On 25/09/2023 21:45, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:
The "RV" option available in Australia and NZ at this time is indeed
the residential option without the cell lock. It's intended for
stationary use and assumes that you have a mains (AC) power source.
We've tried it here with the much taunted Yaosheng adapter, which
however isn't 12V (it needs 42V) and which gave us a lot more outages
than the Starlink router with Ethernet adapter.
There is also a "mobility" option available here (or at least they
offer sales consultations for it) that's shown mounted flat on the roof
of a speeding 4WD and seems to be quite different from a residential
class Dishy. Presumably that will run off 12V. Cost is significantly
more than
At least two articles I've read tonight confirm they are still AC
powered
The significant cost is for the mobility "pro" version, one article
indicated 599 for the standard (I assume that's USD but can't confirm)
So looks like we *still* have to void warranties and hack it for 12v.
meaning that most satellites Dishy talks to are more like 800 - 1000 km
away. Near the Equator, Dishy will remain in "coffee table" position
but avoid the geostationary arc, which also means that the sats it
talks to are quite a bit off to the side all of the time.
Still a lot closer than 22km's up in the troposphere where Aus's NBN
sats are, hrmm, actually 22k's might even be the stratosphere, I'm sure
someone will correct me :)
We've observed that our Dishy consumes more power during large
downloads than during uploads, which suggests that transmit power isn't
Something to be mindful of then if that's the cases with all units, my
use cases are jitsi, VoIP, Weather, twatter, and odd youtube, I dont
have netflix or such, and for FTA TV, there's VAST and foxtel uses the
same satellite as VAST so ...yeah, there's that ;)
the main factor here. It appears that it's the signal processing that
is needed to receive and demodulate the incoming signal with the high
bit rate data stream that really eats the watts.
That doesn't sound well designed if thats the case, I mean we're only
talking a few hundred mbps on a consumer unit if you're lucky.
Incidentally, with more birds in the sky, Dishy seems to be willing to
put up with a bit more obstruction nowadays:
If you have this level of obstruction at a permanent location, why not
put it up high in clear(er) view of the sky :)
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Regards,
Noel Butler
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