Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by kokorikooo » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:48 PM UTC

eYrKEC2 wrote: post #8

kokorikooo wrote: post #4

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Yes. Just like Twitter is having fail whales all the time after his massive headcount cut.

There is no headcount cut here but everything is looking bad for Elon. Tesla stock is down too

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by nsxwolf » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:49 PM UTC

RIMR wrote: post #9

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What's the failure mode that would lead to an unrecoverable loss of such a large mesh network?

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by boringg » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:49 PM UTC

kokorikooo wrote: post #4

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Thoughtful take.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by boringg » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

Hopefully back up soon. Its a pretty spectacular product.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by delichon » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

bogzz wrote: post #10

Well my boss is in a cabin in the wilderness somewhere and his only access to the internet is via Starling, so that's great news!

I've heard of IP over pigeons, but using starlings is innovative.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by gdubs » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:50 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #5

Been using Starlink for awhile and can’t remember the last time there was an outage like this.

Yea it's funny because I was JUST thinking about how important StarLink has been for us here in rural Oregon. When it goes out, it's even more stark — but it hasn't happened in a very long time here.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by indigodaddy » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:52 PM UTC

woutifier wrote: post #3

A service outage meaning starlink is down globally. Anecdotally my starlink is using more power currently than usual. And when I first looked at the app it mentioned having gotten a new public IP address.

I get new public IPs fairly frequently (maybe once every two weeks or so?)

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by rvz » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

kokorikooo wrote: post #11

eYrKEC2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Just like Twitter is having fail whales all the time after his massive headcount cut.

There is no headcount cut here but everything is looking bad for Elon. Tesla stock is down too

> Tesla stock is down too

Hope it sinks further. Time to buy.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by Rooster61 » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Post by taeric » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

This happened as I was taking a brief dive on my networking stack. Been seeing "iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: Unhandled alg: 0x71b " in my syslog spamming heavily. Thought I somehow really screwed things up to have internet flat out not working. :D