Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

Hello folks, happy Christmas.

Am in county limerick and have ordered starlink - expecting it to be delivered around second week in Jan. Anyone in Limerick have it installed and do you have recommendations for an installer?

Thanks

Installed my Starlink today :-). The speeds shown are both with laptop wired direct into the router.

On wifi I'm getting about 70Mb down using the Starlink router.

Delighted with the change - the difference of quality of image when streaming on the main TV is night & day :-)

How many people are using a different router than the Starlink supplied one?

Yeah got it done yesterday, not much difference so far, just more convenience as had to pass it through a window for where it was in the garden. With the roof mount Ive used their masonry kit to drill the wall for where the router will permanently live.

Once I got up there I wasn't happy with the existing poles stability so instead used an L bracket I'd bought as a backup and placed it in front of chimney breast facing south so it gets a bit of shelter but also isn't obstructed.

Yeah i managed to get a break in the weather yesterday so just went for it, if its working on a table theres no rush.

I ordered it for 1 address, to be billed to a 2nd address and then had it shipped to a 3rd address so its definitely possible to use multiple addresses in the order process, maybe just double check and try again.

the plus code will validate if its in an active cell. once validated it will allow the order to proceed. Then the account setup begins and the mac address of the modem unit ( which is in the dish ) is linked to the account. Only space x can reassign mac hardware Ids. The account billing can be to another address usually associated with the card used to setup payment. ( if the card validation errors out, the process will abort and may result in an invalid error.) lastly, delivery address can be different again from cell address and card payment billing address.

Regardless of delivery address, the process starts once the entered plus code is validated as being within an active cell. ( small caveat, the delivery address must be in the same country as the plus code, so space x can fulfil the customs, revenue and FCC admin, hence you avoid any nasty surprises when the van arrives ! )

Hi all,

Just wondering what you latency is like over the last few months, is it getting better. I see Elon is making very optimistic claims that it will soon get to 20ms

I'm with imagine at the moment, which is fine during the day but turns to crap at peaks times, also has a 1T limit which with a family of 4 we are always close to going over it.

Can I ask a few of you to post regular speed test results please

The download is usually around 250Mbs, ping around 40ms. Other than it is pretty expensive, I can't fault it. As to how many people can subscribe, I've never read how many can be in a cell.

I use Zoom daily for work and zero issues. Also no problems with it over VPN.

The 100 euro a month is very expensive - I try and justify it that I am paying ~50 euro more to avoid much slower speeds and a capped service. Like that, I am down for 2025/26 for NBI so another ~4 years relying on Starlink. The hope is that in the meantime the monthly price will at some stage reduce but cant see that happening anytime soon unfortunately. I've given up hope of Fibre coming quicker than the 2025/26 timeframe too. That whole thing seems a shambles at the minute.

Hi folks,

Long time, no post ... but I had to come here to find out what people thought about Starlink.

I'm in very rural and mountainy Tipperary, spitting distance to the border with Limerick. I'm not a million miles away from @The Cush and am served by the same WISP that is shutting down their service in June this year. As with others, I'm in the 2025/2026 timeframe for NBI and I cannot rely on 4G, as it is too variable/unreliable.

Since COVID has moved my business to mainly online meetings/training, I upgraded my service with the WISP to a business package for €70pm, which gave me a 10/5Mbps service which has been very reliable and stable. I've enhanced that further by bonding a 3 AYCE SIM in a Huawei B525 modem. So when schools are in session I can get 25-30 down and 15-20 up, but when 3:30 comes around that basically drops to the 10/5. As I'm currently paying €90pm, the stretch to €100 won't kill me, but yes the initial outlay was a bit of an ask, though I came into a small few quid at Christmas, so that eased that burden.

I placed my order on the 4th, they took the full €560 and it was marked "Pending". I went to check on it's status now 1 week later and they show an estimated ship date of 20-26 January. It looks from the picture to be the round dish, which I hope so, as the only wireless thing in my house are the smartphones.

That doesnt look correct base on what i know about where people have ordered it for, myself included

Long time no post indeed, didn't realise you'd been away so long. Happy New Year to you all up there in Rearcross. Good luck with Starlink, let us know how you get on with the kit.

I assume I'm in that empty cell east of the Limerick city cell too and have been able to order for a while now.

Yeah from that map I look to be in a white cell and I've had Starlink since October.