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#2701627 4-May-2021 12:07

Maybe they were repositioning satellites due to China's rocket booster re-entry?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/125020210/a-large-chinese-rocket-is-falling-to-earth-and-new-zealand-possibly-in-its-path

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#2701636 4-May-2021 12:22

That has been a large viewable tumbling object from New Zealand the last few nights

Yank1w1

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#2703167 7-May-2021 08:43

Speedtest.net now reports my Starlink location as the more accurate Christchurch instead of Auckland. Too bad the ping times don't match.

doctortea

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#2703171 7-May-2021 08:47

Yank1w1:

Speedtest.net now reports my Starlink location as the more accurate Christchurch instead of Auckland. Too bad the ping times don't match.

Would that mean that the Hinds station opened up?

Jordanh

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#2703201 7-May-2021 09:29

I noticed far less satellite switching last night, would be good to see an improvement in ping to back it up.

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#2704114 9-May-2021 18:33

If anyone likes following along..

Another 60 (and the 10th landing of booster!!) at 1842

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J71s2KmkSrc

https://flightclub.io/result/3d?code=SL27 (hit 3D viz). Way off South Eastern coast of NZ this time

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#2704116 9-May-2021 19:03

Timed it perfectly for that Chinese booster to de-orbit so it wasn't in the way of this launch

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#2705697 10-May-2021 17:47

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#2705701 10-May-2021 17:56

So it's still a Sydney based/allocated ASN. (and routing by looks if no change in ping) Just with better/updated GEOs

https://ipinfo.io/AS36492/103.152.127.0/24

https://help.apnic.net/s/article/Geolocation

Sirram

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#2706699 12-May-2021 21:20

North Auckland screen shots from www.starlink.sx tonight showing cell structure and links through Te Hana and Clevedon ground stations. Seems like encouraging signs after a few quiet NZ weeks

Zander

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#2706749 12-May-2021 21:54

Sirram:

North Auckland screen shots from www.starlink.sx tonight showing cell structure and links through Te Hana and Clevedon ground stations. Seems like encouraging signs after a few quiet NZ weeks

Cool! Well spotted. I've been talking to the developer a bit on Reddit, and passed him Zenourn's map as a reference too - https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=281278&page_no=13#2682295

Last I read was he thinks he's got the location of the cells about right, but couldn't get the rotation correct - so its not 'official' cell locations.

See - https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/n9bas5/satellite_spot_beam_simulation_first_stab/

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#2706798 12-May-2021 22:01

Presumably the center of the ovals/edges of cells would be pretty close to 53deg to meet the equatorial inclination to get the angle of them right?

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#2706926 13-May-2021 12:00

There may be some consolation for those of us without a dishy yet. One user is reporting that the new grey dishy hardware only uses 40W Lets hope his power meter is not broken. 😀

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#2708032 15-May-2021 19:30

A (not-so-favourable) review:

https://www.theverge.com/22435030/starlink-satellite-internet-spacex-review

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#2708043 15-May-2021 20:50

quickymart:
A (not-so-favourable) review:

https://www.theverge.com/22435030/starlink-satellite-internet-spacex-review

A whinging review from someone who Starlink was not designed for. This guy openly admits that he can get reliable and (compared to much of the rural world) fast cable, LTE and 5G, while complaining that Starlink is unreliable and requires a chainsaw or climbing on his roof to position Dishy better.

We get 4Mbps max of spotty ADSL which drops regularly, speed and data cap limited (and spotty) 3G/4G from all the major mobile providers, laughable rural wireless options and data caps, and the knowledge that neither cable nor fibre is ever coming down our street.

I for one welcome our new unreliable rural broadband overlords. What they have achieved in beta already beats every other option available to me by a country mile (see what I did there?)

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