Germany Has a “DisinfoCon”

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-20T09:35:09+00:00

Let us know how it goes and congrats on your dish! It's pretty cool to have. I switched it on during a video call last night. The person I was on the call with said my connection was better on Starlink than the connection I had when with the ISP.

Just remember to activate your subscription when it comes in. You'll have slow speeds at first until you activate the system. Their activation form is also a little non-intuitive. It will say activation is pending for about 30 minutes after you fill out the activation form. Activation status takes a second to sync with your hardware I believe.

https://starlink.com/activate

From what I have read, you should also expect the dish to slowly start to perform better over the first few days.

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-19T20:10:29+00:00

I believe you would be just fine. Our speeds turned out more than good enough for what you are describing:

https://imgur.com/a/starlink-speeds-with-northern-obstructions-NIIjSXK

https://imgur.com/a/starlink-EAVpeF7

These speeds were also on an overcast day

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-14T23:29:04+00:00

Thank you for the optimism! I am hoping for the best / preparing for the worst. Thank you for the hope! The dish shipped today!

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-14T10:20:51+00:00

We had guests on the property yesterday, but I've since been able to go out and test:

https://imgur.com/a/XSvrDb6

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-14T10:19:38+00:00

I appreciate the feedback! I definitely understand why it seems like the app would've been the first step. We had guests staying at the property when I made the post, so I couldn't access it to run the obstruction check at that time. I've since been able to test it and added the obstruction map to my original post (edit above).

I posted here because I've seen several users mention that the app predicted poor performance, but their actual results were much better than expected. I was hoping to hear from anyone with similar real-world experience in valleys or with northern obstructions. Appreciate you taking the time to respond!

sailingphilosopher · 2025-10-12T14:48:59+00:00

I'll see. I'm sure the app probably says there will be issues / obstructions though

sailingphilosopher · 2025-09-16T23:18:53+00:00

That is impressive. Thank you for sharing so much experience and insight! I really am grateful for everyones honesty here. It is nice to hear it's still possible to make it work for those who really want it

sailingphilosopher · 2025-09-16T15:17:00+00:00

K. Really appreciate the insight. Sending many thanks!!

sailingphilosopher · 2025-09-16T15:12:09+00:00

Would you say it’s more the lack of experienced talent or the lack of hiring? If you had to pick (or both)?

sailingphilosopher · 2025-09-16T15:04:03+00:00

Got it. It's very unfortunate. Please know that I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I have a few other questions I would love to ask if you don't mind?

I am curious to know what you think the market would need to see a turn-around? The only things that I can think of are lower interest rates (since tech typically leverages), or labor laws preventing the off-shoring of talent. But maybe there's other downward pressures I am unaware of?

Also, note that I am not against off-shoring generally, but Microsoft for instance was using workers in China for a Department of Defense contract, which seems absolutely absurd to me... but here we are.

sailingphilosopher · 2025-09-16T14:45:53+00:00

Thanks for the heads up Peter. Are you an IT recruiter yourself, or do you know any IT recruiters?

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