Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

Gmaximum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123650429#Comment_123650429

cheers, I’m about 500m from the closest mast

There’s fibre serving houses down the road, I’d expect it will come as more homes are developed at my end but I thought they’d still give you a copper connection if there was no other fixed line alternative

The Cush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123650460#Comment_123650460

The USO for a landline hasn't been renewed so they can provide you a fixed wireless connection

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123650359#Comment_123650359

100% get Starlink.

editorsean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123649795#Comment_123649795

It's in this presentation that I came across it mentioning about the high micro-loss (which I presumed meant high packet loss), well worth a read as it has great visual detail about Starlink's spot beams, latency and jitter.

There is a nice visual utility LEOViz (quite technical to use) that visualises the satellites the Starlink terminal is connected to. Based on the distinct RTT increments below, it appears that the Starlink terminal itself retransmits most of the lost packets even for ICMP and UDP packets, which explains the high jitter. Some v1.0 satellites have very high jitter indeed:

v2.0 mini RTT for comparison:

The following is a 20 minute time-lapse from my Starlink connection at about 11am:

https://editorsean.com/content/video/starlink-2025-07-19-10-42-52.mp4

Tommy Lagahan

Ahhh so my hunch was right about the stretches of worst jitter being 1.0 sats, I was going off this site but wasn't really all that confident in its accuracy:
https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink#

It seems to be biased towards the polar sats for some reason or another but that tool you're using is showing it mostly using the lower orbits. Thanks again for the info!

It was really rough today at around 3pm actually, several stretches of complete loss for 3-5 seconds or so, then other stretches of 30-40% loss across 2 CS2 games (about an hour and a bit), I must've jinxed it!
Cleared up again after that and went back to the normal occasional issue and steady high jitter. First time I saw it hit that hard since the initial couple days after setting it up.

editorsean

While I wasn't online around that time, a script I have running on a MikroTik router logged two outages of about 8 seconds, pity I didn't have it also logging packing loss and latency spikes like I used to with my former Three 4G set up (I certainly wouldn't go back now!). The script records UTC time, so add one hour to the "down/up at" times:

These two outages didn't even show up in the Starlink App, let alone anything over 1s:

listermint

All of the above confirms my experience with Starlink. Its very good product but simply no match for Fibre it handles downloads well and uploads. But can be middling for video calls with regular enough drops in quality. Its a good all rounder and excellent back up solution.

But im counting the weeks until we can get proper fibre. Haven't had that in 8 years.

Tommy Lagahan

Ah I shoulda checked the app, didn't think to. Not used to 4G doing any kind of logging of this stuff by itself, had to run a ping command to a log for a day myself to get Imagine to fix a loss issue last year.

Also yeah its very good for what it is but the jitter being 20-30 and spiking to 80+ during sat switches causes CS2 to increase buffering in the background. There's a debug command you can run during the game to check what the total delay is after performance, latency and any buffering is taken into account.

On the same 20ms average ping to the server as a friend of mine on fiber I get 120-200ms of delay (with periods of straight up loss), hes on around 50ms. Have to adjust how you play it to work around it.