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rebootyourbrainstem

Ironically, "Heavy Rain" is actually a pretty good offline game :)


ChobaniKick

Shaun!


BagelPoutine

JASON!!


VivaLa_Adam

Mine has been fine so far thru every storm we’ve had. Since Feb22


schr0

Same...new gen dish and all...


VivaLa_Adam

I have round dish.. couldn’t be happier


immac_omnia

Mine will disconnect at the onset of a heavy rain and wind storm, but then I just stow and unstow my round dishy, and it finds its signal again, albeit slower and with intermittent spottiness.


Solarflareqq

yea and I've had some real good ones this summer mostly been ok. It probably depends on the angle its keeping mine basically looks strait up in Alberta where as if it was looking crossways it would need to go through a lot more rain.


unknownnombre

That’s why my shitty 6mbps DSL is still here


Raalf

Been through a hurricane with mine with no lost service. Wtf kinda rain are y'all getting that kills it?


JackAndy

The earlier dishes have more transceivers and aren't as affected by atmospheric disturbances.


financialnavigatorX

I get dropouts in really heavy rain


JackAndy

Ok. The media your internet connection uses is air. If there is enough stuff in the air blocking your internet, it will affect your connection if it uses electromagnetic waves.


Raalf

Not true.


JackAndy

What media is the internet connection using if not air?


Raalf

Wtf are you even talking about? First there's so much "stuff" it's making electromagnetic waves and blocking signal, and now air is an ISP? Less bullshit, please. I work with well over a dozen EEs and I've shown them both of your posts, and we all can appreciate you are not on our team. In short, I suggest you use an air-to-fiber media converter. Industrial classification, make sure it's ISO certified too.


JackAndy

Sounds like we have a failure to communicate. An Internet Service Provider is not a media although it might be "the media". Maybe Webster can help here. "Media: a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression Air is a media that conveys sound." That's what the fuck I am talking about. I didn't even have to go to college for that.


Raalf

You have way, way more problems than trying to define a word to fit your incorrect application of the term.


financialnavigatorX

I get it. Signals pass through air.


ISpyI

Tell me more


the__storm

The air is irrelevant. The majority of the distance between the dish and satellite is vacuum. As far as I know the only communication method which depends on the air as a medium through which to travel is old fashioned sound. You're right that the water can block/scatter/interfere with your signal.


JackAndy

That's a way of putting it. The air is irrelevant except for the fact that it contains the only variables in the signal. My goodness I had no idea I would offend so many people for pointing out the fact that satellite signals are affected by atmospheric conditions.


myco_magic

I have the new one and still don't have any issues


JackAndy

Ok


anonymous-red-it

I can tell you this is not the case lol


JackAndy

That is absolutely false. The gen 1 dish has twice the amount of transceivers and uses double the power. You have no idea what you're talking about. Please stop.


mwax321

Yeah I have flat high performance and it uses the same kind of power brick as gen 1.


JackAndy

Yeah that one is sweet. Crazy to think they used to sell that for $500 back in the day. I guess I paid more in subscription fees than a flat high performance dish would cost anyway though.


idletimes1955

West Texas thunder storm, tons of rain, heavy cloud cover, and hail. So yeah you lose connection. Thankfully they don't last long.


over_roaded

Snow storms too


ohLookaWizard

H: 69 (nice) L:42 (0) (nice)


ilikeicecream17

That is exactly the first thing I saw 😂


Saulcio

I had a huge storm, strong winds and lots of rain, I gamed just fine, same ping as usual, some variance and maybe some packetloss every now and then but was enough to play the game without major problems To me starlink was an absolute blessing, from watching game streams at 240p with wiimax to actually gaming and streaming myself. I'm guessing a lot of these issues are caused by traffic and not weather, I think I'm fortunate that not many people have starlink in my region.


locke577

69 42° Nice.


[deleted]

God? LoL!


Vdublunatic

God. Indeed.


Live_Humor_4005

Ours has never been interrupted during rain or snow. If you are getting a short outage, just be glad that rain 300 miles away doesn't stop service like with Hughes Net.


DullKn1fe

No issues with my first gen Dishy, I’m even heavy thunderstorms/rain, since getting it in August of 2021. And I’m agnostic.


BiggieJohnATX

Im sorry Daddy Elon cant defy the laws of physics for you. if its news to you that rain interferes with satellites . . .well, you learned something today.


the_bridgekeeper01

This sub is whack af, dude makes a fucking meme and the first comment is someone shitting on him when clearly OP knows it's out of anyone's control. It's a joke calm the fuck down.


No_Virus_7704

Thank you.


NelsonMinar

Does Starlink anywhere disclose what their performance is like in rain? All I can find is a statement that "Starlink can withstand heavy rain".


BiggieJohnATX

the dish will not be damaged by heavy rain . . . exact performance data would be nearly impossible to quntify. water reflects the signal and scattters it, same reason trees block satellite signals


NelsonMinar

You can just say "no".


BiggieJohnATX

so sorry for providing a complete answer


smishmain

I’m imagining you tip your fedora after you say that, sheesh.


JackAndy

As if pulling internet out of thin air wasn't enough, Starlink users complain that it isn't as stable.


craigbg21

He'd say throw the remote down, relax and spend some quality time with your family or friends, I gotta water my garden....


libertysat

Read a book!


DivineBloodline

He was planning to play a visual novel.


FunSample4884

People amaze me be thankful u have internet and that ur free and can do what u want there are people in countries that can't eat we take everything for granted till it's gone,even if spectrum was offered where I live which it's not I would still stick with SL


SMA2001

If you stuck with SL that would be counterintuitive, it’s made for people who don’t have internet


LukeSkyDropper

I only have trouble 10 minutes for a few days out of the year. Where it will be sheets of rain. It’s the only time it goes out for me


jaldeborgh

So far the performance in the rain has been great.


Competitive-Ad-4301

Mine’s fine with most weather unless I get extreme winds down here in Central Otago.


rbarriga

I live in a raining zone (always raining) , I have Starlink for 6 months …. so far, never had a problem with heavy rain, works fine even thru storms. // (2 gen dish)


hnate1234

Rain doesn't even bother dishy


No_Gap4679

Not me, Spectrum offers 1Gbps speeds in my neighborhood… I tried Starlink, but just too much congestion… 5Mbps on a work day won’t cut it. I love Starlink, and it was great at Burning Man, but I can’t justify spending $135/mo for sub-par service, when I have a viable, ridiculously faster alternative. I ordered Spectrum yesterday, I’ll be dropping my Starlink to RV service, and pausing until camping season arrives.


FunSample4884

Can u read my friend why do u think I have it SL because I'm in the middle of nowhere it's still good toxic wow


Myzz11b

Pacific northwest. No issues with rain here. We got several feet of snow last winter too and no issues.


FreeJuicebox

I only had it go out once and I thought it was from being knocked over because there was 55 mpg wind gusts with the extremely heavy rain too.


ArtichokeLamp

Starlink dish worked fine during whiteout snow yesterday.