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• Various ways to install and use Tailscale (e.g. on phone, desktop, server)
• ZeroTier, a distributed WAN solution and alternative to Nebula
• Comparison with Tailscale and WireGuard protocols
• Discussion of self-hosted options for networking solutions
• Mention of upcoming DNS solution from ZeroTier
• Plug for Nebula and discussion of various networking projects
• Home Assistant setup for energy monitoring and automation
• Z-Wave device updates and potential lag issues
• Using Matrix, Discord, or Telegram for community support
• Integrating devices to avoid circuit overloading concerns
• Solutions for energy monitoring in self-hosting communities
[0.00 --> 6.10] Alex, I'm checking my email every single day right now because my Starlink kit is on its way.
[6.22 --> 7.70] This is going to be a game changer for me.
[8.52 --> 9.48] I think so, yeah.
[9.74 --> 14.88] You've unlocked a level, you've one-upped life if you've got Starlink.
[15.04 --> 19.64] You know what's funny is I started thinking, now I need to get serious about a home PC setup.
[20.06 --> 24.10] I'm always like, my work laptop will do or an iPad will do.
[24.10 --> 29.66] But if I'm going to have real internet at home now, I got to have a real PC to connect to that.
[30.00 --> 30.88] So how's it going to work?
[30.92 --> 33.90] Because my understanding of Starlink is reasonably limited.
[34.30 --> 35.86] I watched a couple of Jeff Geerling videos.
[36.12 --> 37.70] I think that's about as far as it goes.
[38.64 --> 44.80] Don't you have to tie it to a specific grid reference so that they have enough satellite bandwidth for you to talk to?
[44.88 --> 47.88] Like it won't work if you drive 50 miles west or something, right?
[47.88 --> 54.58] Yeah, I think it mostly turns out to be like a 30-mile area around your service address that you've put on your account is where it's functional.
[55.14 --> 56.10] I don't know yet.
[56.20 --> 59.46] This is something I'm going to play with, but it sounds like it's pretty straightforward.
[60.00 --> 63.40] In most cases, to just update your service address.
[63.70 --> 68.72] And then like it takes effect in like 15 minutes and then you can start setting up in your new location.
[69.10 --> 72.70] I imagine that's actually not as smooth as it's going to go.
[72.98 --> 75.96] Like I'll try to do it and be like too many users in this area.
[75.96 --> 85.74] Yeah, I recall I was watching a guy on YouTube who was an RVer and was proclaiming that he had hacked the Starlink algorithm to let him use it anywhere.
[86.18 --> 93.22] In actual fact, what he was doing was he was pre-staging his location in the Starlink app before he got there.
[93.28 --> 99.16] So the systems had time to catch up or if where he got to didn't have connection to update his service address.
[99.16 --> 103.38] I mean, I could see that because I generally know where I'm going to end up parking at, you know, before I go there.
[103.42 --> 104.86] So I could plug that in before I arrive.
[105.34 --> 112.48] The other tricky thing is, is I think the little dishy takes like 150 watts pretty much consistently once it's up and running.
[112.60 --> 114.32] That's a significant amount of power.
[114.38 --> 116.04] In fact, it's like running a whole PC.
[116.36 --> 117.16] It is pretty much, isn't it?
[117.16 --> 118.16] And they're not cheap either.
[118.16 --> 122.46] So there was the $99 deposit, which I felt was fair.
[122.70 --> 123.02] Okay.
[123.22 --> 123.78] All right, fine.
[124.42 --> 130.22] And then there's like a separate $485 fee to get the kit.
[130.30 --> 131.66] And the kit is everything you need.
[131.72 --> 136.02] It's like the router, Ethernet, the POE injector, the dish, all of it.
[136.72 --> 138.32] But every time I check, it just says pending.
[138.98 --> 141.20] So you're $600 in the hole for this thing then?
[141.56 --> 143.40] And then the monthly service, of course, as well.
[143.66 --> 144.86] Oh, what does that cost?
