GeorgiAg said:

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I posted in the other thread. I have best effort Starlink and it is consistently over 100 down and over 10 up.

I got on the waiting list very early.

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You also aren't in Texas. We're one of the most oversold markets.

During the day, I'm seeing 160/8, but peak has been single/low double digits again recently. For a while, they'd been consistently above 30mbps during peak but that changed with the last service updates

Anyone familiar with this extender?

https://ayrstone.com/www/

Love Gun said:

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We've got the Fire Stick and have You Tube TV. I've wondered how it fares with streaming.

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Have at our new house..I have up to 4 TVs plus at least 2 iPads and iPhone streaming. No issue. Starting using the commercial product at my office last week bc Centurylink is terrible and works great there too.

I have residential finally and like others I get varying speeds based on time of day. Early morning is best - sometimes almost 200. Afternoons and evenings dip into 40s and 50s. Still way better than Rise wireless broadband which capped at 9-12. I RV and have thought about switching to the roam plan for football and deer season. But it says a) that it's best effort speeds and b) that there's no guarantee that I can get back on residential. Has anyone switched? I'm curious if, since I have residential speeds at my home location, if i switch to roam/best effort if the best effort when I'm at home will be the same a what I have now before switching to roam. I'd hate to switch to roam for a few months and have the best effort while at home be less and then not be able to get back on residential in January.

We have Starlink and it is great. Four smart TVs, two ipads, two iPhones, two laptops and YouTube tv. We are north of pagosa.

Mine was finally delivered yesterday after ~16 months after paying deposit. We are in Northern Washington County with broadband as our only other option. Speeds are generally 5-12 Mbps down and 3-4 up. So, I'm extremely excited to get this going this weekend. A couple of questions:

- Did you use the Starlink router or an alternate router? We direct wire our Peloton right now because speeds do not support wireless (or any other device at the same time). I'm guessing we can go wireless once fully installed.
- I have an existing J Mount at roof peak from my broadband supplier. Can I mount the Starlink satellite to that? I likely will use same wire trail but will need to use Starlink wires and drop to a separate location in the house since the ones currently are not compatible with Starlink and the Starlink is shorter.

I live on a hay pasture so I have no interference overhead or nearby.

You don't have to use a separate router unless you want to hardwire. Starlink makes an adapter with an RJ 45 connection if you want to use a separate router. For the mount, you would need an adapter too. SL makes several of them. Be careful with the connectors when running the wire as they seem to be easily damaged by some. Enjoy.

Some enterprising people have very inexpensive 3D printed inserts you can buy on Amazon to fit the starlink mast into a standard size J mast from DirectTV or other Sat provider. Would recommend.

The wifi router will be fine for a single building. Wire is a bit thicker than RG6 and the connector is a weird shape so be careful running it.

Lance in Round Mountain said:

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I'd love to tell you how it's working for us....but, we are "wait-listed". Waiting on Elon to send us the goods.

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Received Starlink this week. Just set the unit out in the yard (I'll probably mount it to the house to get above the live oak trees in our yard).
Edited - Yes, I'm in Round Mountain, north Blanco County between Marble Falls & Johnson City (an hour west of Austin & an hour north of San Antonio)

My brother is building a house out in New Waverly which hopefully will be ready in a couple of months, but he had full hookups for his RV put in by the garage and has been living in the RV while the house is built. High speed internet isn't an option out there outside of Hughes Net, which we all know isn't ideal, so he got Starlink. He's had it a few weeks and has been very happy with it. Streams via YTTV with no issue as well as 4K content.

Just got it in rural Gonzales county after being on GVTC dsl for years... quite an improvement to say the least. Using the starlink built-in router.

Speed test just said 109/7 Mbps down/up. 2x price of GVTC but 15-20x faster.

lexofer said:

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Starlink offered me best effort service after 2 years on the wait list which I signed up for as soon as it was offered in my area. Monthly price increased twice in that time period. I was recently offered and tried best effort service and it was unusable. Couldn't reliably stream on any service and had service interruptions often. Now I'm back to my old provider which has a data cap I almost break every month but at least it only goes out a couple times a day. Have $600 of equipment sitting on the roof until Starlink service is improved in my area to try again.

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Just an update here. Starlink full service is now available nation wide.

Looking for advice - wanting to mesh my metal building into my network. Currently using the Starlink router and it is in my house, ~55 yards from the metal building. Router is currently on a desk area off my garage so it is placed on end of house nearest to the building. I can get limited/slower signal in the window of the living quarters in the building but, moving away from it and the signal dies out/disconnects (to be expected with the metal building).

Is it best to use the SL mesh nodes or a 3rd party? Any experience on this board with either? If third party, any recommendations? Would either work in this scenario even with placing a mesh node on window sill of living quarters? I would rather not hard wire if I did not have to even if performance is affected by the metal. Only use would be streaming music and (1) TV. Thanks for the help!

If I'm following you correctly, you can run a wireless bridge between the locations. Think of it as an invisible Ethernet cable. I did it between my house and my shop (not starlink, but shouldn't matter). The bridges are all over Amazon. Think I spent about $125

whitespikes06 said:

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Looking for advice - wanting to mesh my metal building into my network. Currently using the Starlink router and it is in my house, ~55 yards from the metal building. Router is currently on a desk area off my garage so it is placed on end of house nearest to the building. I can get limited/slower signal in the window of the living quarters in the building but, moving away from it and the signal dies out/disconnects (to be expected with the metal building).

