Thread

Hooked up a #StarLink Mini at home (you can get the hardware for free if you commit for a year and you can try it out for 30 days currently). Getting pretty consistant speeds of 200+ mbit up and about 15 to 20 mbit down. And its currently laying on the ground in the garden, not mounted on the roof. It's about half the speed of what my cable provider does (VodafoneZiggo for you Dutchies). The Starlink would be a back-up / load balanced second connection for working at home. The cable isnt very stable where I live and I don't want te rely on a single provider anymore... Thoughts? Should I keep it? As a back-up? Or dump the cable? I always could reuse the Starlink on our camper van in the future....

2025-07-01 15:19:52 from 1 relay(s) 1 replies ↓

Replies (14)

starlink is great, i have both a mini (for travel) and a standard dish for home you will probably get double the speed in both directions with the standard dish fwiw

2025-07-01 15:43:59 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 2 replies ↓ Reply

Can you use your own router?

2025-07-01 15:50:20 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

with the standard and pro dishes with the mini the router is built into the dish, part of the value prop, one power cord and you have wifi

2025-07-01 15:53:51 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 2 replies ↓ Reply

Ah cool, do you know it the powercable for the mini and the standard dish are the same? Maybe I’ll put this one up first and upgrade to the standard later, or maybe I’ll start with the standard right away if it means I have to run another wire to the roof…

2025-07-01 15:55:33 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

different power cables, the standard uses an ethernet cable that does both power and internet best move is to mount a pipe on the roof, then use the pipe mount for whichever dish you choose to attach to pipe that will make it easier to upgrade the dish in the future since every dish they sell has a pipe mount available

2025-07-01 15:59:00 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

When is Start9 launching their router? Haha

2025-07-01 15:59:22 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

should release by end of year, has taken longer than expected

2025-07-01 16:00:23 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

👍🏼 I’m sure it will be state of the art. They don’t ship often, but when they do it’s 👌🏼

2025-07-01 16:02:32 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

it is going to be fucking awesome they also have some really big updates for the server os inbound as well

2025-07-01 16:10:15 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

Ah great tip! Ordered a regular sat-dish pipe mount right away. I will be running the power and ethernet to the roof so, I guess that will make the upgrade easier down the road. The website of Starlink isnt very clear about these kind of details... so thanks again for the advice!

2025-07-01 16:21:27 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply

Yep looking forward to 0.4.0 coming out here soon. Gotta have Matt on dispatch after it comes out

2025-07-01 16:48:38 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent Reply

it's me, real fake npub1ya2m...rwkg

okay, JFYI.... you won't need electric on the roof for the Starlink to operate. The Starlink router they send to you has a port for the very very long cable that connects to the dish. The very long cable carries the power to the dish. That's not to say you wouldn't benefit from having electric on your roof for some other reason.

2025-07-01 17:39:04 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓ Reply