Be interesting how you get on - I live adjacent to the Blackmore Vale and people in that general area of Dorset that I've spoken to about Starlink have generally talked of 50-100mbit down and around 10mbit up daytime speeds and up to about 50% faster overnight.
Starlink - anyone using it?
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Be interesting how you get on - I live adjacent to the Blackmore Vale and people in that general area of Dorset that I've spoken to about Starlink have generally talked of 50-100mbit down and around 10mbit up daytime speeds and up to about 50% faster overnight.
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Had ours installed on Saturday, so far so good, averaging speeds a little over 100mb
Soldato
With this new Mini Dish due I'm hoping they drop the Roam price plan for this dish as it will have less performance than the Standard one. £45-£50 would be a decent price point for 50/10Mbps
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Starlink Mini Dish Coming Later This Year, Elon Musk Says
The dish will be small enough to fit into a backpack, SpaceX's CEO says. Musk also talks about the upcoming cellular Starlink service, which will offer 7Mbps in bandwidth per cell.
Soldato
We did actually look at renting a starlink disk for a LAN we're organising as the location had awful internet but then we found out they'd had fttp installed just recently so no need anymore!
Would've been interesting to see how we got on trying to game over it but we won't find out anymore although at another more remote location another year maybe we might need it!
Would've been interesting to see how we got on trying to game over it but we won't find out anymore although at another more remote location another year maybe we might need it!
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With this new Mini Dish due I'm hoping they drop the Roam price plan for this dish as it will have less performance than the Standard one. £45-£50 would be a decent price point for 50/10Mbps
Starlink Mini Dish Coming Later This Year, Elon Musk Says
The dish will be small enough to fit into a backpack, SpaceX's CEO says. Musk also talks about the upcoming cellular Starlink service, which will offer 7Mbps in bandwidth per cell.
I get the same speed on roam or residential, I think you will only see a speed difference if you're in a congested area.
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Soldato
Only want it for a WFH (remotely option) so happy with the reduced speeds for fee less than £85pm.
Soldato
Well after a full week with Starlink, my initial impressions are fully positive. Very easy installation and setup, very much a plug and play experience.
I currently have it mounted on the 2m ground pole kit that I have strapped to a concrete fence post on the outer edge of my front south facing garden. Its only about 5m from the house and with Starlink requiring a North biased orientation, I did have concerns for obstructions and connection stability. These concerns have proven to be unwarranted with the dish being elevated enough to be obstruction free. Its currently self oriented to a NW direction and I get zero issues with connection stability.
I was initially left wondering why I had bothered as the first night was a bit lackluster performance-wise. Slow speeds, slow response etc dropping in and out, however as the Dish did its thing and updates were applied it settled down, the next morning I restarted the router and dish and it has been faultless since. Gaming so far has been brilliant, ping seems to hover around the 50 mark with some rare occasions of PL at around 2-3 however usually settles very quickly. love the app as well, checking the obstruction map and seeing it slowly fill with blue is strangely satisfying!
I currently have it mounted on the 2m ground pole kit that I have strapped to a concrete fence post on the outer edge of my front south facing garden. Its only about 5m from the house and with Starlink requiring a North biased orientation, I did have concerns for obstructions and connection stability. These concerns have proven to be unwarranted with the dish being elevated enough to be obstruction free. Its currently self oriented to a NW direction and I get zero issues with connection stability.
I was initially left wondering why I had bothered as the first night was a bit lackluster performance-wise. Slow speeds, slow response etc dropping in and out, however as the Dish did its thing and updates were applied it settled down, the next morning I restarted the router and dish and it has been faultless since. Gaming so far has been brilliant, ping seems to hover around the 50 mark with some rare occasions of PL at around 2-3 however usually settles very quickly. love the app as well, checking the obstruction map and seeing it slowly fill with blue is strangely satisfying!
- Download - floats between 80-120mbps depending on time of day though nights seem to be a bit faster, assuming due to network load? I've seen it running at peaks of 200mbps at night.
- Upload - Speeds are nothing to write home about but seem solid 10-15 avg.
- Ping - Seems pretty decent and perfectly usable at between 35-60
- Packet loss - Not really seeing much in the way of issues.
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Linking to my home network thread in Home and Garden - Starlink install is the backbone of the setup 
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I am getting pretty decent speeds from the system, and very happy so far!
StarLink and Rural home networking "Project"
I thought I would document my journey upgrading my home to have a better network using StarLink as the main connection - I have placed the thread in Home and Garden as I am focusing on the setup of the system at home, rather than networking specifically, and also there is a dedicated Starlink...
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I am getting pretty decent speeds from the system, and very happy so far!
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50% off new (£225) Gen2 dishes at the moment and I've put a order in for a refurb unit at £150!
SpaceX Show Latency Improvements on Starlink Broadband Network
Starlink (SpaceX) has revealed some of the progress they've been making to further improve the latency performance across their mega constellation of ultrafast
www.ispreview.co.uk
Soldato
SpaceX Show Latency Improvements on Starlink Broadband Network
Starlink (SpaceX) has revealed some of the progress they've been making to further improve the latency performance across their mega constellation of ultrafast
Think this might be USA only, not seen any news they are dropping them for all. I guess it will be region by region if they get approval etc.
A couple of the replies to the article suggest they have already but only so much you can trust from someone named "I love Starlink"
Its most prob Musk lolA couple of the replies to the article suggest they have already but only so much you can trust from someone named "I love Starlink"
Soldato
A couple of the replies to the article suggest they have already but only so much you can trust from someone named "I love Starlink"
My refurb unit has just shipped so I'll see what it's like tomorrow, I really it for WFH teams calls etc.
Soldato
Plugged in, few reboots and software updates and now I'm using it as WAN1 with my VM connect on WAN2. We'll see if any teams calls drop!
Soldato
So far so good, I'm on the Roam plan and my speeds are 60/15 ish, not great but fine for streaming TV.
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Soldato
So my speeds seem to be capped around 50mpbs and that is from different areas too, North West and up to the Lakes, south Scotland.
I am in the middle of Lincolnshire in the countryside, and I usually get 200+ down, with 30ish up. I am sometimes seeing 300+ and 40ish up.
Starlink is pretty sparse up here, so I suspect that I am lucky to have a low contention area!
Starlink is pretty sparse up here, so I suspect that I am lucky to have a low contention area!
Soldato
I am on the Roam plan so it's half expected.
I am also in bypass mode, don't even have their router connected. But I am going to plug back in their router and see if speeds increase..
Going to revert to standard and see:
I am also in bypass mode, don't even have their router connected. But I am going to plug back in their router and see if speeds increase..
Going to revert to standard and see:
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200+D/20up were my speeds last year on the Roam plan, its not been used since October, I will be starting the Roam plan in just over a week as we're touring the EU for a couple of months from mid April.
I gutted mine to make it smaller, use the vans12v power and a Gl.Inet router, always been spot on.
My speeds on Roam last year after the modification's
Is a good 4G setup capable of competing with Starlink in rural locations?
Yes, it’s a large, directional, antenna. It’s specifically designed for locations where a mobile phone doesn’t even pick up a signal. It’s powered off PoE, 12V, 24 V or 48V from your vans electrical system. So my thinking is you have a pole mounted on the van. When you park up, you slot the...
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