Is it best to use the SL mesh nodes or a 3rd party? Any experience on this board with either? If third party, any recommendations? Would either work in this scenario even with placing a mesh node on window sill of living quarters? I would rather not hard wire if I did not have to even if performance is affected by the metal. Only use would be streaming music and (1) TV. Thanks for the help!

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I have Starlink for internet and Amazon Eero for mesh. I have an older all wood and stone log cabin style home, so it's death for wifi signals. The Eero works well and is easy to set up. I now have coverage throughout my house. I live on a bunch of acres and the house sits on a hill 100 feet vertically up and 50 - 100 yards horizontally from a river below where I have picnic tables, kayaks and whatnot - where we go when the weather is nice. There zero, nada, zilch cell coverage down there. (There's only 1 bar at my house.) When I want connectivity down there, I just unplug an Eero from the house, get a long extension cord halfway down the hill and can have coverage there too. Works great.

My only complaint is that on very rare occasions, the wifi is slow or non-responsive on the mesh for no reason. I'm usually in the main room where my Starlink is, so I can usually just shift back to that when using my phone. But if I'm elsewhere or using a different device, I just have to unplug the Eero in for 5 seconds and the speed comes back to normal. No big deal at all.

All my devices in the house are set up to connect to Eero. Sonos, TVs, Amazon Allexas, etc... 99% of times no problem at all.

Thank you. Does the Bridge point at the shop act as your router? I'm not the most tech savvy so wanting to make sure I understand correctly.

Perfect - thank you. Assuming you ordered the ethernet switch from SL to connect to your eeros? Approximately how far can you reach with each? If I go this direction, may pick up three - one at the base, one for the garage and one to reach to building?

No. I run it between two of the Nest home wifi nodes.

This is generally the setup I have:

Nest Router beams wirelessly to Nest Wifi Node A
Physical ethernet cable from Nest Wifi node A to Wireless Bridge A
Wireless Bridge A (house) beams to Wireless Bridge B (shop)
Physical ethernet cable from Wireless Bridge B to Nest Wifi Node B
Nest Wifi Node B then beams wireless connection to anything in the shop

whitespikes06 said:

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Perfect - thank you. Assuming you ordered the ethernet switch from SL to connect to your eeros? Approximately how far can you reach with each? If I go this direction, may pick up three - one at the base, one for the garage and one to reach to building?

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Correct. I don't know why starlink doesn't have a damn ethernet out port. You need the ethernet switch to connect the Eero base station via ethernet cable.

I have the Eero base station where my Starlink is on the ground floor in the middle of my house. It has to be close because of SL proprietary ethernet link. Then I have an Eero node upstairs near the center of the house. Not line of sight but only 1 wall between that and the base Eero unit. There is another Eero node in my bedroom because it has to go through a couple wood walls. I have another in my my basement.

I have a barn that is about 30 yards from my house, but I haven't worried about getting internet out there yet. It's a bit uphill from the house and has two bars of cell coverage. All I do out there is watch youtube videos on trying to fix stuff, so cell coverage is fine. Or play music and cell coverage is fine for that. But I'm sure Eero would reach out there if I wanted to do it. Edit: if you want me to test Eero at that distance in my barn (thick exterior wooden walls) I will. I'm kinda curious now to see if it works out there. I may have wifi out there now, I just haven't paid attention to it.

I'm sure you could use other bridges, but Amazon/Eero made it stupid easy with the app.

Thanks - I understand now. Appreciate it!

Perfect. I think with 3 nodes I could make it work. I'm going to try without additional Point to Point first. If it's needed, I'll add that in. But, ordered the Ethernet switch and a 3 node mesh system. Hopefully, I'll get enough range to the building. Worst case, I can put a node in my well house which is in between the house and building.

Thanks guys!

Posted in the Big Nerdery thread as well, but know The OB gets more traffic. Any help is greatly appreciated!


Bump of an older thread…wasn't sure if this was the big Nerdery Starlink thread or not.

I've had Starlink for about 2 years now in Robertson County. For the most part it has been great (or at least better than the alternatives where I'm at!)

Thursday evening it shut off and I haven't been able to get it to reconnect.

I've checked all of my cables and connections. Crawled up on the roof and unplugged/plugged back in the dish, got in the attic to make sure the cable was in one piece…no luck finding a problem.

Everything at the router seems to be working. I typically have it bypassed through an Eero6 system, but took that off and am just trying to go through the Starlink router so I can use the app to troubleshoot and place a call ticket. I'm not confident in hearing anything back from Starlink anytime soon.

It almost seems like the dish died, but I'm not sure how to test it. As far as I remember there are no lights on the dish…just one small light on the bottom of the SL router.

I also rebooted the system multiple times.

Any other ideas I'm not thinking about?

Basically getting something like this:

What powers the dish? I always heard the starlink dish produces heat, can you tell that?

I thought about the heat thing. You have to turn that option on and off…I had it turned off, and can't change it because now I can't connect to the internet…ha!

NVM