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Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by appleiigs »

yhager wrote: post #203
freedomben wrote: post #73

I'm using Starlink right now. AMA. I'm in East Idaho. Currently my dish angles itself to the north. It rarely moves itself north/south, and slightly moves east/west throughout the day. I've read that right now it locks onto a single satellite, although they're adding multi-satellite support later. My speeds are inconsistent, and interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) but after a couple seconds they'll get to…

Have you been using ssh at all? How's that experience? That's my main use case. How about video/audio calls? does Wi-Fi calling work well?

I’m on MS Teams video calls a lot. It’s fine for speed, except sometimes the connection drops for a minute. I assume because a satellite is not overhead at that time. Supposed to improve as more satellites are sent up.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by walrus01 »

hattmall wrote: post #280
rubatuga wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We lease IPv4 /24 and IPv6 /48 blocks from a reputable IP address broker, check it against spam blacklists, and finally announce the clean IP addresses at a datacenter of our choice. We are not tied down to any hosting company. We tested a datacenter failover scenario and switched the BGP route from Chicago to Toronto, while a YouTube video was playing, and it didn't even stutter!

Do streaming services work? Anyway to make the IP appear residential?

google 'residential proxies for sale' if you really want to do this, the big content sources are getting pretty good at distinguishing between last mile ISP blocks of dhcp customers and IP blocks that are announced in a colocation/datacenter environment.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by walrus01 »

ytjohn wrote: post #210
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #166

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Besides Starlink, I'm curious to hear more about your Protectli. Why do you like it so much? What can it do, that you can't do on your own computer with some scripting and such?

Not OP, but the Protectli is just hardware and you install your own OS. So it is running your own computer with "scripting and such", just a separate low-power, small footprint computer with dual NICs. This is good for managing network for your entire house/office/remote site. I've got some PC-based firewalls like the Protecli. Mini-ITX, atom-based, 8gb ram. I can often find these for I recently setup 3 of these for…

> VyOS is debian arm based

not to quibble too much but I think the bulk of vyos development takes place on x86-64 and the standard build-your-own-install ISO guide is for x86-64. Though it certainly can be compiled for various types of arm CPU.

this is because if you want things like eight or ten 10GbE interfaces, or eight 10GbE and four 100GbE in one server, the only economically viable and fully stable platform for vyos right now is x86-64.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by bogomipz »

It's interesting that the post and at least one comment has mentioned intermittent outages. I understand that this is a beta product however can anyone speculate what might be the cause? Is it because there's no yet enough satellites in the constellation or is it that the rotation of the constellation is still be tuned or something else?

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by walrus01 »

tw04 wrote: post #24
tyingq wrote: post #3

Aside: The router design is as impractical as it is futuristic. The thing would fall over if you looked at it sideways, and the solitary LED on the front was hard to see unless in a dark room or looking closely, straight at it. Hopefully a 2nd iteration will be better! Wow, he's right about the shape of the router. It also looks like it forces the ethernet cable in front if you want to be able to see the LED, and the…

>Wow, he's right about the shape of the router. It also looks like it forces the ethernet cable in front if you want to be able to see the LED, and the cable itself is pointed downward: https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/8430831598574092393.jpg I'm not sure the image you link is a fair representation of the router. The one he actually shows is SIGNFICANTLY shorter/smaller/wider and honestly while it's similar it's a diff…

I have one and it's really light weight and prone to tipping over, it was only used for five minutes during the initial setup. Based on some people who found the serial pins and watched its booloader it's based on a customized openwrt, the circuit board is pretty basic.

there's some good shots in here of the router removed from its enclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObCTB8ol3Ng

it doesn't seem much more complicated to me than the PCB of something like a mikrotik hap ac2 ($65), based on simplicity I'd say it's like a $40-50 router BOM, max.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by m4rtink »

Scoundreller wrote: post #135
house9-2 wrote: post #79

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> 100/16 Mbps is pretty decent I guess Its fantastic, can't wait until this is available where I live. Currently paying $200+ a month for 20Mbps from local wireless company. 2 miles North from here there is AT&T fiber and Comcast available, 5 miles South there is Comcast (150Mbps) but I'm in a small community of homes where only options are satellite or fixed wireless.

Make friends with someone on fibre 2mi away with an old TV tower or at the top of a hill. Set up your own link.

Yeah, that's how we got most of our Internet access here in Czech Republic, starting ~2005. The monopolistic telecom company was totally incompetent so people banded together, bough some upstream connectivity and the connected themselves to that link via wireless point to point links using commodity WiFi hardware with directional antennas.

Since them most of these networks are still in place, now in the 100 mbit/gbit territory. And while most turned into commercial volcanoes over time, there are still some that work as community organizations to this day.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by mvanbaak »

glitchcrab wrote: post #261
teh_klev wrote: post #126

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> interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) For many of us that's reasonably fast ;). In the UK, FTTC provided over POTS (often BT or some form of unbundle), the top end is 80Mbs/20Mbs. I don't know what you'd expect with cable provisioned areas supplied by the likes of Virgin (DOCSIS).

FTTH seems to be fairly prevalent in new builds in the UK now; my house is 5 years old and FTTH is the only option here. This does rather limit your ISP choices somewhat, but you can get pretty decent speeds. BT upgraded me to 950/140 just last week.

FTTH with asynchronous speeds? Thats bullshit. The only reason for that is that they use cable or dsl somewhere in the path from you into their core network

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by foerbert »

jjeaff wrote: post #265
foerbert wrote: post #246

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Well, particularly in the current situation where masks somehow became a political hill to die on, I think you are underselling the matter some. It's a bit difficult to feel all that neighborly or friendly with people adamant that they won't even wear a mask to help protect your own health. And all the topics listed - religion, political affiliation, guns - are all infamous for causing strife. Even the most tolerant…

While anti-maskers are definitely more likely to be politically right, due to weird behavior of the last administration, the reality is, the majority of Americans are fine wearing masks in public. Polling i have seen showed 75%+ were fine with masks.

I think that likely shows the problem, rather than anything else.

(I'm going to assume you mean that number nationwide)

75%, or roughly so, nationwide would be one thing if it was evenly distributed. But as you noted, the issue is tied to politics (I think more than you imply, but doesn't matter). We also know political affiliation is not evenly distributed.

So, a number like 75% mask compliance makes it possible, and frankly very likely, that there are areas with substantially lower rates.

Re: Setting up Starlink

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Post by dominotw »

stochastician wrote: post #87
freedomben wrote: post #73

I'm using Starlink right now. AMA. I'm in East Idaho. Currently my dish angles itself to the north. It rarely moves itself north/south, and slightly moves east/west throughout the day. I've read that right now it locks onto a single satellite, although they're adding multi-satellite support later. My speeds are inconsistent, and interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps) but after a couple seconds they'll get to…

This is OT but can you share a little bit more about what it's like living in East Idaho? I grew up in Boise and now live in Chicago but with the way things have been going lately I've been considering moving back, and there's a real appeal to living in a smaller town in the eastern part of the state (my dad was from Twin Falls). Internet access is always a bit of a concern though, which maybe Starlink ameliorates? S…

> live in Chicago but with the way things have been going lately I've been considering moving back,

I live in chicago( south loop/pilsen ) too. What has been going on lately that is making you consider the move?

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