Starlink 'residential'

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Is anyone using Starlink Residential? Are there any issues you have experienced?

I am fed up with Orange. A tree took down a fibre pole during the storm, but the fibre remained connected and due to the chaos in the region we did not make a fuss and even helped in propping up the pole so that the cable was not taking all the strain. Yesterday, a van decided to smack the pole and finish the job properly.

Trying to report the outage was a nightmare! Orange wer more interested in ensuring that I understood a call out fee if an engineer attended to discover the fault was inside the house! Eventually, it was taken seriously when all five neighbours in the commune phoned in, but now we have to wait for the situation to be assessed by their civils team!

I am looking at Starlink - 29€ per month with no up front cost. Hell of a lot cheaper than Orange. OK, there is no phone or TV - neither of which I need, so what is bad other than it makes Elon a dollar or two richer..?

Serious question though that could be a deal breaker - with a Starlink router, can one extend the service via an RJ45/ethernet cable to say, a gite, down the driveway, as one can with an Orange router?

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We toyed with Starlink, but our moral compass objected. So in the absence of a full orange connection we have an Orange FlyBox which has been great. But not the cheapest.

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I am using a Starlink V2 - the router only has one RJ45 and it goes to an eight port switch, from there to the other end of the house to a repeater, the NAS in the cupboard next to the router, the Alarm hub and the Phillips Hue hub.

The current Starlink router appears to have 2 RJ45 ports so you should be good to go.

I have had Starlink since May 2022 and i would recommend it. I got it because i was fed up staring at the fibre on the pole outside the house with no date (at the time) for it to be offered to connect to - it had been there 18 months by this point.

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The Gen 3 / Version 3 router does indeed have 2 x RJ45 ports in the back allowing you to feed smart devices or WiFi access points elsewhere.

I know this because I set one up for somebody a couple of weeks ago and used a Cat6 Ethernet cable to feed a WAP in another building.