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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 nightbrawler »

codethief wrote: post #104
zzyzxd wrote: post #81

I 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…

> My carrier detects and throttles hotspot traffic by measuring packets TTL, so I tweaks the router's iptables to dodge that. Could you elaborate on this?

You can easily manipulate and set TTL to whatever is needed with a Mikrotik router. Override TTL for all devices behind it.

/ip firewall mangle add chain=postrouting out-interface=lte1 action=change-ttl new-ttl=set:64 passthrough=yes comment="Set TTL for Mobile Hotspot"

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

Kaliboy wrote: post #57
gkoz wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Besides, voting with your wallet, an actual tangible action, is not virtue signalling.

How is it nihilism? If you ever visit Bonaire let me know and I can show you the abundance of life we are stewarding on my land. It's mostly setting healthy boundaries on what we perceive we can affect. I don't buy American food (except Cocoa Rice Crispies), functionally it's a boycott. Is that the reasoning? No, it just tastes like crap.

> I truly don't understand where ya'll draw the line.

> I truly don't care what other people do or want, I just look to ensure I can live the life I desire while respecting that which others want or impose.

This is nihilism. If you have any beliefs, you don't seem to feel it important or necessary to exercise them. You acquiesce without even being challenged.

> Another example is AI. I despise it, and honestly think it's evil. Yet I'm using it to secure financial stability in a way that does not require AI to sustain.

This is also nihilism. You claim to have a belief, but do not exercise it. In your own example, your beliefs are meaningless; you are ultimately lead to whatever action is the most likely to lead to material comfort.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by vablings »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #118
light_hue_1 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you see what DOGE did to the government? In particular to USAID? Estimates are that this has already killed hundreds of thousands of people who relied on that aid. The issue isn't just Musk's politics. It's that his actions have been evil, the kind of negative impact that major wars have. We're talking something like 1 million dead people per year with a quarter of those being children. For a level of assistance…

>USAID? Estimates are that this has already killed hundreds of thousands of people who relied on that aid. I know this was “the line” upfront… but USAID had nothing to do with aid… it was a soft power factory… it was the “we’re helping” face of the CIA.

It was not the "helping face of the CIA" it's a means for the United States to maintain first world power order in a quid pro quo scheme.

It's hardly groundbreaking or evil considering every single country with large wealth plays this game (eg; china, india europe ect), I give you lots of money and help your people and in exchange you do/don't do xyz. if you do xyz then we take away the money

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by dheera »

zzyzxd wrote: post #81

I 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…

I have AT&T Fiber and 99% of the time it's fantastic, but there are several instances of 30-60 second downtime a day and I have a 5G modem with a Google Fi data sim as a backup. Failover is nearly-instant with a Unifi UDM.

The data sim costs nothing extra on top of my cellular plan and just counts towards my (already very generous) monthly limit of 50GB.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by dheera »

alexfoo wrote: post #77
haunter wrote: post #2

TIL standby mode. Is that enough to operate a remote webcam? Not real time video feed but say uploading a photo every 1 minute or so

Depending on a whole bunch of things but a 200KB photo once a minute might be in the realms of LoRa. You could get the data out for free. The 500Kbps of Starlink would be close enough for a 500KB photo every 10 seconds or so assuming typical packet overheads.

For security applications where most of the image doesn't change, 500 Kbps is fine for low resolution video streaming.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

Kaliboy wrote: post #46
locknitpicker wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't understand this mentality. I think it's pretty easy to understand. You have a service you want, but subscribing to it is a clear and direct way to financially support the advancement of fascist, extremist political groups and regimes pushing alarmingly racist and xenophobic policies not only in the US but also across the world. Does your convenience justify a totalitarian shift? I don't think so. Do you thi…

It's going to shift anyway. Wisdom is preparing for the shift using any legal means neccesary. Morals are a mostly internal issue anyway, not based on solely external actions. You know the whole stealing bread to feed hungry children idea. What you are doing we teach our kids to be virtue signaling. Nobody is saying or at least I am not assuming you support Musk if you have Starlink. I simply think you have need for…

But virtue signaling is a good thing! It's a way for us and for our communities to express that some things are distasteful and out of the norm. It should be uncontroversial to say "I don't like racism and thus I do not do business with known racists!" I'd even argue that's not really virtue signalling since it is accompanied by a direct action on the part of the signaler, but that's besides the point.

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by vablings »

alexfoo wrote: post #61

Every so often I do the numbers on a backup Internet connection and decide that it's not worth it, but understand that it is useful for peace of mind reasons. My Internet is just too reliable. When I'm out of contract with my current provider I'll need to reconsider this as the supplier I'm likely to move to has no obvious/simple/integrated backup option. tl;dr FTTP. A single outage event in 16 months, lasted 40 minu…

I was with a small company called BRSK who did the FTTP rollout in my area, I think they have changed hands a few times now, but the sheer reliability was legit 5-9s. I don't legally fully understand how small companies ended up getting lots of money from the government for FTTP but they absolutely crushed it in my area. Shame they got mega review-bombed because they installed telegraph poles outside people's houses and that's apparently evil

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by vablings »

tacker2000 wrote: post #7
LeoPanthera wrote: post #3

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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

Re: Starlink Mini as a failover

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Post by TMWNN »

light_hue_1 wrote: post #28
bradley13 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His politics are less extreme than you probably think. Modern journalism goes for clicks, which means generating outrage.

Did you see what DOGE did to the government? In particular to USAID? Estimates are that this has already killed hundreds of thousands of people who relied on that aid. The issue isn't just Musk's politics. It's that his actions have been evil, the kind of negative impact that major wars have. We're talking something like 1 million dead people per year with a quarter of those being children. For a level of assistance…

If you haven't donated every cent you have to poor foreigners, you have contributed to their deaths. How can you live with yourself?
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