Starlink - Anyone get it yet?

Not a semi detached neighbour, but he lives about 15-20 minutes away. I've ordered to mine, so hopefully shouldn't have any problems.

I set it up with his billing information etc so hopefully it I need, I can change the address.

Just wondering how everyone's speeds have been? As I downloaded the app and had a look at the reviews, a lot of people were complaining about speeds.

Someone else also mentioned something about an in motion dish and that it's a bad idea that they're doing that. Would anyone be able to fill me in on that? Thanks

Good to see that, upload is a bit low but for the using they'll be doing download is more the key one.

Good to see you're getting them speeds consistently. Like everything when you start seeing reviews you'd never buy anything!

Hopefully with the good experiences I've been seeing here, they'll have somewhat the same experience.

If it is 15-20 minutes by car, I suspect it's probably too far, so don't be surprised if you have problems.

I've had it nearly 2 years now and it has been fairly consistently 200Mbps-250Mbps down for me. Sure there are occasional drops under 200Mbps, but I just don't notice them. There's only two of us in the house, so it's always fast.

I suspect the people that are complaining of poor speeds are in parts of the world where the service is oversubscribed, which I don't believe it is in Ireland.

Oh for no great reason. We have a backup power supply and during power cuts virgin would drop and we'd be offline. Starlink is always on. At least till those aliens arrive from independence day. We don't get a lot of power cuts maybe 4 or 5 a year. Last summer during storm betty we were out for 18 hours and it was nice to be able to watch TV and stream etc.. our mobile phones are useless in a power cut as the local mast must be on the same circuit. Siro should be here in next year so if I can get that powered from the backup power supply might switch to that.

Installed starlink the other day for a friend and all went well. It was only done temporarily as they wanted it in for Christmas and need to get a bracket to mount it.

It's currently sitting on a flat roof of the house and is working well.

Very impressed with it myself so far. It was cutting out for a few minutes, and I was starting to worry but it said it can take 12 hours to stabilize.

They were previously with Eir and starlink is only a temporary measure until December 2024 when NBI are supposedly installing fibre in their area.

Attached are the speeds before with Eir and after with Starlink. I couldn't believe the speeds, as I seen people talking about 2-300 but I always had my doubts but I was proven wrong.

It's a shame it's quite on the expensive side for 65pm, when fiber can be got for 30pm. It's still a very good solution for people who are without fiber!

Go to https://starlink.sx/ on a laptop (I don't think it works on smartphones) and set your location.

While it seems to show that most of the satellites currently cross the southern half of Ireland, I don't think you being a bit to the north of the flight path should make a huge difference speed wise, but I am curious as to how many "Sats" you are generally connected to (top right-hand corner)? Mine is currently showing me 14 most of the time.

Edit: Doh! Just realised I could drop the marker on Sligo and get the number myself. It seems to be 9-10 most of the time, which should be fine. When I first got Starlink, it tended to be less than 10 sats and there were occasional brief outages. I think with more sats you get more stability of speed.

How is your coverage? Does the app show you any obstructions on your Dishy? For you, the southern sky needs to be as clear a view as possible.

1. Myself or Openout depending on your location
2. Installer supplies all. But if need to plug wifi mesh or cameras into router need ethernet adaptor from Starlink €40.
3. No contract, can stop and restart later
4. Yes, any issues they will replace

Hi southern sky is completely clear, however the esb line does run close to the line of sight, I did move it up the garden to avoid the power cable but made no difference. I don't have it mounted on the roof yet as I just popped it onto an old picnic table and it's been there since. But getting full unobstructed view on the app .

Just ordered there - Refurb option is available if anyone was waiting on that to pull the trigger on it.

Just wondering as I can't seem to find an answer in the thread - What's the usual delivery time estimate?

Edit: Nevermind, found a previous discussion about it a few pages back! - I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the information in the thread though lol, if anyone could point out some simple less known stuff for first time setup/pitfalls you wish you knew before installing/using SL please let me know! :)

If/When drilling a hole to bring cable inside, then take the whole cable outside and pass through the part of cable that connects to the router. Don't do it the other way around. The cable end that goes into router is far smaller than end that goes into dishy.

Sorry ya, your right.

I signed up to Eir, got the router in the post . Set up DD details and when I called them they had absolutely no record of me . Straight into the bank .

Wow, that's fantastic. I assume this will apply to existing customers also?

[EDIT] Just checked my account and it now says my plan is €50 P/M.

Rental @ €10 P/M is also a very attractive price for anyone looking to plug the gap until NBI.

Mine still 65 very strange

Yip, says the same for me. Next bill will be €50! No big fanfare. At €50 its the same price as my local fixed wireless which I had for the previous 9 years. Very good value alternative to that now. Much better speeds and more reliable. Probably another 12 months or more before NBI comes here so a welcoming saving.