check your geo code on the starlink website and if your cell is open they will accept your order. Once payment is received in full your order will ship from west coast USA through germany via FedEx and DHL, to shannon and onwards to you in under 10 days. (typically). Once ordered you can obviously track it online
also, no nasty surprises re duty etc as Sl are Irish registered office in Dublin and all costs are covered.
It's one hundred percent going to happen here once more people sign up and infrastructure doesn't scale up along with it.
The where scale of the amount of satellites and hardware required to build and maintain this infrastructure is almost beyond comprehension.
Personally I don't believe the concept of these constellations is good for the environment or feasibly practical unless it is targeted only at low income countries with poor infrastructure.
This many man made objects in space is not a good thing from any perspective and particularly when you see that a number of competitors to starlink are emerging.
Thanks @eirlink. Just the info I was looking for.
How many more people will take it up at this stage though? As NBI rolls out, people will be cancelling. It’s a race between NBI and any Starlink slowdown
agree with you on space though. I’m in a very dark area and the night sky here can be spectacular when there’s no moon. Last time I spent time looking up at it I was struck by the amount of movement. Starlink I guess is stationary, but there were plenty of other satellites tracking across the sky in parallel paths.
I know the price has dropped but its still just too high for a lot of people, its still associated with being a satellite system and the user has to set it up for themselves. All things that help keep the numbers taking it up down.
Starlink isn't stationary, there are over 3,000 starlink satellites moving around in low earth orbit.
Agree. As months/years go by more and more are closer to NBI / Fibre. 85 euro a month is still 25 quid higher than imagine plus my guess is only a tiny portion of people even know what starlink is in Ireland.
The issue is more uptake in the uk and if that would impact us.
Starlink could create more gateways to alleviate the strain I would say
As was mentioned by The Cush, Starlink satellites are flying overhead every minute or so ... you can see them simulated here https://starlink.sx/
I doubt take-up in the UK will affect us, as we have two ground stations of our own in Ireland. You can see them in the link I pasted above.
The guy behind Starlink.sx has written a post on modelling Starlink capacity here:
The post in and of itself is a treasure-trove of information about Starlink works, where the limitations lie, and why the ISL won't solve some of the fundamental issues.
Actually if NBI brought fibre to my area I wouldn't switch and would stick with Starlink out of bitterness. It would be more expensive to stick with Starlink but I wouldn't want to give the money to any of the broadband providers.Some of it would filter back to the government who have denied me fibre for years and I don't want them to get that money.
The government didn't provide fibre to anyone. OpenEir/Siro/Other_ISP have denied you that.
NBI is the government offering you fibre because the commercial providers didn't.
Plus, you're already paying for NBI to the tune of 3 billion, so technically you'll still be paying for NBI and Starlink even if you stick with Starlink
Chomp!
*the sound of a nose being bitten off to spite one's face*
I know I am still contributing to NBI in my taxes but if I switched to fibre I would be contributing a bit more.
I assume Starlink, as a registered service provider here, pay tax on their subscription income to the revenue too?
Didn't see this coming...
Oh wait not I did. Starlink has capacity limits its not a panacea it has a great solution to specific problem of remote Internet usage. It's most definitely is not and never was a solution to fibre to the home. We can recall many nonsense talkers using it as a hammer to beat the NBP with.
I don’t think anyone other than that one poster sees Starlink as anything other than something to bridge the gap before NBI comes. In any case 1TB of daytime usage isn’t going to worry many people
It is in USA though, amount of population in there hardly comparable to Ireland.
We are at 53' N latitude, good few satellites servicing USA and Canada passing us.
I think its more down to population density and ours is twice that of the USA.
Ireland is tiny though, some of American cities have larger population than Ireland and 10 times density.
Only about a dozen US cities have a population of greater than one million inhabitants.
Only one (New York City) has a population greater than Ireland.
Plus who in Irish cities uses Starlink. I would have thought it is almost all widely dispersed rural users
I would be surprised if the number of Irish Starlink customers wasn't in the hundreds ... maybe low thousands.
Couldn't agree more - thankfully the NBI naysayers are very quiet these days as they have been proven 100% wrong.
Just wondering what direction does the dish generally tend to point to in ireland? Does it matter what side of the house you mount the dish as long as the dish isnt obstructed?
Ideally you want dish higher than everything around and not obstructed in any direction. Otherwise short drop outs are more likely to happen and be more common. In general there tends to be more satellites south of Ireland than north of Ireland but ideally you always need 2 in sight so you can switch between them as one goes out of view.
Ideally put it up really high and if it must be blocked from looking in all directions then blocked to the north is least worst.
Not really. The recommendation is a minimum 100 degrees arc of view skywards which means you don't kneed to mount it higher than everything around and not obstructed in any direction. I set the neighbors up on a single story flat roof that is beside a two story house in a deep valley it works fine. The starlink app reports no obstructions - it has the required min 100 degrees of arc. Two users work from home with regular video conferences and report no issues.
While there is more open sky to the South Dishy in this case points to the north (Co Waterford), not what I'd expect but no amount of moving it even putting it quite close to a wall to its north will make it point any other direction.
Thanks for the responses, appreciate it
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. If/when nbi pass you, sign up don't be an idiot.
Starlink has been down for about 10 minutes. Looks pretty widespread too as there is now over 3,500 reports on DownDetector.
Edit: and it's back at about 21:20 ... gone worldwide for about 30 minutes.
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