Well, as I said, you have to take _everything_ she writes with the
understanding that she is an alarmist and a promoter. I would be
pretty sure she got paid by both T-Mobile and Hiboost, & I have seen
others say the same problem she mentioned about Weboost but both times
it was proven to be a bad setup. ( I have weboost but don't need it )
Starlink has to avoid transmitting into the Clark Belt, they are using
the same frequencies. So they use the northern hemisphere. If you
aren't on the equator, your dish can be flat and avoid the Clark Belt no
problemo. Beam steering decides the pointing and tilt is just a
hangover of the earlier constraints..
Before the number of sats reached where they are now, they tended to use
a higher latitude center of focus for the sats because you get more
density at the northern inclinations of the orbits. That is going away
rapidly. I flat mount my dish in the shower bubble of my RV for mobile
use. It shows no obstructions when not under an actual obstruction.
It now takes a pretty high/close cliff to obstruct the dish and we are
seeing the latest s/w doing much better with a smaller sky area and
probably 15 degrees higher in latitude than in the past. Some people
have seen their dishes pointing east and west and, amazingly, south. I
suspect that was because Starlink was testing the relay system on them.
The latest version of the dish is supposed to support dual beams from
what people are reading in the software analysis. It comes with a fixed
stand that only tilts it about 15-20 degrees off vertical. The
understanding is that the tilt is now just for snow/water shedding.
Starlink has busy hour lower priority for _mobile_ users. It puts the
mobile users behind the fixed users for b/w. _Not_ throttled. Lower
speeds during 6-10pm are for the same reasons our networks experience it
and Starlink has loaded on the customers way heavier than we probably
would.
It takes a _LOT_ of rain to reduce the performance of Starlink. I've
seen no issues with 1/4-1/2"/hr rain. Granted that is rare in N. NV.
But they are transmitting with a lot of power in both directions. I
got my first solid disconnection during a massive storm in TX when we
were there for the eclipse. That was enough rain that it was piling up
in the street. I didn't check my weather station as we were headed for
a storm shelter.
On 5/6/24 11:10 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
What I found most interesting were the following things I did not know:
* Starlink needs a _Northern_ sky exposure
* Starlink has busy hour throttling
* Starlink slows with rain (expected, and understandable but had not
heard that before)
I liked that she found a brand of booster that she says works well.
*From:* Robert
*Sent:* Monday, May 6, 2024 11:59 AM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Interesting (to me)
I've watched her for years and she has, occasionally, some good
stuff. But on the whole she has gotten so into promoting what she was
paid for and in a few cases gotten caught promoting bad products.
She major league jumped on board a cell internet reseller and promoted
a really dishonest company because she didn't wait long enough for the
bad to come out. Then claimed innocence...
Well here she was again. T-Mobile just chomped down on those people
using T-mobile home service away from home. If you want to do what she
is promoting, it's now $160/month
On _any_ cellular internet service, I say wait 1.5 years to find out
if the provider is really going to support it or is it a bait and
switch. ATT did exactly that 4 years ago, even promoting the service
with mobile users just to pull it all away after usage became too high
in just over a year.
On 5/6/24 10:16 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
https://youtu.be/XcofyNWDyao?si=0ulY_LiFcb2HlnaY
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