I presumed they were in polar orbits.
Google shows a bunch of criss cross inclined orbits.
I don’t see how looking in the northern direction would help.
From: Robert
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 1:37 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Interesting (to me)
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:
a.. Starlink needs a Northern sky exposure
b.. Starlink has busy hour throttling
c.. 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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