Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
by shagie on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:40PM
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> so when comcast goes to crap it's very important for her to be able to reconnect over starlink ASAP
Have you looked at something like Firewalla and multi-wan setup? https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051575473-Fi...
Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
by Diederich on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:30PM
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Thanks for the link! I have considered such technologies, and I'll probably end up implementing one at some point. It's on my TODO list. (:
My wife reports that she's able to switch WIFI from Comcast to Starlink in a matter of seconds, which doesn't actually break the video chat session. Not ideal, but not terrible.
Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
by shagie on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:12PM
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My parents have it - first to do load balanced DSL, and then later to do DSL fail over for Starlink. Both of those features were critical during the virtual schooling timeframe and having enough bandwidth to support two school zoom sessions and household usage.
When discussing it with some of the sysadmins that I work with, they had a "hmm... interesting" thought with it - the configuration for it compared to the dual wan router setups that they have for their home labs is (from their standpoint) much easier.
The issue isn't so much a "can you do it" but rather a "how much time do you want to invest in designing your own setup?"
The comcast outages are far above anything that's 'normal'. And honestly if it was just me, as a decades long 'devops' person, losing network connectivity briefly every few days and for tens of minutes or longer multiple times a month would not be too bad. But my wife does zoom/video professionally all day every day with paying clients, so when comcast goes to crap it's very important for her to be able to reconnect over starlink ASAP.