Loading ...I THOUGHT THIS WAS “IT”
LAST NIGHT AT 11:30 PM I was abruptly and rudely cut off from civilization
Internet wifi connection down and no way to recover
Land line Phone Down
Cell would not connect to the ‘cloud”
I was sure this was IT…the long awaited Cyber Attack ..”Q’s” 10 days of darkness
Everything is still down here today as well
I drove to Town and found a spot to use the cell phone hot spot
Parked in a school parking lot with my laptop
I am will Bell Canada
Called tech support bu the guy in India AND the next guy in Phillipeans say everything is fine on their end and hove no clue whats wrong
I have decided to get Elon’s Starlink
Need a backup plan
sheesh
They found you.
Internet could be fiber trunk link, or local.
Cell could still be connecting to tower, but backhaul is down (fiber).
Landline …. telco copper or cable co-ax or telco fiber?
But I see no reports for Rogers or Ontario …etc.
How long will it take for Elon to pick up?
Are you sure the outage wasn’t in Brazil, where you were last connected ???
I am Not with Rogers
Bell Canada
The whole area is out
Wifi still out now but landline is back and cell is connecting
One year Starlink anniversary. Nary a single bad glitch, never a day down. Fingers crossed. $90 a month for three quarters of the year, now $120 a month. Better than any other service out here in the boonies and less expensive. We cannot get cable yet in this area. Works in the middle of a raging blizzard. In those cases I have had to brush off the dish a few times. I keep it accessible mounted on a steel pipe not too high so I can reach it with an angled broom, and, standing in the snow, I can gently break off the icicles that sometimes form at the bottom of the base caused from the heated dish melting ice and snow and settling there. That is a design flaw, but I can live with it.
Thanks marcus
It’s a MusK !
The flaw is the slight ridge where the top is fastened to the base all the way around. That ridge, though slight, is enough to capture the melted water at the bottom of the angled dish resulting in icicles caused by the heating option I engage off and on depending on the temperature and snow conditions at the start of the snowy months of winter. I can grab the top of the icicles’ ridge with my ungloved hand and gently removed them without jostling the dish much which might do some damage to the mechanism. Seems resilient enough, but it’s probably better to do this carefully.
MJ – do you use Starlink strictly for internet connection or voice communications etc. Haven’t looked into Starlink and wondering what the capabilities are from an opinion we trust……. Thx
Strictly for internet through my personal desktop and phone when I’m home, otherwise cellular data kicks in when I’m out and about, but only for the connection to the internet on my smart phone. I have a separate provider for the actual phone service. I’ve never looked into what phone service Starlink might provide. Maybe I should. It’d be cool if Starlink had a satellite phone service in case of massive phone service outage across the world, like Iridium has. https://www.iridium.com/
“I’ve never looked into what phone service Starlink might provide.”
For a landline ALT, look into magicjack. Requires an old desktop phone, plugged into your PC via USB port. $15/yr for the service. Pick a number from anywhere north of Mexico. Can use it around the globe via laptop, but only to/from N Amer numbers. Has an effective feature to block robo calls. Best on standard broadband. Not sure how well it works with a bit of Starlink latency. Serviceable at least.
Thanks. I’m into stuff like that. Old school mixed with current tech.
Forgot to say I use it through my smart tv as well. The location app on the phone is really fascinating the way it tells you where to put the dish. It’s downright wild in a science fiction kinda way. Because I live among the trees on a lot of acres, it took about three hours to find where it would work the best. I don’t have any large fields not surrounded by 60-80 foot tall trees. Take a ladder with you so you can get at least 12 feet above the ground if you’re working among some scattered trees near the house like I was. I buried the cable in conduit a foot down about 30 feet from the house to the dish. That was a hassle because the soil here has lots of rocks. I’d advise against putting it on the roof of your house if you can avoid it. If you live in snow country, you’ll find yourself up on the roof in some miserable conditions if you have a problem with it. Best to have it accessible. I don’t understand why anyone would stick it on a 20 foot pole making it difficult to reach if there are icicles hanging off of it. Warm climates are a different story. On the roof or tall pole in that case would be fine and out of the way. The mount for the pole is definitely worth it. My pipe was slightly longer than the one they offered so I used my own.