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***Official*** Starlink satellite internet (1 Viewer)

I have had Starlink since February of 2021. There have been very few issues. It has been a very solid, if expensive, internet solution for us in the sticks. Last year, T-mobile expanded their network into our area and offers their wi-fi internet at a 1/4 the cost of my Starlink. I did the free trial and the T-mobile service was very unreliable. Sticking with the more expensive Starlink for now.
 
I thought Starlink's top speed was in the 100-150Mbps range. Target is to eventually get to 1Gbps. The dish is still susceptible to weather. Great solution for rural areas.
 
So is it possible to mesh this?

My new house has an outbuilding about 30 feet from the house and would like to stream TV's out there?

Has anyone done this?
 
So is it possible to mesh this?

My new house has an outbuilding about 30 feet from the house and would like to stream TV's out there?

Has anyone done this?
I think it would work the same as it would for any gateway. You need 1 gateway to access the internet and you can network behind it as you see fit. For a dedicated link like that I would consider a cat5 run though... Do you have access to a conduit that runs underground? How does the outbuilding get power from your main panel? Does the outbuilding have a phone line?
 
So is it possible to mesh this?

My new house has an outbuilding about 30 feet from the house and would like to stream TV's out there?

Has anyone done this?
I think it would work the same as it would for any gateway. You need 1 gateway to access the internet and you can network behind it as you see fit. For a dedicated link like that I would consider a cat5 run though... Do you have access to a conduit that runs underground? How does the outbuilding get power from your main panel? Does the outbuilding have a phone line?
I’m not sure where the power runs underground, but I’ve been thinking about running cat 5. I can dig my own trench if necessary. I can also run it to the second outbuilding that is right next to the other one. They are about 10’ apart.
 
So is it possible to mesh this?

My new house has an outbuilding about 30 feet from the house and would like to stream TV's out there?

Has anyone done this?
I think it would work the same as it would for any gateway. You need 1 gateway to access the internet and you can network behind it as you see fit. For a dedicated link like that I would consider a cat5 run though... Do you have access to a conduit that runs underground? How does the outbuilding get power from your main panel? Does the outbuilding have a phone line?
I’m not sure where the power runs underground, but I’ve been thinking about running cat 5. I can dig my own trench if necessary. I can also run it to the second outbuilding that is right next to the other one. They are about 10’ apart.
This is what I would do. 1/2” pvc
 
Just found this thread. Moved to Italy end of June and internet has been a complete nightmare. Italy is a mess, but it would take me years to explain how bad their customer is for internet. After 2 months my electrician suggested Starlink. it’s $40/mo. after the equipment investment. Equipment came this week, but i am waiting on a wall mounting pole. I hooked it up and the speeds seem great. the dish is actuated, so it moves on its own. my electrician will help exterior mount this and then drill into my house. i am hopeful the modem reaches throughout, but i might need to mesh or extend. whatever the heck those 2 statements mean.
 
the wall mount arrived yesterday and i should have this mounted and active early next week. i have read weather won’t be a huge factor here, but will it be like DTV, where strong storms disrupt service?
 
the wall mount arrived yesterday and i should have this mounted and active early next week. i have read weather won’t be a huge factor here, but will it be like DTV, where strong storms disrupt service?
I am living in the Spanish country side and will follow your progress with interest... ;)
 
the wall mount arrived yesterday and i should have this mounted and active early next week. i have read weather won’t be a huge factor here, but will it be like DTV, where strong storms disrupt service?
Heavy heavy rain will disrupt signal. But usually not for long.
 
Wind does not really affect it. There is a reason they designed it flat.

What I want to know is how you are getting it for $40 a month. We pay way more than that here.
 
the wall mount arrived yesterday and i should have this mounted and active early next week. i have read weather won’t be a huge factor here, but will it be like DTV, where strong storms disrupt service?
I am living in the Spanish country side and will follow your progress with interest... ;)
what do you do now?
We have no cable at our location and get internet via a local wireless internet service provider (WISP). We have a small dish on our roof with a direct line of sight to the provider's antenna on the mountain across (literally, even though it's about 4 miles away). We get around 60 Mbps download, which is not amazing, but okay. It's very stable.
 
Wind does not really affect it. There is a reason they designed it flat.

