Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

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

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:

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.

Falling back to 5g on my mobile is reminiscent to lighting a candle during a power cut.

any update on what it might be . I’m betting on a cyber attack .

Everyone usually blames dns, so I’m going with dns

I looked at the diagnostic data on mine and I think I saw it flick this code that Monday evening, but didn't occur in the short while I left a screen recorder recording the screen. At the moment (6:20pm), the code 15 is flickering intermittently like in your clip. This is a still from a screen recording:

Do they still offer refurbished dishes? I know they have the offer if you sign a 12 month contract, but this is for a temporary option.