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[378.40 --> 383.12] So what that means is your ping times change gradually, right? |
[383.16 --> 388.48] It's not like you're getting 44 milliseconds, 44 milliseconds, 280, 280, 44. |
[388.72 --> 390.12] It's not that kind of choppy. |
[390.32 --> 395.14] It's a more consistent latency that it does matter on the distance, you know. |
[395.18 --> 397.16] It's just physics that is traveling up to that satellite. |
[397.76 --> 407.68] Compared to LTE, which especially in the States is often met with bandwidth caps that I would exceed within a few days |
[407.68 --> 414.48] and then throttling on top of that and then capricious carriers that just change the rules and plans on you all the time. |
[415.18 --> 417.88] Or, like, you go the other route and you buy, like, these reseller packages. |
[418.08 --> 423.30] I actually have one of those right now where it's technically it's like some enterprise plan that they're, like, relabeling. |
[423.44 --> 424.68] So you've got it on some deal. |
[424.98 --> 430.54] It's crazy kind of a gray market for cellular data, and they're always complicated. |
[430.72 --> 432.44] They always inevitably blow up on you. |
[432.50 --> 433.56] They're really expensive. |
[433.70 --> 435.76] They're more expensive than Starlink is per month. |
[435.76 --> 442.80] So when you look at what the options were for a lot of people compared to Starlink, Starlink is such an upgrade. |
[442.80 --> 456.04] But what I think is ridiculous is, and you're seeing this a lot on the East Coast, is people in homes are buying Starlink just because they don't like their ISP or whatever it is. |
[456.04 --> 468.02] So they're dropping their cable and DSL connections and switching over to Starlink, which is probably more expensive, I would think, definitely slower, and is overburdening the Starlink network. |
[468.02 --> 481.56] And now that Starlink has this RV package where they'll ship the dish to you immediately, and any, you know, Tom or Jane can buy one of these RV packages, and then they can set it up at home, and they have Starlink. |
[481.68 --> 487.10] They don't have to wait for Starlink to approve them through the current queue, which is based on capacity. |
[487.10 --> 494.74] And I think the whole thing is going to degrade the quality of the network, and it's going to be that way until they can launch more satellites. |
[495.24 --> 501.84] But all that said, it's what I use every, you know, every day for my home connection in Joops. |
[501.84 --> 505.32] And for me, it's been a really big deal. |
[505.92 --> 513.24] The reality is it's better than most other rural options, especially for people like you who are fully mobile. |
[513.54 --> 524.96] But I think for me, really, it was answering the question of, could I buy a house in the sticks and rely on Starlink and not want to slit my wrists full time? |
[524.96 --> 531.18] Like, does this actually open up areas of real estate to me that were previously off limits? |
[531.84 --> 533.18] I don't think so. |
[533.76 --> 537.94] And I think it's just a personal judgment call that you've got to make. |
[538.42 --> 548.60] Yeah, and for some people, like, the remote off-grid elements are so much more of a priority that they'll take the, you know, the less ideal internet connectivity. |
[549.06 --> 553.00] But if you do a lot of VoIP calls like you do, right, for work specifically, I think you're right. |
[553.00 --> 554.36] You've really got to think about it. |
[554.68 --> 556.28] And there will be other options. |
[556.68 --> 558.04] Amazon's working on some stuff. |
[558.14 --> 560.30] There's some other companies that are working on other solutions. |
[560.30 --> 563.98] And some of them will be even a lower distance of travel. |
[564.14 --> 565.26] So maybe they'll be even better. |
[565.80 --> 571.08] The other thing about Starlink that's worth talking about, I think, is the crappy router that they ship with that thing nowadays. |
[571.68 --> 579.72] So my dad got the square Starlink dishy dish, which is the newer one, as I understand it, which has got a built-in cable. |
[579.72 --> 590.02] And it comes into this futuristic-looking router that has a, you know, cool SpaceX logo on it, Starlink logo on it. |
[590.02 --> 600.06] But he had to buy the Ethernet adapter, which I think we got off the grey market on eBay for about £100, which is crazy just for an Ethernet adapter. |
[600.16 --> 600.74] But there you go. |
[601.28 --> 607.42] It's the only option to get it into the rest of the network, into the real world, for want of a better phrase. |
[607.42 --> 611.52] So he could hook it into his existing UniFi setup and all the rest of it. |
[611.52 --> 620.48] But when I was there, I was using Tailscale a lot to get back home and do a lot of stuff with, you know, everything that I do. |
