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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Starlink Rural Internet

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes’ new satellite internet setup — best use-cases and how to set it up. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 04:06 - Rural internet is huge for: Access to information Remote work Opens up job opportunities for many residents who can’t relocate due to family Home values Big city folk moving into rural areas and driving prices up is another issue altogether Smart rural home 05:46 - Previous setup We have a cottage LTE Routers Yagi Antennas Worked well, but slow $4/gig over 100gb Grey market - one went up/down Alternatives WISP - no access XPLORNET @ (hughesnet) - BRUTAL Bell LTE - $$$ - slow 08:35 - The signup, install, price $129 CAD Deposit ($100 USD) $650 for the dish $120/month Unlimited bandwidth Needs a clear view of the northern sky Clear from obstructions is key Every 1 foot up is 2 foot of obstructions cleared I put it on a 25ft piece of wood Bought a pipe adaptor from Starlink 09:59 - The performance These numbers are not impressive to anyone with fiber, but are LIFE CHANGING to rural folks From 30mbps - 200mbps down - some users posted ~350 down Upload from 25mpbs - 80mbps (better than you can pay for where I live in the city) Ping is around 40ms Downtime is measured in seconds Youtube streams super smoothly Zoom works great Facebook + Instagram issues Many reported changing DNS fixed it 14:21 - The equipment Starlink comes with a router Does not support bridge mode Doesn’t have WPS Only one hard-wired port POE-only UniFi Dream Machine Three access points POE switch for Starlink Router Gives you stats The ethernet is hard-wired into the dish, so you have to drill a huge hole in the house Links Starlink Wyze UniFi Dream Machine Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with javascript CSS node module barbecue tips get work flows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.2

Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro Lungo to Linsky

0:25.2

Welcome to Zintax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about how West got internet via satellites all the way out in the middle of nowhere

0:37.6

And that is a really neat peak into the future of the internet for many people

0:43.2

So in this episode, we're going to be talking all about the Starlink satellite internet and West's experience with it

0:49.4

My name is Scott Linsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is West boss. Hey everybody. This is our first podcast recording once we're back from our summer hiatus and

1:02.6

hilariously enough, we scheduled it for Labor Day, which neither of us realized

1:10.2

But here we are. I'm excited to be back to recording. It's been it was a nice break, but I'm stoked to be back. Yeah, me too.

1:17.2

It doesn't feel like a break to me because that whole time that we were on a break. I was on vacation that I was moving and then I'm setting up an office

1:25.2

Then we got family coming over. It is like just been go go go for me. So I look, you know, looked at the calendar. I was like holy cow. What month is this already? How did this happen?

1:34.6

So here we are. I'm ready to talk about your satellite internet. Not that I need such a thing with, you know, being in the city with my

1:42.4

Sentry link gigabit ups and downs, but yeah, this episode is sponsored by two amazing companies that are the equivalent of gigabit ethernet as far as companies go.

1:54.4

And that is sentry for all of your error and exception handling needs and fresh books. Now sentry is the perfect place to store all of your errors.

2:02.4

Log them and catalog them in ways that makes them easy. Well, hopefully you're not cataloging too many of them because you want to solve those errors.

2:09.8

You just catalog them for a short bit of time where you can then push them on to get hub issues or you can assign them to people. You can see when they were introduced.

2:17.6

You can do all of that more. It works with so many neat things. And guess what? I see a little bit of a banner on their site right now.

2:25.4

And it says performance monitoring in GraphQL. And so that's talking how you can monitor performance in GraphQL.

2:34.2

And then actually get the results of it in a sentry's own dashboard. It's pretty neat here. You can even get the names of the operations and queries and check all of that.

2:44.6

So if you're already doing a service for all these other things now you can just do one more thing and that's performance tracking with GraphQL.

2:51.4

Holy cow. I'm going to be definitely using this. So check it out at sentry.io use the coupon code tasty treat all or case all one word.

3:00.2

And you'll get two months for free. We are also sponsored by fresh books the cloud accounting solution. If you are a business with employees or contractors or you're a freelancer.

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