Starlink from Eleonora - opinions, range, antenna installation, ping, speed, power supply

Hello Earth, is anyone using the Internet from Eleonora's space? I want to buy a set. Disconnects? What is the actual range - how to mount the antenna? ping, speed, power? etc.?

And why Starlink? What kind of location is this where you have to grab this last, expensive lifeline?

januszzpolski007 wrote:

Disconnects ?

It depends on the weather.

januszzpolski007 wrote:

Like actual range

The range of what, this internet? - it's a satellite, so there is coverage

januszzpolski007 wrote:

how to mount the antenna?

Nothing can block the access to the sky, the antenna will position itself and calibrate for the satellite.

januszzpolski007 wrote:

ping, speed, power? etc. ?

The distance from the satellite is 340 km (approx. 7,500 satellites), 550 km (approx. 1,600 satellites) and 1,150 km (approx. 2,800 satellites) above the Earth, and we multiply this by x2 because the signal must return to the satellite.
Speed is TO.
Power - the cable modem powers the antenna.

A lot of people talk about it without having any idea about it.
As for the IP, of course it is Polish.
Does it break off? Hmm, it doesn't break anything for me.
You install the antenna so that it is not covered by anything, it depends on what type of building you live in. I have it on the roof on a dedicated holder.
The distance to the satellites is approximately 550 km.
I recommend this link
https://satellitemap.space/

As for the speed, I have no complaints. Test from today.

My cable operator is 10 times slower than Orange and there is no chance for anything else.

And my pre-paid mobile phone for PLN 3 and 200GB/month for free works like this https://www.speedtest.net/pl/result/a/7710526380, of course fiber optic maybe in a year, other mobile phones are slower, only 150- 300Mb/s, of course also on pre-paid plans and hundreds of GB for pennies. I don't see the need to pay Musk a lot of money.

I have had this service for a long time and still have a Polish IP. Of course, I do not deny reports about a different location, but from what I know, the entry point to the network is in Wola Krobowska.
As for the number of satellites, I see a lot of them over Poland.
In my opinion, comparing StarLink with mobile phones makes no sense. I reach the 200GB limit in half a day. My mobile reception is not the best.

Of course.

Except you don't see my IP in traceroute
This is how I see them.


So something went wrong in WP, corrected here.

This is how I see the Polish IP address.

200GB half a day, 400GB per day, 12TB per month - what are you doing on the Internet to generate so much traffic? For an ordinary user, Starlink is still unprofitable and too expensive. It won't make a career here because mobile operators work OK on LTE and the range is very good considering the conditions. Price is decisive.

matek451 wrote:

200GB half a day, 400GB per day, 12TB per month - what are you doing on the Internet to generate so much traffic? For an ordinary user, Starlink is still unprofitable and too expensive. It won't make a career here because mobile operators work OK on LTE and the range is very good considering the conditions. Price is decisive.

For me, the Internet is work. Is PLN 230 so expensive? Won't he make a career, hmm, do you know how many places there are where there is no chance for anything else? I know a few people who have Starlink and I wouldn't even suspect them of it.
You can't afford to go out for a beer with friends on the weekend and you have 2 subscriptions. Unless we assume that it would be cheapest not to be born. You don't know what awaits us, and the Ukrainian example shows what a tool this is. There are over 18,000 terminals for this service. You are independent of local services, whether there will be BTS or, like in my city, they will download where people can't talk on the phone living in the city center because they don't have coverage. Orange, which I have also had for 10 years, cannot reach the switchboard despite many appeals from people who live within it. I don't bother with such nonsense anymore and I don't wonder why when I watch my series on TV in "4k" it's somehow pixelated. When I go on holiday to Spain, I pack Starlink in a backpack and I still have my internet, that's an advantage. You are independent of so many things. Of course, there are also disadvantages, as everywhere and in everything. I remember the days of modems, then when you dialed in, then SDI. If you think that you press Enter and this message flies to a satellite suspended somewhere at an altitude of 550 km, it is impressive.

Spain is not a problem because of the EU and cheap roaming.

But now Switzerland, and then Albania, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and the rest of the world...
Do you actually take Starlink on trips?

kudlatyzero wrote:

When I go on holiday to Spain, I pack Starlinka in a backpack and I still have my internet, that's an advantage.

