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Jesus broke record of speaking to 5000 people without microphone, but Nigerians didn't care about that miracle or record. We only know the record of that he gave them FOOD with 5 loaves and 2 fish.

Congrats bro, but if your record no involve FOOD, sorry, we Nigerians don't want to know.

Snart303:
I ordered my Starlink on 29th and it’s set to be shipped in next 3days can I change my service address ? Because my area isn’t that much developed so I just used to closest landmark on the map as my service address and the distance is about 7-10houses away do I have to change my service address or it would work just fine when I setup my dish?

You won't have problem when setting up I believe. Don't worry

bigrovar:
Tubular Battteries share the same age as AGM, it all depends on how you use them. I tend not to recommend tubular for home or solar use, if you can afford go for AGM. you can charge them faster and discharge them at a higher discharge rate, all this makes them ideal for home and solar application. Tubular have too many point of failures, for one the tubular we get here in Nigeria have electrolyte of douthful quality since the electrolyte are usually mixed and filled here in Nigeria, you can not be sure of the gravity of the mix ratio and the quality of water used.

Then they is the issue of long time idle state, over 3 months in a ship from India and another 2 to 3 months in the shop waiting to be sold. All this means when you get a tubular it is already suffering from partial state of discharge and have issues with sulphation. AGM is less susceptible to above listed problems. The problem with AGM is cost. Good AGM batteries cost close to Lithium.

Thanks a lot.
I've been carrying a false conviction about tubulars over AGM. I've been wondering why senior AGMs cost far more than tubulars yet they tell me tubulars last far longer and are better.

Thanks for opening my eyes.

1MILLIONLiGHTS:
Which means you married him for the money. And it turns out there is no Alimony.......

Alimony will be paid since she's keeping kids.
But will be as desired by Hakimi and mum and not by court.

bigrovar:
I think your usage is fine. How long the battery would last though depends on many factors. The type and quality of the battery is one.

Heat plays a big role especially with lead acid batteries. I do suspect the reason many of our batteries die faster is because of the average ambient temperature. Batteries are designed to operate at 27C which is AC cooled room temperature in Nigeria. Anything above that an the battery start to degrade faster.

How you charge those batteries is also very important. If you want your battery to last, check to ensure they are being charged according to spec. Felicity (last time I used one in 2017) has some flexible charging param which you want to look into and ensure it aligns with battery charge specs which is usually in the label.

I am not a big fan of large parallel banks especially when it is lead acid. It is extremely hard and expensive to wire a parallel battery to ensure every battery in the bank are equaly changed and discharged.

Most times some batteries gets more charge / discharge more than others in the bank creating imbalances which eventually take down the whole bank. The imbalances is from some batteries dying from over charging while others die from being under charged.

If you want to do parallel proper, you need 6 busbar, 3 for the negative side of the battery and 3 for the positive side.

Each of the 2 batteries in series then connect to the busbar using equal length cable. This would consumption a lot of money considering a 35mm² flexible cables is now over 3k per meter. You might spend close to 70k.

In all you should get close to 3 years from them or more so fingers crossed.

Wow. I see there are many things involved in this.

Do tubular batteries truly get you more years more than AGM batteries?

If I've the means I heard I could go lithium install and forget about it for 10-15 yrs, especially if I'm using it like I use these batteries today. True?

Snart303:
Thanks for the explanation as regards the subscription am I also gonna be paying in black market rate?

Yes sir.
But if you or your papa works for CBN, then no.

samir101ng:
Six (6) lead acid 12v batteries of 200ah for a 24v battery system makes it connecting two (2) batteries in series to make 24v with the amp maintained at 200ah. You will get 3 battery banks. Then connecting those battery banks in parallel to increase the amperage to 600ah. That's a massive capacity upgrade for your 24v system. So, key things to note:

1. What type of lead acid batteries do you have ? Tubular or AGM ? This will affect your charging profile and usage to a large extent.

