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I live a 25 minute train ride from london in a town with about 16000 residents, on a busy street 5 minutes walk from the main station. My cell is unusable.
Yeah, change networks.
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Correct, the government should have ran fiber lines to every home in the united states
The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr...
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g...
If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation
https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr....
Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it.
Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...
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UK is a bit more expensive than that but not silly. I can get close to £10/mo but that's because I'm already paying that carrier ~£30/mo for two separate SIMs (mine and my kid's). The £9/mo deal offered below is just half price for 6 months, it then becomes £18/mo. https://5g.co.uk/unlimited-data-sim/ The bottom of the page does give some details about what "unlimited data" means here in the UK between the different…
Do you expect your main broadband connection to be out for a month? An hour is unusual enough.
> Set IPv6 Connection to SLAAC (this is critical - SLAAC must be used, not DHCPv6) [...] Set 'Prefix Delegation Size' to 56 Is this also A UniFi bug, is Starlink doing IPv6 address assignment in a weird way, or is this a normal/RFC-compliant way of assigning a /56 subnet to a router? I always assumed routeable prefixes on v6 require DHCPv6 (except for hacks like RFC 7278 and /64 subnets)?
> Set IPv6 Connection to SLAAC (this is critical - SLAAC must be used, not DHCPv6) [...] Set 'Prefix Delegation Size' to 56 Is this also A UniFi bug, is Starlink doing IPv6 address assignment in a weird way, or is this a normal/RFC-compliant way of assigning a /56 subnet to a router? I always assumed routeable prefixes on v6 require DHCPv6 (except for hacks like RFC 7278 and /64 subnets)?
I've just done something similar in response to a heavy storm that's taken out the fiber where I live (7 weeks now, still hasn't been reconnected). Starlink has been a life saver and works flawlessly (~200Mbps, Had to get this going quickly so used tplink gear as it was readily accessible and surprisingly it's worked quite well. Used an NX210 (for WiFi to house and the backup 4G sim). Connected the NX210's WAN to an…
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You can find something similar with IOT sims. And then you just need a standard 4g/5g dongle/router
Care to point me to it? The best I can find searching a bit with unlimited data is capped to 64 kbps for $100/yr, which is quite a bit worse.
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The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually.
Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr... https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g... If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation https://w…
A mobile failover would be cheaper and would give you better connectivity in heavy rain. A 4G dongle can be purchased for $15, rather than $200 for a Starlink Mini. Then, let's say your main internet source fails and you need to actually use the backup plan beyond the standby amount of 0.5 Mbps. That will cost you a minimum of $50 for Starlink, versus roughly $25 for a month of unlimited cell service. As for standby…
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How likely is it that this $5 deal will continue in the future? It sounds like a no-brainer WAN backup option, are Starlink going to discontinue it when they realise that people are using it as such? Also, is this available globally or UK-only? I can't find any mention of it on the local Starlink site.
It's $5 for every month where you don't actually use it. If they are still subsidizing the hardware cost, that's probably where that money goes. If you actually use it you pay regular price for that month I don't see how this would be a bad deal for Starlink It's in available on most plans in most locations, with some restrictions described here: https://starlink.com/ca/support/article/37bb3b47-9525-7224-5...