Starlink

[grsthegreat]

I plan on keeping my gen3 starlink after fiber heats up. Put it on standy mode just incase. The fiber co called me yesterday and asked if wanted my fiber ru to the house and placed online this week, but since ground is frozen it would have to run above ground temp.

I cant run aboveground due to driveway. Dang.

Will have to wait another month or so. Supposed to be in the 50°f next week

 

[BigBlue1]

That's a nice upgrade. I always thought it was unfortunate that it required extra adapters to run/keep your own wifi network

It never required additional components. The built-in just wasn't stellar. All depends on your location situation.

No. The cables are different. The default gen 3 cable is a little shorter, but there is a longer one as an option. Personally, the gen 3 are closer to industry standard cables, so I like it a bit better.

Redoing the cable wasn't pretty here either, but the increase in performance was great.

All the best, Peter

I had to replace the cable with my swap from Gen 1 round dish to the Gen 3. No other way around that since the Gen 1 cable was fixed inside the dish. But the performance difference with the Gen 3 was worth having to spend time re-doing the cable through the walls and along the roof.

 

[JRH02]

Congratulations on getting working fiber!

Fiber - that's almost funny for me to ponder. If available it would be the ONLY utility service of any kind available to us. Including a cell signal. What's even funnier is some folk, even rural ones, who think we are scamming or pulling a fast one because we don't have a physical address. For insurance and banking have we used our legal description. I've gotten trite notices from folk who have been dim enough that they tried to send USPS mail to the legal description and, gasp, it was returned.

Life is just hilarious sometimes. One day we may be forced to live in a metropolitan planned, 'sustainable' community so I better be happy to count the current blessings.