2. What's the charging specifications of the batteries as written by the manufacturer and are you hitting those numbers.

3. Temperature and storage of the batteries affects life span, so where you are keeping your batteries can affect them.

4. Finally, for me the DoD rule your following is very commendable. This is what actually kills lead acid batteries in Nigeria faster than the above mentioned issues i raised.If you can maintain this and your battery is from a reputable brand with good quality control and not those cheap Alaba knockoffs then yes, your batteries can last you that long. @bigbrovar is one of our resident long term user of lead acid batteries and maintained very good DoD for his batteries which made them to last long.

1. It's not the tubular (those tall ones that they add acid) , so I guess it the AGM. Is tubular better and lasts longer? I think I've heard something like that.

2. Don't know the charging specifications. It's charged by a felicity solar charger with solar panels only. It controls the charging voltage/ahms. So I don't know if it gives it something beyond it's specifications.

3. We live practically in a desert só the heat is beyond too much in every room no matter what you do. The ventilation (windows) only let's in hot air like every other room and place in the desert.

4. I don't the brand to be able to tell you. The installer came in from sokoto sha.

I'm sorry I don't have enough details to give you now about it. It's because I'm in Abuja now but will return to my bush next week.

Do you think I can get 5-7 years out of it?

Dishtech:
My brother, the first option you gave can be used if the AC pipe is kept from contact with dust etc. But the second option is no go area because no matter how you filter water can not remove dissolve element that will react with your battery. Distillation and filtration are two different separation techniques which are used for different purposes.

Hi,
Seems you know well about batteries ao pls let me ask you.

I've 6 lead acid batteries of 200ah 12v each I use offgrid. They are connected to use in 24v inverter.

Been using it for 1 year now without nepa or generator but fully solar and it's has never gone off.

Good thing is, it has never gone beyond 20% DoD. During the day it's fully charged. At night I sleep with it at 25.6v and by morning it's still at 25.0v-25.2v. Impressive. That's like over 90% charge before sun charges it again all day.

My question is, being lead acid and never hitting 50% Dod, do you think it can last me 5-7 years? I'm asking coz I was told no matter how you use lead acids, after 2-3 years they'll die or be weak.

Stanley08:
1. Service Address is your house address or the address you out when you were buying it.
2. Router is powered by mains. Nepa / Gen. By a wall socket.
3. It's unclear what the data cap is in Nigeria or if there's one at all however, 1TB Peak hours (7am-11pm) data is more than enough. 11pm - 7am data isn't calculated towards this 1TB as it's off peak data usage.
4. Lol. Every service has it's moments, everything has it's disadvantage. Starlink like DStv doesn't work well when it's raining but still, Starlink is in many ways the best ISP in Nigeria. Bang for buck especially.
5. Yes, charged from the same card you paid with on Starlink website. If you don't have a dollar card, check first post on the first page. Payment is $42.16 per month automatically debited.
6. You can change your service address if you move to a different address, I'm moving soon and will need to do so myself.

Any other questions you have, you can read through the thread, most of those questions have been answered here and on Starlink's website. Cheers!

All your answers are here
https://support.starlink.com/topic?category=64

Hi Snart303, I see this gentleman has helped you answer all your questions. I'll add some clarifications.

1. To get your accurate service address, go to your Google map on your phone with location turned on. Make sure you at the place you want the starlink installed. Find the place on the map and click on the spot. You'll see details about the place. You scroll up and you'll see the PLUS CODE of that location. That's what you'll put in the service address.

2. By AC current and consumes like 20-50w. There are technical ways of running it on DC current but don't think you'll need all that wahala. If not YouTube is your friend.

3. It's completely unlimited in Nigeria.

6. When you buy it comes with residential plan. With this it can only work on your one location. Outside it, it won't work. If you travel, you can be lucky enough to change service address like chairman said, but it's not guaranteed and will take time for starlink to recognise the change. And even if you succeed, when you return to where you were, you may not be able to change back the address to where you were before. Residential isn't for moving around.

