<div dir="auto"><div>Good Morning.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have had similar issues when running off the starlink integrated Wireless AP in the router, if that's the case, disable the 2.4Ghz radio and use 5Ghz only (or split the networks) WiFi calling on 2.4 fails every time (on Starlink Enterprise), works fine on the consumer plans.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Why? No idea, this was Starlink Support's suggestion a while back. Packet captures showed a similar issue with no return session initialisation packets, for a fix you'd think is totally unrelated. </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 24 Mar 2026, 7:23 am Cameron de Witte, <<a href="mailto:camerondw@smileit.com.au">camerondw@smileit.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hoping someone on the list might be able to point me toward a technical contact within Optus who could assist with a Voice over WiFi issue.</div>
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We operate Starlink Business services at a remote site where there is limited terrestrial mobile coverage, making VoWiFi essential for our team. We're finding that Optus VoWiFi will not activate over the Starlink Business connection since the recent outages
and subsequent IP reallocation, testing has it working fine on other ISPs and connections.</div>
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What we've established so far:</div>
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- The Starlink Business panels use a public IP allocation. VoWiFi does not activate on any handset we've tested.</div>
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- Consumer Starlink panels on the same site (which sit behind CGNAT on a different public IP range) work without issue - VoWiFi activates and calls complete normally.</div>
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- We've tested across multiple handsets with the same result.</div>
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- Packet captures show outgoing connection requests leaving the site, but we only see single packets returning from the Optus side - the session seem to never establish.</div>
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- As a workaround, routing the traffic back to our head office via VPN and out through that connection allows VoWiFi to work, but this isn't a sustainable solution for the site.</div>
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The behaviour appears to be something on the Optus side is filtering traffic for the Starlink Business IP range, while the consumer range is fine.</div>
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If anyone has a technical or network engineering contact at Optus who might be able to look into this, I'd really appreciate an introduction. Happy to provide packet captures or any other detail that would help.</div>
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Cameron.</div>
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