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  #2905820 23-Apr-2022 17:27
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Nah, doesn’t need to be rigid for Starlink - some movement is fine



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  #2905822 23-Apr-2022 17:31
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johnmo:

Been having intermitant connections on and off for last three months. Their support seems unable to fix. Been fantastic till this started. They only lasted 4 6 hours of issues but now have had three days of this.


Tracert shows a bad connection after the ground station and its not on the satelite link.


Music playing on Bose runs out of buffering and drops out then sometimes totally drops so easy to see when issue happens. Ping stops.


During these times any computer activity just stalls so nothing can be done on computer.


Our location uses a waikato groundstation. App on phone does not show these outages on the uptime network status but tracert shows them.


  1     2 ms     3 ms     2 ms  192.168.2.56
  2    58 ms    48 ms    43 ms  100.64.0.1
  3   105 ms   163 ms   131 ms  172.16.249.0
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    60 ms    70 ms    53 ms  8.244.64.25
  6    43 ms    43 ms    55 ms  ae1.3506.edge2.Sydney1.level3.net [4.69.219.6]


Their support has not respoinded to ticket on this latest round and often takes a few days to reply:(


Run the dish into a Fritzbox but issue still there if i use their wifi router.


Any ideas?



That trace does not show an issue, so what do you get during an actual outage?

@linux, these are not static dishes like a DVB-S one they are active planar arrays tracking satellites trucking along a a fair rate, they have also been demonstrated working successfully from fighter jets, so a small wobble although not ideal is of little concern.

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  #2908968 1-May-2022 14:26
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Starlight package has shipped ,should be here in a week

Setup is In hamilton been seeing speeds around 150 -300+ In the states
Does it depend on how many satellites above?




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  #2908971 1-May-2022 14:34
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cokeman2: Starlight package has shipped ,should be here in a week

Setup is In hamilton been seeing speeds around 150 -300+ In the states
Does it depend on how many satellites above?


150 tends to be fast.com. 250-300 tends to be Ookla Speedtest.

The speed to watch is the router to the Internet. Anything else will be affected by your local environment and devices.




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  #2908973 1-May-2022 14:40
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cokeman2: Starlight package has shipped ,should be here in a week

Setup is In hamilton been seeing speeds around 150 -300+ In the states
Does it depend on how many satellites above?


I just tested it with the Starlink app (fast com Speedtest, I believe) and it was 158Mbps. . With Ookla Speedtest it's 258Mbps. Same phone (SGS 21+). Sitting in the same chair. A minute apart.




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  #2910618 5-May-2022 16:22
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This just dropped in my inbox:

 

Starlink is excited to announce Portability as an add-on feature for all Starlink customers. Portability enables customers to temporarily move their Starlink to new locations and receive high-speed internet anywhere where Starlink provides active coverage within the same continent. To see active coverage areas, please view the Starlink Availability Map.

 

You can enable Portability for $40/month on your account page. Once enabled, Portability will take effect immediately, and you can disable Portability from your account page at any time.

 

To learn more about Starlink Portability, please read our FAQ page.

 

Great news, if a little pricey...


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  #2910619 5-May-2022 16:27
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TL;DR:

 

It it's deprioritised (best effort), can only be used in another country/continent for up to 2 months, not available for in-motion use, and billed in whole month increments.


 
 
 

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  #2910654 5-May-2022 18:40
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Well it turned up

No Ethernet port either :(





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  #2910657 5-May-2022 18:54
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cokeman2: Well it turned up

No Ethernet port either :(



YMMV, but I connected the PoE injector brick directly into my router's WAN port and everything just worked.

The only thing I don't get is Starlink's built in router-to-internet speed test from the app. App to internet works fine, but as others have alluded to, speedtest.net seems to be more accurate anyway.

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  #2910668 5-May-2022 20:40
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cokeman2: Well it turned up

No Ethernet port either :(



YMMV, but I connected the PoE injector brick directly into my router's WAN port and everything just worked.

The only thing I don't get is Starlink's built in router-to-internet speed test from the app. App to internet works fine, but as others have alluded to, speedtest.net seems to be more accurate anyway.


What kind of router you got ?




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  #2910682 5-May-2022 21:22
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cokeman2: Well it turned up

No Ethernet port either :(

 

Have you ordered one? I've got one in stock. I do quite a few Starlink installs.

 

 





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  #2910683 5-May-2022 21:27
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coffeebaron:

cokeman2: Well it turned up

No Ethernet port either :(


Have you ordered one? I've got one in stock. I do quite a few Starlink installs.


 



Haven’t got nothing yet was thinking at pbtec if they had sumthing
There’s always the starlink sites ones




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  #2910688 5-May-2022 21:30
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cokeman2: What kind of router you got ?

A little obscure: Xiaomi Mi AC2100 with OpenWrt ... Hence the YMMV.

But since posting that I've realised that the second generation Dishy does actually require a custom adaptor, sorry :(

https://spaceexplored.com/2022/01/28/how-to-use-a-third-party-router-with-starlink/

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  #2911792 9-May-2022 11:16
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Pings are pretty high around 80 to 100
Results vary from 150 to 320 average around 200

Is the network operation for New Zealand in Sydney?

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  #2911800 9-May-2022 11:39
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cokeman2: Pings are pretty high around 80 to 100
Results vary from 150 to 320 average around 200


Yes, our closest PoP (point of presence) is Sydney, even though we have ground stations here. It's disappointing, but hopefully we'll get one here soon enough.

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