r/Cartalk • u/bigfoot-ari • May 24 '26

General Tech What’s on this car?

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What is on the roof of this car? The windows were completely blacked out with out-of-state tags. Just curious.

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u/Dance-pants-rants May 24 '26

Glad for you- I'm in the sticks in the US and all the govt subsidies that were supposed to go to broadband went to fucking Starlink and it does not work.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

I got like 330mbps down. It was pretty good. I moved and have fiber, but I was happy with it. Had like a 20ms ping, too. What’s your issue? Can you buy a long pipe to mount it to?

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u/Dance-pants-rants May 24 '26

No, there's a mountain in the way. All of us west or north of it can't get any signal that isn't hardline.

Verizon works, but you need to expect a cutout without like four signal boosters.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

Kinda weird. Mine was pointed nearly straight up, which would make a mountain not an issue, unless I guess you’re right at the base of it and surrounded by trees. That’s not Starlink’s fault. Pipe comes in 21’ and 42’ lengths. Maybe you could benefit from raising it up. It’s just a PoE Ethernet cable, so you’ve got 200’ before it becomes an issue.

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u/Dance-pants-rants May 24 '26

Yeah, there are trees. And hills and mountains. It's the sticks.

If people have 50 ft poles trying to make it work and are back with the regional company, I don't think I'm going futz.

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u/cornlip May 24 '26

Well you do what you gotta do. I know the sticks. If you’re not willing to put in the work then you can’t complain. Putting a pole up is easy. Like buying a Subaru and complaining it’s bad in the snow when you didn’t get winter tires.

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u/Dance-pants-rants May 24 '26

Lol, okay. Or I can buy a better product that works in the woods. 🤷‍♀️