[144.86 --> 147.20] I think it's going to be in the $100 range.
[147.20 --> 154.58] When you don't have good, solid bandwidth, almost any price that you can conceivably afford to pay is worth it.
[155.02 --> 155.10] Yeah.
[155.28 --> 156.94] Slow internet is worse than no internet.
[157.58 --> 158.54] That's what they say.
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[175.80 --> 180.92] So I can only imagine how having decent, low ping internet.
[181.04 --> 185.38] Do you have any sense of the Starlink kind of ping times yet?
[185.54 --> 188.02] I have done a little bit of meta-analysis of the reviews.
[188.44 --> 193.80] And also, to their credit, the Starlink folks kind of give you that information in the sign-up process when they're like,
[193.86 --> 194.62] hey, this is a beta.
[195.10 --> 196.66] It's going to go down sometime.
[196.66 --> 202.12] You're probably going to get ping somewhere in the 40 millisecond range is what they kind of warn you for.
[202.22 --> 204.82] And that's kind of what I've seen from the meta-analysis of the reviews.
[205.24 --> 207.76] I have seen some reviewers get it as low as 20.
[207.76 --> 217.24] Something in the 20 to 40 would be great because 40 is about the best case I'm ever going to get ever on LTE is about 40 milliseconds.
[217.24 --> 230.04] And I know from having done these shows with you now for a long time, an LTE connection is workable, but we end up stepping on each other quite often and makes life for our editor more difficult.
[230.22 --> 232.32] So lower the ping time for us, certainly the better.
[232.32 --> 249.38] And also, I would imagine, although we'll see, I'll get a sense of this, is it would hopefully, I know it drifts, but hopefully it drifts either less or more consistently than LTE, where LTE is kind of all over the board depending on all the other users that are in that area.
[250.04 --> 253.94] Are there any constraints around the amount of bandwidth you can consume?
[254.04 --> 255.70] Because with LTE, that's a big concern.
[256.02 --> 256.22] Right.
[256.28 --> 257.88] And as far as I know, there's no limits either.
[257.88 --> 262.38] I don't know if eventually when they go public, if they'll have tiered plans, but that's a huge deal.
[263.02 --> 265.10] No, no, no, no, no, no.
[265.16 --> 265.54] I know.
[265.80 --> 266.18] I know.
[267.22 --> 274.02] Even with my quote unquote unlimited LTE plans, I'm really kind of in the doghouse after 300 gigs.
[274.02 --> 276.96] And around 400 gigs, they're looking at what I'm doing.
[277.26 --> 280.52] And, you know, I get deprioritized and all that kind of stuff.
[280.52 --> 283.14] And that is like on the extremely high end.
[283.14 --> 288.20] Like these are elite rare plans where I can even get that far along before they start getting mad at me.
[288.44 --> 288.92] That's crazy.
[289.16 --> 299.94] Where I was staying last week at my mother-in-law's in rural Norfolk, the only decent internet that she can get is through 4G LTE from EE in the UK.
[299.94 --> 305.00] And she gets 200 gigabytes a month bandwidth for her home internet.
[305.00 --> 311.60] And for me, that was a real adjustment, you know, dealing with that ping time, dealing with that lack of bandwidth availability.
[312.02 --> 312.64] Welcome to my world.
[312.92 --> 315.58] I honestly don't know how you cope with it full time.
[315.92 --> 316.62] I know.
[316.92 --> 317.28] I know.
[317.32 --> 324.30] That's why I'm really excited about Starlink, even though there's the downside of putting more junk up in space, which is a serious problem.
[324.30 --> 330.86] And these may actually be visible from the ground and maybe, you know, there's, we're not going to be happy about that long term.
[331.18 --> 342.76] But it's so obvious that at least here in the States, we need a solution to this because my other options are duopoly cell providers or a monopoly cable provider.
[342.94 --> 345.36] Those are my options here.
[345.36 --> 356.54] And it just isn't, it is not long-term sustainable or tenable for something as important as our connectivity, which is how I organize, manage, and run my entire business.