[Chad C. Mulligan]

HughesNet satellite (I’m on it) is much cheaper.

Is StarLink susceptible to weather the way HugheNet is?

If you’re in snow country, never mount your dish where you can’t easily get to it to brush snow off. A mistake I made.

[HighSierra5]

Yup. I’ve got my broom by the dish which is within reach.

[ealgeone]

had directtv for a while....whenever it was stormy, like tornado stormy, we'd lose the signal just when we needed it the most.

does your satellite internet have the same problems?

[BiglyCommentary]

What about heavy downpours? When its raining cats and dogs my sat tv goes out. That would not be cool for an internet link.

[FreedomPoster]

HughesNet has huge latency issues. StarLink satellites are in much, much lower orbits, so that latency issue, which is a big one, is largely erased.

[faucetman]

“If you’re in snow country, never mount your dish where you can’t easily get to it to brush snow off. A mistake I made.”

This probably won’t help you, but I had my Hughesnet dish mounted to the same poll as my old C band dish. As an unexpected benefit, the C band dish keeps the snow off my Hughesnet dish.

[faucetman]

“If you’re in snow country, never mount your dish where you can’t easily get to it to brush snow off. A mistake I made.”

This probably won’t help you, but I had my Hughesnet dish mounted to the same poll as my old C band dish. As an unexpected benefit, the C band dish keeps the snow off my Hughesnet dish.

“Your Starlink will detect and melt snow that falls directly on it, however accumulating snow around your Starlink may block the field of view. We recommend installing Starlink in a location that avoids snow build-up and other obstructions from blocking the field of view. Heavy rain or wind can also affect your satellite internet connection, potentially leading to slower speeds or a rare outage.”

[Balding_Eagle]

StarLinks dish has a heater which comes on when needed to melt the snow.

It’s also self aligning.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

The sats are 300 miles or so up for starlink and 20K miles out for the other sat guys. Might be KM.

Bottom line, sat signals are like sniper shots. Lot easier to hit a target at 30 yards than at 2000 yards. Weather impact will be proportionally impacted. Also, latency (round trip time) are impacted as well. Light (Radio waves) may sound fast but at these distances there is serious impact. 30 millisecond vs 300 millisecond round trip time means gamers will do one and not the other.

If I wasn’t on fiber not owned by one of the big telcos/cable companies I would be into it big time.