Hi all, I am on an isolated farm in Eastern NSW Australia. Been using NBN here which is abysmal. I found this site while looking for the standard cable length from the Gen 2 dish. For me it would be more of a nuisance if it's too long.
What I am doing is bypassing starlink router into one of my Asus RT AX88s. This will connect to a wifi bridge sending signal to our other house on the farm. My other AX will connect to the bridge there.
Should arrive next week from LA, looking forward to playing with it all and will try to message how it worked.
By the way . . . the bridge between the houses works a treat
Wow this is great . . . so quick and I can actually be understood when I make a cell phone call using wifi calling (we have no cell reception here). Using starlink router atm. will pickup ethernet adapter next time in town then do the bypass..
Wow an hour to get your mail, your out there a little ways:) Where in Australia are you located?
I have all the stuff but ethernet adapter. As John has said it can take time. Takes me an hour to go to town and back to get the mail. I'm lucky, sort of, it came just after I was home hahahaha. At least I can get it soon. Raining too much to install atm.
One of the videos I have watched says you guys in the northern hemisphere have the dish looking to the south a bit. Does that mean in Australia ours will face South?
Hi Steve. I'm on a farm down in Tassy. Been online for a few months now (gen 1) and all is working well. Averaging about 220Mbps DL with 30-40ms pings. I'm using an Asus RT-AX86U instead of the SL router. It wasn't hard to set up (there's a bunch of YouTube vids showing how). You just need to make sure you add a static route to 192.168.100.1 and 192.168.100.24, so that you can still access the SL stats (very helpful).
If you think the fixed cable will be too long, just loop up the excess and cable tie it up near the dish. That way it's out of sight.
Have fun. SL has been a game changer for me 👍.
Yes John, I did. Bought it when I signed up. Pretty sure both have been shipped.
cable is 75FT did you order the Ethernet adapter the gen 2 dose dome with a Ethernet port I order the day start link said they were get ready to ship in came in 2 week after the gen 2 did.
I never thought I would say this but from my experience, Amazon has a very good corporate philosophy. I've always liked Elon Musk so I am thinking SpaceX will also look after their clients. Unlike many in Australia, sadly.
Hi, thanks for the welcome.
Both large 2 storey houses, 55m apart (around 200ft).
Bought the bridge on Amazon for $199 AU delivered. QW CPE5450
Hello Steve, Great to have you in the community! I'm looking forward to your results. That is definitely an upgrade in router and WIFI coverage. How far away are the bridging routers? Just out of curiosity, we've been using Ubiquiti Loco M2's throwing the signal 300Ft away with 35-45Mbps at the 2nd router, while the base router is running 110-150Mpbs...