[RE-wrenches] Outback OpticsRE+Starlink redux

[John Blittersdorf]

Dan,
  I have at least 5 systems with Starlink and Optics working fine.  I had
Starlink at my place for a couple years until Fidium Fiber showed up and
ran fiber over 3/4 miles up my road just for me at no charge.. I still have
the starlink set up as backup if needed.  My only complaint with starlink
was cost per month and occasional short signal losses.  Mostly didn't care
except when in an online meeting and missed an important bit of info.

John Blitterdorf
offgridvermont.com




On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM Dan Fink via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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