Official Starlink/SpaceX INTERNET Thread

[VexXx Dogg]

Initial hardware cost of Starlink is freaking balls though.


Still need to fab a pole and install it which I suppose would run me another couple hundo.


Even if Digismell come and giving me a huge discount I’m kinda married to this system for a couple years until I get my perceived value

[sMASH]

be careful sailing the high seas...

That’s rare now, but we have tools to do covert ops when needed.

Vpn works?

[st7]

you know a vpn doesnt hide you from your ISP right?

[sMASH]

I know now.

[VexXx Dogg]

be careful sailing the high seas...

That’s rare now, but we have tools to do covert ops when needed.

Vpn works?

It should.

And regular consumer grade VPNs will mask traffic by design. ISP will only see connections to the VPN servers not the traffic since it’s encrypted.

Private mode is not the same as a vpn tunnel in case some people confuse both.

If you’re really paranoid about covering your tracks, boot from a live distribution that only exists in memory not hdd. TAILS still around.

[st7]

also try to use private trackers if you gonna use torrents if you want to have a somewhat simple set up going.

[VexXx Dogg]

Everything shipped separately.

The kit came, but I needed the pole mount and a 45m cable which eh reach yet. The blasted pole mount eh even ship yet.

Glad I got the kit in a matter of 5-6 days but gosh bai

[timothymcdavid]

Does starlink have loss in bandwidth during rainfall? Does it lose connectivity at all during adverse weather conditions?

[VexXx Dogg]

Other local users say no.
I’ll report back once I get my setup going.

[nick639v2]

From what I see bandwidth not so much but increased packet loss and lag with gaming

[VexXx Dogg]

Got the setup going.
Averaging 250-400+ mbps DL; 15-50 mbps UL and 20-75ms ping.

Built in WiFi is weak for my location but i anticipated that so I have a tplink mesh to service the house.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ nice!

[SuperMan9999]

Got the setup going.
Averaging 250-400+ mbps DL; 15-50 mbps UL and 20-75ms ping.

Built in WiFi is weak for my location but i anticipated that so I have a tplink mesh to service the house.

This is what server?

Can you do a ping test using this link>

https://testmy.net/latency?addr=ny

[VexXx Dogg]

Got the setup going.
Averaging 250-400+ mbps DL; 15-50 mbps UL and 20-75ms ping.

Built in WiFi is weak for my location but i anticipated that so I have a tplink mesh to service the house.

This is what server?

Can you do a ping test using this link>

https://testmy.net/latency?addr=ny

Here’s two latency tests to NY. Starlink and Flow
Both done from iPhone over WiFi about 8ft away from router.

Starlink


Flow 200M package

[SuperMan9999]

^ That is very impressive it's actually better than the average Cable or Fiber connection but I know this is also sunny weather.

Whenever there is heavy rain can you do this same test? so far I have not been successful to catch any star link user to post that same test in bad weather.

[VexXx Dogg]

Didn’t do testmy latency during bad weather over the past couple weeks but I did the starlink supplied Speedtest and it showed negligible difference in DL/UL

[SuperMan9999]

Didn’t do testmy latency during bad weather over the past couple weeks but I did the starlink supplied Speedtest and it showed negligible difference in DL/UL

Do you think you will remember to do it when the next Bad weather takes place?

Also cold you do one more test but this time to Toronto?



^ and this time click this image in the testmy.net page just before you do the test its an option menu where you can change the run from 20 to 50 this will give you a much more accurate ping test as it plots more pings on the graph to get more accurate.

[SuperMan9999]

BTW can someone do a test on testmy.net to Mexico and one to London?

I wonder if starlink using laser routing for Trinidad to these places or ground stations? meaning its just beaming it back down to Trinidad and using our local fiber infrastructure?

I would love to see a starlink latency test to somewhere in South America also wonder if cloudflare has a South America server to test?

[VexXx Dogg]

If you’re on the fence about it, chances are you’ll be better subscribing to local fiber. Digicel gets consistently [emoji6]-[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]ms average by my parents home. You’ll get wider ping variance with this.

Starlink was my Hail Mary for internet.
Are there better alternatives? Yep.
Were these alternatives an option for my location? Nope.

[SuperMan9999]

If you’re on the fence about it, chances are you’ll be better subscribing to local fiber. Digicel gets consistently [emoji6]-[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]ms average by my parents home. You’ll get wider ping variance with this.

Starlink was my Hail Mary for internet.
Are there better alternatives? Yep.
Were these alternatives an option for my location? Nope.

Nah I ended up switching back to Flow, I had Digicel and it worked really well for the first few years then they oversubscribed their network and it turned to total dog sheit, packet loss and low speed in peak hours 7 to 11 and not an isolated thing many people across the country complain about the same issue on Facebook. Tried Amplia and same issue they can't cope with the amount of traffic and the cheap chiney equipment they using for that fiber.

The good news is everybody who was on Flow clogging up Flow network ended up switching to these other fiber network so now Flow works the best so I will stick to Flow, I wish there was a way for us to connect to South America next door without having the packets sent to Miami like from Trinidad to curacao and straight to Brazil or Colombia for gaming, waiting for the day a local ISP can pull this off.