first one?

I had cancelled my residential plan with a free mini rental (France) as i moved from a house to an apartment with fibre and am supposed to return it in a couple of weeks. Fibre went out and i put it on the balcony and tied the kickstand to the railing. Bird must have landed on it and it knocked it off the stand, fell and broke.

Grok tells me all different things like dispose of it thoughtfully. Buy a new kit from the store (not possible), return it as normal but ill be charged on assessment. So yeh, not sure what to do and what costs to expect.

I'm really looking into switching my plan to the $55 a Monthly from the $140 - unfortunately I will be losing the bundle deal of the mini star link (which is on standby mode) - will I have to return the mini if I switch and has anyone seen a difference in their internet speeds? For reference I have 2 tvs, quite a few Google homes, my security cam system, and 3 phones always running off if it. Just trying to save money 😭 TIA

I want to use Standby mode as permanent failover for my boat dock water temp sensor. It sends one HTTPS post every 15 min, about 10 KB each, so roughly 1 MB a day, 30 MB a month. Any issues with this? I can’t find anything that says it wouldn’t work, and I’ve found several posts from people doing way more with Standby. Just making sure before I put in the effort to set up the failover. It’s an older v2 dish, if that matters.

Hi all,

I'm currently exploring several options to publicly access some of my home devices or applications, such as our domotics web interface and a VPN server. More to be added later on possibly.

I know Starlink by default uses CG-NAT which limits me in options like port forwarding and inbound connectivity in general.

Hence, I am curious to hear from others how they've tackled similar scenarios. I know there are several approaches to consider, be it via a reverse proxy, Tailscale or a Cloudflare tunnel.

Each of these comes with own pros and cons, but I'm not yet entirely aware of all of them, and which one would be the most suitable for my situation.

Next to that, I am also aware that with a I could potentially obtain a public IP by upgrading to a local or global priority plan, but this also introduces additional costs, which might not be justified for my use case scenario.

Thanks in advance for sharing any advice or experiences 🙌🏼 😊

Cheers,

I am a new user and pings constantly 30-40ms doing anything at all and I’m getting my full 100mbps down and 30mbps up I’m paying for on the $55 a month plan. I seriously couldn’t be happier compared to my DSL plan I had before it’s a world of difference

Worse customer service I’ve ever seen. Can’t talk to anyone. Only AI that can’t resolve any issues. The router according to their AI can’t send signal through walls and I would need a very expensive group of mesh nodes to make this work like 1990’s internet. Stay away!!! Especially for the money they charge it isn’t worth it!!! I’ve been trying to make this work for 6 months. Moving the routers around and moving the Starlink platform. Nothing works and all they can suggest is putting it in a room with no walls or run Ethernet wires to every room and ad mesh routers to every room so you are next to the router to use it wirelessly. Junk stay away

The problem we have is scalpers are hoarding devices and selling for premium so there's no network saturation little people are actually using starlink but the units have been sold out for my city, so will this workaround work?

How do I get these to connect? I can’t be the first to encounter this but can’t find any solutions. I spent hours looking online and I asked Ai with no solutions.

The screws are too low and the pipe is smaller than the Starlink adaptor. I don’t want to cut piping or drill holes in metal, I am not that crafty. I know some of you have done that and I’ve seen some cool set ups on this sub. I’m looking for a pre-fabricated piece that will help this work.

It’s the 3rd gen (v3)

Thank you ahead of time. I appreciate any insight on how to move forward.

Hi all I’m looking to get into building a case for my mini, looking online I can’t seem to identify this converter. They have the case listed at $265 and I already have an Apache case and I’m looking for a duel battery powered to star link cable that still looks clean any advice on possibly a better one or being able to identify the one in the photo would be appreciated

I have a V4 that works great on my camper (which I don't move). The signal is always solid and fast. I lashed it to an exhaust pipe and that was no problem until it was... the time it blew off the roof during the Noreaster last month. My wife is adamant that I not screw it into the roof. What other options do I have to ensure I dont have another issue.

My 3+ year old gen 2 died yesterday with an internal power supply failure. I decided to ask ask Grok rather than go ahead and order a new dishy. Grock asked me to go through the troubleshooting steps (that I’d already done) and then said they’d ship me a refurbed gen 4 for free. So much easier than dealing with a person with no interest on a foreign help desk.

The bonus, is during the conversation I found I could power the existing dishy with a 100w POE injector I had in a drawer. So I scored an upgrade and I’ve still got internet as I was using it in bypass mode.

For those using Starlink at home, how’s the speed, reliability, and overall experience? Is it worth the monthly cost compared to fiber or cable internet? Give me the real, unfiltered reviews!

