How I Fixed Recent Starlink Slow Speeds & Reliability Issues
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- In the last week, many SpaceX Starlink customers have experienced speed and reliability issues. After serious hands-on testing and research, I solved the problem!
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In the last week, many SpaceX Starlink customers have experienced speed and reliability issues. After serious hands-on testing and research, I solved the problem!
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My upload speeds are very slow 2.6 to 5.4 Downloads are 45 to 110. never the same.
JChristina, the king of spreading 30 second of info into a 15 min plus video for monetization purposes...........
YOU TALK TO MUCH = THUMBS DOWN
So can Starlink fix the HEAT mode duty cycle to cycle ON/OFF instead of COOKING the cable (HIGH Amperage) ?
Can you install the VPN onto the starlink router directly? or must you use a static IP and a second router?
How to take 19 minutes to tell a story that should have taken about 4. Thanks for the info anyway, I guess.
Does he get to a point? It just keeps going and now I'm bored to death of this guy.
@jmc5985 maybe watch another channel? Dunno... I personally prefer to learn any science and reasoning behind @JCristina vids. Wish my former teachers and professors had the same conversational delivery... I may have finished college!
In the meantime, why not simply fast-forward the YT?
@@SARDOGFL no this dude just keeps talking going on and on get to the point
Starlink customer service totally should have sent an email to every customer that they realigned their dish so that they know to check for new obstructions!
Agree.
LOL. Starlink customer service is a joke. Doesn't surprise me a bit that they didn't let anybody know about this.
@@gstar7686 every company is like this now... in this particular case its like theyre forcing their customers to learn as much about satcomms as possible, by creating these weird but not completely indecipherable technical issues
@@gstar7686 Elon for all his smarts is making the down side of his personality and mental defects clear.
I disagree, the initial setup has you check to make sure you have NO obstructions 360 degrees. We assumed that if we are clear to the north that north was good enough.
I get that Starlink may have tweaked some dish orientations to increase connectivity to satellites traveling over less densely populated areas - that does make sense - but if that new orientation causes the dish's new field of view to contain obstructions that were not present in the previous field of view, one would expect that any outage increases will be identified in the App as "obstructed", and the obstruction map will show red (ie, obstructed) areas that were not previously present.
If there's no change in obstructed outage frequency, and the obstruction mapping remains unchanged, something else is probably going on.
A lot of folks have jumped through big hoops in their dish installation to avoid obstructions, with tree work, tall masts and all kinds of pain-in-the-ass stuff.
So it must be said that to have the orientation of the dish suddenly change without warning so that a whole shitload of new stuff is now obstructing the field of view would be a real bummer.
If that's what they're doing, the biggest effect is likely to be additional swamping of Starlink Support with even more traffic. Given that they're already totally overwhelmed, and that efficient customer support has never been one of Elon Musk's serious priorities anyway (talk to anyone with a Tesla that's quit on them for context), that's not gonna be a Good Thing.
Great points.
They either didnt do enough work or didnt correctly identify when SL said clear 360 virw of the sky so its on whom...?
@@claysyfchuck3313 Exactly.
ruclips.net/video/zaUCDZ9d09Y/видео.htmlsi=jUE1tGoMlsf1xsCd
For some reason, i keep getting starlink 0.8 sec outages every 2 mins, which makes the packet lost and ping spike :/
You’re not alone.
Anyone else get the ridiculous email for their “extreme cold weather” antenna on “sale” for ONLY $1900!!!!!!! Pathetic that they think anyone in their right mind would spend that kind of money on an “upgrade”.
Great video as always Joseph! Want to connect Starlink via Ethernet to new VOIP phone service. Got Ethernet connection to iMac. Starlink FAQ says buy switch to connect both. Would that mean switch to iMac and turn off phone or switch to phone disconnect iMac? No response to this question from past 10 days from Starlink. Another alternative would be to connect phone via Ethernet to another Starlink mesh. Any ideas for better VOIP service company that can screen and block spam calls? What do you or your subscribers think? Thank you, James
After suffering with Huges net SpaceX is an upgrade from a horse drawn wagon to a corvette. Our dish is in the wide open so no problem also living in Michigan my dish hasn't moved. My outages have decreased since we got our system in November. Great video having been a nuclear electrician for 4.5 decades I always look at how things work, your logic is very good.
