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Tens of thousands knocked offline after software failure at Musk’s Starlink
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It's a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It's unbelievably bad.
I can almost guarantee that's because their terminal is in a shit location with too much of the sky obscured by trees or buildings. I had to set my parents up with it two years ago and if it can't see as much of the constellation as possible it's going to have periods of obstructed sattelite connectivity.
Ohh... It's ok guys, it's only because the sky has clouds in it.
Yeahhhh about that.
LEO satellites have a lot stronger signal and their phased array terminals have a surprisingly good SNR. This isn't your grandpa's Hughesnet.
I never have more than a second or two of interruptions out there even though heavy rainstorms. Thunderstorms directly overhead sometimes knock it out for a few minutes if they're dropping hail and lightning but I usually unplug my computer during those anyway. Its all about maximizing its view of the sky so it can always pick the strongest satellite at that time.. M
I hate musk too but the engineering quality in starlink is insane.
"More satellites!"
Maybe the overall idea isn't a great one.
My money is on Kessler Syndrome in less than 20 years.
Good news is that it won't be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren't actively maintained.
How do you have the knowledge of what Kessler Syndrome is but not understand what Low Earth Orbit is and how it works?
Ah yes, my comment clearly indicated Starlink was the sole cause an no additional satelites in various orbits will ever be needed, desired or will ever be launched by any other country because we are done and have all we need, forever.
You are clearly very smart. I am so happy you are here to protect us from saying something stupid. That would be embarassing.
That’s not typical. Starlink is more stable than most. I monitor over 8 locations using multiple different services for internet access and Starlink is about as reliable as mpls.