evilengineer:

You guys not worried about water getting down the gap and rotting out the Sky pole from the inside?

There should ideally be some sort of cowl around the joint. 

What's the current lead time from ordering to delivery of the Starlink dish? I am moving to Waipapa next month and, weirdly for a not-so-rural area, have no fixed line, RBI 4G, Ubernet etc options available 🧐

ablears:

What's the current lead time from ordering to delivery of the Starlink dish? I am moving to Waipapa next month and, weirdly for a not-so-rural area, have no fixed line, RBI 4G, Ubernet etc options available 🧐

ablears:

 

What's the current lead time from ordering to delivery of the Starlink dish? I am moving to Waipapa next month and, weirdly for a not-so-rural area, have no fixed line, RBI 4G, Ubernet etc options available 🧐

 

I know someone who ordered on 20 Sept and it arrived 30 Sept.

Germany opened up for full orders nationwide today, so that might impact dishy availability

Thanks for the info @pih and @tim0001

Hi All,

I am asking for a friend, I am pretty sure what the answer will be but I would like to hear from Starlink users.

What is the performance like in bad weather  / storms.

They are in BOP but I dont think that will matter, they only have ADSL and no chance of an upgrade.

If you could please let me know your experience's that would be awesome.

John

SATTV:

What is the performance like in bad weather  / storms.

Hey John,

We've been up and running for about three months now - so not had the opportunity to have had the full spectrum of what mother nature might throw at it. But (and because it's new I still whip the app out and monitor performance when we get a weather event)...

• Rain - we've had a couple of bouts of very heavy rain. We streamed TV throughout and there was no noticable impact.
• Fog - two days of heavy morning fog, no impact.
• Hail - a heavy hail storm completely removed service but it came back as soon as the storm passed over (10 mins max).
• Thunder/Lightening - no impact.
• Snow - not yet, but likey at some point.
• Wind - we had horrendous winds a few weeks ago - lost a dozen trees on the property and are in the process of having about 20 more removed that are now unstable. The FENZ weather station is 800m away and reported gusts of 176.6kmph. The whole family was up until 3am when it subsided - too noisy (and terrifying) to sleep - and no impact on performance at all.

We're in the Mackenzie District, I guess your conditions will be different. We intended to run our copper line in parallel for failover for a while but canned it after the first couple of weeks. We've had a few minor (10-15 second) dropouts but it's rare we notice them. I worked from home over the latest lockdown and averaged six hours on zoom per day and only had one instance of a call glitching - it froze briefly and recovered. 

Overall we've been delighted. Speed is a solid c. 150 down, 30 up. Latency varies between 50 and 90 with 70 being the usual. My son games on line and has only had positive things to say.

SATTV:

 

Hi All,

 

I am asking for a friend, I am pretty sure what the answer will be but I would like to hear from Starlink users.

 

What is the performance like in bad weather  / storms.

 

They are in BOP but I dont think that will matter, they only have ADSL and no chance of an upgrade.

 

If you could please let me know your experience's that would be awesome.

 

John

 

 

 

I've done a few Starlink installs now, and feedback form customers seems to be fairly positive. Certainly a step up from ADSL. I haven't had specific feedback on weather related issues yet, but as above, probably only likely in extreme weather.

We had very heavy rain overnight last night. Woke me up a few times, it was so loud. I checked during a couple of the heaviest falls and the connection fluctuated between about 30-65Mbps down, which is about the slowest I've seen it go in heavy rain. The outage log is also showing four "Network issues" overnight between 2-32 seconds. The app describes the network issues as "a problem between the satellite and the internet", so apparently Dishy didn't even lose connectivity with the satellite over that time, but perhaps the satellite lost connectivity with the ground station?

SATTV:

 

Hi All,

 

I am asking for a friend, I am pretty sure what the answer will be but I would like to hear from Starlink users.

 

What is the performance like in bad weather  / storms.

 

They are in BOP but I dont think that will matter, they only have ADSL and no chance of an upgrade.

 

If you could please let me know your experience's that would be awesome.

 

John

 

I'm in Opotiki. Performance is pretty consistent across various types of weather. My own dish is still sitting on the lawn, well down out of the wind, but with a clear view of the sky. I have been weighing up the pros / cons of mounting it on the roof.....in the wind....which I though might cause the dish to move / shake. I'm also not a fan of drilling holes in my almost new roof. :-) The main reason I'd put it on the roof would so the ethernet cable doesn't have to cross the driveway. I currently have the router in the garage.......and it seems good enough to cover the house from there. 

SATTV:

 

What is the performance like in bad weather  / storms.

 

Generally, in the wind and rain, it's absolutely fine. The only time we have had a drop-out was last week in the most torrential rainstorm.  It also gets a little bit patchy in fog.  Survived hail as well.  

kingdragonfly: In this one case Elon is being a 8/10 jerk and Bezos is a 10/10.

Jeff Bezos' desperate attempt to destroy Starlink satellites..

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