after storm eowyn I feared to look out at our chimney . The devastation from the storm was unprecedented. But the V2 Starlink was still there not a bother on it. 6 meters of ridge tiles were ripped away around it . The old digital serial was bent over but Starlink was still pointing to the correct location . Power came back after 4 days last night and it was perfect . fair play Starlink .
just got the starlink mini for the campervan with this deal :
Stuck the mini on the windscreen using this from temu and just connected to the 12v cigarette lighter
Getting >150mbs at the house, should make Europe trip next month a bit easier!
Anyone source a genuine replacement cable? Starlink looking for 135 euro for one
Try ebay?
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/326083382155
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/296981243053
How does SkyQ perform with Starlink?
My old Sky HD box died and they want me to upgrade to SkyQ.
I have Fibre coming in the summer, so I might just hold off.
Skyq is completely flawless with starlink. If there is any issues it will be because sky's servers are not good enough.
It is Starlink related 🤣🤣
You have to be a cat owner to know that that is 100% possible.
I've gotten buggered by ping jitter one to many times in CS2 tonight on Imagine, anyone here play it on Starlink? I get 10-20ms of upstream / downstream jitter according to the ingame telemetry between 6pm and 1am on CS2 on Imagine so its more or less unplayable now at a high level. Other games are fine - 5ms jitter. Tempted to just buy a dishy and try it for a month, NBI is at least a year, probably nearly 2 years away. Anyone done any bufferbloat tests? Here's what I'm dealing with currently, tried SQM for a while and can get up to an A on this but it doesn't seem to help on CS in any way:Bufferbloat test
From my starlink
https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=f4bad6f0-23ec-49f8-8126-aede04e4d021
That is outrageously better than Imagine or any (real) 5G network I've tested around here, thanks!
Here's mine on Starlink:
https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=b37883c7-7df3-4aac-9a00-d635e0b1d0cd
Have been on nbi the past year but after 17 days of no internet following the stormand doing over a 2hr round trip to the office i bit the bullet and bought starlink yesterday. Installed in a temp manner in 30 mins and finding it brilliant for wfh today.
Yeah it's a definite plus point of starlink. Once you can power it you are always online
Its fairly power hungry though even with the heat switched off. I have mine plugged into a decent UPS and it doesn't go for very long.
Yeah you'd really need a generator or back up battery storage for it
Starlink was a game changer for me during the recent storm, where we were without power for almost 4 days. I ran an extension lead from the V2L socket in the car which has a 77kWh battery. We powered the fridge, freezer, some lighting, Starlink and a few sockets for charging phones. I worked from home on both the Friday and the Monday without interruption.
The unintended consequence was that we spent a lot of time feeding snacks to the kids from next door as they were charging phones and downloading content. A nice problem to have :)
Was your front door or window open for the cable from the car to reach the appliances inside the house or how did you manage it?
Our windows have a "2 stage" lock, where a very small gap will allow a cable to get through without crimping it on the first lock, while still staying closed / locked. Both the Starlink cable and the power cable came into the house this way through a utility window
Ookla report on Starlink penetration and performance around Europe, report by one of our own
https://www.ookla.com/articles/starlink-europe-q1-2024?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=starlink_europe_q1_2024
Interesting that after Bulgaria and Cyprus, Ireland has the highest adoption rate for Starlink. 🤔
It just goes to show that the national broadband scheme was a complete waste of 2 billion of Tax payers money when starlink exists.
Totally disagree, nothing beats fibre.
150-350 Mbps Starlink vs. 500 Mbps - 1/2 Gbps - 5 Gbps fibre.
Absolute nonsense. Satellite is no match for fibre connection ever.
Pound for pound value the NBP had been one of the best and most efficient roll outs in state history.
I have a starlink, I have to for work. My fibres coming this year and I can't wait to get rid of it.
I don't trust starlink with my data and no one should tbh.
Still alot without Fiber Broadband since the storm in the west .Lots have got the Starlink since because can't rely on the fiber broadband anymore.
Its the storm of the century. Forgive me if I don't put alot of stock in it being that much of a risk. Theres people that had no bridge up their road from flash floods. Would you blame the road or the random act of nature?
Will be getting Starlink in the next couple of days. Fibre went down over a month ago and despite constant calls I still have no information on when (if??) it's ever going to be fixed. But by god I still get a bill exactly on time…
That's fair enough but it's not just the last storm iits basically any storm around the west and there's been plenty just forest been planted too close to power lines where fiber will run on.Inless they start cutting the trees away from the lines it's going to be an on going issue,Off course we all want fiber broadband but starlink works for alot .
The answer is to go with whichever technology suits your requirements now.
We now have options in rural Ireland that are superior to ADSL/wireless/dialup, that we didn't have previously.
No doubt fibre is superior to Starlink. I have two family members using Starlink until fibre arrives later this year and say they'll assess their options at that time, maybe they'll stay with Starlink.
Makes sense, until the reality is the alternate is better quality and cheaper.
By better quality I specifically mean latency and capacity. My starlink beats my previous LTE by far. But it doesn't beat fibre and won't ever.
Its absolutely middling for gaming. It does IPTV fine but it's still only OK at file speeds.
And tbh the latency on high quality video calls means you have to lower the camera quality , I've had this with a month old laptop. Didn't notice on my 5 year old machine but it's pops up now due to network latency.
Its a good system. Is it a great system no. Average.
