How To Share Internet Households In Starlink In The Philippines

A Starlink Internet satellite dish under testing in urban Philippine territory. (Courtesy of Gadget Addict YouTube channel.)

Whether a Starlink Internet in the Philippines may or may not available in a designated areas until future availability in Q1 2023, those single household that would get a home satellite unit to subscribe and activate might likely to become lucky to enjoy such global Internet service with high-speed connectivity with a few reduced latency. But the problem is that buying a unit is too expensive and not so affordable to low-income households. So if they want to get unlimited Internet experience from a lone lucky Starlink household to another, why not to be shared thru Wi-Fi or Mesh network?

In this blog, here's a tip on how to subscribe, connect, and share one another for every low-income househols to access Starlink Internet service.

Donate From Neighboring Households

Since a single Starlink satellite tranceiver unit costs about estimately Php 30,000 including for a purchase of Wi-Fi or Mesh network unit, those interested households may rather pay Php 2,000 for every 20 households or Php 4,000 for every 10 households, both projectedly a total of Php 40,000. A single financial holder who was responsible to handle a cash from every neighborhood must be purchase ahead to get a set of unit package as mentioned.

Make Stop-Gap Maximum Bitrate

Since a Starlink satellite Internet generates a theoretical 150 to 200 Mbps both uplink and downlink depending on the demand of household subscribers per a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite unit, every Starlink host household must set a stop-gap maximum bitrate per households using Wi-Fi or home mesh network at about 5 to 10 Mbps for every 20 households or 15 to 20 Mbps for every 10 households. This will ensure to regulate for sharing data without having to get unwanted, excessive higher bitrate even on downloading and media streaming.

Use Basic Wide SD or HD Streaming Instead

In order to make a stable Starlink Internet host household, every interconnected Wi-Fi or mesh networked households must rather use HD Android Smart TV (or any streaming box in Android OS or Apple TV) in 720p or 1080p resolution in time they use Netflix, YouTube, or IPTV. The streamed content must be LCEVC H.264 adaptive bitrate (ABR), VP9, or AV1 not exceeding 2 to 4 Mbps.

Tweaking Latency

One of the biggest challenge to make reliable high speed Internet is to overcome from a few 0.01 to 0.1 second delay feed known as latency. This was a concern for most online video gamers who were expected to manuever an animated characters and fields in a game without a hitch so as to hit a specified target or spot, mostly field point shooting (FPS) scene. Worry no more or a little bit, most Starlink LEO satellites make sure their transmission would be "on-time" from datacenter to households depending on tweaking an amount of data to transmit and receive and vice versa, mainly due to a near distance from Earth's atmosphere at about 300 miles.

Wrapping Up

In due time it's up for Starlink to deploy more LEO satellites to access a demanding households in remote or underserved areas in the Philippines in order to maintain a constant high speed connectivity; that is, the higher the demand, the slower the speed due to excessive data sharing in accordance of ratio limit (for example, 1:10,000).

The exclusive Philippine datacenter provider Data Lake Inc. for Starlink, including its aforementioned partner, however, is currently awaiting for NTC license permit not only accessing local Philippine-based websites but also capable to support key foreign websites under Philippine territory, just as in current fiber optic network providers.