Jessie.slimer
BIT Beta Team
Even better then. Less chance of motors wearing out or freezing up.
What, no triple LNBs for birds at 99, 101 and 113 (I think) ???The reason for the high price of the "dishy" is that it uses "phased array" antenna technology which requires a LOT of circuitry and can aim electronically with no physical motion.
Yes, Phased Array Antennas. We designed Fire Control systems (Munitions) for the Navy, decades ago, that used this technology. We could keep the communication link with Ships movement and aircraft movement with a high gain, narrow beam width beam. You "Dither" the beam (constantly, electronically, move beam around the strongest signal strength) to track your moving signal, without moving parts. Very fast, reliable way to track your moving TX/Rx signal, by phase shifting each Patch element on the antenna array to electrically steer beam and change beam width. Glad to see Starlink using this technology! Looking forward to your experience with this new antenna.The reason for the high price of the "dishy" is that it uses "phased array" antenna technology which requires a LOT of circuitry and can aim electronically with no physical motion.
There are ways around that. None of them perfect.I was interested in StarLink until I heard they are using CGNAT. That would break my vpn setup, among other things.
I don't think the newness of your setup would affect the speed unless you just haven't received the latest firmware yet. There will be days where you get higher speed and days where you get lower speed.I did a couple speed tests and am stuck around 50 down and 10 up with 30ms latency. I'm hoping this is just because I just set it up and will improve later, but even still, It's 5 times faster on the download and more than 10 times faster on the upload than I had.
You mean you can use your own router. That is correct. Just unplug the provided router and plug your own in via the WAN port.I have read that you can use your own modem, so that's what I will be doing once I get everything set up.
I just came across this being advertised in the starlink reddit: Hoppy It should be a good approach for anyone daunted by the idea of renting a general-purpose linux virtual machine and trying to roll their own version of this.I was interested in StarLink until I heard they are using CGNAT. That would break my vpn setup, among other things.
Thanks for finding this. I looked at some of the reddit posts, but not entirely sure if I understand it correctly. Is the Hoppy service basically a VPN type service/server that would remain connected to my network 24/7 so that when I need to connect to my network remotely, I am essentially connecting to the Hoppy server via an IP address they would lease to me? If so, how would that work with setting up openvpn on their end to my client devices? Or would that not even be needed anymore. I'm assuming all of my traffic will go through their server, not just traffic that I select.I just came across this being advertised in the starlink reddit: Hoppy It should be a good approach for anyone daunted by the idea of renting a general-purpose linux virtual machine and trying to roll their own version of this.
Based on their website, they just use a wireguard VPN tunnel to route a public IPv4 address to one of your devices. So you would still use your own openvpn server. Their service would just enable your openvpn server to receive connections from the internet despite your ISP using CGNAT.Thanks for finding this. I looked at some of the reddit posts, but not entirely sure if I understand it correctly. Is the Hoppy service basically a VPN type service/server that would remain connected to my network 24/7 so that when I need to connect to my network remotely, I am essentially connecting to the Hoppy server via an IP address they would lease to me? If so, how would that work with setting up openvpn on their end to my client devices? Or would that not even be needed anymore. I'm assuming all of my traffic will go through their server, not just traffic that I select.
Starlink will probably never issue public IPv4 addresses except in special cases -- high value business/government customers for example. There just aren't enough IPv4 addresses to go around anymore.This sounds like it may be a great work around until Starlink eventually issues every user an IP address.
Oh, that looks very good!!Also there is Zerotier, as discussed on the following thread:
Blue Iris remote access wish-list
Just going to toss this out. I have several BI5 servers scattered around different construction sites. It's occasionally hard, and in one case impossible to get DDNS or Static IP services from some rural ISPs. I'm also beta testing Starlink, which at this time has no Static or DDNS...ipcamtalk.comZeroTier | Global Networking Solution for IoT, SD-WAN, and VPN
ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.www.zerotier.com
Hard to say. That could definitely be a stumbling point, although not a complete showstopper because you could still access Blue Iris via its regular LAN address even if Zerotier stops working without internet access.EDIT/Update: One possible issue/question is, what happens if you lose internet connection and you are trying to access your BI server from your phone/tablet/computer over the local network? Someone will need to run some experiments... As long as your phone and BI already has the local "Zerotier" IP address on both already, it may be able to talk directly over the local network, if the Zerotier app isn't dynamically re-assigning/periodically polling for the devices...
Appreciate you sharing that tear down link for the dish. If that's not taking one for the team I don't know what is?!?Yeah, looks quite a bit more advanced than other dishes. I just watched this video of a guy cutting his open to see what's inside. He's got some stones.
Requires UPnP to be on in the router?Also there is Zerotier, as discussed on the following thread.
EDIT/Update: One possible issue/question is, what happens if you lose internet connection and you are trying to access your BI server from your phone/tablet/computer over the local network? Someone will need to run some experiments... As long as your phone and BI already has the local "Zerotier" IP address on both already, it may be able to talk directly over the local network, if the Zerotier app isn't dynamically re-assigning/periodically polling for the devices...
Blue Iris remote access wish-list
Just going to toss this out. I have several BI5 servers scattered around different construction sites. It's occasionally hard, and in one case impossible to get DDNS or Static IP services from some rural ISPs. I'm also beta testing Starlink, which at this time has no Static or DDNS...ipcamtalk.comZeroTier | Global Networking Solution for IoT, SD-WAN, and VPN
ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.www.zerotier.com
Thanks for sharing.Also there is Zerotier, as discussed on the following thread.
EDIT/Update: One possible issue/question is, what happens if you lose internet connection and you are trying to access your BI server from your phone/tablet/computer over the local network? Someone will need to run some experiments... As long as your phone and BI already has the local "Zerotier" IP address on both already, it may be able to talk directly over the local network, if the Zerotier app isn't dynamically re-assigning/periodically polling for the devices...
Blue Iris remote access wish-list
Just going to toss this out. I have several BI5 servers scattered around different construction sites. It's occasionally hard, and in one case impossible to get DDNS or Static IP services from some rural ISPs. I'm also beta testing Starlink, which at this time has no Static or DDNS...ipcamtalk.comZeroTier | Global Networking Solution for IoT, SD-WAN, and VPN
ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.www.zerotier.com
No, mine is off and it's working.Requires UPnP to be on in the router?