We have tested Starlink
Together with our partner, we have tested Starlink’s satellite internet service. We received positive feedback with good experiences, the technology delivers the promised parameters.
We are the first in Hungary to provide Starlink solutions exclusively for business customers as a representative of an official reseller. However, before we made the service available to you, we thoroughly tested it with one of our partners.
The first impression is that it is extremely easy to install. The package consists of an outdoor antenna and an indoor router, the latter managed from the Starlink app. The antenna does not need to be precisely adjusted to a specific point.
The indoor unit has built-in WiFi. The Ethernet port is optional, but if available, you can bridge the device and place your router behind it. In this case, your device gets the IP address and the WiFi goes through it, Starlink’s WiFi is disconnected.
We tested the parameters of the connection in three different configurations.
- In the first case, it was only a router and provided standard internet. This is how the vast majority of business customers use Starlink. At that time the download speed was 144 Mbps and the upload speed was 28.9 Mbps. The theoretical maximum for the service was 150/25 Mbps, so uploads even exceeded that.
- In the second case, our partner connected it to his network via a tunnel and added his IP address. This was a more specialised solution: an IP-based data transmission medium was set up via Starlink, essentially from the user’s point of view it looked like our partner was the service provider. At that time we measured 70.4 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload bandwidth. This is a particularly good result, because a tunnelled solution reduces the speed of a traditional satellite connection to a tenth, and latency increases significantly, whereas here it was unchanged.
- In the third case, it was more of a technological experiment. We developed a Layer2 connection, a physics-based data transmission medium with Starlink. This was significantly slower, measuring 35.6 Mbps download and 7.17 Mbps upload.
The latency in each case was between 42 and 60 ms, exactly the value promised by Starlink, which is much lower than conventional satellite internet.
If you want to find out more about our business packages using Starlink, click here. And if you’re interested in how your company can try it out, click here.