If you want to move around easily, you can while being in residential plan sub for portability feature which is extra $10. With that you can move around all Nigeria and in future all continent of Africa without wahala.
Portability is being removed in the USA and may also be removed here too.
So you are left with the next choice which is to change your plan to Roam plan. Here you pay $53 per month (that's what I'm using) and can move anywhere coz roam plan has no service address input. And you can pause for plan any month you don't want to use it. You can do that in residential, coz you must pay every month except you cancel starlink completely.

Attached is example of plus code

Snart303:
Hi I see you know very much about the Starlinks router I don’t know much but I wish to know all that’s needed to be known before I order one if you don’t mind is there a means I can reach you to talk to you? Could he email, iMessage or cell. All I’ve been seeing about this topic are pieces.

What information do you need sir?
You can highlight all of them and I can help you.
The answers will help someone who sees it.

seunpayne:
I think they may still have two or three left. I will find out.

So I have been building WLAN installations for the last 7 years and I think, if performance is important, a wireless uplink solution is a huge disadvantage.

By uplink I mean, imagine your internet connection comes from starlink, that’s your WAN (wide area network). Distributed inside your house is your LAN (Local area network). Now you can handle distribution wirelessly by deploying a WLAN network (wireless LAN).

I’m gonna be a bit technical so please bear with me.

Your starlink and any dualband router made in the last three years would most likely come with gigabit ports which support network speeds of up to 1000Gbps. So within that network you can do a lot of things apart from using the internet without affecting your internet speed. A typical example is when you do a speed test on starlink, one test measures the speed between the router and the internet . The other measures the speed between your device and the router. Finally you can also test between your device and the internet. Theoretically you would find that your results for the third test is most likely to be affected by the result of the second. The reason is because you can’t access the internet faster than your device’s connection to your uplink (router). And that’s why you want a very good uplink device.

Now what about distributing to the rest of the house? Well, if your run a cable from your uplink to another access point/router then you take advantage of the gigabit speeds. So if you test your speed from that device you will get the best speeds because your local connection is way faster than your internet speed.

Consider however, if you were using a 300mbs router for example, and your speed is throttling down to that speed despite the fact that your uplink is 1000gbps.

A better wifi 6 router/access point connected via cable could give you up to 6gbps wirelessly which is why everyone is asking you to get something better.

One last scenario, if your connection to your uplink is wireless however, (wireless extender or wireless mesh) your speeds drop really fast because wifi isn’t as fast a physical connection. In which case, unless you are using really top access points or mesh setups, you’ll basically be experiencing crappy bandwidth on your local network.

My fingers hurt. Shey you sha get the jist?

I got the gist 100% and I feel so humbled that you took time to explain it this way including the various consequences for whatever action taken.

Pls... If you don't mind, can I get your WhatsApp so that I can get more practical advice from you on how to solve my case? I'm in Niger state and the house I want to do it for is in Niger state very far away with no computer/Internet shops around at allll.
I'll be coming to Abuja though this week, that's why I want to know all I will need to buy so that I can get them in Abuja before I return.

You can whatsapp me too on 08 0591 301 85

georgee:
Tx a lot.. It's just the the ground floor (Living room I want to av quality network). This is what I am currently pulling downstairs in the living room with the Starlink Router placed upstairs in my bedroom

Do you think I really need this other router/Starlink Ethernet Adapter or I should just continue enjoying my Starlink as it is

Upstairs in the bedroom... Speed is up to 200Mbps

Downstairs in the living room... 30/40Mbps

That's enough for video streaming and normal Internet usage. I believe that's what you'll be doing downstairs.
You'll need heavy one in your room where I believe you'll be doing your work, heavy streaming or gaming.

I think that's enough.

seunpayne:
A store in Abuja was doing clearance sales. 80k. Bought 4 immediately. The other 3 were for the office though.

Chineke!
Must have finished now.