Man you took it the long way to get to your point. Trying to capitalize on that watch time, I guess
I simply have ADD...
..or you can ditch Starlink because of these games they play w/o the consumer's ability to revert their changes and get an unlimited cellular data plan for $50/m and a Yagi antenna. I'm getting 400down and 100up now in a remote area of Northern NY state that doesn't get any TV stations and barely any radio stations..unless they are AM. I have to drive ~10 minutes off our farm to get signal on my cellular phone..but with an antenna and digital modem..I get a perfectly strong signal that is also resilient through snow and rain. Starlink is the best and worst money I ever spent for Internet.
Brother, you said once Starlink is setup for the first time, the dish will move once or twice at that moment and that's it. In this same video you say otherwise. You said the dish was LATER ON pointed to another direction (ocean side).
This is normal and called "farming" the network. Eventually this will become less frequent however you should be thankful that it happened for performance. Eventually they won't do it anymore because the entire network is saturated and contention ratios will be near 100% or even worse over 100% and you'll just be stuck with a ridiculous amount of latency. Beta testers have the best performance these systems will ever see, and they'll bitch and moan every year over the next 20 years how Starlink used to be so much better and faster.
found the video again as it happen to me as well now in the middle of europe. best they should do is roll out a update that search for the LEAST ammount of obstructions and point it that way!!!
same happen to me, service was awesome after made sure it got good view, now it ever so slightly turned to west and got a huge mf tree there i will not cut as its over 300y old.
software should be optimize the possible view and not: hey now u got no view at all as i point towards your tree/house/face/buttcheeks xD
Not a Starlink user...are you owners unable to manually repoint your dish to the proper azi/elev? I think Starlink did a software patch with a bug in it, and not owning up.
Hey looking at "Check Availability" on the Starlink map there is a huge rectangular area in the midwest that I think is WAITING? Why is that? I placed my order last April/May time frame and I'm still going to be waiting till 2023 if I'm lucky? why is every sq inch discriminated from service when I order way before Starlink even rolled out RV, Maritime, Aviation, IOT. Someone can get say, RV and get service all over NW Indiana around us and the waiting list can't get service??? I'm a residential user. I guess that would be like anyone in the midwest orders a TESLA they have to wait a year and everyone around us can get their delivery now? Nobody has answered this.... By the way my order now says...
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CONFIRM YOUR ORDER - BEST EFFORT
By confirming your order, you agree to a deprioritized “Best Effort” service behind Residential users, resulting in slower speeds, particularly at times of peak usage.
With Best Effort you will keep your spot in line and will be notified again when your Residential spot is available. Choosing Cancel below will cause you to lose your place in line.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2023, 6:00 PM
CONFIRM BEST EFFORT [ ]
CANCEL & REQUEST A DEPOSIT REFUND [ ]
Dish moves with satellites not a brain bender and check your dish its on the app this with my slow internet was a waste of time having someone mansplain for 18:57 minutes to tell me to check dish not like not subscribe I thought you were going to share something that was outside the box rather than in the manual and app already supplied. If your bored there's only 120 vids on how to sprout mung beans you should get on that too :O
Yeah, I am not going to do that. Who knows where starlink will want the dishes pointed next. I am first trying a cradle to hold the dish. That will let the motor to move freely and not change the dish direction. I am glad I found this out now before I had a tree service mount the dish at the top of a topped 122 foot Doug Fir.
Cut all the trees down!!!!???? lol. Good luck.
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Here in Haida Gwaii, Northern Canada, my dish used to face SSW, yes SSW. In far Northern Canada, dishes point South not North. But reciently the dish has moved to more direct S position, however speeds have gone up dramatically! I am now getting download speeds in the low 360mbps VS the 200 - 250mbps I used to get. I like this new change!!!
