IReallyLikePizza2
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I don't know why, but this just sounds dirty
Starlink satellite internet
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I don't know why, but this just sounds dirty
IReallyLikePizza2
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Problem is, its probably not going to be a backup. I'm fairly certain a lot of the carriers around here use AT&T as the backbone, which means when my internet goes out, there is a chance the cellular goes out
Plus, if there is a city wide power outage, as long as I have a generator, starlink will be up
Well early on anyway, I don't think the satellites can route packets between each other. Only to a ground station. So there's a chance a widespread outage could affect that too.
Ssayer
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Ssayer
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Hopefully they have some gas powered generators charging up some Tesla batteries to keep the ground stations powered then...
IReallyLikePizza2
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They surely will be at a datacenter, which won't lose power since they all have diesel generators
sebastiantombs
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I just talked with my daughter. The company she and my SIL work for has an office somewhere in TX. He's an "upper management" type and was up all night trying to get fuel delivered to that office to keep the backup generator running, and couldn't. No vehicles allowed on the roads or no one wants to take the risk. The office is now without power and they're an IT operation. I think they may "re-think" how much fuel they keep on hand now.
IReallyLikePizza2
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I went to swap some hardware at our Colo at CyrusOne just before Harvey, and they had 18 tanker trucks lined up in the parking lot filled with Diesel, together with their giant belly tanks
Power didn't even go out, but that's planning!
Power didn't even go out, but that's planning!
I just received an email from Starlink with a FedEx tracking number, and an expected delivery date of Saturday. I am excited.
Well, it's gonna have to wait until next Thurday. I just received an email notification that the package was just picked up by FedEx moments ago in CA. They let it sit this whole week.
IReallyLikePizza2
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IReallyLikePizza2
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If it makes you feel better, I'll be waiting a good 6-8 months for my generator
Just got the BI alert with the FedEx guy dropping it off.
Is it too late to call in sick to work today??
Is it too late to call in sick to work today??
IReallyLikePizza2
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We need to know more about that fire hydrant!
It's a restoration project several years in the making. I want to refinish it and mount it in the back yard for the dogs...
Congrats, I'm still waiting for my Hogwarts letter Starlink email.
They're probably like "this guy lives in the center of his town, he doesn't need Starlink".
They're probably like "this guy lives in the center of his town, he doesn't need Starlink".
looney2ns
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Another 60 satellites put up this morning.
I remember power outages in the "old days", we still had the phone service and could get out using a 56 kbps modem with computer on a UPS! Painfully slow, compared today, but we thought it was good back then...
Look forward to your review
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It's Christmas morning (or evening I'm my case). Real high speed internet is in my grasp. I was so tempted to just put the dish out in the yard and test it, but we are dealing with some pretty severe wind gusts the last week. I plan on making a trip to Menards this weekend and pick up some hardware to get this thing mounted, likely to the top of one of my unused chimneys. The reason is because after some research, I found out that the dish needs a clear view of nearly the whole sky. It's not like normal dishes that point SW to look at a geostationary satellite. This bad boy tracks the low orbiting satellites, which means that the dish is motorized.
I just finished opening the box, and so far I'm pretty impressed. Everything feels solid and well built. I did notice some minor surface scratches on the plastic parts of the dish, but nothing deal breaking. They could have been a little more careful packing, but its going outside anyway and will see its fair share of scratches soon.
I think my biggest gripe is that the ethernet cable coming out of the dish is not removable, so there is no way to use your own cut to length CAT cables. The jacket is also about twice the diameter of cat6, so making repairs/terminations on a damaged cable may be tricky or even impossible. Does that mean a damaged cable results in needing a new dish? Unless the damaged area is in a spot you can run it into punch down terminals or something watertight. There are 2 large diameter objects on each end of the cable. I'm guessing they are for surge protection, as the ends have metal for draining esd. This means that without cutting the cable, the hole will need to be drilled pretty large to get it through an exterior wall. It looks like there is about 100 feet of cable,, but I did not measure it. I really wish they made the dish with ethernet jacks on it similar to how Ubiquity makes their point to point antennas.
I was a little disappointed that the modem, which is definitely spacey looking, only has one ethernet out port. I also noticed that there is play between the dish mounting shaft where it plugs into the supplied mounting platform. I'll attach a video to show you what I mean.
I'm still pretty excited, even though I have a few initial gripes.
For now, here are some pictures. Hopefully if I can get it up and running this weekend I can report on the performance.
I just finished opening the box, and so far I'm pretty impressed. Everything feels solid and well built. I did notice some minor surface scratches on the plastic parts of the dish, but nothing deal breaking. They could have been a little more careful packing, but its going outside anyway and will see its fair share of scratches soon.
I think my biggest gripe is that the ethernet cable coming out of the dish is not removable, so there is no way to use your own cut to length CAT cables. The jacket is also about twice the diameter of cat6, so making repairs/terminations on a damaged cable may be tricky or even impossible. Does that mean a damaged cable results in needing a new dish? Unless the damaged area is in a spot you can run it into punch down terminals or something watertight. There are 2 large diameter objects on each end of the cable. I'm guessing they are for surge protection, as the ends have metal for draining esd. This means that without cutting the cable, the hole will need to be drilled pretty large to get it through an exterior wall. It looks like there is about 100 feet of cable,, but I did not measure it. I really wish they made the dish with ethernet jacks on it similar to how Ubiquity makes their point to point antennas.
I was a little disappointed that the modem, which is definitely spacey looking, only has one ethernet out port. I also noticed that there is play between the dish mounting shaft where it plugs into the supplied mounting platform. I'll attach a video to show you what I mean.
I'm still pretty excited, even though I have a few initial gripes.
For now, here are some pictures. Hopefully if I can get it up and running this weekend I can report on the performance.