This is a temporary setup. I knew we had bad winter storms coming this weekend, so I wanted to get something setup ASAP. Weighted the table legs (as it’s flipped in high winds before), and also weighted the Starlink tripod. Hopefully it holds up.

Posting speed tests prior during and after the heaviest part of the storm thus far. Definite service degradation at peak. We had about 40-50mph wind gusts, and got about 3” in an hour or so. Snow built up on the dish at first when it was blowing in hard. Starlink app showed “Poor Connection”, latency went up, and speed dropped to around 30Mbps. As time went on, snow started melting off the dish, and speeds got better.

At this point, it’s snowing lightly, with way less wind, and things are pretty well back to “normal”. Snow is entirely melted form the dish.

Also, I have a partially obstructed view as well. Some trees, power lines, and poles in the way. Generally, I show a “Good Connection” via the app, but ping is higher than what many are posting, and speeds are fairly sporadic as is. I suspect will be much better with a roof mount. I’d like to do the ridgeline, but am concerned how it will hold up with the winds we can get here in MT.
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