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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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NJSS wrote:There's always StarLink.
I have a few friends who are delighted with it.
Negotiate & you can get a discount on the hardware.
https://www.starlink.com/residential
Just a shame Musk had to throw thousands of satellites in to LEO to make the system. Saw a stream of them t'other night. I can see why astronomers don't like them...  Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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 30th Jan 2024 6:23 pm |
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Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Leafy Cheshire
Posts: 7659
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Good luck with Starlink when it rains.  An ex-Disco3 / FFRR / I-Pace owner ......
..... now pootling around in a Porker EV.
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| 30th Jan 2024 7:06 pm |
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Worms
Member Since: 24 Sep 2023
Location: Highlands
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highlands wrote:Just checked and was going to say that there's not 5G coverage within c.50 miles (as the crow/signal flies) but on checking EE was very surprised to see they have 5G in Kyle of Lochalsh and Fort Augustus! 
I'm guessing BUTEC might explain the signal in Kyle, but unless the MoD are also Nessie hunting, it doesn't quite explain Fort Augustus! You may have seen that there were applications for masts at Killilan, Corran and above Cluanie as part of the "shared rural network" which aims to get coverage into the really remote spots in the hills, but I'm not sure that they will be much use in getting signal down to you or to the populated fringes of the sea lochs. Previously:
2010 FL2 TD4e GS
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW - still got this, non-runner on SORN.
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel
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| 30th Jan 2024 8:14 pm |
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highlands
Member Since: 10 Jan 2010
Location: NW Highlands
Posts: 5107
 
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I wonder if the Sheikh is funding Killilan?
There was no coverage on any of the networks when I was there in the summer.
Do wonder how they'd do the backhaul from there and Corran.
Glenelg is still languishing with c.500kbps on BT when the community run mesh is out of action, which is was most of last week.
I think Cluanie has okay 4G coverage. Fairly sure the fibre run is straight down the A87 at that point.
We're on 4G with a couple of networks and I've got Gigabit Openreach at home so all good on that front.
Still lose mobile coverage on the way to Kyle and up the glen though. Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
Grey 05 TDV6 HSE Auto (Gone)
54 TDV6 SE Man (killed by me  )
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| 30th Jan 2024 8:59 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14483
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I was told I could take it off when I got my Defender  .
Let me know if any D4 owners need my tin hat .  D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 31st Jan 2024 9:55 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13606
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HWN wrote:RRSTDV8 wrote:NJSS wrote:There's always StarLink.
I have a few friends who are delighted with it.
Negotiate & you can get a discount on the hardware.
https://www.starlink.com/residential
Just a shame Musk had to throw thousands of satellites in to LEO to make the system. Saw a stream of them t'other night. I can see why astronomers don't like them...
The newer versions are supposedly better and the trains of them are visible after they first launch. After that, they navigate to their final orbits. There are more than 6,000 up there now, with Amazon and the Chinese government intent on doing similar.
Tracking them all to ensure safe launch to orbit for other stuff will get ever trickier.
Yes, each of them is pretty small and the "shell" of orbit that they sit in is very big (~2.1x10^8 sq miles at IIS altitude, for example), but it does feel like we're taking several steps at a time towards the Kessler Syndrome. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 31st Jan 2024 10:26 am |
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