Starlink

[John_Mc]

JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS am I. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I have seen reports on other websites of seconds long outages. I think the guy is either in southern AK or Washington. He is on boat. I wonder if the outages are because of latitude...

We have seconds long outages here, but they are not common. We were warned to expect this: this is a Beta test of their system. Coverage is promoted as 85% in our area - That means 85% "uptime". There are gaps in coverage because they don't have their full complement of affiliates up and running yet. I've heard we should have near 100% coverage by summer

15 up is unreal. <droooooooollllllllll>

55 down is well, I don't know what we would do with all of that bandwidth. The other speeds are just a dream... :laughing:

It sure beats 7 down/ 1 up which is the fastest we can get otherwise in our area (and that 7/1 is when it's working well, which is not all that often).

 

[ernemats]

Our internet is usually about 1.5 max down and .75 up on a good day, Verizon says it should be 3 down and 1 up but with all the kids doing home school over the internet and people working from home their system is overwhelmed and they will do nothing to improve it. Phone service is also bad when it rains a lot of static.

 

[jaydee325]

Can one of you networking experts explain why every ISP that I know of limits the up bandwidth to a small fraction of the down?

 

[cqaigy2]

One reason is you browsing or watching something on the internet, most is down loading, much less going back up.

 

[dmccarty]

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It sure beats 7 down/ 1 up which is the fastest we can get otherwise in our area (and that 7/1 is when it's working well, which is not all that often).

Our internet is usually about 1.5 max down and .75 up on a good day, Verizon says it should be 3 down and 1 up but with all the kids doing home school over the internet and people working from home their system is overwhelmed and they will do nothing to improve it. Phone service is also bad when it rains a lot of static.

Yeah, our DSL "service" is only 1.5 down, even though the service map says it is higher. There are places around us with faster service but they refuse to upgrade our lines. Course, the service is not that reliable so even if StarLink has outages in the Beta period, it would be an improvement.

Later,
Dan

 

[/pine]

Can one of you networking experts explain why every ISP that I know of limits the up bandwidth to a small fraction of the down?

In the early days it was a deterrent for users that attempted to run web (HTTP) servers from their home computers...and or sharing their connections...

Theoretically a single user with one gig of downstream bandwidth could "sublet" 1000 other users 1 meg of bandwidth which in the old days was a lot...upstream limits prevented this activity... Businesses could set up their own network servers and give all their employees Internet access with just one ISP account...

 

[mikester]

My Starlink hardware arrived today. We did a temporary installation by putting the dish out on our picnic table and running the cable in through the window with some old foam rubber as weatherstripping to seal up the gap.

It took about 10-15 minutes to go through its startup routine and make a connection to the internet. The results of the first speed test:

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It's working well so far. The slowest speed I've seen is 55 mbps down / 14 up. It's unusual to get less than 75/18. Most speed tests fall in the 80-140 mbps down / 18-30 up.

In our first few hours, we had a couple of brief outages. They've been only seconds in duration. We were warned to expect this during the Beta test phase. As more satellites get launched and they continue to tweak their software, it should get better.

I just got the invite and ordered. How long did it take you to get the system in hand from sign up date?

 

[deserteagle71]

Here is a screen shot of a Starlink beta user report from another site I'm on. I can only dream of speeds like this....wish Starlink would contact me!

 

[John_Mc]

I just got the invite and ordered. How long did it take you to get the system in hand from sign up date?

It took over a month to get the invitation. Once I got the invitation and signed up, they said to expect 2-4 weeks to get the equipment. I had it in about 10 days (there was a days delay on our end due to a storm in the northeast affecting deliveries.

 

[cqaigy2]

Has anybody checked out their site with the phone app, to see where the best location is?