New forum member here. Joined to learn and share my future experience with Starlink!
I live on the gulf coast of Florida, in farm country about 30 mins from the coast. My neighborhood only has one ISP available. It is fiber and has mostly been reliable but since living here for (3 months now) we have had 2 internet outages, with the longer of the two lasting 6+ hours. As a work from home-er, and no other ISP options available, I decided to check starlink to see if it was available in the area. To my surprise it was available and I should now be receiving my starlink in a couple of weeks. I was surprised because I have been hearing that some people are having to wait until 2023.
My goal with starlink is to use it as a redundant internet backup source for when our main source goes down. Anyone else doing this?
-Paul
Hello Paul, welcome to the community! I know of 2 systems set up that are using Starlink as there primary system and there other provider is the back-up system. You will need a network switch with 2 wan connections, there are lots on the market. Ideally if you can bond the connections and use it as one that would be the best but is expensive, using the secondary as a fail-safe connection is cheaper and easier to do. You should be able to do this easily with a little bit of research, do you know what equipment your using now in your network? You might even have it built in already…