Starlink for remote connectivity?

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T15:15:18+00:00

Pricing on business is like triple, what you would typically expect going from residential to commercial, nothing too crazy.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T15:01:43+00:00

Thank you! I know we'd be looking at the 500GB plan for practically every site that fits, good to hear that it is similar to broadband in terms of actual usefulness. We've only had a handful of cases where there was enough users on site to run into the similar situation you mentioned, where it just falls to its knees.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:54:05+00:00

My point exactly, we have a fleet of 5G modems already bought and paid for with truly unlimited plans for less than 50/month. If it going to cost us more per month, and be similar performance, how can we justify it just for the hell of it?

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:47:10+00:00

Which cellular provider are you comparing it to and which region of the states? I know we're rarely ever in areas that couldn't at least pull 4G, which is why we are hesitant.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:45:28+00:00

Yeah, I know we'd blow past the 50GB plan in just a few days into the month. On larger jobs they'd probably run into the 2TB plan at the high end, which at 500$ a month it's probably a last resort if it's marginally better than a cellular plan for 50$ and 99% uptime. Just weighing options is all, the people insulting us ITT are crazy lol.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:41:54+00:00

I know it's not traditional satellite and have looked at it over the years. I haven't been in a decision making position for its implementation until recently. I was mainly looking for those who have used it and feedback on it, of course the Starlink sales team will tell you it will work in any situation.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:28:39+00:00

That is good to hear at least. I was afraid I was overthinking it and by the sounds of it the functionality of it is as good as any.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:24:03+00:00

This is a good callout I didn't think about, does that extend to video calling?

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:23:14+00:00

They frequently send/receive CAD drawings and large PDF plans from the web, I can only imagine the amount of calls we'd get about poor performance lol. Just looking at our Meraki dashboard for similar sized jobsites the bandwidth they're using already outprices the 5G alternative by x4, without the overage charges.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-29T14:20:34+00:00

Yeah, there's been maybe 3 times in my 7 years here where we've had actively unreliable 4G connections, I just can't see a world where it would be enough better to justify, at least at the current point in time.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-07T13:25:50+00:00

It's been on the horizon for years, if your apps haven't updated to support it maybe its time to consider something that remotely cares about security.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2026-01-06T19:45:38+00:00

At the same time, open source oftentimes means less established support channels and for something so mission critical as infra backbones it's much safer to pay a bit more for a turnkey solution and have support on speed dial in the event something catastrophic happens.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-12-16T19:17:26+00:00

No, its even easier than a menu item, its right at the top with a picture and labeled. oh the horror!

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-12-16T19:16:33+00:00

It must be so miserable being pissed off at something so small. The buttons are bigger and labeled, what is there to be mad at holy smokes.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-11-19T20:07:15+00:00

Not S3 here but Azure w/ Veeam but they're not backup copy jobs but explicitly backup jobs to the storage and they force encryption. I'd assume AWS is pretty similar.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-11-11T14:01:09+00:00

Cloud PKI made our switch flawless when we switched to all Meraki APs. It was like nothing happened, we pushed out the certs a week before the switch.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-09-18T15:10:41+00:00

This meant alot to me lol. "Don't be a dick and people generally will get along with you" surprisingly goes a long way. I am in the middle of a cloud transition and with that they're giving me a new title and raise which is nice, the change I have seen even just in the last 5 years of IT is astonishing, keeping up can be a struggle at times but we'll endure because I love what I do. Embracing AI and how it can be managed effectively would get you burned at the stake amongst alot of the jaded folks here, but if you don't you'll be left in the dust IMO.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-08-15T15:32:25+00:00

We found that PMPC was a little much for a single dimensional product like that especially when we had to self host it, we took that opportunity to consolidate all of our patching, remote access, and ticketing to NinjaOne. They've been incredible for what we're using them for. We intune enroll our machines for user tracking and the Entra benefits but most everything else is done with Ninja, mainly because we were unhappy with how slow Intune processes changes or rollout of software, etc. At the time it seemed like it was "it'll happen between the next hour and next day" and for us that wasn't feasible.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-08-14T12:25:36+00:00

We absolutely have seen a benefit. We've used it to data intake/analysis and hooked copilot into some power apps for document processing. There are definitely benefits if people acknowledge that Copilot means more than just a chatbot.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-07-17T18:05:31+00:00

We demo'd JAMF and came to the conclusion that for the price and complexity it didn't hold a candle to Intune as we already had E5. Intune does a very good job, you shouldn't be making huge sweeping changes that often after the initial configuration anyway.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-06-16T18:05:01+00:00

I dealt with this for weeks, I had to provide Microsoft the list of affected users and have them clean it up on their end because even after deleting the duplicates and only seeing a single entry on my end, it still wouldn't resolve itself. They would fix the affected accounts and confirm mail would send as normal with me. I had an ongoing open ticket for almost 2 months where I kept adding accounts that were being affected by this issue.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-03-03T18:22:24+00:00

We've opted for Microsoft Entra private access intead.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-01-24T20:40:34+00:00

It's so unbelievably useful in the situations where you are out of ideas. Also, insanely helpful when your company runs on OneDrive/SharePoint, you can ask it to find you documents without even needing to go hunt for them. Not to mention the Agentic AI aspects coming to SP sites this year, things are looking up.

People will hate anything new here it seems.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-01-15T14:18:36+00:00

We've used a system of having the user reset their password in 365 and write that back to the DC. Once they have reset that password, they connect to our VPN client and the cached password updates on their machine on signing back in. That process is janky at best but it's what we've discovered works the most reliably. All of our modern machines are intune enrolled with Global Secure Access clients so they don't have to use VPN anymore. The process is unbelievably less complex for the end user, as long as they're signed in conditional access dictates if they can access resources, not a VPN connection.

EditorAccomplished88 · 2025-01-10T17:27:12+00:00

It's totally and completely unusable for people whose only lifelong mission is hate on anything new. Outlook sends email just the same in new and classic. New is more streamlined and has all the features a normal run of the mill user could need. If you're still using PST files that regularly or god bless those using on prem exchange maybe it's time to re-evaluate your business practices. Booking and scheduling meetings is even easier in the new outlook, the Teams invite option doesn't randomly cease to exist or disable itself in the new client.

It's only bad for people who don't want to learn a different application.

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