]

It was real time when I was aligning it the first time. I'm going through a separate router now.

Yes, I read that you determined a separate router was required. Real time is so nice and having the cel tel app in hand at the actual dish is so nice to have.

 

[ryanosaur]

I’ve been using Starlink for about a year. Been really happy with it.
I fired xfinity. Slow and unreliable.
Roughly twice the speed or more for half the price is Starlink.
Buy the gear once and it just gets cheaper month by month, year by year.

 

[Brian Hall]

You had to do that when there were only a few hundred sats or ?

Back then they were only about 10 or so that carried TV signals that you could receive on those giant dishes.

 

[JSmith]

Supposedly the dishes are "lighting proof" and also heat up in the event of snow. A large thunderstorm with heavy rain and cloud coverage will interrupt throughput though.

@Doodski the dishes don't physically move, but use phased-array tech to connect to the geostationary satellites.


JSmith

 

[Doodski]

You had to do that when there were only a few hundred sats or ?

Yes, everything across the Clark Belt has to be aligned using compound angles and set screws/bolts to lock it all in place once aligned. They had to be aligned really tightly because the picture quality would be reduced on the satellites in the middle or at the ends and when it rained or snowed it was critical that maximum signal strength was calibrated into the alignment. It was really fussy stuff until we made the home made angle meter device and that simplified things greatly. We used a perfectly calibrated dish mount to make the angle meter and then applied that angle meter to the other dishes we where setting up and we could come very close to calibration before even turning on the electronics. Shortcuts like this made it much more bearable and less finicky.

 

[Chrispy]

Yes, everything across the Clark Belt has to be aligned using compound angles and set screws/bolts to lock it all in place once aligned. They had to be aligned really tightly because the picture quality would be reduced on the satellites in the middle or at the ends and when it rained or snowed it was critical that maximum signal strength was calibrated into the alignment. It was really fussy stuff until we made the home made angle meter device and that simplified things greatly. We used a perfectly calibrated dish mount to make the angle meter and then applied that angle meter to the other dished we where setting up and we could come very close to calibration before even turning on the electronics. Shortcuts like this made it much more bearable and less finicky.

That was the Starlink stuff or predecessors, tho?

 

[Rhodo]

I have a lot of not great feelings about the owner, this service however has been a godsend for my aging parents. They moved just a few miles from their old home into a single-level place and could not get internet service whatsoever from conventional carriers. ATT flatly refused, they will not service new DSL customers in our area despite the previous homeowners having it. Comcast/Charter demanded 15,000$ to run cable across the street to their house. There is cable internet running on the telephone poles at the street, but that's how much they want to connect it. I got them on the wait-list for Starlink and they were lucky enough to be in the early invites for this area, it's worked great now for them for over a year.

Speeds are not consistet but neither I or my parents care. It's perfectly decent 90% of the time and there was no other option despite them being in a pertty typical neighborhood. Absurd amounts of public money were given to ISPs in the US to provide better coverage and it has not happenned, the funds have been embezzled as far as I can tell. Whatever misgivings I have about Musk, Starlink really is delivering on broadly accessible internet and I deeply respect that.

 

[Doodski]

Back then they were only about 10 or so that carried TV signals that you could receive on those giant dishes.

Funny is that near every male customer and wife included wanted to see the porn right as we where showing the system operating. The sports and MTV was a big thing too.

 

[Doodski]

That was the Starlink stuff or predecessors, tho?

Oh this is going back to the very beginning of satellite gear for consumer use. Way before Starlink stuff came out. Like early 80s for sure at least.

 

[Brian Hall]

Funny is that near every male customer and wife included wanted to see the porn right as we where showing the system operating. The sports and MTV was a big thing too.

I had the Playboy channel for a couple of months. It wasn't that great. Bad movies but nice scenery.

 

[gorb]

Looks like Starlink has better upload speed than my spectrum cable. Even my phone provider has better upload than spectrum but is far more inconsistent.

 

[Doodski]

Supposedly the dishes are "lighting proof" and also heat up in the event of snow. A large thunderstorm with heavy rain and cloud coverage will interrupt throughput though.

@Doodski the dishes don't physically move, but use phased-array tech to connect to the geostationary satellites.


JSmith

That is some amazing technology and it really amazes me that people come up with these concepts and bring it to market.

 

[Doodski]

I had the Playboy channel for a couple of months. It wasn't that great. Bad movies but nice scenery.

I remember...LoL.

 

[Rhodo]

Very very nice. That sure beats the days of using a compass, level, home made angle of the dangle meter and compound angle ready rod and bolt adjustments.

I set up the sat link for my parents a while ago and it was an simple as tossing it on the roof and letting it figure things out. No physical adjustment by me at all. The app shows a small sight line blockage from trees but they've never had it cut out for more than a second before readjusting to a new receiving satellite. It's pretty darn easy.

 

[Brian Hall]

Supposedly the dishes are "lighting proof" and also heat up in the event of snow. A large thunderstorm with heavy rain and cloud coverage will interrupt throughput though.

Already had a heavy thunderstorm here. I was watching movies in 4k on Amazon with no glitches. The Starlink app did not show any outages during the storm. I was impressed.

 

[Doodski]

I set up the sat link for my parents a while ago and it was an simple as tossing it on the roof and letting it figure things out. No physical adjustment by me at all. The app shows a small sight line blockage from trees but they've never had it cut out for more than a second before readjusting to a new receiving satellite. It's pretty darn easy.

Absolutely amazing. Until just minutes ago I had no idea about this new dish and electronics technology. Really nice stuff and the expense is really decent too./