Anyone use starllink? I’m curious how it performs in crap weather
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My limited first hand experience is that crap weather, like a typical thunderstorm with rain or average snow fall (2-3 inches), it works just like normal. The main thing I see is a significant drop in available bandwidth during peak usage times.
Yeah, in my experience, time of day is a bigger factor than bad weather. But even peak hours haven't been an issue for me.
Starlink is my secondary failover internet. My neighbor really wanted it so I went halfsies on it with him. Fiber in my area is cheaper and faster. My neighbors aren’t big internet users; but they stream their TV watching, have smart phones and use a laptop rarely. They never complain about issues.
My internet has failed over to starlink for hours during main working hours and I never even noticed. I do zoom/webex/teams calls all day and it works perfectly for me when I do use it.
Nice
It has always worked well for me regardless of the weather. I haven't noticed issues during snow storms, either.
A dev I work with in Nigeria uses starlink and his Internet goes down every time it rains
I use it full time, since it don't have normal internet. It has only gone down once in a whole year. I stream on it and game. It's really good. The only problem I have is I can't stream on high definition.
Reports from people I know are varied. Having wide sky view performs much better. Most bad weather doesn't bother it much. Bandwidth can be limited as noted by another.
I use it in the rural Pacific Northwest. It's fabulous in any kind of weather even snow storms. Couldn't be happier with it's performance.
Ty
Be sure to protect your health by being conscious about the setup for low EMF
No problems with bad weather. Occasionally restarting helps if it starts to slow down but I'm getting 100-200 Mbps in Japan.
I’ve been using it for years in terrible wind, and monsoons. It does just fine.
No 🤷♂️🤔
Only positive experience (in Germany)