I seemed to lose Starlink for a few miutes this morning.
A windows update occurred at the same time so I could not
determine what caused the outage.
A recap of my starlink adventure:
Ordered dish: Feb 2021
Notified that I could buy dish: Feb 2022
Paid for dish and ordered ethernet
adapter and roof mount: Feb 2022
Rec'd 2nd generation dish: Feb 2022
Started service (wifi): late Feb 2022
Received ethernet adapter: mid Mar 2022
Received roof mount: Apr 2022
Put into full sevice with wired and Wifi: Apr 2022
Prior to the Starlink commissioning, I used century-link DSL. At first
I was told I had 10mbs up/1mbs down. After a couple years, this was
"dumbed-down" to 8up/1down. Real best test speeds were (+/-) 6mbs/.5.
This service was often less than reliable and often had buffering when
streaming. We had no cable available and I had tried satellite when we
first moved out here, and that was a no go, buggy and undependable.
As the system stands, it has multiple devices including 4 ubiquity
access points, 3 garage door operators, phones, laptops, a watch,
ethernet switches, electrical and solar monitoring hardware. The
network will usually show 16 wired and wifi devices at most times.
The network covers the home and 2 garages.
The dish seems to be working great most of the time.
There was an outage this morning but I cannot figure if it was
starlink related or due to a Windows update event. Go figure.
Speeds tested after the outage (and a restart) were 280up/19down at 5am cst.
Speeds now, 10:40 am cst, are 156up/7.4down.
I am fairly happy with performance of the service. There have been fits
and starts, perplexing co-ordination issues with some devices, and some
outages. The dish has a nearly unobstructed view with minimal tree branches
to the west.
Although the dish is more expensive, it appears to be performing well and
it seems to handle streaming well. I don't watch any programs but others
in the house do.
Until any other hi-speed choices appear this will work for us.
