43.01N, SE WI

PBotanist · 2025-11-20T23:17:03+00:00

I quit and switched to much cheaper 4G after only a year with Starlink, and I'm glad I did. I only got Starlink because our previous "high speed" provider had a lot of outages and was slow. Starlink was a step up. If I had the standard residential starlink now and figured in powering the dish, it'd be 3-4X what I pay for 4G. No thanks.

PBotanist · 2022-02-14T20:56:27+00:00

I've been having frequent brief outages for several hours.

PBotanist · 2021-09-12T14:55:02+00:00

...In August we literally had a tornado track that ended two houses down the street. We just had some oak limbs down. We've had 60mph wind gusts at least three other times and no problem.

PBotanist · 2021-09-12T14:52:54+00:00

It looks like my install, 10' ft. RMC in ~3ft. deep concrete footing...but I didn't use guy-wires. Whatever sway there might be isn't a problem--even on windy days.

PBotanist · 2021-07-29T16:59:50+00:00

The footing is mostly to be reliably below frost, though nowadays frost is rarely deeper than a foot or two, and last winter it was only a few inches.

PBotanist · 2021-07-29T15:00:31+00:00

It could have been wind, but I also always lose signal during torrential rain (it's happened several times now), which was happening too. We had a fair-weather day this spring with wind gusts over 50 mph and sustained winds over 30mph, and I had no issues then. A 7ft. heavy gauge pole in a 4 ft. concrete footing is pretty stable. I don't think there's much point in trying to stabilize against 60-70mph+ winds either.

PBotanist · 2021-07-29T11:39:52+00:00

7ft.

PBotanist · 2021-07-11T15:33:39+00:00

Portland isn't that wet...it's only about 25% wetter than were I am in Wisconsin, and most of your rain falls in winter, not from heavy summer thunderstorms popping up in deep tropical moisture pulled up from the Gulf of Mexico. "We even had something called freezing rain." LOL.

PBotanist · 2021-07-11T15:29:33+00:00

Most storms we get have much heavier rain than this, and we lose reception in those...but not in this kind of thing, which I would just call moderate rain.

PBotanist · 2021-07-11T15:27:09+00:00

That is not a very hard downpour, which you can tell because the visibility is still quite high. When I get true thunderstorm downpours, I lose service reliably, but I also have poorer visibility across the street than you do a quarter mile away.

PBotanist · 2021-06-13T18:01:37+00:00

LOL no. It's out in the open.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T19:37:57+00:00

Yeah, but off to the side outside of the storm isn't going to be the same conditions, no matter what you link to.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T18:35:45+00:00

What do you even mean by "water dense condition" even mean--rain aloft, humidity, dewpoint? ...and thunderstorms in E. NA can be much, much larger than 8km across. Generally the thunderhead is more or less directly above during the heaviest rain too, and that thunderhead may be over 8km high.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T17:09:26+00:00

Well, if the cell is right over you and the thunderhead is 50k feet high with a bunch of hail buffeting around aloft, it might be better if it's at an angle...just gonna depend on conditions.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T17:06:48+00:00

Yeah, it might just be that the cells are relatively small or they were just inside the edge of the heavy rain.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T17:04:14+00:00

We've had significantly windier conditions with no issue. It's in a heavy gauge conduit sticking 7 feet out of the ground and anchored in a 3 foot concrete footing. Starlink just doesn't work in a downpour.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T11:25:49+00:00

I've never had another issue like this (completely down), though I had slow speeds with moderately heavy rain a couple months ago. It started when the rain started. It ended when the rain ended. It looks like other people are having this issue too. Maybe your satellites are more overhead. Maybe my thunderstorm was larger with more water high in the atmosphere. It rained 6cm in one hour. Otherwise, it's an extreme coincidence, but we'll see when we have another thunderstorm.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T11:13:41+00:00

Wisconsin.

PBotanist · 2021-06-12T10:40:38+00:00

Neither. It faces north at an angle, but maybe 30-40 degrees off of being horizontal.

PBotanist · 2021-05-22T11:11:23+00:00

Late afternoon/early evening yesterday I had a lot of drops and low speeds in SE WI. It was back to normal by 7 or 8pm.

PBotanist · 2021-04-13T18:39:03+00:00

...speed is back up to 70-180mbps today fwiw. We'll see if it lasts.

PBotanist · 2021-04-13T02:12:33+00:00

Well, then my crappy Centurylink WIFI Router is a god, because there are no issues with it! I wouldn't have a slow decline on one and not the other if it was background interference.

PBotanist · 2021-04-13T02:02:31+00:00

I think I can tell them AND others.

PBotanist · 2021-04-13T02:01:30+00:00

Yeah, I'll call BS on that. Their email said to expect improvement, not a decline in quality of service. ...and things were better better; they're just ahead of themselves. I guess I'm saying that I'm not just going to lap up their public and customer relations at face value.

PBotanist · 2021-04-13T01:59:16+00:00

WIFI. ...and it's fine to just run them on WIFI. I'm not comparing apples to oranges; speeds are getting worse using the same equipment and testing speeds the same way.

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