What Starlink Mini mount are you using?
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Attached a Starlink mini mount to the top of the van today. Now we can drive around anywhere in the Australian bush or desert and always have our mobile phones available. Starlink dish just clicks off the mount when not in use.
I have only just been brought out of a deep sleep from the stone age and technology has moved on a little since then.
How convenient are these systems? Are they or is it possible to be on line all the time, if so could a passenger in the back use it will out on the road? Is it possible to link a mobile or something in remoter regions or to do away with a home set up and fibre and just use satellite broadband and phone for instance Is it prohibitorily expensive by comparison, are speeds download ect similar to normal broadband?
How convenient are these systems? Are they or is it possible to be on line all the time, if so could a passenger in the back use it will out on the road? Is it possible to link a mobile or something in remoter regions or to do away with a home set up and fibre and just use satellite broadband and phone for instance Is it prohibitorily expensive by comparison, are speeds download ect similar to normal broadband?
Here in Australia the cost for a roaming plan is $80/month (£38.50/m. It’s like having a wifi with you all the time that you can connect your phones, tablets, laptops to anywhere. The roaming plan gets you 50GB, can use anywhere in Australia and up to 12 nautical miles offshore, up to 100 mph (attached to your car either on the roof or under a skyroof), can use it up to 2 months at a time overseas, can pause and restart the monthly plan at any time (no contract), buy extra data if you need it, set your phone to use “wifi for phone” and it means your phone works anywhere even where there is no mobile coverage (outside of course). Consumes a bit of power so you either need to plug into a leisure battery or similar - or mains - when not driving. Download speed is 150 mbs and upload around 20 (faster than our home cable). You can program it to switch off during bedtime to save power. Really is a no brainer in the bush.
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Thank you Keith Waterman: Our remote is not like yours unfortunately, little really that remote in GB, perhaps a remote farm stead Highlands of Scotland but my neighbours are quite a bit away and I am about a mile by track off the roads. Can see the odd farm across the valley and with binoculars a few more on distant hills. A neighbour tends his cattle so do not see anyone here normally until hay is being cut and the all the roads are awash with tractors and trailers going at full tilt taking no prisoners, some early silage croppers too a bit earlier in the year. No one would hear me shouting or playing Jazz at full tilt from my Hi-fi. Loads of sheep around here and some cattle, wild life and so on. Property only connected to electric I was told 1960's phone latter. I do have Fibre believe it or not we where connected some little time ago when the lines where down they thought might as well because everyone will be getting it eventually Eleatic goes down sometimes in winter and phone even longer last gales phone was out 4-5 weeks cant remember lecy just a little less. Classed as remote by utilities, so not considered urgent or a priority, have our own post code not shared with anyone else. Funnily enough many phone lines where down literally everywhere around here also but even when not down the mini exchanges where down through not having electric power and fibre goes down very fast without e. In fact fibre can be useless if electricity is down and there may be an emergency needing attention So I may consider this sort of set up. Cost might be a problem perhaps If sat communications could be transposed between home and car even better. Does heavy cloud obscure the satellites ever, I do not expect you to know about snow though I know some mountainous parts do get snow in Australia. I guess that one could have a larger receiver dish at a home station.
We’re the same. We only use the Starlink when travelling in the van and pause the plan when not. I work from home so have decent broadband at home (partly paid by work). We had a cyclone come through here earlier this year which took out power, water and broadband in our suburb for a few days… we had the Cali in our garage fully primed (batteries, EcoFlow, water, fridge, cooker and Starlink) so could just keep on going (with the Starlink pointing out of one of the windows in the house). Starlink works in cloudy weather but have not tried it in snowy conditions (yet… will try hard to tick this box in Oz!)
Thank you very much for that information.
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