Could be rain fade. It's raining the cats and dogs down here. (Logansport area).
I just ran speedtest on my AT&T service, on the desktop (cat 6 to AT&T router), iPhone, and IPad (both on wifi). Hands-down winner was the iPhone with 47.0 down, 1.63 up. And AT&T has its own drop out problems every few hours, which last considerably longer than 10 seconds.
My comcast cable used to run alongside the 220v line coming to the house, they actually had it taped to it. Now it's still attached to the weatherhead for the electric. Didn't seem to have had any problems from it.
It is "self-learning". All I did was let it do its thing, but it varies.Now were talkin'... 32ms ping and 130Mb. Heck ya!
What did you do to get it dialed in?
Right now, they are tied to a specific address. If you move the dish away from that address, they work poorly or not at all. Starlink has recently filed FCC paperwork for approval of moving receivers, but that is in process. I can see this being a good solution for RVers once the system allows for that.
That sucks, RVers and such were what I was thinking of. Or things like week or two long prairie dog hunts where you're out of cell phone range, canoeing the boundary waters, etc. A 12v deep cell battery, inverter, and a couple of small solar panels would work well with this setup and a laptop for keeping in communication with others.
I'm not sure about what kind of cable comes off of the dish itself, but with most cat, stereo and coax wires you want to avoid running parallel with electric wires. It can cause interference. If you can space them 12"+ apart it helps. If you have to do this use a cable with as much shielding as possible, also grounded conduit will help
Are you under any sort of contract? If someone bought this to try and it didn't work out for their location would you be able to sell it to someone else?
That's less than 1a assuming it's 120v so the shielding helps it from outside interferences found normally in the atmosphere, but running parallel to electric lines forvery far is less than ideal, could lead to noise interference.
He was referring to Phylo's situation where the best place he would have to mount the dish would have the cable running along a 220v line.
Correct, the twisted pairs help combat interference, but it doesn't eliminate the possibility. The shielding depends on if it's 6a U or 6a F cable. That I don't know, but it sounds like Hough said it had foil shielding so I would guess it F
When I say I'm no expert...I'm no expert, but my son is coming for a visit and he is an IT guy "Field Serve Enginerd" I mean "Engineer", so I'm sure he'll tell me. It has the sheetmetal shield around the plug itself if that means anything.
