Be aware of rain fade.
Unit is only rated to operate up to 50 C
Hail impact protection for antenna ?
Starlink Mini as a failover
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I agree. As much as Starlink is a technological miracle, the fact that I should finance the dealings of this man is too much. SpaceX IPO is the next in the long grift chain.
Starlink amazing solution to a problem that should have been solved by governments years ago, the USA has power to most homes and USPS will deliver anywhere so why do we not have the same for internet? God knows
Starlink is an amazing solution to the problem of "How do I keep my orbital transport business somewhat liquid" which isn't really the kind of problem governments are meant to resolve.
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Elon Musk is far from the nicest person in the world and there are many fair reasons to dislike him but he wasn't in "the Epstein list" (whatever that is), he was pictured with a number of other tech CEOs at a dinner with Epstein, who was a wealthy financier.
I don't normally engage with comments like this as I assume there's no hope for someone who may be so willfully blind to the facts. My comment is more for those who might read what you wrote and accept it as truth. I believe the previous commenter was referring to Musk's emails with Epstein, many of which were released by the DOJ Jan. 30th earlier this year. On Nov 25, 2012, Musk asked Epstein "What day/night will be…
Ignoring your incredibly obnoxious (and a smidge smug) "You're too far gone!" routine, I've read the E-Mails. Epstein and Co. didn't like him so much they awkwardly lied about winding the "operation" down when he asked about visiting once - I highly doubt they'd let him into "those" parts of the parties even if he begged on his knees.
Re: Starlink Mini as a failover
#166I have a GL.iNet travel router. When I am not travel, it connects to the router's second WAN port. If my main internet goes down, it takes me 30 seconds to tether my phone and failover manually. My carrier detects and throttles hotspot traffic by measuring packets TTL, so I tweaks the router's iptables to dodge that. Typically I get over 400 Mbps. From time to time I get the itch to improve my home network uptime, an…
Out of curiosity what carrier are you using?
Pulled the thread on this a bit and it seems that it will be highly carrier-dependent and will likely be flakey if it works at all.
TTL is one of the simplest methods carriers use to detect if there's an extra hop but very unlikely to be their only line of defense against methods like this.
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I have a second fiber connection and found out recently that both fibers come along the same route and when a fire took out a utility pole, I lost both connections. I then found out that all providers bar one (there are 5 or 6) come along the same street. So if you are going to go with this option choose carefully your providers!
This entirely. “I like docsis”… cool, it turns to fiber 500ft after your house.
I dumped DOCSIS the moment fiber became available. With cable, I'd go through periods of 1% to 3% packet loss. It also affected the neighbors, so it wasn't my "old modem" as the tech once tried to claim. When it was at its worst, I saw my upstream bandwidth drop below 100kbits/sec due to all the TCP retransmissions.
Eventually they admitted it was an "outside plant" issue and beyond the responsibility of the home techs. It took months to finally get it fixed. Who knew if it was actually fixed, or it was just a fluke, since the problems would come and go.
Even when it worked, upstream was capped at 30 megabits/sec, which was pretty painful for large uploads.
Fiber has none of these problems.
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When here is local power outage and everyone switches to 4g/5g, it is overwhelmed and unusable.
Again this is location specific. I have a mini ups on my router/ont. And I assume that my provider also has a UPS, because even when power is out my landline connection just works.
Cable and fiber providers typically have 24 hours of battery backup in their repeaters/concentrators but no more. Most 4g/5g stations have similar backup capacity, with only a few (that will be overwhelmed) located on big enough buildings to have standby generators.
So starlink backup is still interesting if your region occasionally has outages that last more than 24 hours.
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Yeah but if you need Internet failover, cell phone towers are likely flooded. Starlink will be much more available (probably).
This too depends on which POP/ground station you're landing at. Maybe less so once the majority of starling satellites are capable of laser communications to route your traffic down to a less saturated ground station.
The vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.
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Starlink amazing solution to a problem that should have been solved by governments years ago, the USA has power to most homes and USPS will deliver anywhere so why do we not have the same for internet? God knows
Starlink is an amazing solution to the problem of "How do I keep my orbital transport business somewhat liquid" which isn't really the kind of problem governments are meant to resolve.
Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states