> It's powered through PoE++ (using around 100W of power continuously)
Not familiar with Sat gear, but this number seems extremely high to me for just powering an antenna (and some motors occasionally)
Setting up Starlink
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Re: Setting up Starlink
#32Is this cell limitation a billing thing, or is it maybe more fundamental?
Perhaps the unit needs to be pre-programmed on where to look for satellites in a way that changes when the unit is moved?
Re: Setting up Starlink
#33The cell grouping is interesting. A colleague likes the outdoors, so he's preordered one for his Suzuki Jimny, to mount on it. I wonder if Starlink are considering this use case. I haven't been able to preorder mine, because we're planning on moving out from the city to a small village next year, but the Starlink website requires a street address. Our villages are quite primitive, no street names (I think it's cos no…
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Re: Setting up Starlink
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you seen what they do to install just a few blocks of 5G antennas? Ripping up pavement, trenching fiber and power. And that is just in a high density city.
4G does not require as dense a cell network as 5G.
My in laws live In the middle of nowhere. Their option for many years was 3G and eventually 4G. Having to visit them, 4G was just unbearable. Eventually ATT said they could just barely get 1.5Mbps down service.
That was superior to the 4G service they got. Just because it is 4G doesn’t mean it is services well and not overloaded even in rural areas.
Starlink will be the first real viable high speed connection they will have ever been able to get
Re: Setting up Starlink
#35> It's powered through PoE++ (using around 100W of power continuously) Not familiar with Sat gear, but this number seems extremely high to me for just powering an antenna (and some motors occasionally)
It's not just an antenna.
It's actually a whole satellite terminal as well as all the electronics for controlling the phased array. It can operate entirely without the router they give you - plug in a computer, or another router (into the white port on the POE injector), and off you go.
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If you're interested in watching a Teardown of Dishy, you can see one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmdQnIlnRo
Re: Setting up Starlink
#36> It's powered through PoE++ (using around 100W of power continuously) Not familiar with Sat gear, but this number seems extremely high to me for just powering an antenna (and some motors occasionally)
Just for comparison satellite dish (Satellite television dish) uses approximately 30 watts
https://joteo.net/en-us/electricity-usage-calculator/electri...
Re: Setting up Starlink
#37The cell grouping is interesting. A colleague likes the outdoors, so he's preordered one for his Suzuki Jimny, to mount on it. I wonder if Starlink are considering this use case. I haven't been able to preorder mine, because we're planning on moving out from the city to a small village next year, but the Starlink website requires a street address. Our villages are quite primitive, no street names (I think it's cos no…
You can put a google plus code (like coordinates) into the starlink address finder for places without street addresses.
Why not just coordinates? Talk about overcomplicating.
Re: Setting up Starlink
#38> It's powered through PoE++ (using around 100W of power continuously) Not familiar with Sat gear, but this number seems extremely high to me for just powering an antenna (and some motors occasionally)
Just for comparison satellite dish (Satellite television dish) uses approximately 30 watts https://joteo.net/en-us/electricity-usage-calculator/electri...
A satellite dish does not transmit any information to the satellite. Satellite TV is a pure broadcast system in the forward direction.
Moreover, comparing a parabolic receiver with a phased array is quite unfair. The amount and complexity of the electronics and processing power required is several orders of magnitude different.
Re: Setting up Starlink
#39The cell grouping is interesting. A colleague likes the outdoors, so he's preordered one for his Suzuki Jimny, to mount on it. I wonder if Starlink are considering this use case. I haven't been able to preorder mine, because we're planning on moving out from the city to a small village next year, but the Starlink website requires a street address. Our villages are quite primitive, no street names (I think it's cos no…
Yeah man strapping this puppy on my camper was my plan. It will be interesting to see how it works out
Re: Setting up Starlink
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can put a google plus code (like coordinates) into the starlink address finder for places without street addresses.
Why not just coordinates? Talk about overcomplicating.
Probably because a plus code is harder for someone to screw up.
Find the place on Google Maps, copy the plus code.
Rather than entering lat/lon coords... except did you get the sign right, or maybe you flipped lat/lon, or got a significant digit out.