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I set up a and will be using StarLink in an RV on the weekends. Pro Tip: go somewhere strange if you want to get into the beta. It’s surprisingly good. I don’

I set up a and will be using StarLink in an RV on the weekends. Pro Tip: go somewhere strange if you want to get into the beta. It’s surprisingly good. I don’t think I have any special anecdotes except that I’m getting 85Mpbs up and a 35ms ping to speedtest.net. Initially the connection wasn’t reliable, but it apparently needs to be set up for a few hours before it “locks in”.

101008 5y ago
Wow. I am in the middle of a big city and I have 50Mbps down and 11 down and you have that speed in the middle of nowhere... the future sounds amazing.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  Tell me about it. My 1Gbps docsis3 has an upload of 35Mpbs because of 1980s cable tv frequency choice reasons. I’m slightly impressed with StarLink and slightly annoyed at my main ISP. This is on the edge of nowhere, but still cool. The only other option I had here was dialup or if I wanted to pay outrageous rates, I could get a .5-1Mbps T1 only because there is a ranger station not too far off that put one in and I can access some of the trunk hardware a few miles away.
- elif 5y ago
  latency will go still down significantly as v2 and v3 join the constellation with laser interlinks. For long connections, they will be theoretically faster than fiber due to geographical constraints on straight lines and routing.
SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
Side notes: The more I thought about it. In case anyone is interested: - The setup is stupid easy. Place dish outside, plug in. That's about all. - It's weird having a dish that points straight up, used to them all pointing south (hemisphere dependent of course) - The router box (thing?) is a bad design. Stupid little triangle that tips over all the time. Seems cheap. - Shipped with no wifi encryption. I thought that was weird. I bet this changes to for real release. - Got a few "outside your home area" messages without moving. Errors. - It is good for streaming or websites, but currently I have it on the ground and it seems like it loses connection fairly often. I'll put in up on a poll now that I know... - The dish is heated. GOOD. I was worried about this with the amount of snow it's going to get. I don't really geek out over these things. It's good. It's exactly what it should be I think. We'll see how it lasts the winter. I expect the reception to get better when it's mounted, but it'll be interesting to see how white-out snow effects the performance.

101008 5y ago

Wow. I am in the middle of a big city and I have 50Mbps down and 11 down and you have that speed in the middle of nowhere... the future sounds amazing.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
Tell me about it. My 1Gbps docsis3 has an upload of 35Mpbs because of 1980s cable tv frequency choice reasons. I’m slightly impressed with StarLink and slightly annoyed at my main ISP. This is on the edge of nowhere, but still cool. The only other option I had here was dialup or if I wanted to pay outrageous rates, I could get a .5-1Mbps T1 only because there is a ranger station not too far off that put one in and I can access some of the trunk hardware a few miles away.
elif 5y ago
latency will go still down significantly as v2 and v3 join the constellation with laser interlinks. For long connections, they will be theoretically faster than fiber due to geographical constraints on straight lines and routing.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago

Side notes: The more I thought about it. In case anyone is interested: - The setup is stupid easy. Place dish outside, plug in. That's about all. - It's weird having a dish that points straight up, used to them all pointing south (hemisphere dependent of course) - The router box (thing?) is a bad design. Stupid little triangle that tips over all the time. Seems cheap. - Shipped with no wifi encryption. I thought that was weird. I bet this changes to for real release. - Got a few "outside your home area" messages without moving. Errors. - It is good for streaming or websites, but currently I have it on the ground and it seems like it loses connection fairly often. I'll put in up on a poll now that I know... - The dish is heated. GOOD. I was worried about this with the amount of snow it's going to get. I don't really geek out over these things. It's good. It's exactly what it should be I think. We'll see how it lasts the winter. I expect the reception to get better when it's mounted, but it'll be interesting to see how white-out snow effects the performance.