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  #2780059 17-Sep-2021 21:55
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I had set my Starlink dish up on the lawn just to test it out but the recent rain and strong winds made me think perhaps it's better right where it is. It's down out of the wind. I don't have to put holes in my roof. It's working fine. I can move it around easily if I need to. I may get some paving stones to use as a platform so I mow around it. I may dig the Ethernet cable in through a conduit to cross the gravel driveway to the house. Keep me fit. At the moment, the Starlink router is in the garage. It's still covers almost all of the house, though it gets a bit flakey at the furthest end.





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  #2780072 17-Sep-2021 23:18
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I put mine on the lawn temporarily and found ants crawling up inside it after just the first day! 😡

Mine is going on the roof tomorrow.

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  #2780160 18-Sep-2021 12:21
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Musk tweeted that Starlink is coming out of beta in October:
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1438748063527575555




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  #2780241 18-Sep-2021 13:53
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pih: I put mine on the lawn temporarily and found ants crawling up inside it after just the first day! 😡

Mine is going on the roof tomorrow.


So you won't see the ants on your roof. Good plan. ;-)




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  #2780245 18-Sep-2021 14:04
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pih: I put mine on the lawn temporarily and found ants crawling up inside it after just the first day!

 

You have to expect bugs in a beta.

 

 


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  #2780458 18-Sep-2021 20:00
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sidney:

pih: I put mine on the lawn temporarily and found ants crawling up inside it after just the first day!


You have to expect bugs in a beta.


 



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Mounted securely on the roof in place of the old Sky dish:



Yeah it's not going to be bug-free up there either, but at least I can control the bugs around the house a bit more than in the grass.

I'm more concerned with birds sitting on it now, obstructing the field of view. "A bird dropping packets", shall we say?

 
 
 

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  #2780475 18-Sep-2021 21:54
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pih: 

Mounted securely on the roof in place of the old Sky dish:

Yeah it's not going to be bug-free up there either, but at least I can control the bugs around the house a bit more than in the grass.

I'm more concerned with birds sitting on it now, obstructing the field of view. "A bird dropping packets", shall we say?

 

A few upward facing standoffs around the edge with some fine fishing line back and forth in between would probably discourage birds enough to keep it clear.





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  #2782028 22-Sep-2021 09:33
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What a difference Starlink has made.

 

Still in semi lockdown I needed to share the difference Starlink has made to my work-from-home life. I'm doing some filing at the moment on our SharePoint library so needing to upload some fairly large docs. On my adsl line (which gets disconnected in 5 days) this would have been near impossible. Now with Starlink it's a breeze. Before I was lucky to get peaks of 500kbps. Now it's around 25Mbps. That means a 50 minute upload now take 1 minute for this 89MB file. I'll happily live with the short outages I'm currently getting to be able to work like this.

 


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  #2782035 22-Sep-2021 09:53
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Totally. I have 4 kids all streaming, participating in online meetings and watching YT all day and I don't even notice it. It's been fantastic here with a few minor issues. Oh and putting the dish on the roof (anecdotally) has dropped outages from 10-15 per day down to no more than about 5 short drops.

Issues I'm still facing:
1) I VPN in to work (~30km away) but with the Starlink POP in Sydney the latency is really high: ping times to my work machine are at best 80ms, but often sit between 100-200ms, making for some laggy remote desktop sessions.

2) We keep switching between IP addresses geotagged for AU and NZ. So we'll often get AU ads shown, the Google Nest Hub shows AEST time, or - worst case - we started watching a new Netflix series last night that we noticed had appeared but near the end of the first episode the stream stopped and we got an error saying that the title was "not available in your country or region (NZ)". This morning we were back to having an AU address and suddenly it started working again!

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  #2782044 22-Sep-2021 10:40
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Is anyone using Starlink with a geo-unblocking service such as DNS4me?

 

  • Does it play nicely with CGNAT?
  • How often does it change your IP address?
  • What's the streaming performance like in general assuming an unobstructed view of the sky?

I'm keen to get rid of my crappy 9Mbps ADSL connection which does have the one advantage of a static IP address.


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  #2782045 22-Sep-2021 10:44
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andypen:

 

 

 

Me thinks you may also be an engineer based on your file transfer. 😃


 
 
 

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  #2782068 22-Sep-2021 11:34
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evilengineer:

 

Me thinks you may also be an engineer based on your file transfer. 😃

 

 

Haha. You may well be right. Lucky there isn't anything incriminating in the screen shot (I hope)...


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  #2782114 22-Sep-2021 12:46
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Semi temporary install. Works great! Even survived the roaring rain and 100kmh winds. Was amazed that with cloud cover and pouring rain it was still doing 100MBIT+

 

 

(This is weird, the pic went all violet on me. Wasn't like that in the original.)


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  #2783380 24-Sep-2021 10:28
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Anyone had experience of running 2talk VOIP through this?


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