New house in mountains only has bad DSL (construction finished in March).

Ordered Starlink residential and it got approved faster than I thought. Worried about getting out of line so ordering now.

I am looking to bond Starlink with a wireless card using Peplink and their BR1 and Fusion services. Possibly adding the dsl in the future to the mix.

Anybody have any experience or recommendations with bonding (Peplink, Speedify, Teradek, etc) and/or Starlink in general?

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Posted by RealDawg

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Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 10/5/23 at 5:18 am to RealDawg

No responses but will update:

Still preparing my setup for new remote house.

Starlink is going ok at current home. 130mbs down and 30 up is typical, <30 latency. Since they officially opened GA it’s slower peak times. It does vary a lot but hasn’t been down.

ATT won’t provide DSL service there anymore and hasn’t built tower out for Internet Air (yet). I am going to get a regular hotspot as secondary.

Current plan is just to smooth the two with Peplink devices and not bond unless really necessary to avoid any related VPN hassles.

I did just order Rasberry Pi Home Assistant yellow which I am excited about! I have been looking forward to building out home automation in new place for a while.

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Posted by Korkstand

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 10/5/23 at 6:47 am to RealDawg

I'm not super-knowledgeable on the subject, but I think the only way to really "bond" two different internet connections is via a complicated setup involving a VPN, and even then I'm not sure how great the result would be.

Typically a dual-WAN router can work in two modes: load balance or failover. Load balance will pick a connection for each request from a device, and failover will use the primary connection unless it is not available and then switch to the secondary. I don't think you can just plug into two ISPs and combine their speed (except for special applications like maybe torrents which makes a ton of connections and they might get load balanced and boosted).

This post was edited on 10/5/23 at 6:48 am

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