Same north of 60... but I researched that this may happen so any new obstructions are one me not on SL...
I"m on south Vancouver Island and stowed and unstowed the dish and the latency decreased and dl speed increased right away. I test about 10 time before and after the stow and unstow.
@@hughwaller6789 Yes it seems the the service is getting better for sure!
They shouldnt have sent anything. It was known you need a complete view of the sky at about 110 degrees all around. If you ignored this and set it up for only 45 degress of clear sky then you disnt research enough...if SL had to move the dish its not on them. Mine switched 180 degrees last week but as they arent geo stationary it was always stated that this was possible.
Everyone I know with STARLINK in SE Virginia have dishes pointing ENE
So what you're saying is it moves on its own? I thought in the beginning you said it couldn't move unless stowed. And if it's pointed a different direction. Keep it in that direction? You lost me by repeating things to much.
9 minutes in after lengthy commercial at the beginning you finally get into pop.
He didn't even link to the guy who put up the information for free that you used.
I have no obstructions in any direction. I am sitting on the gulf coast so if it wants to point south over the ocean which is 1 mile away it can. The service still sucks and I am very disappointed in Starlink at this point in time
Understood.
I have no obstructions at all. None. and my starlink has long pregnant pauses. I often get my cell phone to swtich from wifi to cell data to load a webpage. Recently I added another wifi AP in the basement that connects via ethernet and I still get the pauses. I had thought it might be an issue with the built in wifi on the indoor unit, but no. I'm at a loss. It has been doing this for months.
I just installed it yesterday and am only getting 50mbps tops. So turns out that the dish is facing towards the only damn tree that is several stories tall. The only tree on the property that can even remotely block the dish. What are the odds. I'm going to relocate the dish to see if it's the tree or something else.
these videos are too long and their ate too many videos showing the same thing with you saying the same thing and then in the next video you say the previous setup was not ideal all this junk, bro just, give us a proper solution
I can't even find all your videos where you test all your routers because they are named so randomly and are all over the place, can you please make a video just showing us the best setup, or a video showing us a list of "which routers switch fast as possible" and what their features are etc, i just need one, coherent video or something
TLDR: check where your dish is pointing...you may need to realign it
How about disconnect the motor and aim it where you want it. Many RV'ers have done so with no ill effect.
Not a Starlink user due to all the trees around my and neighbor's houses. However, good catch!
Thank you.
I'm in the northern hemisphere and my dish points to the south!? What's up with that? (Edmonton AB, Canada area )
I’m still setting in the same area but still only running 10mbs. So they are still throttling like crazy. I only have 104gb used on the given 1tb so it isn’t that. Man I just want to at least be back at 30 but would really like to be a 70 on the regular.
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Hey now! I have the maritime dishes stop messing with my service 😂⚓️⚓️⚓️
My starlink keeps saying it’s unplugged and it’s not and still no response from support on app checked all cords and no damage
I get what your saying and it makes sense but my dish doesn’t look different and my speed from the router to phone turned to crap a major drop worse then dish drop
Have a question for you
I have Starlink
I live in southern Nevada
I play poker on line
But to play cash you must be in Nevada or New Jersey to play
I log in start playing and sometimes I get kicked out saying I can’t play outside of Nevada
Also I get fraud alerts saying my Amazon account was used by somebody from Colorado, Denver or Los Angeles
But I never leave home
Does this have anything to do with VPN
Does Starlink just shoot the signal to whoever can take it at the time
It because Starlink uses CGNAT and the random IP you are getting is from the POP you’re connected to which must be outside of your state
Mine tracks the sky and moves to different positions throughout the day
About two weeks after I instaled my system the speeds went down to ZIP after we had high straight line winds of around 60 mph it turned out that I had not incerted the stand pipe in to the roof mount that suports the anrenna corectley and he keyway that was SOPOSE to keep the stand pipe and the antenna from rotating in the mount was not locked into the noch in the stand pipe and the antenna and stand pipe rotated about 45 deg's to the west, after resetting and locking the stand pipe in place I have not had that issue. I live in Tn. I think the high winds exerted a lifting force on the antenna that allowed the stand pipe and antenna to rotate n the mount take a look at yours to conferm that yours is still locked in place. Now I have dilima, I got my Starlink becouse we had CRAP internet service from FRONTIER 4 down an .3 up so it was a no brainer to go with STARLINK, and now Spectrum fiber optic has been installed on the highway in front of our house and I can get up to 300 Mbps down for $49.99 and we can get the
Federal government $30 discount lowering it to $19.99 per mounth for up to 300 Mbps down. If I go that route what should I with my Starlink system? I am concerned that if I put in back in It's box and store it that it will no longer get updates and it will get BRICKED. If I discontinue the service but keep it conected and powered up will it still keep getting updates?