Omo, I need a solution to extend starlink all the house. It's a very big house horizontally speaking. Like 90-100 meters. Plus plenty rooms and walls. Chai.

If you know wifi well do you know any wireless solution (I don't want to wire house) I can use to get it work all that huge space with walls.
If possible extend further to another building 20m from it too.

Or if you know am expert too u can link to me

seunpayne:
Finally settled for Linksys MR9600

Where did you buy it?

dustmalik:
Hello,

Thank you for your response. It's okay, bro.

Regarding the PM, Nairaland sends you a email letting you know that someone wants to communicate with you. To consent, you will need to reply the mail, that would allow the person have your email address, so that establishes a line of communication between the two of you.

Regarding the IPTV issue, in March I got a 6 months plan with this iptv server http://line.powerdino.com:80. It has 16,000 Channels, 48,000 movies and 12,000 series.
But it wasn't performing well, even with my 5G connection which gives me constant 600Mbps. That made me believe the IPTV is bad. But since yours is working fine, so I wanted to get the one you got, and that was why I asked for your server address, getting it would assist the IPTV guy in knowing which is yours, so that I can get same from him.

So, yesterday, I wanted to get two more accounts for my other devices, so he ended up giving me the same IPTV service he gave me last month. His excuse is that, he is not sure of the one he gave you, that's the reason I wanted to get as much info about your own IPTV. It seems he has several of them, so he is not sure of the particular one he gave you.

I know yours has over 19,000 channels, 60,000 movies and 18,000 series. If there is any more info you can give me regarding yours, of course, apart from your username and password, that would assist him narrow it down, I would really appreciate it.

Please do reply my email. That way, I can send you my number and we can chat on Whatsapp and share screenshot of the IPTV channels category.
Thank you 🙏

Just whatsapp me 0 8 0 5 9 1301 85

dustmalik:
Hello ask4bk,

I sent you a PM, but i haven't gotten any response yet.

I just wanted clarification from you so that i can resolve a pending issue with the IPTV guy.

Please assist with the server address of your IPTV, i am not asking for username or password, just the server address.

For instance, this is the one for the iptv i use http://line.powerdino.com:80

Please this is very urgent. Thank you.

Hi, sorry. I saw a mail that you want to pm me, but have no idea how to see the message you sent me or how to reply. Don't understand Nairaland message system. You can help me understand it for future purposes.

My server address is line.ottcst.com

What problem do you have? Mine is working fine. I tried another server address with something like twoop in it, and was same as my own. Or rather offered same channels as mine.

aby4real:
It's important you note that if you get the Residential, when it cuts you off, joining again will be based on availability in your area, except you there's capacity in a place near you. But if you are looking at getting it for Backup, you can consider the Roam.

Subscribe to Residential if:

You need the fastest connection possible (e.g., for data-intensive work like video editing)
You rarely travel and mostly stay at your registered service address
You want what can essentially be defined as unlimited data (as RV customers cannot purchase Priority Access)

Subscribe to Roam/RV if:

You need a reliable connection outside of your home address
You want to access the internet while in motion
You need to pause your subscription
You plan to travel abroad and take your hardware with you (RV works on boats, for example)
You don’t need consistent access to high-speed (!) internet
You are comfortable paying up to $150 per month
You need access to a functioning internet connection immediately (since there’s no waitlist for Roam users)

I use roam here in Niger state. I get 260mbps in my bush.
Roam gets full speed. They only reduce it when the area is full and then they give priority to residentials and reduce our own.
If that doesn't happen, we get full speed always at peak hours

georgee:
I ordered yesterday 2nd April and it will be delivered tomorrow 4th April

I ordered for someone in Niger state far away Kontagora. He got it after 4 days. Omo, it surprised me.

No oh..
Why not give all top 10 political positions to the North.
They deserve it.

We southerners are just gala wrapper. In fact, we don't even exist.

Take everything and rule yourself.

While you are at it, make sure they are Muslims, you hear?

