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#2777152 12-Sep-2021 21:26

olivernz: Finally my Starlink arrived! Yay. Now I just need to build the house! Lol.

Anyway was on property with the testing App and didn't look too good. While I wait i installed it at the neighbours house. His scenario for it was even worse with a bigger hill in the way. Anyway gave it a shot. App said it was abysmal positioning (both Android and iOS).

Result so far is absolutely awesome!!! Always 100Mbit+ up to 250Mbit. A few blips of outages in the 1-10sec range. And I guess the dish will need a while to get settled in. Anyway I am blown away. Really good service! Let's hope it stays that way. Now if only my Model 3 would get delivered... ;-)

The app works better if you know the dish will orient to the South. But, yeah, just set the dish up and let it figure it out.

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#2778239 14-Sep-2021 14:10

Dishy has arrived!

Rubbing hands and jumping up and down like a little child as the RD driver dropped it at our doorstep laughing - "You're not the only one rubbing your hands excitedly today!", she said.

Time to go set it up...

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#2778306 14-Sep-2021 16:00

Another batch of Starlink satellites currently being launched, Polar Orbit too this time by the looks.

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#2778316 14-Sep-2021 16:14

DjShadow:

Another batch of Starlink satellites currently being launched, Polar Orbit too this time by the looks.

I was just about to share that after watching it :P

Yep. These are the laser connected batches

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#2778428 14-Sep-2021 19:33

I think these are in a high-inclination (70°) rather than a polar (about 97°) orbit.

The satellites won't actually pass over the North and South Poles, but they will get up to high enough latitudes to provide coverage to Alaska, far northern Canada, the northern parts of Norway, Sweden & Lapland in the Northern hemisphere, and everywhere inhabited in the Southern hemisphere except Antarctica itself - even places like the Auckland Islands and deep into the Ross Sea will be well in coverage.

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#2778548 15-Sep-2021 06:52

Dishy arrived yesterday. Mounted on roof over the pole my Sky dish had been attached to. North side of roof but clear view of Southern sky. No obstructions reported since install. A few blips of 4 seconds and such outages but have been using Starlink connection since 3am for a Zoom call and have had zero issues.

A few complications accessing the stats web page and via the app behind my Orbi as it won’t route to the 192.168.100.0 subnet so had to put in a static route on my Orbi (which will change any time I get a new IP address on reboot), but a minor irritation (just putting it here if anyone else hits this snag).

150-200Mbps down and 20-27Mbps up, ~48 ms latency

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#2778653 15-Sep-2021 10:49

The Herald is at it again with their award winning journalism...

Waiuku's Steve is unhappy because he cannot port forward his webcams on Starlink because of CG-NAT. - Steve you're lucky Starlink fixed the gaping vulnerability you had doing that.

Steve is also unimpressed because there is only one port on the modem and therefore he cannot plug his other devices in. As he says, he will need "a splitter or something."

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#2778658 15-Sep-2021 10:53

aha I cant read it because "To continue reading this article and to support great journalism" its a paid article.

yeah no.

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#2778661 15-Sep-2021 10:56

RobDickinson:

aha I cant read it because "To continue reading this article and to support great journalism" its a paid article.

yeah no.

The part that worries me is the person writing the article says "Many readers have been asking us questions about Starlink"

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#2778666 15-Sep-2021 11:02

My Dishy arrived last night. Courier dropped it off around 6PM which surprised me. Now I'm just waiting for my pole mount to arrive. Looks like I have an interesting project to do this weekend. Can't wait...

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#2778733 15-Sep-2021 12:54

Nate001:

The Herald is at it again with their award winning journalism...

Waiuku's Steve is unhappy because he cannot port forward his webcams on Starlink because of CG-NAT. - Steve you're lucky Starlink fixed the gaping vulnerability you had doing that.

Steve is also unimpressed because there is only one port on the modem and therefore he cannot plug his other devices in. As he says, he will need "a splitter or something."

Yeah I had a good laugh at that article too

"It looks as though to maintain accessibility to my webcams I'll need to retain my ADSL [copper line]."

"I now have a workaround for the port-forwarding, albeit very inferior. And I'm not planning to return the Starlink kit. There's just no comparison with what [copper] can provide."

The day he finds out about Zerotier (or really any remote access solution with NAT traversal) will be a life-changer

Unfortunate that NZ Herald chose to title the article after one guy's lack of networking experience despite also praising the uptime and speeds

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#2778747 15-Sep-2021 13:09

Imagine the media spinning a negative story against Elon Musk ahha.. strange..

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#2778803 15-Sep-2021 15:05

My 0.02 after having it up for 24hrs, sitting on our lawn here in the Kaipara area:

Super easy to set up
Speeds at the top end ~260Mbps, usually well above 100Mbps, occasionally down to 30-40Mbps. But hey, that's still an order of magnitude better than what I had before!
Occasional dropouts, probably 10-15 times a day right now in spite of apparently no obstructions. This is on the worse end of what I was expecting, but hoping this will improve when the roof dries out and I can safely mount it up higher, and as more satellites come online.
All internet still routed through Sydney: VPN to work is not as responsive as I hoped. Another strange side-effect: the Google Nest Hub is reporting Sydney time (haven't looked into that yet)

Anyone know if there's an Auckland/NZ PoP planned? It actually surprises me that they don't have one here given how many base stations are now online in NZ.

EDIT: just re-checked the app, # outages much worse than I thought!

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#2778804 15-Sep-2021 15:08

The outages we keep getting are labelled as being “between the satellite and the internet” so that’s basically out of my hands, I expect that as you say - over time more satellites will come online and those should eventually be gone

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#2778806 15-Sep-2021 15:19

The motorhome fraternity is already trying to poke the bear

They're Geo-Locked once activated right? As in too far from your property it will not work.

Some are asking if they order it, can travel the country like they do with the Skinny 4G routers (against the T&C of most that say it must be used in the place of residence it was ordered against)

Nevermind it's not as easy as cell cover and has to have good satellite 'cell' over-shoot

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