Starlink

[buckeyefarmer]

I don't think I've ever heard of fiber on poles. Huh.

Lots of fiber on poles.

 

[nikdfish]

Got the $40 "mini" router in today. It was wirelessly recognized by the main router and added as a mesh node without issue. I cabled it to a 5 port gigabit switch to provide Ethernet to three devices.

I had previously used an old dual band router as an access port for them.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

glo fiber coming to my area, starts at $40 for 300 Mbps, $65 for 600 Mbps, and can get faster 1.2Gbps $80.

 

[JethroB]

Yesterday I had to relocate my Gen2 dish due to increased obstruction issues interrupting service every few minutes. It was a side eve wall mount and suddenly the gutter became an issue. Did the dish reorient itself? Has anyone else experienced this? I suspect the dish reoriented itself slightly to look more upward which caused the gutter to partially block its view.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Yes, my Gen2 dish automatically adjusts position to get the best signal. It now faces around 30 degrees to the east from it's installed position 2 years ago.

No obstruction issues though.

 

[grsthegreat]

The gen3 dishes dont move.

 

[Fallon]

The gen3 dishes dont move.

Ya, 2nd gen moves a bit, mostly at startup or when stowing. Gen 3 (and the mini I assume) just has a kickstand & is manually aimed. Plenty of people chopped the motion system off the 2nd gens for a flat or permanent mount & they worked fine.

I expect now that they have a lot more satellites up there than a few years back aiming is less critical. So they killed the motion system for cost & complexity savings. Generally as long as it's pointing to open sky you are pretty much set.

 

[LouNY]

Mine was originally facing mostly north with just the smallest amount of east tossed in, then after quite a bit it suddenly was getting frequent obstruction messages. remounted it and it went to a much more NNE orientation and then it started getting obstruction messages again, so another mounting change and now it seems to have ENE direction to it. I have had some connection issues at times and I'm tempted to stow it and let it realign it's self.

 

[3930dave]

I'm impressed with what Elon has done w. Starlink. That said, recent posts here remind me of another era....

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1f280nl/todays_youth_will_never_know_the_struggles_we

Meet The New Boss....

Rgds, D.

 

[LouNY]

Starlink is much nicer then my other alternatives most of the time.
But, we had a strong thunder storm come through this afternoon. And we started seeing a lot of buffering so I ran a few speed test using my laptop wifi'ed to the starlink router and my Starlink phone app directly.