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No noticeable reduction or drop outs, despite what it says
Use the app, use the free trial, although using the app before install told me it wouldn't work in its current location
I wish other isp's would give the same info for comparison, I bet the packet loss and interruption is inline with other providers
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Id agree rain doesnt affect it much at all. In the box you get the dish, a cable and a router with a power supply. To run it in a field youd need to supply 240, and the poit to point it to your house.
My dish is on top of our farm shed, as its where the old set up was, so the router is in a water proof box poe to a switch, then point to point to the house and another to the holiday cottages. We normally get about 200 downin the cottages, bit less in the house due to older network kit.
My dish is on top of our farm shed, as its where the old set up was, so the router is in a water proof box poe to a switch, then point to point to the house and another to the holiday cottages. We normally get about 200 downin the cottages, bit less in the house due to older network kit.
There are a lot of Starlink satellites in orbit now. Looking at the amount of tree cover, a Starlink "dish" flush with, or slightly above the ridge of the roof will probably have no major issues in getting reasonable data rates.
Starlink uses POE and comes with well over 10 metres of cable, but to get 50 metres away will require additional cable, which has bespoke connectors, and is not cheap.
Well starlink came - tests seem pretty good BUT
They seem to have designed it for people to use their phones over wifi. It doesnt allow you to control DHCP
It gives out it's own ip address but there is no way to configure it to work on a typical network. Why is everything so dumbed down these days
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Well starlink came - tests seem pretty good BUT
They seem to have designed it for people to use their phones over wifi. It doesnt allow you to control DHCP
It gives out it's own ip address but there is no way to configure it to work on a typical network. Why is everything so dumbed down these days
First thing I did once setup was put it in bypass mode and plug my Gl.iNet router back in
There is a "hidden" status page at 192.168.100.1 but you are correct that there isn't a proper admin
Having said that, if you "need" to configure DHCP you are not running a typical network and should be using it as a pure modem, or bypass mode as they call it
Yes can work around it but wouldn't have cost any more to get it right.
Getting good speeds around 350mbp but time will tell how much dropped signal there will be.
Good deal. No contract and free 30 day trial.
Also free professional installation. Better than our lashup
Other than you guys talking in hieroglyphics I get the gist of what you are saying . Enjoy your new toys .
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Yes can work around it but wouldn't have cost any more to get it right.
Getting good speeds around 350mbp but time will tell how much dropped signal there will be.
Good deal. No contract and free 30 day trial.
Also free professional installation. Better than our lashup
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I disagree to a point. They have prioritised an out of box experience at the expense of configurability, and if you need a different configuration you have the option to just use it as a modem
The routers I use state they will not work out of the box (the travel ones do, sort of) and you can configure them to the nth degree, including custom modules
My initial install was wedged up on wood, it's been on the roof nearly a week and I have 100% coverage
Had a few high packet loss events today but no noticeable disruption
