StarLink for YWAM Staff
With over 9,500 satellites in orbit, many YWAM bases are taking advantage of Starlink.
To get an idea of what the Starlink constellation looks like, follow this link: https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink#
We are using Starlink and love the service, even with a couple of trees causing a little bit of an issue.
Starlink at your YWAM location.
Before moving to Hawaii, I was involved in providing filtered internet access to Schools in New Zealand.
I have a project underway to maximize Starlink for your Base with a small NAS Firewall.
Before moving to Hawaii, I was involved in providing filtered internet access to Schools in New Zealand.
I have a project underway to maximize Starlink for your Base with a small NAS Firewall.
Starlink for the YWAM Samoa staff.
Proposal: Digital Empowerment for YWAM Samoa
To: Prospective Partners and Supporters
Subject: Proposal for Starlink Connectivity & Digital Infrastructure at YWAM Samoa
The Vision: “To Know God and Make Him Known” in a Digital Age
At YWAM Samoa, our mission is to train and mobilize young people to serve the nations and share God’s love. To remain effective in modern evangelism and community development, our staff requires reliable, high-speed connectivity. We are seeking a one-time investment in hardware to launch a sustainable, staff-funded internet ecosystem that will transform our ministry’s reach.
The Opportunity: Digital Tools for Ministry
YWAM Samoa has recently adopted Google for Nonprofits, unlocking a suite of powerful tools for collaboration and outreach. High-speed internet via Starlink is the “missing link” that will enable our staff to:
- Master Digital Evangelism: Utilize professional email, cloud storage, and collaborative documents for ministry planning.
- Enhance Online Presence: Develop and manage ywamsamoa.org and social media platforms to mobilize long-term missionaries.
Foster Personal Growth: Access global training resources and workshops that are fundamental to ongoing staff development.
Financial Sustainability Model
We have developed a “Shared Cost” model that ensures long-term sustainability without ongoing financial dependence:
- One-Time Hardware Request: A donor investment of $1,998 Tala (750 USD) to cover the initial setup.
- Sustainable Operations: YWAM staff will contribute $6 Tala per month each for access.
- Starting with 30GB of data.
- Access dropped to 5mbs after the data limit is reached.
- Monthly Subscription: These collective staff contributions will cover the $150 Tala monthly Starlink subscription fee.
Impact: From $70 to $6 Tala
Currently, staff members often pay up to $70 Tala a month for individual, unreliable mobile data. This proposal reduces their monthly burden to just $6 Tala—a 91% savings—while providing significantly faster and more reliable service. This financial relief allows our staff to reinvest their limited resources directly back into their mission work.
Partner with YWAM Samoa
Investment Breakdown
| Item | Cost (Tala) | Purpose |
| Starlink Access Point | $999 | Provides high-speed, low-latency satellite internet across the campus. |
| Raspberry Pi Controller | $999 | An specialized industrial/managed Raspberry Pi setup to manage user access, rate-limit traffic, and ensure network security. |
| Total One-Time Goal | $1,998 | A permanent digital bridge for the base. |
Your partnership in this project is not just a gift of technology; it is an investment in the spiritual and professional growth of the young leaders reaching the 10/40 window from the shores of Samoa.
The firewall
Provide free Internet Access to people who visit your base.
The Firewall sits between your Starlink and your Public Access.
- Filtered Public Access internet.
- Keep the nasties out.
- Isolated Public Access.
- People cannot see each other’s phones or computers, even though they are on the same Wi-Fi.
- Your internal Base network is separate from this Public Access network.
- Rate Limited.
- The Public Access only gets 20% of your speed, 80% is still available to the internal Base network.
Wifi
On this public access network, the Firewall is also Cloud storage.
Your base can have a local website with content people can download to their phone to view and listen to when they are offline.
This content does not eat into any data cap you have with Starlink.
- Have the Jesus Video available in all the languages of your country.
- Have a Digital Copy of the Bible in your languages.
- Host the audio of the Bible in your languages.
- What other content do yu know about that could be hosted on your own internal website.
THE GREAT COMMISSION
Gutenberg revolution the world with the printing press.
Babbage invented the computer before it ever could be built.
In Starlink these two things are combined.
Online Classes
We are interested in democratizing learning.
How do we empower the 3/4 world to have access to learning that is so available to us, the 1/4 world?
Who is already the next Newton, Gutenberg, Babbage, Kelvin? Just needing the fire of knowledge to get them going?
ONLINE CLASSES
Pedang to the Philippines.
Kona to Rewanda.
SBS, DBS, R&R, Comms, Coding.
Teachers and Technictions.
STARLINK
We will need your help to partner with us in this new technology.
For the hardware.
For the subscription.
THE GREAT COMMISSION
Gutenberg revolution the world with the printing press.
Babbage invented the computer before it ever could be built.
In Starlink these two things are combined.
What is the goal?
It is easy to say we want to run online classes, but how do you link the parts together. What parts do you need to have. How will you mange the edge cases for when things do not go as supposed.
SYNCHRONOUS
Local & Remote.
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Learning in real-time, either live or remotely.
These people get to sit in a classroom, in a remote classroom in another country, or just in their home.
They view the lecture live, they can intact with the lecturer and fellow classmates.
A good lecturer will have preset interactive online activities so even the remote people who are by themselves feel involved.
ASYNCHRONOUS
Remote.
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This for students that are not in real-time.
They can be anywhere in the world, and follow the lectures after they have happened. They still get to interact with the class as much as their time zone allows. And as much as the lecturer makes their class interactive.
24/7 Availability
One on one coaches.
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With coaches in different time zones, locations that might have several students, people learning independently. Google Classroom gives you the ability to have a 24/7 classroom.
COSTS
Can be location based.
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The cost of the class would depend on the location it is being taken.
Equally, how you take the course will determine what credits area available.
From local in person, with housing, all the way to remote asynchronous course audit only.
What we think the parts are
There is a hunger from people that want to learn. We have people that want to impart what they already know. There are people that can run the classroom side of the school.
We need the skills and people to connect them all together.
- Are you a leader of a school that wants to go online?
- Are you a student that wants to learn online?
- Are you a geek? Do you want to learn how to stage a Google Classroom, setup up an OBS recording desk, manage the Google Meet or Zoom, record, and distribute the lecture for the asynchronous learner?
- Are you a geek traveler? Want to learn how to deploy Starlink base stations?
- Are you a mentor, wanting to provide one on one distance learning support?
The Cost of Starlink in Hawaii.
Starlink Termianal
Base station- Dish
- Power Supply
- Roof mounting unit
- Wifi Router
- Cabling
Starlink subscription
Subscription- Available in over 110 Countries.
- Speeds 100-200MB
- Latency 40-70ms
- Unlimited Data