I bet it's configuration error, failed SW upgrade, or Russian sabotage in that order.
Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I too am in the wilderness and Starlink is my only broadband, but I was smart enough to keep my 1.5Mbps WISP connection (radio mounted 170' up one of my redwoods) so I'm still in good shape for basic communication, even some streaming and videoconferencing, though those aren't great this morning. Also, after my Starlink terminal rebooted a few times on its own over the last hour or so, things are looking good again.
Are you using something like a CradlePoint for your WISP?
If it 1,5 Mb and radio mount on a tower I would more guessing toward the side of PTP line of sight Link or such Mikrotik, Unifi instead of cellular cradlepoint.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>There aren't enough anti satellite missiles in the world to make a dent, it would cost trillions to manufacture enough Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites.
> Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites. Um, no. Not even vaguely remotely. "Thousands of satellites" is a lot by historical human space standards, but compare that to the number of cars you see every day and then remember these are spread out over an area bigger then the surface of the entire planet. Don't be fooled by the simulation maps you can find online, where the satellites and tracks are shown t…
I'm guessing the previous poster meant "a few big nukes" Starfish Prime-style, used to generate EMPs.(I don't know if Starlink satellites are protected, but my guess is they are not.)
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#214I updated my Starlink app, dish downloaded an update (while still ‘offline’), clicked install now via app, installed, rebooted, and now online. Take that Putin!
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#215Well this is something new. Was wondering if my dish was broken, now seeing it's a global issue. Just over 24 hours ago the router reset (had to setup the network name and password again) and I have no idea why that happened. Somehow related?
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#216(Not necessarily related, but interesting nonetheless) Russian Nuclear Sabotage In Space Could Blast U.S., SpaceX Satellites https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2025/07/23/rus...
Well it's an hour later and nobody got vaporized in response, so it probably wasn't Russian space nukes.
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#217I'm posting this from my Starlink connection, been working fine here. I'm close to the arctic circle so maybe the polar orbiting satellites are not affected
They're all the same satellites. It's actually impossible to have a satellite just orbit at the poles.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
BGP is the canonical way to take your entire global network offline within seconds. Glancing at BGP looking glasses, Starlink's prefixes seem to still be announced, but there could still be an accidental blackhole or routing loop within their AS, or something broken in one of their transit providers. No idea if that's what's going on, but routing protocols are one of a few effectively global control planes that can g…
A network of satellites gives you entirely new and exciting ways of taking your network offline, such as bricking them with a firmware update and no way to actually get up there and fix it.
Imagine being that dev who pushed the bad patch - Crowdstrike but x100
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#219Pro-tip: Don't host your status / outage page on your own infrastructure. We learned this lesson the hard way at AWS with S3.
How would you host a status page on Starlink? Are there web servers that are only connected to a satellite connection in house or something? Or is this just speculation that's how their marketing website works.
Starlink runs a terrestrial network to support the vehicles obviously. They have to do peering at POPs in cages on the ground like any other ISP.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
BGP is the canonical way to take your entire global network offline within seconds. Glancing at BGP looking glasses, Starlink's prefixes seem to still be announced, but there could still be an accidental blackhole or routing loop within their AS, or something broken in one of their transit providers. No idea if that's what's going on, but routing protocols are one of a few effectively global control planes that can g…
Elon saw yesterday's article about The Promised LAN, and said "What if we connected that instead of the Internet...?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682#44663409
Instead, it seems he's created the LAN of the lost