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longest outage of 2024 last night, massive thunderstorm, 84 seconds. We had heavy enough snow in March that Dishy could not keep up with melting it. First time ever that I recall.

getting offers to upgrade my (beta tester) equipment. No real reason why because there is virtually zero downtime, but am trying to wrangle a deal to upgrade and get a portable (smaller than RV) Starlink with international roaming to use when we safari next year.

Our single largest cause of outages apart from weather are when deer are standing in front of the dish, a few seconds a month. Will see a tiny glitch and reload, and next second deer walks up to bird / deer feeder. Love my Starlink, speeds above 150 average even during peak Netflix hours, can easily run 3 or 4 devices with zero lag (well.25 ms to be exact)
 
TheeCaseyH said:
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Literally all the instructions lol. Just don't point it at any trees.
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Lol - that is about what I would expect from a company that repeatedly lands rockets on drone ships out on the ocean, or back at the launchpad. "Just point it at the sky and we will take care of it"
 
JNHEscher said:
That's exactly what I've caught on a few recent vids and chatter from the interwebs. Hence I gotta read up on mounting.
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It is literally plug in two sets of cords(or three if you hate wireless)

As mentioned, it is a flat panel with a kickstand... you just rotate the panel how the phone app tells you. After a month or two, you may have to adjust it again.
 
Lil'John said:
It is literally plug in two sets of cords(or three if you hate wireless)

As mentioned, it is a flat panel with a kickstand... you just rotate the panel how the phone app tells you. After a month or two, you may have to adjust it again.
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Right on. I was just looking at pics of the RV version. I'm guessing I'll still have to mount it up high on a pole. House is surrounded by trees - some of which are double the height of the house.
 
I got ours about a month ago. Its on top of the trailer we're living in while we build or house. Its registered to the new house address, we're about 15 miles from there and it still works. I dont even have mine aligned properly (32* out) and I get phenomenal service so far. I just have the dish sitting on the trailer roof slid over the trailers fold up antenna so it doesnt go anywhere.
 
JNHEscher said:
Right on. I was just looking at pics of the RV version. I'm guessing I'll still have to mount it up high on a pole. House is surrounded by trees - some of which are double the height of the house.
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Mine is currently on an SUV roof rack in my yard... so flat spot 8' off ground. I have one tree that might be interfering with it.

Alpine4x4 said:
I got ours about a month ago. Its on top of the trailer we're living in while we build or house. Its registered to the new house address, we're about 15 miles from there and it still works. I dont even have mine aligned properly (32* out) and I get phenomenal service so far. I just have the dish sitting on the trailer roof slid over the trailers fold up antenna so it doesnt go anywhere.
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When I first placed mine, it was ~5* out and I turned it. It is claiming it is out 5* again. I'm not sure why I continue to get drops.
 
Lil'John said:
Mine is currently on an SUV roof rack in my yard... so flat spot 8' off ground. I have one tree that might be interfering with it.


When I first placed mine, it was ~5* out and I turned it. It is claiming it is out 5* again. I'm not sure why I continue to get drops.
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I'm not seeing many drops at all. If I do see them, they are the very short ones. I have noticed no interruption in service.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
I'm not seeing many drops at all. If I do see them, they are the very short ones. I have noticed no interruption in service.
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When I say 'drop', I mean that it appears to lose signal and I get no DNS resolution. This state lasts about 2-3 minutes at a time. At times, it feels like multiple times a day but I haven't checked my pFsense log for it.
 
Some of the camps at work use it and I've heard it works well. It's either that or other satellite like Hughes though.

One of the guys said they had the coax? cable melt, I guess the heater running 24x7 wasn't factored in. But they sorted it out with a better cable.

I have ATT cell internet at home, forget what it's called, whiteblob thing that does the internet. $55 a month and it's like 5x faster than the DSL I was paying $110/month for.

I have jack shit for cell signal (often 1 bar) but it works just fine. Has gone down once that i know of in over a year and was a system wide deal.
I just mention that as it could be an alternative to the Starnet.
I think T Mobil also has a similar setup.
 
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Ayyy. It's here. Would have behooved myself to research this more. We'll be opening it up at the house this weekend to try it out.
 
