[Starlink] Speaking of retirements...

[David Lang]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:45:27 +1300
> From: Ulrich Speidel via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
> Reply-To: Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel at auckland.ac.nz>
> To: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] Speaking of retirements...
> 
> On 25/09/2023 11:32 pm, Noel Butler via Starlink wrote:
>> 
>> On 25/09/2023 18:06, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote:
>> 
>>> ah, sorry, probably we speak of the same thing.
>>> 
>>> I dont know whether or not the current in-car starlink devices require an 
>>> extra 12v-to-220V/110V adapter, or whether it's included, or integrated.
>> Here, the  "RV" is identical to a household service, the same stuff, except 
>> your allowed to move around - not locked to the beam covering your home 
>> location.
>
> Depending on where on the globe you live, there is a difference in the range 
> of Dishy options available (or at least advertised), which is where perhaps 
> some of the confusion arises.
>
> The "RV" option available in Australia and NZ at this time is indeed the 
> residential option without the cell lock. It's intended for stationary use 
> and assumes that you have a mains (AC) power source. We've tried it here with 
> the much taunted Yaosheng adapter, which however isn't 12V (it needs 42V) and 
> which gave us a lot more outages than the Starlink router with Ethernet 
> adapter.

12v DC to 48v DC for PoE should be significantly more efficient that a round 
trip through 110/60Hz or 220/50Hz

any chance that you were short on current capacity for 48v?

When you were seeing outages, was the dish dropping the link to you, or the link 
to the satellite?

David Lang
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