Starlink

[grsthegreat]

When I rented out my place the tenant installed a dish but almost every year trees would cause problems…

No direct experience with starlink good or bad but my thought is trees would continue to be an ongoing issue.

My starlink dish points nearly straigt up…i forget the angle. Maybe 10 percent? Trees arnt an issue.

That being said…i just trenched in my pipe run from the fiber box to my house yesterday. Will contact fiber company monday to schedule my hookup.

 

[Eagle1]

Starlink uses many satellites not just one in orbit. It learns the best pattern over time. Also look much higher in the sky than Direct or Dish. It tells you where to aim on the app, and shows that in real time. Easy.
You can throw it flat on the ground and will connect in a pretty small window and give you real time obstruction information.
Heck you can mount it in a tree....

 

[grsthegreat]

Starlink uses many satellites not just one in orbit. It learns the best pattern over time. Also look much higher in the sky than Direct or Dish. It tells you where to aim on the app, and shows that in real time. Easy.
You can throw it flat on the ground and will connect in a pretty small window and give you real time obstruction information.
Heck you can mount it in a tree....
View attachment 5017512

I would think a tree would move too much to maintain a good signal. The gen3 dis does not move.

 

[JRH02]

When I rented out my place the tenant installed a dish but almost every year trees would cause problems…

No direct experience with starlink good or bad but my thought is trees would continue to be an ongoing issue.

I have used all the other 'satellite' internet and TV vendors and had those pointing issues. But the Starlink view goes mostly straight up with a little lean to the north. I have interference on the far extremes of the Starlink dish's view but if has no affect on reliability or speed. There's more satellites now which lessens the chance for the problems further yet.