Starlink cuts satellite dish price from $600 to $300 in excess-capacity areas

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rmaine

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Still underperforming here in NW Nevada, but I’m sure they’ll park a couple of birds over us for Elon’s annual trip to the desert.
I suspect that to be mostly intended as sarcasm, but just in case let me note that the orbits of those particular birds don't "park" anywhere. Congestion probably has more to do with the density of ground stations.
 
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rmaine

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I'm not sure what the auto alignment is really good for. Aligning a gen 3 antenna is a 2 minute operation at setup, and doesn't need to be changed after initial setup, according to SpaceX. Simpler really is better here.
And as another poster mentioned, the auto-alignment stuff is extra hardware to have problems with - hardware that's exposed to the weather at that. I'll note that the rather sparse instructions that came with my earlier gen disk were mostly just some diagrams very short on actual words. I suppose that might have been to save the trouble of having multiple language versions of the instructions. I found the diagram unclear in regards to the alignment in that it looked like it was telling me to manually rotate that joint. Good thing I didn't use much force when I tried to do that or I'd probably have broken it.
 
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