I’d reach out to starlink directly to tell them what you’re doing. Pitty also that you’re stuck with the external ethernet which only goes about 500M from what many are saying. That could also be your bottleneck.

Considering the investment (and the marketability) of your situation they should look at setting different rules on their QoS devices.

Maybe also ask them for one of the new modems they’ve been trialing in the US with ethernet baked in. I think it would would be a great live production test senario for them.

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Hi Mike, there were reports coming out of the UK that Starlink throttled download speed (to 50 Mbps) for those who downloaded large files. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if they also throttle speed (or rather reallocate bandwidth) in a certain cell if one user is taking up the bulk of it (to preserve the experience for everyone else).

With that said, Starlink can host around 60 users per cell, so your location is far from reaching its limit. So, I wouldn’t be too worried about being throttled.

Amazon vis-à-vis Kuiper is yet to deploy its first satellite, so it’s hard to tell.

However, SpaceX and Starlink engage in a number of bandwidth-boosting strategies, including your previously mentioned inter-satellite links, simply deploying more sats and ground stations (thus decreasing uplink and downlink times), launching more potent satellites (like the Gen2 mini’s; see here: https://starlinkinsider.com/starlink-gen2-satellites/) offering greater throughput, utilizing phased-array antennas (thus allowing signal to be electronically steered and enabling multiple users at a time to use the same satellite), utilizing load balancing, and so forth.

With that said, it’s hard to tell exactly how Starlink manages network resources as SpaceX tends to be super secretive about its tech (rightly so).