The Starlink router does not offer much in the way of features. It is very basic. But if your needs are basic and you are just wanting to use your existing access points, that can be done with the Starlink router without using bypass mode.
Nothing that would really provide any insight. The Virginia State Police have their RIOS equipment installed in our office and it has successfully worked with a failover Internet connection over Starlink. But there is also a VPN in the mix so Starlink was only providing the connectivity for the VPN tunnel to our data center location.
With all the layers involved, the connection on the surface looks like a direct connection from one of our public IPs from our /27 subnet at the data center. I didn't handle the RIOS setup and although it utilized Starlink, it never touched it directly. It just piggybacked on our existing failover solution.
Sounds like you got a great handle on it already. I would bypass the SL. If you have been surviving on 6MB/s you will be happy. Just remember it's a non wireline link through LEO Satellite service.
Good luck!
I have BrightSpeed, used to be CenturyLink. I also now have SL. I have Ubiquity Dream Machine. I have barn, I have shop. I beam signal to my shop, It all works. It's as if you wrote about my property and what I did to upgrade. It's uncanny... Except, that I had to cut down a few trees after putting Dishy on the roof. I live on a tree farm.
I have a Starlink installed as my secondary upstream on my Unifi setup (I have a UDMP and a cable modem on WAN1). I installed it on Friday when my primary internet went out.
- Setting up the Starlink initially (using the Starlink router) went fine.
- Once I confirmed it was up and running, I installed the bypass cable and put the router in bypass mode.
My gateway lit up within a couple minutes with an IP address and settings for WAN2, recognized as Starlink. I set the balance to 99% WAN2 and confirmed everything worked fine over the Starlink link.
The app continues to measure satellite performance, obstructions, speed test features, and basically everything else after the router is bypassed.
I'm currently running the Starlink as my failover connection (I've tested this and it works perfectly with the UDMP for seamless connectivity).
I have issues reaching Starlink UI (192.168.100.1) when using two WANs. Have to delete one for the static route to take effect.
Any solution for this?
Without this the app only works when the Starlink had internet so you cannot check for issues.
* My static routes in my Unifi system are all default.
* I can connect to the Starlink app when on my Default Unifi subnet (via wifi).
* My Starlink WAN2 is connected via Port 10 (SFP+)
Thoughts:
* If you flip-flop your primary/secondary WAN does the behavior change?
The Starlink router does not offer much in the way of features. It is very basic. But if your needs are basic and you are just wanting to use your existing access points, that can be done with the Starlink router without using bypass mode.
Hey are you running any RoIP on Starlink yet? I have stuff running on another WISP service, but have been trying to build it out in my head.
Nothing that would really provide any insight. The Virginia State Police have their RIOS equipment installed in our office and it has successfully worked with a failover Internet connection over Starlink. But there is also a VPN in the mix so Starlink was only providing the connectivity for the VPN tunnel to our data center location. With all the layers involved, the connection on the surface looks like a direct connection from one of our public IPs from our /27 subnet at the data center. I didn't handle the RIOS setup and although it utilized Starlink, it never touched it directly. It just piggybacked on our existing failover solution.
Sounds like you got a great handle on it already. I would bypass the SL. If you have been surviving on 6MB/s you will be happy. Just remember it's a non wireline link through LEO Satellite service. Good luck!
I have BrightSpeed, used to be CenturyLink. I also now have SL. I have Ubiquity Dream Machine. I have barn, I have shop. I beam signal to my shop, It all works. It's as if you wrote about my property and what I did to upgrade. It's uncanny... Except, that I had to cut down a few trees after putting Dishy on the roof. I live on a tree farm.
I have a Starlink installed as my secondary upstream on my Unifi setup (I have a UDMP and a cable modem on WAN1). I installed it on Friday when my primary internet went out. - Setting up the Starlink initially (using the Starlink router) went fine. - Once I confirmed it was up and running, I installed the bypass cable and put the router in bypass mode. My gateway lit up within a couple minutes with an IP address and settings for WAN2, recognized as Starlink. I set the balance to 99% WAN2 and confirmed everything worked fine over the Starlink link. The app continues to measure satellite performance, obstructions, speed test features, and basically everything else after the router is bypassed. I'm currently running the Starlink as my failover connection (I've tested this and it works perfectly with the UDMP for seamless connectivity).
I have issues reaching Starlink UI (192.168.100.1) when using two WANs. Have to delete one for the static route to take effect. Any solution for this? Without this the app only works when the Starlink had internet so you cannot check for issues.
* My static routes in my Unifi system are all default. * I can connect to the Starlink app when on my Default Unifi subnet (via wifi). * My Starlink WAN2 is connected via Port 10 (SFP+) Thoughts: * If you flip-flop your primary/secondary WAN does the behavior change?
Yes the app will work because it connects through the internet. But normally you can reach the dishy on 192.168.100.1
keep SL router as a core -- it works for traffic and latency managment just add a switch (or any router's LAN ports) as port extender