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Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by glitchcrab »

teh_klev wrote: post #126
freedomben wrote: post #73

I'm using Starlink right now. AMA. I'm in East Idaho. Currently my dish angles itself to the north. It rarely moves itself north/south, and slightly moves east/west throughout the day. I've read that right now it locks onto a single satellite, although they're adding multi-satellite support later. My speeds are inconsistent, and interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) but after a couple seconds they'll get to…

> interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) For many of us that's reasonably fast ;). In the UK, FTTC provided over POTS (often BT or some form of unbundle), the top end is 80Mbs/20Mbs. I don't know what you'd expect with cable provisioned areas supplied by the likes of Virgin (DOCSIS).

FTTH seems to be fairly prevalent in new builds in the UK now; my house is 5 years old and FTTH is the only option here. This does rather limit your ISP choices somewhat, but you can get pretty decent speeds. BT upgraded me to 950/140 just last week.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by nly »

wdb wrote: post #212
nly wrote: post #128

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Virgin provide up to 300 or 500 Mbps depending on area

Wow that's nice. Virgin. I never seen any cable in the houses I lived in London. Maybe it's not common in Zone 1?

They provided underlying connectivity to the premises at my prior built-to-rent apartment building in zone 2. The building had its own routers, Ethernet and WiFi infrastructure, and the management of everything was contracted out to an IT consultancy.

200 Mbps to each apartment was offered so I assume they had fibre and not DOCSIS.

I imagine the issue in zone 1 is having to tear up the roads to get cable installed. In new builds you have to do that anyway, so it's good business to get in on the action.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by lxgr »

throw4738 wrote: post #89
lxgr wrote: post #14

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I live in the city center of a major city and the only wired provider available at my address peaks out at 0.3 Mbit/s upload during workdays. 4G is better, but not by much (given that apparently everyone of my neighbors has already switched to that in favor of the cable provider). One of my neighbors has already pre-ordered Starlink.

Try to downgrade to 3G, it is in phone setting, you should get 3 Mbps easily.

3G is much slower than 4G on my network. Most 3G networks in my country are scheduled to be switched off in the very near future.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by gscott »

s5300 wrote: post #224
Baeocystin wrote: post #215

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Eh. They aren't wrong per se, but there are a lot of folks that might look like the fit the picture, but are just from a different cultural background. A little tolerance goes a long way in any direction.

A little tolerance goes a long way until you find yourself in a place with people without a little tolerance unfortunately

City slickers should live in the city. Moving to a rural area where people want freedom because your 500k a year job lets you live anywhere and then crying my god there is someone not double masking! is not a solution.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by jjeaff »

foerbert wrote: post #246
ecshafer wrote: post #230

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As you specify people from Seattle, and these people went out of their way to point out that the people are religious, republicans who like guns, I have a feeling they aren't particularly open minded or tolerant people. Religious or secular, blue team or red team, basic politics shouldn't color your ability to get along with people. Fundamentally people are pretty similar, and American culture is quite homogeneous.

Well, particularly in the current situation where masks somehow became a political hill to die on, I think you are underselling the matter some. It's a bit difficult to feel all that neighborly or friendly with people adamant that they won't even wear a mask to help protect your own health. And all the topics listed - religion, political affiliation, guns - are all infamous for causing strife. Even the most tolerant…

While anti-maskers are definitely more likely to be politically right, due to weird behavior of the last administration, the reality is, the majority of Americans are fine wearing masks in public. Polling i have seen showed 75%+ were fine with masks.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by jjeaff »

kiwijamo wrote: post #195
freedomben wrote: post #131

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Oh 60 is fast around here too. I mostly meant that I've never seen a download start slow and progressively get faster. If anything it usually bursts at the begihning and then throttles back (comcast did that to me the most)

I've observed download starting slow and getting faster on all connection types: dialup, DSL, fibre, mobile wireless from 2g to 4g. It's just how TCP operates. Interesting that your experience on Comcast is different.

I'm not sure that bursting at the beginning has much to do with the underlying tech but more with marketing.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by stefan_ »

rubatuga wrote: post #214
freedomben wrote: post #73

I'm using Starlink right now. AMA. I'm in East Idaho. Currently my dish angles itself to the north. It rarely moves itself north/south, and slightly moves east/west throughout the day. I've read that right now it locks onto a single satellite, although they're adding multi-satellite support later. My speeds are inconsistent, and interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) but after a couple seconds they'll get to…

We actually launched a service that provides you with a public IPv4 address and a /56 IPv6 block over WireGuard. It bypasses CGNAT and provides unblocked ports, including port 25. The cheapest plan starts at $8/month. Here's a link! https://hoppy.network

Wheres the IPv4 address from? Because if it's AWS, that's gonna be rather useless.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by b0tzzzzzzman »

walrus01 wrote: post #247
ecshafer wrote: post #230

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As you specify people from Seattle, and these people went out of their way to point out that the people are religious, republicans who like guns, I have a feeling they aren't particularly open minded or tolerant people. Religious or secular, blue team or red team, basic politics shouldn't color your ability to get along with people. Fundamentally people are pretty similar, and American culture is quite homogeneous.

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Speaking from experience or speculation? I can't stand how HN has started to turn into a political soapbox. The amount of assumptions being propagated makes me understand the social tension the US has.

How did a Starlink post devolve into this chain about rural ideologies?

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by rubatuga »

stefan_ wrote: post #267
rubatuga wrote: post #214

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We actually launched a service that provides you with a public IPv4 address and a /56 IPv6 block over WireGuard. It bypasses CGNAT and provides unblocked ports, including port 25. The cheapest plan starts at $8/month. Here's a link! https://hoppy.network

Wheres the IPv4 address from? Because if it's AWS, that's gonna be rather useless.

We lease IPv4 /24 and IPv6 /48 blocks from a reputable IP address broker, check it against spam blacklists, and finally announce the clean IP addresses at a datacenter of our choice. We are not tied down to any hosting company. We tested a datacenter failover scenario and switched the BGP route from Chicago to Toronto, while a YouTube video was playing, and it didn't even stutter!

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by ripdog »

freedomben wrote: post #131
teh_klev wrote: post #126

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> interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) For many of us that's reasonably fast ;). In the UK, FTTC provided over POTS (often BT or some form of unbundle), the top end is 80Mbs/20Mbs. I don't know what you'd expect with cable provisioned areas supplied by the likes of Virgin (DOCSIS).

Oh 60 is fast around here too. I mostly meant that I've never seen a download start slow and progressively get faster. If anything it usually bursts at the begihning and then throttles back (comcast did that to me the most)

Downloads are expected to speed up over time. Google TCP window scaling to learn more.
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