Dshocker:
Heard she got pregnant for an African President

As you've not confirmed it, why share it further?
Amebo is not a good thing because you won't want people spreading Amebo on your head even if its true.

Kilometres:
Debris and Human waste cannot pile up...it is an artificial beach.

More like a large swimming pool... you can't have debris in a swimming pool

You also don't have sand in swimming pool.
Natural beach gets its trillion kilos of sands changed from time to time naturally via waves.

That sand in the artificial beach will pile up waste since it won't be constantly moved, cleansed and changed by nature.

Its far from swimming pool

Nice but you can't copy nature.
It'll deteriorate when debris and human wastes pile up over time.

Mightyify:
No dey suffer yourself with stressful free IPTV...our service is affordable and reliable...it doesn't stop working...all free IPTV will be blocked. E get wetin person dey big pass. Try our service free for 24hrs

visit: twooneiptvDotCom

Its not free. I paid for it and its been tested for years.
Why must I use your own to be a big boy? See oh!

NaijaMemes:
I don't even know the hype against the latest antman movie.


The movie is typical B-list marvel movie. A typical antman movie.

Did people actually expect to see a serious version of Kang?

A serious Kang can only appear in an A-list Marvel movie.

Eyaa, they surprised you abi. The used the most feared kang (the conqueror) in the antman you termed B-list. The fact he didn't die means he may be the last kang Avengers will have to face in kang dynasty after they've defeated all other top Kangs.
All the Kangs fear the conqueror and that's why they exiled him.

Don't underestimate the MCU

ibawon:
Under how many minutes did it take Boss?@

My pc has no 5ghz WiFi, so it connected via 2.4ghz. It downloaded with between 1-4MB per second (not megabits).
I can't say how long cos I left the pc for a long while came and it finished.

Using my tablet that connects with 5 ghz, I have downloaded torrents with speed 7-12MB per sec (not megabits). I believe with a good seeded torrent it can get to 24MB or over 200mbps.
Torrent speeds can vary a lot due to many factors and not necessarily your b Internet speed

Jaytee123jay:
Hey guys, I just placed an order for starlink and I was only debited $42 and nothing is being said about the $600, will I be debited later?
My invoice just indicate payment as preorder

That's the normal procedure. After some weeks when your device is ready they'll send u email to pay the rest. If u miss the email, they refund u your money

luvlyoracle:
speed tests results pls for ur location

This varies from time to time you know.
Just did a test now and it gave down 224mbps and up 14.7 mbps.
Niger state near Benin République.

Stanley08:
Lol I've not seen anything like that. Also, i don't think Starlink downloads torrents well

Downloaded 6gb of java programming course from torrent last night with it

dustmalik:
Thank you. Please how many channels do you have?

Channels - only 19349
Movies - only 67989
Tv shows - only 18901

FelixFelicis:
When I click the residential, it asks me to pre-order, it's not asking me to pay the full price. It says service will expand to my area in 2023, you understand that? I thought that was the reason you got RV instead of residential, cos residential service isn't available yet in your area?

Now I get you. You put your GPS location to your home in ogun state and it tells you its not available in your area? In Nigeria? That's weird.

But normally, when you pay you don't pay full yet. You only pay 43usd and after some weeks u get a mail telling you your starlink is ready and that you should pay remaining money

dustmalik:
Can you confirm that the IPTV you are using has this server address http://line.powerdino.com:80 ?

Nah. Line.Ottcst.com

FelixFelicis:
Starlink residential says it would be available sometime in 2023 when I entered my service address, which is somewhere in Ogun state. Should I wait or is getting the Starlink RV an okay option? I think the RV monthly plan is $10 more expensive than the Residential plan but asides that can I later change the RV plan to Residential plan? Thanks

Residential will work in your place without any problem as long as you in Nigeria.
Advantage of RV is that you can take it anywhere in Nigeria and it will work. Not so for residential.
I use RV Service and pay 53usd.

If its for ur house alone get the residential