[RE-wrenches] Outback OpticsRE+Starlink redux

[Dan Fink]

Esteemed Wrenches - can anyone provide me with recent updates as to how
Starlink is working with outback OpticsRE currently? I tried it on a
nightmare offgrid system last year, it didn't work, I called Outback tech
support, they said it was an issue, and they were working on Mate3S
firmware updates, and then they were sold to the EG4 folks who are
non-responive.

I have a remote nightmare system that I thought I finally fixed over a year
ago. The internet connection is DSL (yepper, the 1990s are calling and want
to laugh at me) and I fixed the problem for about a year by keeping just
OpticsRE and the Resol solar thermal on the old DSL, and moving all mobile
device traffic to Starlink.This a southern Colorado "Santa Fe" style estate
with rebar-embedded concrete walls that block all wifi. All Outback Optics
is hardwired LAN, with a fiber optic LAN system installed just for Outback
because the over 50 foot distance didnt work.

Now it is misbehaving again, on the DSL. Stays connected for 4-6 hours,
then drops. Homeowner trained the housekeeper to reboot the Mate3S, works
for 4-6 hours then drops, she only goes there once a week or 2. Can I try
again to connect the Mate3S hardwired to Starlink, or will it be once again
a futile waste of my billing hours as was last time?

I'm just happy the homeowner is a very nice guy and OK with paying my bill
for so many site visits, even when those visits don't fix the problem.
That's a rare situation, many other clients would be suing me.

But when I started in this business in 1994, there were no solar monitoring
LANs and only horribly slow satellite links that wouldn't do data. I would
never have known what that even meant. Now, seems like I am doing more LAN
networking work than PV volts amps watts. And this is FLA batteries, not
LiFePO4 and no BMS.

What a strange new world we live in.

Owner, Buckville Energy Consulting LLC
IREC Certified Instructor for PV and Small Wind Installation
NABCEP Certified PV System Inspector
NABCEP PV Associate
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