We have a customer that want to create a Speedfusion between two sites both with only Starlink WANs. from what I understand that we need a static public IP address at one side of the Speedfusion which I know Starlink doesn’t offer on any plan including the business plan.
I was wondering if there is a work around this?
Is that perhaps a regional thing, as every single one of my Starlinks gets a direct public IPv4 address (all on business plans, registered in the UK).
You could use a FusionHub hosted in a public cloud to act as a meeting point, the hub would have a static IP and you would build a tunnel towards that from each of the Starlink connected sites.
If all the remote Peplink devices are active PrimeCare units then you can just use the free FusionHub Solo licence for this purpose as they do not consume a licence slot on the hub, otherwise you would need to consider a FusionHub essentials license.
Where you host this may be up to you, or dictated by who can provide the lowest latency between the Starlink ground stations, but there are plenty of low/minimal cost options that are easy to get up and running.
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Without hub, you can go on your Starlink account and ask for publicly routable ip (dynamic but not so much, you need to activate the option) and use Findmypeplink as a dyndns service. Doing all from InControl should make it easy to afterwards configure the SF tunnel using their findmypeplink urls.
Thanks for the suggestion. how does the HUB in the cloud route between these two tunnels? is there a configuration needed on the hub? does this introduce latency in comparison to a PtP if we have a static address at one end?
Peers will advertise their local networks to the hub by default, and the hub would then tell each side about what is reachable through it.
Potentially yes, as I said in my first reply where you host the hub will dictate the path latency between it and the end points, but frankly as you are using Starlink on both sides your latency is already into 10s of ms here so I doubt any sensibly located hub would add anything significantly on to that.
As a starting point though I’d suggest to just host it in the same country as the POP that you’re Starlink is connecting to the internet through.
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