Looks like Fedex will be coming out to the house on Friday to drop off my Starlink kit. Anyone else get signed up and have a package in route?
Some information:
The pole/mast that comes pre-mounted and pre-wired on the "UFO" dish aka "UFO on a stick" is 1.5 inches OD. Turns out that is a common size for roof mounted antennas and other Sat. dishes. Which means I can mount it on the top of a LTE directional and OTA TV antenna "J" style roof mount that I have pre-existing.
The antenna cabling is heavily shielded (best guess is Cat6 quad outdoor rated).The 100 ish feet of cable is permanently attached to the dish (at least no one has provided any information on it being able to detach.
The power brick has a non-standard POE port (black) providing 1.6 amps to the dish array. It also has what appears to be POE+ or 802.3at (white port) which powers the included router.
You can apparently plug your own router into the white port and bypass the router, or you can use the AUX port on the POE router to pass a connection to your own equipment. I will test to see if the dish/router gives a public routable ip through the AUX port on the router, but I plan to bypass the router and use my own equipment. I haven't see any documentation on if the router is required to setup the service initially or if you skip using the router completely.
What testing would the group like me to report back to this thread?
Some information:
The pole/mast that comes pre-mounted and pre-wired on the "UFO" dish aka "UFO on a stick" is 1.5 inches OD. Turns out that is a common size for roof mounted antennas and other Sat. dishes. Which means I can mount it on the top of a LTE directional and OTA TV antenna "J" style roof mount that I have pre-existing.
The antenna cabling is heavily shielded (best guess is Cat6 quad outdoor rated).The 100 ish feet of cable is permanently attached to the dish (at least no one has provided any information on it being able to detach.
The power brick has a non-standard POE port (black) providing 1.6 amps to the dish array. It also has what appears to be POE+ or 802.3at (white port) which powers the included router.
You can apparently plug your own router into the white port and bypass the router, or you can use the AUX port on the POE router to pass a connection to your own equipment. I will test to see if the dish/router gives a public routable ip through the AUX port on the router, but I plan to bypass the router and use my own equipment. I haven't see any documentation on if the router is required to setup the service initially or if you skip using the router completely.
What testing would the group like me to report back to this thread?
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