• kieron115@startrek.website
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    7 hours ago

    I’m one of those people for who Starlink very much is the only option. I moved from Northern Virginia to Western Maryland. This land used to be state park and all it has is electricity and mail delivery. No water, no sewage, no telephone, no internet other than cell hotspot or Starlink. It sucks but I have to try and separate my distaste for Musk with the engineers and people who actually run Starlink day to day, because at the end of the day the service is pretty damn good. The only issue I have (besides the price) is with VoIP traffic; but SIP acts fucky even with Cat5/6 sometimes so idk. I looked up the current policy and at least in the US they do not have a soft data cap. They did when the service initially launched AFAIK but that’s been replaced with a more general “network management” policy (throttling, etc) as far as I can tell. https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1470-99699-90?regionCode=US

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      7 hours ago

      Just gonna let you know, if ya have 5g available more specifically T-Mobile then ya can get an at home 5g router. It is most definitely cheaper and may have lower latency, though I don’t know how their network is on the East coast furthest east I’ve gone is Utah.

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        6 hours ago

        Unfortunately we only get AT&T and maybe a whiff of T-Mobile once in a blue moon. Gotta go a few miles into town to get reliable service, especially if you want 5G. Thanks though.

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          So this is what I did for a long time at my folks place out in the boonies.

          1. Get yourself another line with unlimited data.
          2. Buy yourself one of these: GL.iNet GL-MT3000 or GL.iNet GL-AX1800
          3. Connect the phone to the USB slot.
          4. Turn on the phone’s USB tethering option.
          5. Go into the router’s admin page and tell it to use USB tethering as the WAN option.