Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

Thanks no joy yesterday couldn’t access work. In the office today will try again this evening otherwise it’s the office again tomorrow. Rumours of others in company having problems too. Hot spotted off my phone and connected straight away. So it either a work software problem or it’s starlink. Can’t see it being starlink

see that at my parents.. they have mobile broadband and it comes to a crawl on the evenings.. id imagine its just contention.. is fine in the mornings and most of early day.. i have starlink in dublin (not what its intended for) and it works a treat.. 150 plus download and 15 up... never any issues streaming or two working from home.. trialled it beside virgin 1gb for a month and no one in the house could tell the difference.. obviously wired is faster.. but the appreciable difference is minimal.. my main use case for starlink (a litty batty) is when we have a power cut can still have internet.. only have a couple a year.. but we were out 24 hours during storm betty in august and was so smug having internet and tv and coffee! (coffee from a coffee machine.. not starlink)

I believe sometimes the engineers adjust the area covered by an antenna. The idea being to improve coverage. In such cases there will be loosers as well as winners.

I am also considering Imagine but getting locked into an 18 month contract feels like a bad idea...........

Have ours on the way here too - thanks for answering questions above folks!

We have it in Sligo too, just outside Enniscrone. Speeds are brilliant. @dougm1970 Head into Peacock Lane, a few pals just opened it.

For those worth a Starlink how well does it travel around the house through walls etc. Prefer not to have to add an extra modems or extenders

It works well enough as long as the router itself is in a central spot in the house. There will always be slower areas depending on the size of the house and obstructions, which is expected.

In my case, 2 extenders nodes from a Tenda mesh were essential and it made a dramatic difference. I've had mine about 11 months now. Its maxed out at about 450 but usually you're getting 150 - 300 or so. It was absolute game changer for us in Kerry. Shite mobile coverage and no broadband available at the time.

Moving to a 1gb fibre line in the next 2 weeks so will be selling mine on.

I paid straight up for the equipment so I own that, didnt do rental. Its 65 per month and no other charges.

I paid 709 in total including taxes and shipping. 527 for the hardware alone. I guess you'll need to calculate that yourself depending on how long you'll have it.

80 per month seems good enough to me. Dont know the current price to buy it fully but it would only take the 6 months or less paying the 80 a month.

Don't forget the dish itself has sell on value in you calculations

Mine just landed in the door - can't wait to get it set up.

Can Starlink hard ware bought second hand?

Not geotagged so only work at a single address after registration etc or how can it be set up if bought secondhand?

Refurb seems to be an available option for Ireland, but perhaps the order might by be rejected. It’s a big discount.