Context:
Vacation rental in Costa Rica
- 6 units, with a Ubiquiti AP in each
- Located in the US
Have access to 3 ISPs:
- 100Mbit Kolbi Internet
- 200Mbit Starlink
- 50Mbit LTE SIM
Situation:
Kolbi provides a decent experience and can be upgraded to 500Mbit, however every 2-3 hours on average, there is usually a 2-3 minute outage and the speed can vary. I’m looking to provide the most reliable internet connection possible (99% higher) to attract more digital nomads. Starlink currently goes out for about 20s every 5 minutes (15 minutes total over a 12hr timeframe). I believe I can fix this by eliminating some obstructions, but lets pretend for safety’s sake that this will never be 100% reliable.
Proposed solution:
Hardware
- Balance 20X
- TP-Link USB Gig ethernet dongle
- MikroTik SXT LTE6 kit
Setup
- Convert one LAN to virtual WAN
- Use TP-Link USB dongle to provide another WAN (I understand this is a USB WAN Port)
- Connect the MikroTik SXT LTE6 kit to the USB dongle (note - the reason I’m not using the internal LTE is because I cant’ find a BPL-021X-LTE-E-T-PRM or BPL-021X-LTE-MX-T-PRM to purchase in the US)
- Potentially use a server in the US at my home there
- I’m thinking of basically having a setup where traffic gets balanced equally across Kolbi and Starlink and then any spillover goes to the LTE connection (rationale - LTE will be limited to like 5GB data cap per month)
Questions:
- Can I order the International or Latin America LTE version and ship it to the US?
- Is the virtual WAN license free for life?
- What advantage would Speedfusion do for this setup? Does it simply make the existing bonded WAN more reliable?
- Can you run Speedfusion Solo on a Raspberry Pi at my house in the US? If not, any recommendations? I also have a Synology DSM that has docker running on it.
Any other feedback?