I would keep it setup plugged in even if it doesn’t have service.
U.K. is in the northern hemisphere, but bizarrely my dishy likes to point south
Joe: Discovered the same Dishy reorientation you mentioned. I live in Pleasant Hill, CA and Dishy is now at 290 degrees (WNW). This orientation is obstructed by a GIANT Oak Tree and outages have gone from never to 30-50 seconds every couple of hours. I cannot remove the obstruction. Can we somehow get the Dish back to the northbound pointing? THX D
Thank you!
Interesting question, netgear makes a mesh router system, the AX 3600, with the router and two satellites, I want to use this with my Starlink as well as a managed switch, would it just be as simple as connecting the Starlink router -> Ethernet adapter -> AX 3600 router -> managed switch?
I am in the Philippines and have had my starlink for ONE WEEK. IT WAS excellent the first 2days since then It sucks. I am not very good at the technical aspects of this. But I think that I have been screwed . I am 70 years old and very discussed. With LIMITED resources . I am 13 degrees north of the equator and seriously pissed off
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I’ve been losing service for about 20 mins almost every night at 11:45pm here in Tahoe for the past few months. It’s not always total service loss usually get D/c from discord and online games intermittently but buffered streaming continues fine. I can’t figure it out. I’m pretty certain it’s not my unifi UDR, I’ve gone through all the settings to double check.
Unrelated but I received an email a week or so ago about a new and improved “ mr bevel” that works better in the snow , it’s $1,000 but they were giving a deal for like a week and sorry I can’t remember what the special deal was but thought you might want to know
I think you have to much ‘filler talk’! Get to the point! We all know which way west and east are, we know that 1+1=2! We’re not in elementary school. You’re over explaining things!!! STOP IT!!! Sheeeesh
Take some Adderall and watch again. You’ll make it through. Remember, not everyone is as brilliant as you and can pick this up as quickly. Even better. Remake the video, share the RUclips link here, I would love your take on the matter. God Speed.
Thx for the info, makes perfect sense.. Seems we have to cut some trees.
Thanks for the video. I live in Washington and this is my issue. My dish ysed to point due north, now northwest. I wondered why but you answered that, now I have obstruction issues. Send me an email address and I'll show you my Starlink screen shots.
My biggest complaint is l power off my Starlink system, startup takes 4 to 6 hours to sync online. This is horrible as l use the system on my RV.
Have asked Starlink support if they can program something from there end. Have not replied.
Have reset everything resetable on the app and no charge.
Does anyone else have this problem and fix??
Wow. That’s long!!!
i still think you like to talk a lot but you have informed me but i just wish you got more to the point
You can set starlink up manually and disable the motors
I am not a techy and I am trying to figure out whether to give SL a try. I live in a rural area of SW Washington near the Merwin Dam area. I downloaded the SL app and it says that I have great access to the sky and that SL would work well. Have you heard how long people out here have to wait? Am I better off trying to figure a way to run a hard connection into my office for my computer or will wifi work suffifient if I am 25 feet away from router with an open floor plan with wood framed home? The reason I ask is getting the cable to my TV in center of home would be close and easy bit running to corner of home where my macbook and office are would be a challenge. Any advice you have would be much appreciated because I dont know what I am doing. Thanks for the videos.
