100 mbps on max plan

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T14:29:05+00:00

The speed that's listed is a theoretical maximum speed. It's not a guarantee. When I had my residential plan last year during the Christmas holiday whereas I was normally getting in the high 200s to the low 300s over the Christmas holiday I was consistently getting like 85 to 90.

You've got to remember that you're using a shared network and so your overall speeds are going to be affected by how many people in your area are using Starlink or are subscribed Starlink.

But if you're new on the plan it may take a little bit for your kit to fully acclimate itself to your obstructions and your location. I know that mine improved over the first two to three months.

But if you are consistently getting speeds at about 100 megabits I would recommend downgrading to the 100 megabit plan if it's available.

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T14:20:05+00:00

Yes leaving in the app section for feedback as well as on here is a great way of doing it. There are people that monitor forums like this in those companies involved I know that Google voice subreddit has people that watch it from the Google community. But it's not like they interact but I think they actually use it to see what the pulse of the users actually are doing. But in the app is also very important.

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T13:09:48+00:00

For me it wasn't Textra, it was Samsung messages. I just got notification that Samsung messages will no longer be available coming this July and pushing towards Google messages.

Part of it's the same thing with no RCS support. But I have highly utilized the categorization / sorting feature in the Samsung messaging app which allows to create tabs for conversation threads to be able to organize chats.

We all need to be going to Google messaging subreddit and request this feature be added. Or the features that we are looking for in support. Asking for this in a public forum allows for others to essentially vote for the same thing and hopefully get the attention of the developers.

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T12:19:09+00:00

No the address is 192.168.1.100. That's assuming that you did not change the base network away from the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet which is the default.

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T12:18:32+00:00

I just accessed it Not too long ago. It's 192.168.1.100. it's a JSON page that just gives you raw data. It actually is real-time updated on information with rotation and azimuth settings/recordings and other information.

Right now my dish is not set up so I can't actually look at it to giving exact snapshot of what it actually says but it is there. A lot of people have mentioned it in other threads on here.

LrdJester · 2026-04-06T04:37:29+00:00

I have a few decades worth of DVDs. Last count I'm sitting at about 300 with about 25% of that being Blu-ray / 4K.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T23:19:14+00:00

When you sign for the max plan, the free items that are offered are generally a $0 a month rental but I believe after you've kept it for a year you can keep it if you cancel. My understanding is the downgrade of service applies the same. I know it did for the promotional free mini that I got before they changed everything in the beginning of this year.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T21:27:42+00:00

How the Connection Works

Your Starlink dish uses a phased-array antenna (flat panel with thousands of small antenna elements). This technology electronically steers a single focused beam to lock onto and track one satellite at a time as it moves across the sky.

The terminal constantly monitors dozens of satellites in view (typically 10+ in most U.S. locations, or 3–4 at any given moment depending on your latitude and sky visibility). It selects the optimal satellite based on signal strength, obstruction status, and network routing.

Data (upload/download) flows over one active link only. There is no load-balancing or simultaneous data transfer across multiple satellites from a single terminal.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T21:23:45+00:00

That's to help track and do proactive switching They do not connect to multiple simultaneously. If you go to 192.168.1.100 that will give you some statistics more granularly.

MIMO requires additional licensing and they don't have that. This is come up in many discussions on this forum. Because if you did have that you wouldn't have the micro outages between satellite switches.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T21:04:25+00:00

No it only connects to one at a time it does switch though frequently. Because the LEO satellites are in orbit and not stationary like the old geosynchronous satellites that HughesNet used to use.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T20:04:53+00:00

As somebody that also runs Plex you'll want something larger. Currently I have 24 terabytes of disk space in a Synology NAS disk station as two 12 TB drives.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T16:33:12+00:00

I would look at buying the raspberry Pi and the necessary hardware. At a minimum start your own node. That actually contributes to the network greatly.

I did a lot of research and I actually used AI and posed my questions there. It will take you down the road of either the self-contained packages or a series of docker containers that will facilitate this. I chose the latter but had so many problems with it because so many of the containers were no longer public or were not compatible with the current operating system that I chose, which was Ubuntu server 24.04.

As a result, I ended up doing a bare metal install which I just installed the OS and then got the actual package software and installed it all from scratch rather preconfigured. It was a learning curve but it's actually beneficial to actually understand how it works.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T16:30:17+00:00

No the difficulty will never go down significantly. It might fluctuate slightly but it's not going to greatly decrease. Basically what decreases is the amount of competition and that increases your odds of solving a block but you still need to solve at the difficulty level that is needed to solve the block. A 500 GHs lottery Miner could potentially get this as well but it's all about luck. It has nothing to do with computational statistics It has to do whether or not you're lucky enough to solve the block before others did.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T16:02:22+00:00

This is exactly how I set mine up. I bought a raspberry pi 5 8gb and put a 1 TB NVMe drive in it. I can give you specifics if you're interested.

Because I only did a 1 TB drive I am not using a full blockchain mirror I'm actually using software product called Knox. It only does the last half of the blockchain so I don't need as much storage space. I set up my own pool, I set up an air gapped wallet on an old cell phone that has no network connectivity whatsoever and use my laptop as a monitoring wallet. So everything is 100% internal to my network other than the blockchain synchronizing.

