Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

Dishy had a bit of a shocker of a day today. Thankfully I had no online sessions planned.

Now the weather was the cause of some of these:

• I was out for much of the morning, so I don't know the cause of the earlier outages.
• Around 12:00 for about 20 minutes we had a lot of passing hail showers and I know Starlink doesn't respond well to that.
• Around 14:20 there was about a 10 minute torrential downpour

I recommended the TP-Link Deco M5 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deco-M5-Coverage-Replacement-Antivirus/dp/B071241G3R/ to a non techie neighbor expecting them to get back to me to install it and it turns out they just read the instructions and had no problem installing it themsleves. They were very pleased with the results.

Yes, I believe all the order page charges are inclusive of Vat and customs.

Like a seesaw this evening, I presume I am not the only one seeing this?

They had a global outage this morning around 9:20am ... mine was down for over 20 minutes and then pretty shaky for a while afterwards.

The router that comes with Starlink is terrible.

Im using my own router plus Deco M4 mesh system and it works perfect. Full coverage across the house. I'd be surprised if the mesh system didnt work with the official starlink router.

This is the one. Tp link ax1800

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089YXY2YH/ref=pe_27063361_487055811_TE_dp_3

Was just looking at this thread thinking, hmm maybe something for my brother, who lives in a rural area in Meath, then I see €99 a month + €700+ for the equipment.... how are those type of prices recommendable to anyone? If you live in some remote area where you can't get even DSL connection id understand, but even then €99 per month? For something that appears, based on this thread, to have quite a bit of downtime too... no thanks

I run my business from my home and I used to pay €90pm for FWA and Mobile which gave me a robust connection, with speeds of ~30Mbps down, ~20Mbps up during most of the working day. After 3pm the mobile would go to sh1te and I'd be left with 10/5Mbps on my very reliable FWA connection.

So €99pm for ~200/20Mbps isn't a huge stretch, particularly as my FWA provider is shutting down in June/July this year, leaving me waiting until 2025/2026 for NBI. I have no other alternative as Mobile is too unreliable.

Yes, the equipment cost is a lot and I don't see how it would be acceptable for domestic usage, but from a business perspective it was that or pay for a desk in a co-working space and tolerate sh1te mobile broadband when not at work for the next 5 years.

Yes, the reliability hasn't been great. It does not like hail AT ALL! But when the weather is fine any drops (once or twice a week that I'd notice) are very brief (20-30 seconds) ... I suspect it's maybe the next satellite is in an obstructed part of the sky, so I just have to wait for the next one to come over. If you have a full clean view of the sky in all directions, it may not be as bad for you.

If you are affected by latency as @joe123 mentioned, then it's not suitable for you as generally it always is over 40ms, but my previous set up was even more variable than Starlink. I don't game, so latency isn't a concern.

Thanks folks, both my wife and I WFH.

Fibre is 25/26 away (FFS) and we are currently paying €60 for imagine. During the day Imagine is fine but crap at peak times plus they have a download limit of 1TB (which we've hit a few times) and the next time we do they are threating to permanently throttle our BB at 1meg

For 40 euro a month extra id def say its worth it. Neighbours of mine all have imagine and they are constantly giving out about it.

They've had more outages on imagine than I've or a couple of my neighbours have ever experienced on starlink. Even during times of really bad weather I've had very few issues.

I'm same boat for nbi with the 25/26 timeframe. I honestly cannot fault starlink so far but as mentioned earlier, ping and its monthly cost are its only down points for me.

A great stop gap until we can jump to Fibre.

Same here. No issues at all. I use ethernet cables

Hi all

Quick question, despite fibre cables being very close to my new house, literally 100 feet away one Open Eir guy has already said he can't find where the cables are up at my house, second guy coming tomorrow :-(

However, just in case they continue to be incompetent and/or want me to fork out the cost of digging to run new cable I wanted to see what sort of delivery times people have experienced from order of Starlink to delivery.

Ideally this year between March and April to be as up to date as possible.

I really do not want to spend over €700 on it only to not have it arrive for 6 months, even a month a too long.

Many thanks

Colm

It took 2 weeks from order to recevid. Including they changing from round to rectangular dish.

Accessories is different thing :(