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Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
- notorandit 1y agoDone
- auggierose 1y agoI like the Bladerunner reference in your about.
- t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y agosame
- Joel_Mckay 1y agoYeah, but the Blade Runner Replicants lived longer than most FANG coders churn positions. One of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. =3
- auggierose 1y agoTHE best.
- 152334H 1y agowhat's supposed to be inferred from the link? I only see the homepage.
- merlincorey 1y agoWas the website the only thing down? This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/ https://starlinkstatus.space/
- mlyle 1y agoThe funny thing with the community status page is that stations can't report they're down when they're down :P There's big holes in individual stations' history and it looks normal. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/ paints a different picture Perhaps due to geomagnetic storms, though stronger ones have not caused outages. Possibly just because.
- thallium205 1y agoLooks like they restored service.
- Joel_Mckay 1y agoThe solar flares in the 11-year cycle are at their peak activity. There will be random outages for any space based equipment for awhile. =3
- WJW 1y agoSolar flares are not anywhere near their peak. The NOAA indicates the peak activity was actually in August 2024 with a total of ~245 "flux units". Activity for this month is predicted to be only around 167 units, so almost a full third down from the peak. Total numbers of sunspots is also down dramatically from their peak in August 2024. See the graphs of https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression for more info.
- Joel_Mckay 1y agoIndeed, we can't know the maxima for sure until passing through the entire peak prediction model period. The expectation of sun spot frequency and intensity only alluded to the average behavior rather than what we have partially observed in cycle 25 so far. Have fun =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25
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- throwaway019254 1y agoNot sure if sarcasm or flame bait.
- rowanG077 1y agoI don't think it's either? Internet outages are relatively common. I wouldn't want my pacemaker or ventilator to just stop working if there is an internet outage for example. So I agree with them, for anything important(or rather extremely high availability) you don't depend on the internet.
- b112 1y agoI was curious if any aspect of local hospitals, required the internet to validate licenses, for example. I wouldn't be surprised if stupidly, something important did.
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- bad_haircut72 1y agoNot a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
- paganel 1y agoThey should always have had a second, back-up option, because relying on such a brittle a thing as satellite comms when fighting a military power like Russia was bound to have issues.
- jwr 1y agoI'm pretty sure they know that. Especially as Starlink is brittle mostly because of its (rather disgusting at this point) founder figure and his ramblings. But this is armchair advice: what other options do they have and how do you fund them? (most of Starlink for the Ukrainian army is being paid for by Poland)
- bamboozled 1y agoEutelsat OneWeb, I believe I read that it's already been deployed Ukraine. I might be wrong but I think I heard it on "Ukraine, the latest" podcast.
- inemesitaffia 1y agoGo look up how much it costs
- bamboozled 1y agoYou think Ukraine is paying full price?
- buyucu 1y agoEverything I heard about Starlink indicates that it's very fickle and unreliable.
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- Gasp0de 1y agoThe propaganda machine is called X and he bought it to brainwash people, so don't feel to bad about it. Good that you realized!
- Hikikomori 1y agoJust an awkward hand movement.
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- mrweasel 1y agoReally, everyone I've talked to has loved it. Granted they've all either live or work in remote areas where it has completely changed their lives. Those who live in remote areas can now actually work from home reliably and those who work on ships or in remote parts of world can now call home daily. It's probably down to your expectations. Starlink won't replace a fiber connection, but if you only have a satellite connection or dial up, I can't see it being anything other than an improvement. One concern I do have is if Starlink is down, there aren't really any backup. On the other hand I also only have one fiber connection at home. It's just that I could get a COAX hookup by tomorrow.
- madaxe_again 1y agoI use starlink and find it fast and reliable - far more reliable than any cabled connection I ever had elsewhere, and faster than the fibre that’s available around me, which is contended to hell and back. Yes, it’s gigabit in theory, but in practice you get 20Mb/s, and any time there’s a power outage, which is often, it’s down.
- sidcool 1y agoThey don't have a status page?
- stanac 1y ago(Unrelated to main topic) Why is number of dead comments so high here? Do bots search for keywords that may increase views like "starlink" or something?
- euLh7SM5HDFY 1y agoI choose to believe HN flame wars are still 100% organic. It is "just" immigration from Reddit. Ars Technica also has more trolls in comments under any Musk related topics.
- croisillon 1y agoit's just 2 users, no?
- stanac 1y agoYou are right, 5 comments by 2 new users. But looking at "Why We Spiral", which has a similar number of comments, it has a single dead comment by an older account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240146
- duxup 1y agoI see just 2 users with dead comments at the moment, one of them (a brand new account) just spammed a bunch of posts.
- crossroadsguy 1y agoNextDNS gaming category filter blocks starlink.com. Bizarre.
- 6510 1y agoI would have thought one could design such thing without a single point of failure.