What I want to know is how you are getting it for $40 a month. We pay way more than that here.
lots of crappy things in italy, but phone service prices are crazy low. i use windtre and my wife vodafone. my plan has unlimited minutes here, unlimited data and i get 300 minutes a month to call the US for 19.99. no sms included, it’s like .25 a message and you keep a residual you can top up. but we don’t use sms here, only whatsapp, which is the reason why they use whatsapp international. i haven’t sent a text yet from this phone. my wife pays 9.99 a month for what i have, but no calls to the US since she is working and can use her work computer for calling. i had to pay musk around 300 for the equipment i bought, then it’s 40 a month for the higher plan, no throttling. they offer a cheaper plan for 29.99, but it says low priority speed. router to internet speed on my brief turn on was 215 upload, 20 download.
 
the wall mount arrived yesterday and i should have this mounted and active early next week. i have read weather won’t be a huge factor here, but will it be like DTV, where strong storms disrupt service?
It'll go out very briefly during unusually heavy storms, but it's not nearly as bad as DTV is/was.
 
This may be a horrible idea to post this, but if you look at the hurricane map currently, I've got the eastern edge of the storm just now getting to me. If you look at a map, and go due north of the middle of Lake Pontchartain I'm roughly half way between the lake and the MS state line. Starlink hasn't missed a beat yet. I'll update after the storm.
 
This may be a horrible idea to post this, but if you look at the hurricane map currently, I've got the eastern edge of the storm just now getting to me. If you look at a map, and go due north of the middle of Lake Pontchartain I'm roughly half way between the lake and the MS state line. Starlink hasn't missed a beat yet. I'll update after the storm.
Made it through the tropical storm with no outages that I'm aware of.
 
This may be a horrible idea to post this, but if you look at the hurricane map currently, I've got the eastern edge of the storm just now getting to me. If you look at a map, and go due north of the middle of Lake Pontchartain I'm roughly half way between the lake and the MS state line. Starlink hasn't missed a beat yet. I'll update after the storm.
Made it through the tropical storm with no outages that I'm aware of.
glad you are safe and this is good info. my starlink should be up tomorrow, weather, dutch electrician working in italy and his 10 foot concrete drill permitting.
 
This may be a horrible idea to post this, but if you look at the hurricane map currently, I've got the eastern edge of the storm just now getting to me. If you look at a map, and go due north of the middle of Lake Pontchartain I'm roughly half way between the lake and the MS state line. Starlink hasn't missed a beat yet. I'll update after the storm.
Made it through the tropical storm with no outages that I'm aware of.
The app tracks outages for you, sometimes I will have a few outages that are less than 30 seconds in a day that I never notice. Sometimes I have none.
 
Got this done today with the help of the dutch electrician. basically, i bought the actuated dish with router and i added the wall mount and ethernet adapter to mesh. he had to drill through a 20 foot wall to get inside out, but the dish attached to wall pretty easily and well secured. i bought the tenda nova 3 node wi-fi mesh. plugged main node into the ethernet port in the starlink router and basically that now becomes my main router. plugged in the other nodes near the main and they activated automatically. moved one to each floor and renamed the network in honour of my last beagle. speed and coverage and operation is seemless and i am no IT eggspurt.
 
he had to drill through a 20 foot wall
20’ wall?
Yeah that seems impossible.

Maybe 20"?
Feet….my side wall was crazy thick. It was hollow in some points inside, but he used what i am pretty sure was a 15-20 foot bit and it barely poked thru the outside. Remember, this is italy and it’s all stone. This was no small task.
my signal is pretty strong. one of not many things that have gone easily here. i needed a win.
 
Glad things got working for you. Wife received our fiber box which also has a landline and TV box. She set up the wifi using the built in router but I have a mesh router coming on the boat at the end of the month. Prices are ridiculously cheap for the speeds we are getting.
 
Glad things got working for you. Wife received our fiber box which also has a landline and TV box. She set up the wifi using the built in router but I have a mesh router coming on the boat at the end of the month. Prices are ridiculously cheap for the speeds we are getting.
makes you wonder why stuff is so expensive in the states.
 

It's funny this came up here. As a photographer who really made my notoriety via nightscapes I am very torn, because I do believe worldwide wifi without dead zones is a major necessity for the future. I will say in photography circles people have been complaining about this consistently for a long time now.

But yea, it really sucks for night photos. I do think it's kind of inevitable anyway though. Our sky will only be filling with more and more satellites for perpetuity.
 
I'm a noob on Starlink. Thank you for the thread. Are there options or best practices if you're looking to install it for a home situation?
 
I'm a noob on Starlink. Thank you for the thread. Are there options or best practices if you're looking to install it for a home situation?
i think the problem in the states is the monthly cost, $120. though att had me at $75 before i left the states. i don’t know how much the starlink equipment costs, here it was around €350 but i added a wall mount and ethernet split, which is required if you want to mesh and hardwire something into the router.
 

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