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Starlink Mini as a failover

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Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by lmz »

intrasight wrote: post #10
mynameisvlad wrote: post #4

I also do this. Xfinity went out for a few hours earlier this month and Unifi failed over almost instantly, and within minutes we had high speed internet once I upgraded us. The standby mode would have been plenty for basic web browsing, too. $5/mo for pretty guaranteed connectivity, plus being able to take it around with me on travels is pretty awesome.

What is the role of Unifi here? I read the article and went to their site but I still have no clue.

Most likely to be a router, configured to fail over.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by dazc »

prism56 wrote: post #9
kkapelon wrote: post #8

Using a 4g/5g router is much easier and probably cheaper/power efficient. Depending on your area you don't even need an external one. A simple 4g dongle would do.

Yup, OP is from the UK. In the UK I got a ThreeUK business SIM for £49 that lasted 2 years with 500GB data. It sits in wan failover and manages about 50mbps which is perfect to keep most services running.

Very much location dependent though. I lived less than a mile from Southampton city centre for a while and could never get anything close to dial-up standard download/upload speeds. I've heard similar from London residents.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by prism56 »

dazc wrote: post #14
prism56 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, OP is from the UK. In the UK I got a ThreeUK business SIM for £49 that lasted 2 years with 500GB data. It sits in wan failover and manages about 50mbps which is perfect to keep most services running.

Very much location dependent though. I lived less than a mile from Southampton city centre for a while and could never get anything close to dial-up standard download/upload speeds. I've heard similar from London residents.

Yeah definitely. Where I am the coverage and speeds are decent on most networks.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by bob1029 »

I prefer having a 2nd wired connection as my backup. The satellite connection has some clear benefits, but it's still going to outer space. A DOCSIS failover won't suffer from rain fade or a something landing on the antenna.

If I've got a situation so bad it takes out both of my connections I've probably got bigger things to deal with than internet access.

The buried fiber getting cut by is really the only thing that kills the connection. Fiber can go for a long time without power from the local grid infrastructure. My cable provider has a mostly orthogonal failure mode (goes down like clockwork with the grid).

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by merpkz »

Man, that 500kbit/s is quite generous for that price, can easily be used to access CCTV cameras in remote areas. I currently use LTE for that and it's 10 eur for 15GB data cap per month for that use case
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