buckeyefarmer
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Noticed mine is pointed a little bit east, and getting 97Mbps right now.
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ponytug
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We very rarely break 100Mbit/s; most often Starlink service is in the 25-40Mbit/s range. That's way better than our previous, and unreliable, AT&T DSL service. We are happy, though, we would certainly appreciate faster service.
Our dish did recently reorient slightly from NNE to NNW, and the performance does seem better. What is outstanding is the uptime; we rarely have dropouts.
I saw an AT&T truck yesterday, and had this warm fuzzy feeling that I didn't have to deal with them. It was wonderful.
All the best,
Peter
buckeyefarmer
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I’m still keeping my AT&T mobley. It’s the best I could get until Starlink.
ponytug
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Well within specifications and much better than DSL, but not exactly fiber.
Happy customer here.
All the best,
Peter
IXLR8
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We have fiber available here, I have Starlink as it is faster and cheaper.
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Agreed.
I formerly had HughesNet in CA and ATT DSL in NV. SL is far better than either of them.
I posted a while back about a 2nd router failure with SL. But it wasn't a router failure.
What I believed was a router problem turned out to be a problem with the 150' cable. Oddly, it had been installed, untouched, and working fine for probably 6 months. Then SL became very unreliable with frequent reboots. After slowly swapping out *everything* except the cable, the problem persisted.
I replaced the cable and system reliability returned. Even with a close inspection of the cable (including a magnifying glass at the ends) I could not/cannot find anything wrong with it. Hmmm maybe I can sell the bad one on Craigslist ...
fatjay
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I am very curious in what world starlink is faster than fiber. Fiber is typically approaching 1gbps, where starlink is under 100mbps.
BigBlue1
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The world where the infrastructure is over fiber but the customer subscribes to a plan at lower max speeds. Just because the pipe CAN flow at a speed doesn't mean they're letting you have it.
ponytug
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I'm glad that you got it fixed!Agreed.
I formerly had HughesNet in CA and ATT DSL in NV. SL is far better than either of them.
I posted a while back about a 2nd router failure with SL. But it wasn't a router failure.
What I believed was a router problem turned out to be a problem with the 150' cable. Oddly, it had been installed, untouched, and working fine for probably 6 months. Then SL became very unreliable with frequent reboots. After slowly swapping out *everything* except the cable, the problem persisted.
I replaced the cable and system reliability returned. Even with a close inspection of the cable (including a magnifying glass at the ends) I could not/cannot find anything wrong with it. Hmmm maybe I can sell the bad one on Craigslist ...
As a long time installer and user of Ethernet cables, I can attest to cables going/being bad. Sometimes, you can find a defect in the termination, but often it is not visible to the naked eye. I know that bending an Ethernet cable too sharply, even once, is sufficient to render it not fit for service. The explanation that I was given is that it damages the wire and compresses pairs of wires close enough to each other to cause RF reflections and attenuations in the cable, leading to a non-working cable. Most Ethernet cables come with a minimum safe bending radius, usually four inches or larger. Bending radii tend to be even larger when you are pulling a cable than at rest. My bottom line: use large sweeps, and don't ever sharply bend a cable that you care about.
I feel like an old fart on this because I don't think it gets much awareness, despite being a significant issue for many installations.
I'm also not a fan of pass through Ethernet plugs because I have seen too many with microscopic stray metal strands left behind that end up causing issues later.
All the best,
Peter
BigBlue1
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To back up what Peter said, I know for a fact that the Starlink cable is susceptible to issues from compression. When I first got my gen1 dish system I ran the dish cable through a window out into the lawn as a test setup. I had some network disruption problems right off and ultimately it was traced to having the window lightly closed against the cable. This was in March so it was cold out. By no means was it tightly compressed, but it was applying some pressure. As soon as I relaxed the pressure on the cable it was good to go.