2 years in and I have my first issue. Overnight it seems like my cable went bad. How the fuck does that happen?. I checked it for any issues like rodent damage.
Have a guy coming tomorrow from neighboring town that has a new cable. Hopefully that fixes it. If not Home Depot is supposed to be delivering me a Gen 3 system next week.
Had a helluva a day trying to run my business with no internet :shaking:
 
Got ours going a few days ago. Doing alright so far, but I haven't tried my laptop on it yet.
 
Seubs070 said:
The roam service is good anywhere in the country you activate it and can be turned on and off monthly. In the US its $150 a month. No contract
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When I cut it on for July trip it only cost me $108 or something not the $150 I was used to.

I'll take it

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Update on my bad cable problem after 2 years of reliable internet. Got the dish off the roof and found the cable end connected to the dish was all fucked up. Figured out it was because I forgot to turn off the heating after the winter. It draws a lot of power when heating. Cleaned it up and I'm back in business.
 
ApeEater said:
They prorate whatever part of the month is remaining until your next billing date.
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I guess I got lucky.

So if I really only need it for 7 days I should try to determine when to start/stop and save some money.
 
2JZ said:
Update on my bad cable problem after 2 years of reliable internet. Got the dish off the roof and found the cable end connected to the dish was all fucked up. Figured out it was because I forgot to turn off the heating after the winter. It draws a lot of power when heating. Cleaned it up and I'm back in business.
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Mine has three different settings in the app to control heating. Off, preheat, and detect snow so it only heats it when there is snow.
 
2JZ said:
Update on my bad cable problem after 2 years of reliable internet. Got the dish off the roof and found the cable end connected to the dish was all fucked up. Figured out it was because I forgot to turn off the heating after the winter. It draws a lot of power when heating. Cleaned it up and I'm back in business.
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I have two spare cables. One stays in the trailer for when I take it camping and one new in the box just in case.
 
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Did the DC conversion using the YAOSHENG adapters. Its the more expensive way but is more fool proof and leaves the cables un modified for regular 120v use with the router. There is a newer version of this available now.

150W GigE Passive PoE Injector with Surge Protection, Developed for Starlink pinout. ​

YAOSHENG Rectangular Dishy Cable Adapter to RJ45. Connect Your Dishy V2 to PoE Injector Quickly and Easily.

Swapped the router for this one. Plan to use it for travel too.

GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal) Secure Travel WiFi Router – AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Ethernet Wireless Internet | IPv6 USB 2.0 MU-MIMO DDR3 |128MB Ram Repeater Bridge Access Point Mode ​



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Wheelerfreak said:
Mine has three different settings in the app to control heating. Off, preheat, and detect snow so it only heats it when there is snow.
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I thought it was on auto, but it was on preheat all summer :shaking:
 
ouch. :laughing: :homer:

I need a good outdoor rated router. I can't find anything that says the stock one is okay outside or not.

I'm getting a mini just not wanting to pay the 600 for the mini hardware yet.
 
New ROAM plans, 50GB = $50
Unlimited is now $165 but has in motion data and international access.

Note: the $50 Roam plan is the very last option in the last...

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We are in rural east Sacramento county. We use a locally run “line of sight” internet setup. It works well enough for Mrs to work from home since the beginning of the scamdemic.

Our nephew who lives in the house on the front of the property is a gamer. He is always looking for something faster for internet service, which is tough where we’re at. We have a wifi camera in the front of the property so we can see what’s up at our gate. It runs off of the front houses wifi. The nephew recently installed the Starlink system, our video quality from the driveway camera has improved a lot!
 
I'm in western NC in the middle of a literal disaster zone and I'm posting because I have generators and Starlink. There's zero connectivity here if you don't have some type of satellite internet. No wired Internet and all the cell networks are overloaded to the point they're basically useless. A text will eventually go through but sometimes even that takes hours.
 
east_beast said:
I'm in western NC in the middle of a literal disaster zone and I'm posting because I have generators and Starlink. There's zero connectivity here if you don't have some type of satellite internet. No wired Internet and all the cell networks are overloaded to the point they're basically useless. A text will eventually go through but sometimes even that takes hours.
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I saw some videos of that told my wife it would be a good time to have starlink wouldn't it.
 
east_beast said:
I'm in western NC in the middle of a literal disaster zone and I'm posting because I have generators and Starlink. There's zero connectivity here if you don't have some type of satellite internet. No wired Internet and all the cell networks are overloaded to the point they're basically useless. A text will eventually go through but sometimes even that takes hours.
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Yep, there are even kits to run them off power tool batteries. It’s a great system in several ways.
 
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