Oh, good question… Seems it depends on the version of Starlink hardware you’ve got. An adapter is apparently needed if it’s the 1st generation.
That’s a great link, thanks for sharing!
Almost ready to order, just trying to get the timing right so it doesn’t arrive too soon before we drive out to France, I can see it says it will dispatch in 1-2 weeks, wondered how long it then takes to arrive and is there any flex with a delivery date?
Finally, for this trip I may site the antennae on a pole outside my office window, so I was curious what sort of connector it is between the antennae and router, is it a standard ethernet, in that I may bring a shorter version along as the default one provided will be pretty long for what I need short term. Cheers.
It depends upon which generation antenna you get. I have Gen 2 (with the motors) - it comes with 25 metres of cable (I ordered a longer lead separately). The connectors are bespoke, which is why you may need an adaptor at the router end. I also bought a pole mount adaptor.
Chris
The latest Starlink kit offered for new subscribers use RJ45 connectors. On the supplied Router there are two spare RJ45 ports for connecting external devices such as switches, or WiFi mesh systems.
That’s useful. When I ordered last year, there wasn’t a choice - Gen 2 only.
By the way, this bit about the dish needing 100% clear sky, whilst I think it’s pretty decent where we are, we are in the middle of the woods, is there any margin of error if the odd tree distracts that 100%!
Cheers.
No, I have the odd tree impinging. When you get the kit, it will scan for obstructions. It is fairly forgiving.
Chris
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Reactivating this thread as we’re thinking that Starlink might be a good solution for our new house which will be a maison secondaire for the moment. The new house doesn’t have fibre at moment and I can’t see that orange do a non-fibre maison secondaire option.
But we are technophobes and technical numpties.
Is Starlink easy to set up?
Would a starlink mini kit do the job? We don’t have netflix so highest use would be streaming a film from eg YouTube.
All advice appreciated as we have to buy kit now to take with us.
And is this all we need?
What sort of copper based internet do you get ? We have VDSL2 which gives us 70 mbps which is good enough for what we need. Have you looked at
This will show you what you can currently expect at your address. And there are resources to tell you what other providers there are that may service a maison secondaire and probably at a much better price.
I wouldn’t use Starlink, but that’s for entirely personal reasons … Elon Must is a reprehensible human being on so many different levels.
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Yes Elon Musk is the barrier to it. But would only be for a short time, and since Google are now in partnership with the reptile we are equally implicit if use that.
The issue is that we want a service straight away and first technician’s appointment I can get with mainstream provider to link house will take weeks.
Starlink mini will do you fine. So long as you mount the antenna with an unobstructed view of the sky.
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Hairbear’s reminder of the morality of Starlink gave me pause and we have gone for the more expensive option of a Flybox. Hopefully only for a few months and we can then return to being a single home family.
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Apparently the musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s court costs.
I am glad you have found a solution that suits you.
So far as I’m concerned, Starlink is an effective means of accessing the internet - I don’t really care about the morals of those providing it. If I abstained from every product or service on account of the morals behind the providers, life would be very lacklustre, and devoid of many advantages.
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Which is why we were seriously considering it. But the Flybox option gives a high speed service for a very similar price once you factor in buying the starlink kit, so if I can avoid Musk then I will.
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Things have moved on a bit and now it can cope with obstructions >> https://www.starlink.com/gb/support/article/d79d6c7f-b871-78fb-8083-a11f41b45eeb
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The system appears to be improving as time goes on!
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