CAT cable is always the best but WiFi today is not as bad as it once was. Make sure you use and AX router and I would suggest a MESH network in the home and outside for the best seamless coverage. I did a MESH VIDEO that you can find in the Starlink Playlist.
I learned a lot from your video. I am still not clear as to how to reposition my dish in a way that is an easy fix.
I also live in Washington state. My dish is now pointing nw instead of just north
I am in Oregon and noticed it moved but didn't think much of it.
no need to cut the tree. mount the dish flat on your roof. with a flat mount.
personally log into router and disable remote
login
Mine did a re-orient to the east as well, I thought it was due to the obstructions I have now (I have many trees to cut)
But instead of doing all this research, couldn’t you just look at your statistics & visibility map in your app? I can see my tree shaped blotches in mine.
I heard people’s map not updating until they reboot. My shows that all is fine. 😂
@@jcristina mine does a re-scan every few days, might be cuz of my inconsistent connection with the instructions (or cuz I check it constantly lol)
I think your analysis makes sense. It's a great way to try and spread the load on the constellation that effectively improve performance with zero costs. It sounds like the only thing they need to incorporate into the scheme is a means to allow each impacted dish to move back to a traditional orientation if repointing the dish causes more obstructions. I assume that they aren't repointing everyone in Florida, because that would seem to mostly move the congestion to the birds over the ocean instead of the ones up north. So instead of randomly repointing people in Florida, perhaps they could have the mange the population of dishes in places like Florida and other coastal areas and find dishes where the new orientations would work fine and repoint enough of those dishes to spread out the traffic.
Someone already did the math on Starlink and it doesn't work out.. the amount of van with each satellite is capable of, combined with the fact that the majority of the time they are over ocean, means that Elon Musk needs a shit ton, absolute shit ton of satellites.
ruclips.net/video/zaUCDZ9d09Y/видео.htmlsi=jUE1tGoMlsf1xsCd
Mr. Cristina, I am an original Beta user - as you have been. I am not technical as you are, but does my system receive AUTOMATIC firmware updates - or, do I have to do anything to facilitate firmware updates. I watch and have subscribed to your channel, for many reasons, but one is that you are not a PAID stooge for some company: I appreciate this. Always, with respect, stay independent - as your comments are extremely important to your non-super technical viewers - as we depend upon your candor and honesty. Thank you, Sir.
We will see! Honesty? What's that.. :)
I just got my Starlink this month. It’s only ever pointed due south. It’s been pretty terrible and spotty service with slow speeds.
I’m in the northern hemisphere. Do I need to repoint my dish somehow? I submitted a support ticket and they have yet to respond. I’m starting to think my dish is defective
Due southern is opposite as to where it should be pointing.
i just checked mine and it is pointing slightly east
Does this include the tips in your previous video about this from last year? Or is that info outdated? Haven't watched either yet.
Additional info regarding dish position.
Question. So does the dish rotate say like East to West as well as North to South? I noticed the North to South movement but haven't seen East to West.
I can rotate 360 degree
Dish reorientation happened here too. We had a wide open Northerly sky when we hooked up our rectangular SL dish in July 0f 2022 and it pointed Northeasterly. Internet speeds were great! Sometime around November 2022 our dish pointed WNW where some large trees are and our speeds decreased as a result. Trees were never in the way before. Signal strength is still OK but not great anymore. We will eventually need to get trees cut or trimmed in the future if we can't eventually get the dish to point back towards the Northerly direction. We are located on the US West Coast 47.6 N and 122.8 W. Seabeck, WA. Thanks for sharing your insight and expertise!
So the fix is a chainsaw? Ah why not move the dish to east side of house?Mine has been so fabulous i don't even think about internet anymore.
Could be. Or moving the dish or contact SpaceX to reposition back to where it was.
It’s the port it need to be snugged up into the dish
Philippines has north and south moving satillites, hundreds miles north and hundreds south so how dish cant move is not clear.
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I've messaged them every other day for 2 weeks and they have not replied. Thats what I've been dealing with.... I also have my satalite at 30 feet up on a steel telescope pole. With zero obstructions. Literally nothing around it open clear sky's. Still slow speeds
Not good!!
