Thread: All things STARLINK

Originally Posted by Tins

Yes. And I have lots of trees, just to confuse the issue even more.

Fortunately my trees higher than the house (a tad over 7m at the ridgecap where I placed it) are mostly east and west of the house - not south!

Originally Posted by oka374

That big update last year Starlink sent messages for quite a few months beforehand and there were also articles in news and other outlets that if the dish had been off for a long while and it wasn't updated by XX date then it would be bricked. There were still people that ignored the warning and then complained that their dish no longer functioned.

I don't rembember getting any emails about that.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I don't rembember getting any emails about that.

Neither do I and I have had my starlink for years now. In the beginning I tested it once to see what's what, used it on my yearly trip and then stored it for almost a year (10-11 months) before taking it out, putting it up before I left on a trip and just leaving it there for 24hours. Things went just fine

This was the gen 2 dish and not the mini but still. My mini has been stored for, oh I dunno, almost a year now? I guess 10 months and won't be reactivated until june and by the end of this month my gen 2 will be stored, possibly for a lot lot longer since I will have gigabit fibre in the new house. Unpacking and storing that thing takes a lot more effort so I am not sure if it will get out even once a year.

I have the mini paused and I am not sure if I will pause the gen 2 or simply cancel it. I still kinda dislike the whole pausing thing since with two of them they are putting me in a hard spot paying 120bucks per year just to keep them around... (and I would normally only use 1 once a year for 1 month)

on a different note: the gen 2 being auto aim (still like that!) aimed itself last year in a certain direction. I had many drop outs during summer, heavy rain and sometimes during snow but since the leaves went last fall everything did get better. Recently I arrived home and looked at the roof to find the dish had pointed it self differently, perhaps due to the number of satellites in the constellation or some other reason. if the gen 2 can and actually does do that, I wonder how many people with fixed dishes are in a suboptimal state or need to get up on the roof (or wherever) to re-align their dishies?

-P

I kept the gen 2 for just that reason as it would often when set up for a month in one spot slowly move to a slightly different direction. Once it died and Starlink replaced it with a gen 3 for nothing after nearly three years the gen3 hasn't moved since I put it up on the roof and still is happily aligned according to the app.

I find it amazing how good the electrically phased array (try saying that three times quick).

When I got the mini (and it was one of the first)I thought I was going to have to align it. But quickly worked out it doesn't care. Maybe works better if aligned but mostly doesn't matter.

They are also very tolerant of obstructions. I hear that when they switched them off in UKR one of the issues the russians are having is most of the alternatives need a really obstruction free location. Which means they are easily spotted. The starlinks are very tolerant of obstructions.