this is probably why starlink is providing free professional installations now, they dont want people who dont know the product out there causing headaches. cheaper to pay for a professional install then risk a marketing hit, plus it locks non pro install member wisps out of the last revenue bump before conversion
On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM Jan-GAMs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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