Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

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

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

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.

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…

Yeah, the upload is where it was most disappointing. Not the most performant when using Azure Virtual Desktop and Teams for example. I didn't really buy the clouds thing either. Plenty of satellite solutions work fine with cloud cover. It actually didn't take a performance hit when we had heavy hail. Part of my issue could be that I was trying to use it by powering it off at night and sometimes powering off at points of the day too.

A waterproof electrical dry box might be the answer.

I use this in a shed that the rain blows into https://www.amazon.co.uk/DRiBOX-Weatherproof-Connection-Electrical-Transformers/dp/B006IRGB8O/

and there are cheaper ones available.

Obviously depends where you put the box but if its up in under the mobile home I don't see any problem. If you only have cable going in one end the other end seals itself.

On a VPN so getting UK ads. Followed a referral link to the UK pricing.

WOW UK basic price is £75 and ours is €50.

You'd pause your account. According to them you can pick up anytime.

You would I assume have to perform all the updates could take 20 to 30 mins to reset up though.

I won't pause it so. I will plug it out and plug it back in every few weeks to check it is still working.

Not really because if there is a storm (and there will be) trees or branches will take down my fibre line. It won't affect Starlink though (unless the leckie goes off as well). So that is why i am keeping it as backup.

Intending on doing the same myself when NBI eventually drags their way to my neck of the woods.

I did read somewhere that the dish can get so out of date that it cant update itself though so might be worth booting it up every 6 months and letting it run through updates, though it might have been a thing on older gear not sure.

Out of interest is anyone here running one of the performance dishes? My upload is kinda all over the place, 4.5-20mbit, wondering if the wider FOV would help out since when I first installed it was only showing the lower 1/3 - 1/2 filling up in the obstructions map up here in Donegal. Its filled since but everything above that line is the sparser polar orbits.

As the others have said, there is no point in continuing to pay for a service you are not using.

I've had NBI for the last few months, but I'm keeping my Starlink dish exactly where it was, just powered off. I've suspended my account and will re-activate it if the fibre ever goes off due to fallen branches or whatever. I really do not think that Starlink could be oversubscribed in this country, as the NBI continues it's rollout.

If you are insistent on keeping Starlink active, then you should bind it to your fibre link (if your firewall/router supports that feature) and make use of the combined bandwidth. This would also give you uninterrupted service (as long as your Starlink has power).

On the updates matter, that was not something I had thought about. If I power up the dish, will it pick up updates if my account is suspended, do you know @Tommy Lagahan?

👍 I shall give it a test and see what happens.

And just to round this out, I left it up and running overnight and this morning the router was also updated:

Jaysus that's a lot of info, thanks!

I haven't noticed a huge amount of packet loss on CS2 though, mental high jitter (30+ms) and the occasional bit of loss that I was assuming was from switching sats, how is that possible if its really lossy? Game automatically doubling upload packets? It'll be UDP rather than TCP as well i suppose.

Only Linux machine I have handy is the Steam Deck at the moment. I must wire it up to the router and see what it makes of it, immutable OS might not let ya futer with this stuff though.