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Bit late on the news towards starlink but it is now deploying
WAI4WD:
Here is a good review in Australia across different weather conditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQsSM2Kpd0
He got 30ms ping, which is pretty amazing. Again, many factors. My unit has not arrived yet, I only just ordered it. An associate of ours has it, who lives rural, so I do know someone with it and have used it at their rural location, and it works as advertised per reviews I've watched on Youtube.
The RV service is different than the fixed service, because the RV interrupts fixed service connections by entering their zone and stealing some of their bandwidth, hence the RV service will connect, but MAY get limited a little compared to fixed systems, to ensure you don't screw with those fixed systems, ie. too many RV connections in a location already assigned as FULL, so each RV connection in that area will be speed limited whilst in that area if fixed service is using the system.
My understanding that priority is given to fixed systems, then left over shared to RV systems entering any given area. But with RV you WILL get internet in any area covered by starlink, where moving address with the fixed system as people are doing now, you do not get internet in many areas marked as full.
yvesjv:
Followed that link and found they have two 100gbps services going through the Sydney internet exchange.
That is on a par with some of the big players like Netflix for example.
I think the ip address range to allocate to Oz users will not be that big... first come, best dressed ;)
WAI4WD:
I would expect the old random IP assignment with every connection. Shocked why they're not using IPv6 out of the gate.
WAI4WD:
They sent my RV kit earlier this week, got it in 2 days. As per the terms, you get up to the first 5 days from shipping to use it until your billing cycle begins, mine is the 22nd of each month. Obviously this must vary based on every user. Hell of a billing system they have going there.
The moment they assign it to your account, the RV one this is, you can go in and pause the service. I wanted to see if it got here within 5 days to test, and so I just did that. Went down the end of the street with the wagon, using its 400W Enerdrive inverter, starlink RV ran from that with no issues. I didn't expect it to draw much, but the satellite motor was the unknown for me. But that seems to be pretty low power too.
Being in Melbourne, obstructions everywhere, the end of my street is covered with trees, so I setup there to see how it would go. The sat settled pointing through the gum trees and still gave respectable speeds (60 / 5) or so down/up on mobile, with obstructions (limiting factor seems to be mobile to router connection). I wanted to see how it would go with obstructions because chances are, trees will always be an issue for us when camping.
It got up to 200+ down through the trees, but still only 5 or less up via the trees. Obviously not ideal with satellite positioning, but realistic for my use. Had some varying speeds through the trees, but internet.
Happy days. Clear positions are only going to be better, so i can live with that. Pausing the service automatically sets it to disable at your next billing date. You need mobile reception to activate again, well, I haven't tried remote yet without service, so not sure if starlink will allow you account access. Based on everything I've watched to date, it does not allow this via its service like an ISP does via router. You have to activate from paused before use.
yvesjv:
Thanks for the update.
Is there a workaround for when there is no mobile reception?
And authentication/authorisation into the network is interesting too, perhaps that happens without mobile reception.
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