Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

ItHurtsWhenIP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123602582#Comment_123602582

Your thought about using residential lite at your parents made me wonder how much is it a month. So I went into my SL account and I can't see a way to acquire it. I'm only seeing full residential for me.

When I check the support pages about it, they only seem to show North and South America.

Or maybe it's because I've a Gen-1 dishy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123602992#Comment_123602992

It's offering it to me for 35 euro a month at my parents house in Sligo

corcaigh07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123602992#Comment_123602992

Where are you based? Maybe not being offered to your area. For context, it is being offered to me in West Cork where population density is low.

ItHurtsWhenIP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123603175#Comment_123603175

Ooh, that's not bad! Is that with getting a dish as well?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123603256#Comment_123603256

I'm in the middle-of-nowhere Tipperary, where it's mainly hills and farms all around, so very low density here too.

I'll try again and see if I add a new dish to my account, will it then offer me the Lite option.

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123604058#Comment_123604058

I don't know re the dish I was just going to give them my gen2 kit as I'm not really using it

Wompa1

I got Starlink a few months ago in south Galway but ended up returning it. Compared to other satellite offerings in the area it was great but we have had fibre for years so it was never going to compete with direct connection. I just wanted it as a backup for the inevitable outages when storms come through but it was hard to justify when performance would dip with heavy clouds which would be around when there were storms. Also, I mounted on the roof but it would continuously complain about the positioning despite being at the right angle with nothing blocking it. It was as though it was rerouting to different satellites at times and then the angle didn't suit. Just a theory as I contacted support but didn't get any help, just a list of things to check with no further help. Did not like that support was just online. Would have been a lot easier to jump on a call and troubleshoot…

ItHurtsWhenIP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123604066#Comment_123604066

If I were to order new kit (Gen-3), I got the €35pm offer, so I reckon it's the dish.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123604089#Comment_123604089

I had Starlink for 3+ years. Clouds were not a problem.

Many years ago I suffered a geostationary satellite solution for a couple of years, which was horribly affected by rain fade. I just knew, when I saw the gentle mist rolling in across the valley to the south west that my 512Kbps downstream was about to go to shyte. I had no alternative until I got FWA.

With Starlink, the only time I noticed it being weather affected was under an INTENSE hail shower, and that was only because I had the Snow melt feature turned off!

I would fully agree with you that fibre is the much better solution. Though I have said here a few times since switching, from a browsing perspective, I've barely noticed the difference between Starlink and 1Gbps fibre from Digiweb. We're a two person household and neither of us are a gamer.

The upload though, is where I have really seen the benefit of fibre. I work with very large files and sync them with the cloud and, oh boy, I blink and their synced! 😅