During the day I hit anywhere between 50 to 180 download speeds. Night time my speeds reduce a lot to maybe 50 or less. Also my satalite is facing north. I'm in texas. If that helps.
Does your Starlink visibility display reflect this change in pointing?
It did until I cut back the section of tree
Why don't you get Comcast, Charter, or Fiber from your electric board?
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Great video as always, good information and presented so well! It has been said before but those who complain so much about Starlink and talk about switching to other options clearly don’t need the service to begin with. I moved to a rural area for a lifestyle change for my family. I foolishly made the decision without considering internet but had some time to figure that out while looking for our permanent home. I wanted to keep my tech job of 29 years (working from home for the last 20+ years) but without good internet I would not be able to. Came to find out that Starlink is the only option. Traditional satellite internet providers are the only other option in my area but really not an option at all for the type of internet service I need. Starlink literally saved my career and it has been working really well for me. For those who have other options - by all means move on to those options and leave Starlink for those of us who really need it.
What was the relevant factual information and how long did it take to present
I recently came across a user map for my area and it was sad to see how many were located in heavily populated cities.
Yeah it's odd to have some ppl overpaying for the service when they have land lines near. I will be getting a fiber line here soon and will give my dish to a guy out in the sticks.
I've used Starlink for 1.5 month now. Love it compared to me cell phone. Last night though, speed was REALLY slow. I just restarted my computer. I don't know why, but then the speed went up to close to 200 Mbps. Wow, that's fast. At least, for me it is!! :)
Awesome
MINE ALSO CHANGED FROM NORTH TO NE DOWN FROM YOU IN PALM BEACH FLORIDA, NO SLOW SPEED HERE
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Can we just reorient the dish 📡 or does starlink have the setting overriding what the dish/app finds best calibration??
No. Starlink has to do it.
Im in WA also and dish is pointing northwest now and into more trees. Experiencing less reliable service. You think Starlink would reprogram my dish to point due North if requested?
These days I would have to sadly say no unless you provide a damn good reason like a non-movable object I’m the path now or something.
Always great information, thank you. I am on the West coast as well. One thing I noticed is the prime time are off as well. I do my night dl's starting at 9 PM. Which should give me two hours of prime time, but when I check the usage, I see 0 usage. Go figure. Could it be that when the dish points out to the farther out sats, it has a time delay? I would guess the sats we are getting may be in a different time zone. Something to thing about.
I believe it to be “local time” based on the location where the dish is in use.
Howdy, I've got a "roaming" SL on an ocean-based location about 32 miles off the North Carolina coast. Our SL sats above have little to no one on them but us and maybe a couple coastal. In this 'pure' location I've seen download throughput vary from 15 MB to 255 MB as the sats slide over. Would be interesting to chat sometime... Richard
Gotcha. So for those land locked. We shouldn’t be listening to this video?
Unless your Starlink Dish has moved. If it has, check out the direction and if there are an obstructions in its path.
The title is "How I fixed..." So maybe I missed something, how did you fix it?
Interesting. Mine also moved but not to the East. It took on more of a tilt to the North. Which may be why the outages have become fewer. It should be picking up Southbound sats earlier, which predominate this area. 102 seconds of outages in the past 12 hours compared to nearly 300 before. Also noted that most of the connection are going thru by way of the 1.5s and laser links to places other than here in Florida or Atlanta even though it still gives an Atlanta IP address. 161Mbps down and 23Mbps up with a 30ms latency, just tested.
Nice speeds.
Located outside of Portland, Oregon. My dish was north northeast before and now it is north northwest. Also, if you go to your star link app click on visibility the animation will indicate where your dish is pointed.
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Dig Deeper lol, find away to go into the ip and manipulate the direction to lock it in, permanently
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Love the shirt
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I live in the Redwoods in Northern California... I cant cut one of them suckers down, they are huge. So I guess now I am screwed
DOWN FROM YOU IN PALM BEACH FLORIDA, NO SLOW SPEED WHEN THE DISK MOVED FRONM NORTH TO NE
Sweet.
