you should save yourself the money and just go point to point with your buddy and freeload off himThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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I checked on my web Starlink and there’s a message that my area is experiencing degraded service but my buddy isn’t having issues. I did a reboot and a stow cycle and no improvement.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I’ll have to wait and see if anything improves.
Haha...that may be a bit of an undertaking to go point to point!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Its not really more than $400 worth of tech and some education if you've got a fairly clear line of to your buddy, and a barn or mast to mount them on. 2km is nothing for a couple Nanobeam AC5 gen2 PTP radios.
However splitting a 100 MB connection and dealing with some of the additional latency is probably not a great trade off to save a few bucks a month of having your own service at a slightly reduced speed.
The line of sight is why I said it’d be an undertaking...I’d have to build a very sizeable tower and so would he to have a hope at getting a clear line of sight! Definitely not worth the effort/cost.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Did 3 tests this morning and the worst has been 73 and the most 110...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Everything was much faster last night around 11:00 and I did a few speed tests...I got speeds between 78 and 160...so it's showing the potential and even if it's always at the bottom end of that range, I'll be more than happy. But about 1/2 an hour later, it felt like Xplornet again and a couple of speed test showed in the 10-15 range. It's in that same range this morning. Though even with similar speeds as Xplornet, it's much quicker accessing files on my work servers through VPN - with Xplornet it was painful.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So I'll see how everything works when I am able to do the permanent install with the dish on the roof.
Super fast today ranging from 130 to 160 currently...
Since there has been lots of questions regarding the performance of this system in the snow, I just thought I would post that after last nights dump I have had zero connectivity issues at all so happy about that!
That's good to know. I'm interested to see how this develops when it gets more popular.
I am curious to see how it will handle the 18 inch dump of snow one day but hopefully no testing of that until next winter!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So something I just realized... After getting Starlink, my Netflix account is the US based one. I wonder if that is just because of the satellites it is bouncing off of or something?
Yea at the moment there are no Canadian base stations. Your probably connected to a station in Montana.
Check out the map here:
https://satellitemap.space/#
Reddit has some spy images of a Ontario station being built
That might be better depending what you want to watch!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Lucky, Californication is probably still on US netflix. Still waiting on MM:Fury Road to come back to Canada.
Snow is an issue, but there is one guy on Youtube who broke his on the first day because of icicle formation on the bottom, which ended up glueing his dish to the roof when it froze solid, which broke the motor.
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The snow we have seen so far has been no issue at all, but I also have my dish mounted up on the old Xplornet mount so it is a lot higher off the rood than if I used the mount from Starlink. Might be a good thing I did that apparently!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Yep, my Starlink IP location seems to bounce from Alberta\Washington\California. The downside, you start watching something on US Netflix and then boom, next day you're back in Netflix canada.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Just got an email - "Starlink is now available for order to a limited number of users in your coverage area."
$650 for hardware, $130/month, ETA for my area mid to late 2021. As much as I want to try it, I pay a lot less for Telus smarthub so won't be switching over just yet I guess.
I got the Starlink update today too, same thing. My cheap telus smart hub ($80/month) is good enough for now (netflix, Teams video chat, etc). But it's nice to have a faster option via Starlink.
yep i got 2 emails as well, but it's not worth $130 (plus $700 hardware) for 50-150m.. can get better than that for cheaper with other means
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I just signed up for mid to late 2021
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