Starlink (2)

As I say, impressed, and to be honest even at £89/month inc VAT this is good value...

A doddle to install properly, some tree cover is unavoidable, but it works, and is happily doing 185Mb/s right now. Thanks to Jim to coming round with his drill for me.

The IPv4 is all CGNAT, and the IPv6 is not working yet or reliably. But this "just works" with A&A L2TP providing fixed IPv4 and IPv6 over it. And the latency makes this a very viable service at around 30ms. The package of a Starlink + FireBrick + A&A L2TP is pretty appealing, to be honest.

I really am pretty gobsmacked with how simple this all was to buy and get working - only caveat is "remember to get the Ethernet adaptor".

Starlink

Finally got one for testing, so first experiences.

1. Ordering was simple, but the site is one of these "slick modern sites" that are a pain to find any proper information - very easy to order - not so easy to realise an Ethernet adapter is separate. I have finally ordered one now.

2. Arrived very quickly (ordered 1st June, arrived 6th June, Jubilee in the middle).

3. Very very confusing re "account". The pages all have "sign in". I cannot find any "create account". What I did not know is that when I ordered by simply clicking "apple pay" and double clicking my phone (yes, very slick), is that this "created" an account using the apple pay email address. Once I worked that out I could use the "locked out" link to get a password. They could make that a lot clearer.

4. The instructions are simple, you plug it in and point at the sky and connect to wifi - it makes you then create an SSID/password, but then it works - Internet, several MB/s of it. NAT / IPv4, but yes, works. I now need to find somewhere vaguely sensible to put it - away from trees - may need a pole on the wall.

Of course the next steps are to get the Ethernet adaptor, and start working with FireBrick, see if I can get an IPv6 address; see if L2TP/IPsec/etc tunnels work over it; etc, etc... So R&D to do.

P.S. LOL, you can get to RT.com via Starlink :-)