So what's the best way to use Starlink at home? What router/wifi boosters etc would y'all recommend?


3,600 sq ft house that is sort of a C shape.

Curious why you'd drop cable internet for Starlink

If you're planning and using an additional router/switch/device or whatever, you are most likely going to need their adapter plug to convert into a standard cat 5,6 or whatever cable you'll need for an ethernet connection.

Fair enough. I'm not familiar with Xfinity. I just assumed on cable internet you'd be getting a couple hundred mbps. I mostly deal with Spectrum and their base plans are 300-400 in most areas.

Everything here is going to be limited by the coax currently strung on the poles. It's old and crappy and constantly out.

Depending on your use - the starlink routers may be fine. Its how I'm currently set up.

I may swap over to a "real" router / AP's all over but I havent had any issues (and I already had the extra mesh routers handy).

If you're going to go with a security system or something I'd recommend setting those up on its own network and hardlined into the router. My cameras would constantly disconnect on the starlink routers. Soon as I put it on its network it fixed the problem entirely.

Can you explain whats not smart? I'm not techy enough to know the difference - but I can split 2.4 / 5 gHz, change password etc on my starlink router.

I think this is what I need to do. My dish isn't permanently mounted yet, as I was waiting to figure out the final set up.

But this sounds like the route I need to take.

Without being or trying to sound tinfoil :

1. Never trust your provider's router, no matter who they are. There's no reason to give some entity/company you don't work for or control complete access to your home network at any time. It's just stupid.

2. If their router has wifi - you don't use it. Because you're attaching your own router to theirs (or their modem), only devices behind (or on) YOUR router are truly on YOUR network.

So if you want wifi - get your own router that has wifi build in, or get a separate access point and plug it in and have wifi that way....

Either way, DO NOT USE your xfinity/spectrum/att/frontier/charter/google/whatever router as your only protection. Don't do it. Tell them to put their's in pass-thru (also known as bridged mode) if they insist.

What is that? Bridges/pass-thru is like a paper towel tube... it 'hollows out' their router so that ALL packets are not manipulated AT ALL, and your supplied router in your house is the first line of defense. That's important for a variety of reasons I won't touch here, but most have to do with double-nats and port filtering.

GET AND CONTROLLING OUR OWN NETGEAR ROUTER COSTS <$100. JUST DO IT.

FunnyFarm14 said:

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Can you explain whats not smart? I'm not techy enough to know the difference - but I can split 2.4 / 5 gHz, change password etc on my starlink router.

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You can change the pass, but it's always theirs. Period. See my post above.

And all modern wifi's allow you to either split the 2.4/5 or even combine them in a 'auto-sensing' way. That's not a big deal or special or unique at all.