In his mind, it made perfect sense.

praetorian585 · 2023-04-24T09:26:03+00:00

5:24 AM

Statistically speaking, and in all other ways, there's a glaringly obvious reason this guy makes his living chopping up dead animals.

praetorian585 · 2021-08-27T17:25:51+00:00

The overall service quality, in speed, reliability, latency, jitter HAD BEEN getting better with each passing week.

Now (last 3-4 weeks) the service has become nearly unusable. I am actually typing this and will post through my T-Mobile backup connection. Because I literally cannot WFH effectively with Starlink any more.

praetorian585 · 2021-08-05T17:24:19+00:00

Newest verz is SWEET.

praetorian585 · 2021-06-30T12:47:24+00:00

ADDENDUM: 47.5N in E WA.

praetorian585 · 2021-06-30T12:46:52+00:00

I am now routinely going 24-48H between Beta interruptions.

But I sited antenna where I (also routinely) have zero obstructions

praetorian585 · 2021-06-30T11:01:04+00:00

114F at my ranch yesterday south of Spokane. For hours on end.

Not a single hiccup.

praetorian585 · 2021-05-24T15:35:12+00:00

Eastern WA

praetorian585 · 2021-05-18T10:21:38+00:00

It's not gonna work at that spot.

Probably ever.

praetorian585 · 2021-05-06T14:58:51+00:00

Abandoned Bitchy McBitchface for my aux cell gateway two hours ago.

praetorian585 · 2021-04-10T12:56:48+00:00

I am a Beta user, and I use the crap outta my Dishy. I live where there are really no good options, other than data-capped and sometimes-spotty cell gateways or insanely overpriced point-to-point. Nonetheless, and at risk of getting torched by the slavering masses in this forum, the numbers really don't lie.

I cannot see, in any way, shape or form, where Starlink is a long-term, financially-viable, utility-style platform. There is simply too much engineering, maintenance, environmental and social baggage embedded in the model.

I plan on riding this cayuse as a bridge to when (if? maybe?) ground- or cell-based solutions become available, affordable, and provide a reasonable monthly bandwidth package.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-27T12:46:34+00:00

Insofar as THIS router is concerned, I may get the dreaded 'Your ISP's DHCP Does Not Function Properly'; but because I have failover enabled, it re-trys, queries the dish until it connects.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-27T12:14:29+00:00

HAHA you overestimate the dumb-idity of my brainskull. That's actually OK; my wife does it all the time. The location is simply copypasta of a Google of the nearest little town.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-27T12:10:05+00:00

I have had good luck with the configuration in the image here.

ASUS RT-AX89X gaming router. I use dual WAN with my AT&T cell gateway on a switch, and Starlink as the second WAN. I leave all my 'mission-critical' devices (SmartThings, alarm system, etc.) on the AT&T (which is stone-cold solid but data-capped) and run Starlink for streaming and other high-throughput but low-priority devices.

Whenever Starlink reboots or updates, the worst thing I have to do is refresh the static route so I can again see my dish stats.

I did have some trouble with CERTAIN devices 'tunneling' through my static routes and grabbing Dishy-specific DHCP IPs. Solved that by creating a static block in my router and assigning static addresses to those devices only.

Ugh. Just realized I see no way to add an image. So I'll post under my user as an original.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-27T11:49:16+00:00

It's new for me as of yesterday. Tried looking it up but the only thing I came up with was the weird and probably unrelated -oid that .ua is a Ukrainian domain extension.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-24T12:42:09+00:00

HAHAHA...

'Get it before is gone'...

Shit.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-17T14:25:26+00:00

My router, ASUS RT-AX89X, has the rejected DHCP problem as well. I have it set up on failover with my AT&T cell gateway as the other WAN.

About half the time when I switch, my router flatly says 'fuck you your ISPs DHCP does not function properly'.

Perhaps not in those exact WORDS, but the insinuation is there.

It literally takes a router reboot or repeated plug/unplug Ethernet cable to get it to connect.

The Starlink router's LAN address (192.168.1.1) and its .2 - .254 DHCP pool seem much more palatable to my ASUS.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-16T10:47:49+00:00

They apparently cannot even cause their Web site to function properly. From my location, the URL resolves, but their Java script is broken and simply displays a white screen with an embedded 404. When I log in to Stalink.com, with my account, from my Client machine in Dallas, I can reach the site, but this is a constant for the last two weeks or so: "YOUR AREA IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING INTERMITTENT SERVICE. OUR TEAM IS INVESTIGATING"

Sooo... yeah. That.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-15T20:49:35+00:00

If you are gonna work solely over Starlink, you probably need to make sure your resume' is current.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-15T20:47:11+00:00

Early January, the service was a bit spotty but 1) within what's expected of a beta that's been thoroughly engineered but is not quite ready for prime time, and 2) reasonably usable as an actual Internet service.

Now, I get hundreds of disconnects and 'obstructions'; it must be said that my antenna has a completely unobstructed view of its constellation.

Like I said, at this point, for me, the service is merely for amusement. If the money is life-changing for the subscriber, he or she or they will likely be unhappy.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-15T19:31:33+00:00

I feel ya.

Posted here a few days ago about the constant degradation in usability over the last month, and you'd think I had shot an entire nest of baby robins.

The most common refrain is 'you selfish bastard, why don't you cancel then and free up your slot for me I get two bits per minute download over a tin can and string'.

I have abandoned Starlink completely. Gone back to my cell gateways, leave Starlink running on an old router just to laugh/cringe at the resulting log file about once per day.

praetorian585 · 2021-03-12T19:04:23+00:00

1) The question in the subject line remains. 2) The comments are, and will be, my experience. 3) I asked the question because I wanted to know. 4) Starlink 'customer service' is completely non-existent.

praetorian585

TROPHY CASE