That might be a business to get into. I just put one up and it was a
serious PITA. #1 The antenna shipped was designed for sitting on a flat
surface, not mounting to, sitting on. #2 the dufus AI in charge of
answering questions, directed me into ordering all the wrong mounting
hardware and all the wrong mounting instructions. #3 You will really
want to kill something before the day gets older. Once you learn
StarLink likes to lie to you and you been through the injuries before
the install job gets easy. Log into the antenna controller/router setup
and choose "bypass" mode to turn off the wifi and make the StarLink
behave more like a modem and get along with an existing network.
StarLink does not play-well with other brands of WiFi devices.
The new StarLink antenna has a folding leg for a stand that clips on.
When ordering the antenna kit, the original antenna is what is shown in
the order, it's a complete mis-direction and is incompatible with a
StarLink short-wall-mount kit $50. If you want to mount the new antenna
to a vertical surface, the wall mount kit doesn't have all the pieces
needed to mount in the kit but are shown in the directions as being in
the box.
Solution: Use a Ubiquiti J-mount, $7?. Order the Pipe mount adapter for
the new StarLink antenna, it clips on where the legs do. The pipe
adapter is made for upto a 2.5" pipe and employs a crushing bolt to grip
onto a pipe. This will crush a normal pipe and then your StarLink will
follow gravity towards a nasty end with only a short LAN cable to break
the fall. I bolted a solid Aluminum rod into the j-mount so now the
j-mount won't crush and tightened the cinching bolt to that. The metal
fab shop had some rod $10 that was a perfect fit into the J-mount.
Monthly StarLink service fee for 100MB feed is $50/mo. Spectrum raised
their fee to $90/mo, I returned their modem and told them to pound
sand. If I change my mind and quit StarLink, I owe them 1 year's worth
of service fees minus what has been paid so far.
On 4/10/26 09:40, Ken Hohhof wrote:
If someone gets Starlink with installation (0, $49 or $99) and
subsequently switches to fiber when it becomes available.
Would I be correct to assume they will have to take it down themselves
or pay someone, and then pay to ship the dish and router back? That
seems obvious to me, but lots of things seem obvious to me but not to
others.
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