Late last week I lost my satellite service. Two days later I checked the dish and found the dish pointing due west into the forest. So I did a restart and then an hour later a stow and unstop. Now the dish is point to the north but almost straight up instead of to the open area to the north. My service now is working but erratically: not may satelites straight over head. grrr
It is -6 and blizzard conditions here in S Central MO since yesterday 12/22, Starlink performing flawlessly . Thank God I no longer have Viacrap or we would be totally isolated with no cellular service or internet. As long as power stays on we are cruising with Starlink.
Thank you. I'm very upset with Starlink. I went to T-Mobile home internet for $50/month. Big fan of Elon. But more than doubling my bil is unacceptable.
I hate Elon. But I live on a rural farm. I don’t have a lot of options. Startlink is far from the “rural broadband internet” that was promised.
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put it in a stow unstow mode and solve the issue instead of cutting trees or moving it which would be the same as stow/unstow
We’re in Western Idaho and we live in a remote, deep canyon with trees all around. StarLink works fairly well here, but it has slowed a lot this year. I have noticed that my dish reoriented for awhile but is now back to true north. Weird…
Jay, I stowed and unstowed like you said because of average speeds of around 40MBPS 24 Hours a day. Now I am getting 4.6 MBPS. Did factory reset and no better. What do I do now? I got better speed on DSL than this!
Check to see if the dish is obstructed. That’s what happened to me after they did the reset
So I’m so confused how do u fix it
I'm about 40 miles north of Seattle. I noticed last month that my dish was pointing northwest instead of north like it used to. I had thought about it, and reached the same conclusion as you did: why not utilize the birds out over the ocean that were otherwise largely unused? Not a problem where my dish is located now; I have no obstructions to the west or northwest, which the app confirms ("All good! Starlink has not been obstructed recently.")
But. I am doing new construction now a few miles away, and I had planned my site (including a substantial logging operation) around the "check for obstructions" camera scans I had taken using the Starlink app. Now I am beginning to worry that a remaining stand of 100' tall Douglas Firs to my west-northwest will prevent me from using Starlink at this new location. Construction is not yet far enough along to attempt even a temporary dish installation to verify. But now I am very pessimistic.
Is there a way to configure the app to scan the *actual* area of the sky that will be used at a particular location?
Every time I see someone talking about Starlink problems I check my speeds and to-date I haven't seen any real issue. Today I saw speeds up over 120Mbps, and in previous tests on occasion I have seen it a bit below 100Mbps. But when my previous ISP only offered 10Mbps (usually ran under 5Mbps), nothing I have seen to this point is really an issue. As for drop outs I never see them during peak hours. If, on a weekend, I am up late streaming a movie I may see a drop out around midnight or 1am, for like 5 or 10 minutes, and that is only on a rare occasion.
They should let us know if they are reorientating the dish, if they pointed mine west too much that would be an issue. But as I am in Wisconsin I doubt that will happen.
Fantastic!!!! Very fortunate.
My Dish rotated from north nw to the west sw. within a week ago. 🤔 south west Oregon
Interesting.
I would bet Starlink is using True directions, not magnetic. The Starlink antennae have a good model of all obstructions, so I would think it can ovoid obstructions if possible. My chainsaw works just find in winter at 66 degrees north latitude.
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Did the obstruction function on the app change to match the new orientation?
Yep.
I noticed same thing few days ago in central Florida, I don’t have obstructions but had horrible service last night.
Hi Joseph. Thank you for your interesting video about Recent Starlink Slow Speeds & Reliability Issues. I have installed the TP-Link Mesh Wifi as per your instructions, and it works great between two buildings on my property, but I am thinking about hardwiring for ultimate performance.
between TV's etc. I live in Mexico in the winter time where I use my Starlink. Temperature is a constant 86 degrees Fahrenheit. What type of exterior Cat cable would you recommend? Do you think the cable will get too hot in a plastic conduit? Does heat have anything to do with Cat cable performance? Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong place.
What does your visibility show on the app?
I’ll have to post it.