Perhaps a bit of a strange title for this post but when I recently went to the countryside for a long weekend, I took my Starlink Mini along, just in case. And well, I’m happy I brought it along for the ride.
Continued from part 2: With the truly ‘mobile’ Starlink Mini, I set off with my bicycle and also with a car a few days later to try out satellite Internet connectivity in a number of different places. Particularly, I was interested in how obstructions impact connectivity. Like for the big dish, the connectivity equation is … Continue reading Starlink Mini – Part 3 – Performance and Obstruction
Continued from part 1… Once having made the decision to order a Starlink Mini, it only took a few days to be delivered. And indeed it is very small and portable compared to the previous hardware and can easily be carried in a small backpack. Part 1 has an image of the Mini on my … Continue reading Starlink Mini – Part 2 – Power and Performance
This summer, Starlink launched another hardware iteration of their terminals, the Starlink Mini. I have to admit that I only stumbled over it by accident, but I was immediately intrigued because it is significantly smaller than the Starlink terminal I tested in 2023.
And further I went into ‘terra incognita’ with Starlink, this time to a place which was quite challenging in terms of terrain. But again, looking at the bright side of it, it was the first time I had to experiment for a while to find a good spot to place ‘Dishy’.
In the previous post, I had a look at the 5 GHz Wi-Fi of the Starlink router at close range for maximum throughput. In this post, I’ll have a look at the completely opposite scenario: How Starlink’s Wi-Fi performs when used to bridge a larger distance. This wasn’t actually a theoretical test, but the scenario … Continue reading Starlink – Part 13 – Local Wi-Fi on 2.4 GHz
Out of the box, a Starlink terminal comes with the satellite dish, affectionately called ‘Dishy’, and a Wi-Fi Router. As an Ethernet port is not part of the package and has to be ordered separately, Wi-Fi is the only default connectivity option. So how does that Wi-Fi Access Point perform?
How much of the sky can be obstructed for Starlink to still work without connectivity breaks (in Germany)? This has been one of the most important questions I had about Starlink before I could try it out on my own. Here’s an image that shows an obstruction diagram, which the Starlink app on a smartphone … Continue reading Starlink – Part 11 – Obstruction Diagram
Part 8 of this series took a closer look at the downlink performance of two Windows 11 based machines over Starlink. This episode now takes a closer look at the uplink. Before I go on, let’s set expectations: As was shown in part 5 and 6, there is a significant difference in uplink performance on … Continue reading Starlink – Part 10 – Windows over Starlink – Uplink Performance
In part 8 of my Starlink series, I’ve been looking at downlink throughput with a Windows notebook. The maximum speed I could achieve with iperf3 was around 30 Mbps, while tools like speedtest.net and LibreSpeed could easily reach 150 to 200 Mbps. So what’s the difference and which speed test reflects real world use?