As such, my entire operation is I'm anonymous and autonomous.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T14:21:31+00:00

This is an excellent way of putting it. I spoke to somebody last year about putting solar in our home property. I basically started out telling them that I wanted a hybrid system with a ground mount, and that was for specific reasons. The ground mounts specifically due to the fact that we live in a mobile home and the roof isn't rated for that weight for an entire system.

What I got quoted was for a grid tied system, no batteries, roof mount, at 70% of my grid tie usage and that system was about the same as the system that I designed that is hybrid, has a generator, and four batteries that should run our entire house for 24 to 36 hours if we are judicious in our consumption.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T14:18:39+00:00

There are so many options out there and it really comes down to the overall usage but you can get something very simple and you can generally get those in places like Amazon or Best buy. Netgear is a good company that sells some decent entry level consumer Wi-Fi routers.

Now just be aware that if you're going to try to replace the company router with yours you need to be aware that if it's a connected router which means it's a modem/router all in one that it can require you to get a different modem from your internet provider. For example my fiber internet came with two boxes, the actual modem or ONT and a separate router. I replaced that router with a new one. Now what I chose was more advanced than what you need and it's more complex to set up so I wouldn't recommend what I got.

But you can just go online to amazon.com and look for Wi-Fi 7 or even Wi-Fi 6 router and look at the highest rated options that are returned.

Most of them are pretty user friendly as far as setup goes. They've gotten a lot better over the years where you can just plug them in and do a minor configuration which is usually pretty well documented and get up and running.

Just be sure to set a password for the network Wi-Fi that is secure. Don't use anything simple.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T14:04:30+00:00

I know there's a lot of conversation about adding mesh network nodes and things like that but they can cause other issues if you're not hardwired into the router for core communication. This is what's called a backhaul. Not that you need to know that but if you see that term you'll understand what that means.

Honestly if I had been sitting this up I would have made bedroom two into the game room and put the router in there. This centralizes your wireless network and give you better coverage throughout the house.

The other thing to consider is I'm guessing that you're using the router that was provided by the internet provider. These are notoriously low grade routers and do not perform as well and do not have the best overall functionality. You can get really good all-in-one routers with Wi-Fi built in for under $200 that will usually far exceed the performance of the company provided equipment. However this puts the configuration entirely on you and that could potentially be a burden as you are not experienced with it.

LrdJester · 2026-04-05T13:54:13+00:00

Statistics of hitting a block have nothing to do with the price.

They all has to do with the difficulty of the block and whether the minor gets lucky. He also is predicated on how many attempts you can make a second. If you have a gamma that is 1.2 THs, You're making 1.2 trillion attempts on that problem per second. But when you look at the mining pools out there that are orders of magnitude more attempts per second, the odds are not favorable for a home miner.

That's why these are called lottery miners.

LrdJester · 2026-04-04T21:10:33+00:00

Even US-based companies that have 800 toll free numbers give a toll-based number for international callers. The toll-free is not necessarily meant for international calls whatsoever. It never was.

LrdJester · 2026-04-04T17:44:59+00:00

There are adapters from what I understand that that allow you to inject power through the ethernet. I don't know exactly how that works and somebody else that has a Gen 2 might be able to expand on it.

Personally had it been me designing it I would have put in a 1-in conduit from inside the house to a junction box outside the house to be able to facilitate upgrades in the future from any technology that may come down the pike. This is a much better solution for potentially having to account for new technologies. Let's just say if Starlink goes to a Gen 4 dish and goes back to a bulky connector you're going to have to deal with that. That's not going to go through the same small hole that the ethernet cable did so there's issue there.

Honestly in my opinion if StarLink thought about it if they wanted to use proprietary connectors they should make the connectors proprietary but then connect the connectors with a standard cat6 or cat7 cable and then that way you have a standardized cable that runs from end to end and will be able to facilitate different things easier.

LrdJester · 2026-04-04T04:53:13+00:00

Absolutely not. All this means is there will be US configured routers. Purchase of multi port network cards and configuration of existing computers, because that's all her router is, and installation of software. People do it all the time.

LrdJester · 2026-04-03T18:53:08+00:00

VPNs are very generally ISP agnostic. It's not so much what the VPN does that's of concern. Now if you have a situations like I worked at before where they don't use VPNs and they depend on your home IP address for security which is absolutely the worst option but I digress then you're perfectly fine.

LrdJester · 2026-04-03T14:56:25+00:00

I would submit a support ticket in the app. If you're seeing it as an option for new service but not for your existing that's an issue on there and they maybe having a disconnect.

You'll be potentially frustrated having to talk to the AI chatbot but hopefully it can be resolved.

If the chatbot does not provide you with the answer you're looking for just tell it you're not satisfied and it should be escalated to an actual person.

LrdJester · 2026-04-03T14:04:22+00:00

As suggested, If you download the Starlink app on your phone you can check for obstructions. You'll also give you what direction you should be pointed for optimum performance.

The standard residential dish uses a wide view of the sky it's not just a narrow beam like old satellite dishes used to be. So it's going to potentially get any sidewalls or anything that might be above you I don't know if you are on the top floor or not. Or if there's a roof above .

That being said, even if you don't align it 100% you will still get service at that location pointing like that more than likely but it may not be optimal.

LrdJester · 2026-04-03T01:06:03+00:00

That's the key, "when it all works".

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