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Treminari Huet

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Can skip this part but... I'm aware Secondlife is said not to be compatible with satellite internet but there is a difference in the technology in Starlink in that its using low orbit satellites to get faster responses, and they say you will even be able to game on it, so I was wondering if its viable for Secondlife. My wired primary ISP where I am has pretty egregious behavior towards their customers they falsely advertise their capabilities and you will be lucky if you even get connected at 10% the advertised you signed up for, on top of that they throttle it, they've also bullied most the competent ISPs out of the area as well with their lawyers,and claim their bankrupt when ever the gov comes down on them and hide their money, I'd name em but don't wanna get sued, on a normal day of just modding or tinkering on my home parcel I can see pings like 80ms, but that's assuming I'm doing little, any Social activity and pings regularly become pegged between 4000-8000ms and I need to relog to get assets to load as the viewer literally seems to download until it times out, Breaking many of the avatars around me. There's been some changes in my situation and some new ISPs so it's time to shop around again.

 

With that said and some context to the situation I'm pretty desperate to leave my ISP.

 

Looking about would hate to revive an old topic not specific to Starlink and would rather talk about it specifically. I saw some alarming descriptions of how it performs with SL ping stuck at 1000ms and a use of a VPN actually lowering the ping for a user, indicating it performs well, but only if you hide what your doing. However I also don't see much chatter about it meaning its not drawing a lot of attention either suggesting the issue might be unique to that user. I have to ask are there any other Starlink users here? if so please tell me about your experience with it, is this an exception to the no satellite internet rule? or is that issue described the norm. Is Secondlife usable on Starlink? good bad? whats the Pros, Cons and catches, Just looking for Direct user experience of Starlink users who have used or attempted to use SL with it.

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Ceka Cianci

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2 hours ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

I don't think anyone has tried.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079575679/spacex-40-starlink-satellites-destroyed

 

I was watching that video and noticed each one of those streams behind the satellite were  the same pattern.. even on the sticky they look the same..

I just thought , how odd.. hehehe

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Treminari Huet

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13 hours ago, Patch Linden said:

Sitting here on Starlink -right now- and in Second Life....

Oh wow thanks, this is what I been looking for,  someone to say whether or not their using it successfully, and from one of the lindens using it nonetheless someone that uses it for their work and depends on it for SL, Great! further input is still welcome here still think further documentation on starlink use with the service would be useful as its a near global ISP and someone almost anywhere can benefit, but wanted to put out feelers about this first since the information I did have was negative but spotty at best. This helps clear it up some.

 

Personally this stops me from having to throw it at the wall and try them all out at once in some twisted battle of epic fail where I'm trying to find the lesser of the awful, I've seen speedtests where users are reporting 200mbps making this an enticing option, but until now I haden't seen a positive posting on SL+Starlink(or much of any posting for that matter). Still though 22mbps is 7-22x faster than what I'm leaving behind, and sounds both fast enough for stable use and reasonable. Maybe its good enough that upgrading to premium plus shortly after getting it will be worth it. Still got a few rough weeks between now and then when can upgrade, but now I'm looking forward to it rather than cringing.

 

Can skip this but... In my area for Internet aside from starlink, we got a cable provider that says we can service your area, but then goes back on that and says nevermind your outside our area, we got a DSL Provider that advertises 25mbps, connects you at 3 and then throttles it on top of that and if you say anything about them your connection starts randomly dropping out completely, we got a few 3g/4g home internet providers all saying 5g except for there and in order to get it you have to speak to the representative that knows about the specific service, and some strange radio antenna one at 50mbps that people tend to retreat too around here and its so congested your lucky if it ever goes over 3, and then we got a fiber provider that keeps bringing up engineering issues you have to raise a solution for, but when it comes time to put in the work they immediately forget all the arrangements you made to make it feasible and hand it off to a phone service operator that calls you and tells you our engineers said we cant do it and doesn't bother to leave the person they have call you an explanation so there's no resolution but to give up after wasting a lot of time and money getting them to your door.

 

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Paul Hexem,Rowan Amore,Silent Mistwalker

Yes, these are some of the things amongst another that Prompted me to Ask

 

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Just peeked back here again to see if there was anymore posts and glanced at the video again and looked closer and gotta say ceka I agree that video link does look incredibly doctored, its almost like a particle effect with no randomness and a very rigid instruction with no variables, on the thumbnail you can count the plumes back and name the shapes of each little puff of fireball/debris and see each in the same order now we just need some conspiracy nut to say it proves simulation theory hahaha.(my belief is its impossible to prove or disprove cause if anything is like the matrix theres no way to even prove the layer above even has comparable rules to the layer below)those fireballs though....

 

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Can't see why it wouldn't work if you have a good, non-interrupted Starlink connection. 

It's all latency and working well Starlink provides a suitably low-latency internet connection, on par with most other wireless broadband products.  It does seem to be quite sensitive though, I don't have it but have been following other peoples experience of it and it does seem like some struggle to get an uninterrupted view of the sky, it can be easily blocked by trees etc.

There's also an issue of cell congestion in the USA but it doesn't apply everywhere and even where it does isn't so much of a latency issue but overall bandwidth issue, shouldn't affect SL too much if at all.

 

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I remember when we were looking at satellite internet and comparing things.. The reason we didn't go with satellite was, We were told that the upload was much lower and would run into problems because of that..

We switched from AT&T to this other brand called spectrum.. We ended up leaving them and back to AT&T because the upload was so weak that we couldn't stay connected to anything..

We had really better download speed than AT&T, but the upload was all over the place..

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