[621.38 --> 630.54] And my subnet at home includes the range 192.168.1.0 slash 20, I think. |
[630.54 --> 637.90] And the trouble with that is that the default Starlink subnet is 192.168.1.0. |
[638.88 --> 648.40] And if in Tailscale you have an overlapping subnet in the remote LAN versus where you are now, and then you try and do a DNS query, |
[649.10 --> 654.08] obviously it doesn't know where to route the packet because it thinks, well, that particular subnet's over here, |
[654.14 --> 656.90] when actually it's in both places, so it just loses its mind. |
[657.40 --> 658.82] It's not Tailscale's fault. |
[658.82 --> 663.22] Obviously, it's the network design and, you know, it's my fault, really. |
[664.40 --> 665.78] And so I thought, okay, cool. |
[665.86 --> 669.96] How hard can it be to customize the subnet in a Starlink router? |
[670.94 --> 672.18] How hard could it be? |
[672.90 --> 673.84] Not possible. |
[674.14 --> 675.86] It's just not possible. |
[676.40 --> 678.38] I feel like the hardware is decent. |
[678.54 --> 680.36] I like that it's OpenWRT based. |
[680.94 --> 685.52] And they've done some really smart things in there in terms of, like, diagnostic capabilities |
[685.52 --> 688.64] and being able to speed test your Wi-Fi from the app and all that kind of stuff. |
[688.64 --> 689.48] That's really cool. |
[689.56 --> 690.64] I really like that bit. |
[691.14 --> 700.06] However, with the Square Dishy, they have a dependency now on this router, which is just awful, in my opinion, |
[700.06 --> 710.70] because in the past with the circular dish, I could go directly from the dish and take that Ethernet cable and just plug it in the back of my router. |
[711.34 --> 712.96] No Starlink router needed. |
[713.34 --> 717.30] And then I could manage it with my Pep Link where I mixed it with my LTE and Wi-Fi connections. |
[717.86 --> 718.70] It was glorious! |
[718.70 --> 722.98] And now I have a router in the mix, and I don't like it. |
[723.46 --> 726.66] And it's another piece of gear that sucks power, and I don't like that. |
[726.90 --> 731.30] Although, overall, the whole Dishy setup, the Square Dishy setup, takes less power than the circular dish. |
[731.30 --> 739.04] But, you know, you get it right for, like, you've got to figure it's got to be 95% of people who buy this. |
[739.38 --> 743.70] This is probably a significantly better router than their ISP would give them. |
[744.08 --> 744.30] Probably. |
[744.30 --> 753.48] But it's annoying knowing that it's OpenWrt under the hood, and they don't expose even basic knobs like customizing the DHCP range. |
[753.84 --> 761.62] I think the whole thought is that such a few amount of users would ever need that, that they don't want the support burden of it. |
[762.14 --> 762.76] It's got to be it. |
[762.82 --> 765.66] But I've just kind of worked it out as much as I can. |
[765.86 --> 766.58] But I agree with you. |
[766.64 --> 767.30] It could be a lot better. |
[767.58 --> 769.54] So moving on to the next stage of my trip. |
[769.58 --> 771.18] We're now at the mother-in-law's in Norfolk. |
[771.18 --> 776.16] I brought my old UK server with me, and it's now living at its new home. |
[776.56 --> 778.78] Best part is that she now has fiber. |
[778.96 --> 784.10] It's 500 down and 70 up, which is plenty for my needs remotely. |
[784.48 --> 785.18] There you go. |
[785.28 --> 785.90] That's better. |
[786.02 --> 786.70] Now we're talking. |
[786.96 --> 788.62] With good ping times and everything else. |
[788.82 --> 796.72] The downside is she lives in a well over 100-year-old cottage with, you know, several foot-thick stone walls. |
[797.24 --> 798.82] Wi-Fi is a challenge. |
[798.82 --> 804.00] I have two or three UniFi repeaters that I have installed here over the last few years. |
[805.30 --> 806.44] And it works well enough. |
[806.58 --> 812.44] But obviously, now she's got fiber, which she was using an LTE mast on the roof to get her internet before. |
[813.14 --> 817.20] I had to think about running Ethernet through the house to, you know, cope with the new speeds. |
[817.28 --> 818.82] And, you know, my service here, I want that hardwired. |
[819.42 --> 821.28] I don't want that on Wi-Fi, et cetera, et cetera. |
[821.28 --> 830.98] So I spent most of yesterday morning up a ladder running Ethernet through the walls and drilling holes and pulling Ethernet cable around the outside and over the top of the roof. |
[831.18 --> 834.26] And it was fun. |
[834.54 --> 836.20] You know, it's not something I want to do every day. |
[836.28 --> 837.52] But as a one-off, it was good fun. |
[837.52 --> 843.76] But it got me thinking about, you know, the various different things that you might want to start thinking about when cabling a house. |
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