Starlink installation in Rhodes and the Dodecanese, from the big islands to the small ones

A Starlink installation in Rhodes and Kos is mostly about what lies outside the towns. Rhodes town and Kos town have good fixed lines in many places, but inland villages and southern Rhodes, or detached houses in the Kos countryside, often do not.

On the smaller islands it is harder still. On Leipsoi, Tilos, Nisyros, Halki, Agathonisi or Kastellorizo, the fixed line may be slow or non-existent, and mobile signal depends on where in the house you stand. For people who live there year-round, work remotely or let rooms, Starlink is often the only connection good enough for video calls and streaming.

The large hotels of Rhodes and Kos usually have a fixed connection, but a line fault at full occupancy stops reception, bookings, POS and guest Wi-Fi all at once. Starlink goes in as a backup on a failover router, so critical operations carry on.

We work with the hotel's IT manager or take on the network ourselves. We separate hotel operations from the guest network with VLANs, so that on failover the tills and booking system get priority. For smaller properties in villages without a good line, Starlink can also be the main connection.

Rhodes and Kos have flights from Athens, so for jobs there we fly and ship materials ahead. For the smaller islands we continue on the local ferries from Rhodes or Kos. When the job needs a mast or heavy materials, we take the ferry from Piraeus.

Ferries to the small islands are cancelled in bad weather. So we keep a spare day in the schedule and tell you straight away if anything needs to change. Where possible we combine jobs on neighbouring islands so travel costs are shared.