Not so fast, you seem to have a location assigned to it.

Yes, absolutely, I travel quite often and I honestly admit that I take Starlink with me. My duties at work do not allow me to decide whether I will be able to connect to the network or not. The household stays in Orange. I use the dual WAN option. You have to use it somehow. It will probably be the size of a small plate in a few years. I have never had a problem with services like Netflix and others due to an IP from a different region. I guess they understand that Starlink is a slightly different service. Just log in using the .pl prefix. You can buy a nice backpack for traveling in the store, but I think they went crazy with the price.



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KOCUREK1970 wrote:

kudlatyzero wrote:

When I go on holiday to Spain, I pack Starlink in a backpack and I still have my internet, that's an advantage.

Not so fast, you seem to have a location assigned to it.

You have four types of service: Residential assigned to the location, works up to 100 km from home, CAMERA where there is coverage, MARITIME Provides fast Internet with low latencies with download speeds of up to 350 Mb/s and upload speeds of up to 40 Mb/s while staying at sea and BUSINESS thanks to more than twice the antenna range, the Starlink Business service provides faster Internet and greater bandwidth

As far as I know, own external IP and port forwarding option. I haven't checked, it's just a rumor.

BUSINESS price kills PLN 2,211/month. with a one-time equipment cost of PLN 13,600, I just checked.
Unfortunately, it's a corporation.
BTW
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I'm sorry

My friend didn't brag about the price increase of PLN 105 per month. This is a niche service and nothing will change that.

Well, let's be happy that my friend will pay more than ours. Today this information came out and it doesn't particularly help me. To tell you the truth, it's stupid behavior, first reduction from 500 to 230 and after 2 months, I think it's 335. It's not worth talking about.

kudlatyzero wrote:

Well, let's be happy that my friend will pay more than ours. Today this information came out and it doesn't particularly help me. To tell you the truth, it's stupid behavior, first reduction from 500 to 230 and after 2 months, I think it's 335. It's not worth talking about.

I bet that at the price of PLN 230, Poles jumped at it. Sales jumped dramatically, so what were they supposed to do? Business is business. Contrary to what mothers say, for PLN 230 in many places in Poland it is a damn attractive solution.

kudlatyzero wrote:

Today this information came out and it doesn't particularly help me. To tell you the truth, it's stupid behavior, first reduction from 500 to 230 and after 2 months, I think it's 335. It's not worth talking about.

After all, our domestic internet operators also include clauses in their new contracts that they can freely model the price if their costs go up and this does NOT give a reason to break such a contract.
Just look at the prices of electronics, network devices, etc. - it was already cheap and will not come back.
Because even if everything returns to the state from before 2017 (number of deliveries, assortment), you have to be naive to think that someone will come to their senses and lower prices.

As I wrote earlier, such a company should not make such foolish decisions, lower prices and then raise the price after less than 2 months.

kudlatyzero wrote:

As I wrote earlier, such a company should not make such foolish decisions, lower prices and then raise the price after less than 2 months.

And Musk did something different with Ukraine - first he gave them the kits, financed them, and then there was information that the Pentagon was to pay for it, only to get a boost and announce with fanfare that Musk would finance it again.

And that's why he raised it for us. But many people will resign from the service, it was probably better to have the PLN 230. There is no need to look for another alternative.

@kudlatyzero
Or maybe these increases are for Ukraine.
No one will resign because there is no reason - at most it will scare away new customers.

Many people will give up because of this increase, because what guarantee do you have that they won't restore the original price of PLN 500 next month? As of today, I know three people with me who have given up and are returning their equipment. And the price is for Ukraine.

But that's history, now it's PLN 335 and in many places in Poland you don't have to pay that much to have decent Internet, recently in 9 out of 10 locations I easily got 50-200Mb/s on a mobile phone at a much lower cost. Of course, the previous attempts of the owners and several other installers were unsuccessful, usually with texts like "Sir, it's impossible, thanks to me you now have 5Mb/s, so be happy because that's how this whole mobile Internet works."
Prices are rising, but I'm not complaining, a TB of data every month for a maximum of PLN 50 without a contract, and what's more, it's fast as hell, and I'm not interested in Musk's miracle for now.
For me, in the Polish reality, Starlink is a niche service, like satellite Internet before it.