In need of a switch/gateway for new Starlink setup

[Hexadecimal]

I'm building a house in the rural country side and will be using Starlink for my internet access. My house is wired for Cat6 in each room and is run to a central closet. Should I be fine with just a regular Gigabit switch to put everything on to the same network, or should I put a custom firewall/gateway between the starlink and the rest of the network?

[ChrisLoudon]

1 hour ago, Hexadecimal said:

I'm building a house in the rural country side and will be using Starlink for my internet access. My house is wired for Cat6 in each room and is run to a central closet. Should I be fine with just a regular Gigabit switch to put everything on to the same network, or should I put a custom firewall/gateway between the starlink and the rest of the network?

You should be fine with any old 1Gbs switch.

 

When I had StarLink, I had the optional ethernet adapter into a switch which then snaked off into other parts of the house with Cat6.

 

How is StarLink these days? I live in fairly rural part of south Scotland and went from 8mbit DSL to almost 300Mbit with StarLink but I've heard the speeds are much lower these days.

 

Thankfully, 1Gbs fibre came last year!

[Hexadecimal]

6 hours ago, ChrisLoudon said:

You should be fine with any old 1Gbs switch.

 

When I had StarLink, I had the optional ethernet adapter into a switch which then snaked off into other parts of the house with Cat6.

 

How is StarLink these days? I live in fairly rural part of south Scotland and went from 8mbit DSL to almost 300Mbit with StarLink but I've heard the speeds are much lower these days.

 

Thankfully, 1Gbs fibre came last year!

Thanks!

 

Everything I've heard from other folks in North America have said it's a blessing and amazing. The new Gen3 router comes with ethernet ports again so I won't need to buy the adapter. The only other thing available in my area is older satellite internet and I've heard it's dog slow from my neighbor.

[ChrisLoudon]

Just now, Hexadecimal said:

Thanks!

 

Everything I've heard from other folks in North America have said it's a blessing and amazing. The new Gen3 router comes with ethernet ports again so I won't need to buy the adapter. The only other thing available in my area is older satellite internet and I've heard it's dog slow from my neighbor.

Nice one.

 

Great to hear the new router comes with ports. I was pretty miffed to find out mine needed an adapter.

 

Was a blessing for me as well. Going from <10mbit to almost 300 was amazing. Was just a shame that full fibre came to my area 12 months later although I did manage to sell my kit on eBay and recoup some of the initial investment.

 

Old Satellite internet is high orbit with terrible latency and really only of any use to people who don't want to use smoke signals or carrier Pidgeon, lol.

[NobleGamer]

17 hours ago, Hexadecimal said:

I'm building a house in the rural country side and will be using Starlink for my internet access. My house is wired for Cat6 in each room and is run to a central closet. Should I be fine with just a regular Gigabit switch to put everything on to the same network, or should I put a custom firewall/gateway between the starlink and the rest of the network?

I'm rural too, and if you want a shot at even lower latency when reaching your ISP's peak speeds, either confirm that Starlink has QoS that sets limits to upload & download speed, or consider a router with at least some sort of QoS.

 

Basically it prevents something called bufferbloat which caused latency when ISP's throughput is maxed out.

 

I have an Edgerouter-X that has SmartQueue QoS, and I used it for multi WAN failover between 5G internet and DSL. Many other routers have the same type of QoS.

[Hexadecimal]

On 10/9/2024 at 6:50 PM, NobleGamer said:

I'm rural too, and if you want a shot at even lower latency when reaching your ISP's peak speeds, either confirm that Starlink has QoS that sets limits to upload & download speed, or consider a router with at least some sort of QoS.

 

Basically it prevents something called bufferbloat which caused latency when ISP's throughput is maxed out.

 

I have an Edgerouter-X that has SmartQueue QoS, and I used it for multi WAN failover between 5G internet and DSL. Many other routers have the same type of QoS.

Thanks! I'm actually looking at setting up the starlink to run in bridge mode and going with a full Ubiquiti setup. Just gotta figure out what I need there first..