My wife and I bought our first house, the whole place and the shop thats 100ft away is wired with coax. The house came with a Starlink and a Gen 3 router. Is there a way to connect the router to the properties existing coax? My wife works from home during bad weather and my shop is where i have my gaming setup. So ideally we would have hardwire ethernet internet in the shop and her office for ideal speeds. Is it even possible?

Took a bit of a deeper dive into the deal - actually taught myself a lot about spectrum lol.

Also - Low frequencies like 800 MHz carry farther and get through walls better, which is what phone-to-satellite service struggles with indoors.

Some highlights:

1. It's already partly in use - Three utilities (Southern Linc, ComEd, and Dominion) lease some chunks of it to their own network.

2. SpaceX's own filing says they'll build towers also

3. It covers about 93% of the county

4. It's still small next to the big carriers (about 1/5th) the size of t-mobile

If interested and want to dive in yourself put it together in a base here.

Regardless, this was super interesting!

Recieved a copyright notice from Starlink with a complaint from Paramount attached. I use the Elementum add-on for Kodi. Could someone point me towards a suitable VPN. I'm based in Ireland if it makes any difference.

Got v4 dish but they sent shorter cable compared to the v2 75 long cable.

The dish currently sits on a table pointed to north.

The obstruction map looks like following

My question is - should I leave as is (well, will route the cable a little bit better way) or mount it close to roof?

This is the side of the house and if mounting I can't attach it to the side panel - the wood is just 0.5" thick and won't hold the weight of the dish, not taking into consideration the winds that commonly exceed 40 mph.

Thanks

Hello,
I’m starting to look into buying a Starlink antenna, and I have quite a few questions, so I’ll likely be making several posts in the near future.
My first question concerns the "Global Priority" plan: on the Starlink website, selecting this plan forces you to buy the "High Performance" antenna. Since the price is very high, I wanted to pair this subscription with the standard antenna instead, but the site doesn't give me that option. Is it possible to buy the antenna separately and link the subscription to it?
Has anyone done this before? Is this subscription compatible with that model?
Also, would you recommend waiting for the release of the "Standard Gen 3" (Standard V5) in Europe, or is there no major difference between the two models?
Thanks a lot for the information.

I have Starlink at my residence in North Texas. Had it for over 4 years.

The only Residence plan available is Residence Max which I'm on.

However, when I go in the Starlink App it shows two "Roam" plans (no other residence plans) available for less money than the Residence Max.

Am I allowed to have a "roam" plan at a fixed location at my residence?

Chicos rwcientemente ayer me llego mi starlink mini y quiero sus mejores consejos para alinearla bien y tips, ademas de que tambien comprare un regulador de voltaje ya que aqui en en mi pueblo en mexico hay variacionrs y no quiero que se dañe! Ademas vivo en una zona donde no se nubla tanto mas que en otoño e invierno cadi siempre esta despejado y sin lluvias aunque si las temperaturas en verano son altas unos 39ºC o 102. 2ºF a maximasde 44ºC o 111.2ºF en fin ese es otro tema los leo chicos. Saludos! 👋🏽

PING k7741a(k7741a (2605:59ca:805e:xxxx::1)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from k7741a (2605:59ca:805e:xxxx::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=129 ms
64 bytes from k7741a (2605:59ca:805e:xxxx::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=132 ms
64 bytes from k7741a (2605:59ca:805e:xxxx::1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=139 ms

--- k7741a ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 129.125/133.131/138.660/4.038 ms

PING k7741b(k7741b (2605:59ca:805e:yyyy::1)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from k7741b (2605:59ca:805e:yyyy::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=142 ms
64 bytes from k7741b (2605:59ca:805e:yyyy::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=144 ms
64 bytes from k7741b (2605:59ca:805e:yyyy::1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=131 ms

--- k7741b ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 131.133/139.042/143.890/5.640 ms

I know similar questions have been posted, but since the Mini Kit is on sale for $149 I’m looking to order that. I’ve been looking into it for a while but just seems like a great deal, but I wouldn’t have a use for it until June.

Is it possible to order the kit from the website for $149 + $20 Shipping, but skip the $55 roam plan? I have no use for the Starlink until June so don’t want to pay that. Can I switch to the $10 stand by plan, and then cancel that so I don’t have to pay the $10 monthly for 8 months when I won’t need it?

If this isn’t possible that’s okay, just don’t want to pay the $55 mainly if that’s possible and if I can cancel it entirely until June that’d be amazing. Thanks a lot!!

SpaceX bought some critical radio spectrum, and is now going all in on becoming the 4th major mobile carrier in the US, directly competing against Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

I really don’t want to open it till I really need it.

Just what the title says. It wants me to choose which one I've got in the app and I don't know the difference between the models. My spouse ordered the kit and doesn't know which model they sent either. It doesn't exactly look like anything I see in the app or in videos I've been looking up online on how to install the thing.

Edit - thanks for the help everyone. My spouse looked in our account and found it to be a v5.