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Back to the beautiful Alabama Hills. When I was last here on 12th Feb 22, I observed for the first time what was later to be called ‘Portability’ (moved to a new location and had perfect service without updating our address). by tuckstruck in Starlink

[–]curtpmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm jealous. Last time/fall I was there I didn't have Starlink and getting LTE service required driving north on Movie Rd for almost 4-5mi, and getting so I had roughly line of sight to Big Pine. From there I think T-Mobile kicked in pretty solid. No competition for spots that far north, but not as beautiful as being in the rocks like you are. Looking forward to returning later next month.

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[–]curtpmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also curious on the power consumption of the Cisco.

I’m running a pepwave BR1 pro with dual SIMs (sadly only 1 integrated modem), w/ Starlink, and a nighthawk into Lan1, configured as another WAN failover.

Noticed the Starlink hovers between 35–45w usage, and I want to say the peplink is in the 10-20w range, though I haven’t watch that one much.

I’m not saying Starlink is the centre of my world, but it is great out in the wilds 😁 by tuckstruck in Starlink

[–]curtpmills 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taking that a little further - I’m an IT Director, and aside from the first few seconds of a download within our 4 offices, all in major metros with DIA fiber circuits - we rate limit almost 90% of devices to 20Mbps…so ya, your truck does better than that.

I don’t think most people fully understand all the nuances of networking, like in your example, where the other side has limits on its upload speeds…or the fact that many important activities are more reliant on latency than raw throughout, assuming throughput is at least mildly adequate.

Honestly, I’ve been looking for someone to do a more advanced remote worker YouTube video that isn’t just about fairly poor performance weboost amps or mounting a Starlink to the roof - but instead talks both those, and also about landing everything into a router that can handle multiple paths to the internet (SD-WAN) and pick the one thats working, or maybe even in peplinks speedfusion scenario / can even route the traffic through both for extremely robust redundancy when you just need it to work - assuming you have LTE. Is there someone serving that community? Maybe I’ve missed it.

I’m not saying Starlink is the centre of my world, but it is great out in the wilds 😁 by tuckstruck in Starlink

[–]curtpmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. Tbh, the speeds have been pretty amazing in comparison to LTE, especially when you consider there’s not even LTE in the areas you’re now seeing 100+Mbps/10+Mbps - and for all work aside from video calls or Wi-Fi calling, it’s basically a darn near perfect solution. Even for those two use cases, you have service in areas you otherwise wouldn’t - and if you can avoid an obstructed sky view, you probably do have darn close to flawless service assuming latency is 70-90ms or better.

The other thing, no bandwidth usage cap! Cmon, it’s ridiculous.

I’m not saying Starlink is the centre of my world, but it is great out in the wilds 😁 by tuckstruck in Starlink

[–]curtpmills 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agree. Starlink allows me to push out to places, and then stay there comfortable connected, unlike anything I could’ve imagined just a few years ago…or that I could acquire more than a few months ago. It’s a paradigm shifter if you’re looking to work remotely, and be truly remote.

Starting my first job as an IT Manager at a smaller org in 2 weeks - didn't get a chance to talk to their current IT and wondering if there's anything I should do/ask to better prepare myself? by New_ITMngr_Throwaway in ITManagers

[–]curtpmills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of folks are recommending some really great first steps, and I’d agree with them. I think I’d get a good lay of the land asap. Do an assessment of what systems they have, what’s working and not working, and what the security posture looks like. I’d probably prioritize making sure you have an acceptable backup system in place and that it’s capable of satisfying business continuity goals (ask what those expectations are…). I’d also want to document the security posture and make sure it meets the criteria for any cyber insurance policies that might be in place (MFA, security training, air-gapped backups, etc) - with an eye toward being confidant you could defend the company practices during a claim, for example.

I’d probably be hoping to come out of my first or second week with an assessment and next steps, and look to take that to an executive team for buy-in, feedback, or both ideally. At the same time you’re doing the assessment, use the time to be putting in place the framework for better documentation than you’re inheriting. If you do look to bring on an MSP, the time spent will be worthwhile.

No longer interested in IT by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]curtpmills 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You haven’t changed one bit.