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I'd get a spare router. I've been suspicious of Starlink internals being sensitive to heat or poor soldering. The reason I've said this is that I've had similar outages in my Gen2 Starlink with the router bypassed and an Ethernet adapter to use a TP-net router in my house. My Starlink dish is 450 ft from my house because otherwise I couldn't get an unobstructed view of the sky. Yeah, it's a long story with the upshot being that those Ethernet adapters don't hold up very well for the reasons stated. So I'm saying that I think that the Starlink equipment may be a weak point and it behooves to purchase spares in order to maintain continuous servive. Aside this I'm going on three years happy to have Starlink. I'm in a hilly rural place where the best internet without Starlink is a crummy DSL (4-6 Mbps at best).

Yessir! This is working great, really. was able to see it maintain performance in rain (I'm in SW Washington so rain? Uh-huh, yeah). To be honest I didn't notice a difference - rain/no rain so that's a good thing. We expect some snow by the end of the month so that will be test no. two concerning weather. I'm really looking forward to trying out the snow melting feature as I've had to climb up to the TV dish to sweep and chip ice enough to grow to hate it. Since I've "cut the cable" and rely only on Portland (70 mile crow flight) over the air for any TV not on the net - basically football games I can't get online. Anyway I'm much happy about Starlink. I signed up when they first let me and thought I might croak before ever seeing a decent connection. I'm also much happy to have come here and find you, Ricochet! Our back-and-forth kept me in the game and your suggestions are the reason I've got Starlink going as well as it is. I've thanked you before and don't like to get all simpering about such as this but Thanks Again!

Well.... First off let me apologize for not coming back for now more than a month. Time flies and as I age I don't. To reiterate: I did complete a cat 6e hardwire between the main Starlink router and a TPlink router in my house. It works (!) and I'm getting speed results using the Starlink app tester of anywhere between 28 and 204 MBPS down! Mostly it runs to the lower side, say 30 to 100 MBPS but I'm giggly happy with that as my centurylink DSL drops often to as low as 2.5 MBPS or so for extended periods while I pay them for their supposedly best service of 12 MBPS. I've never seen 7 MBPS from them in more than 15 years of forced use of them. (Yeah, I tried Hughes only to find that after many dollars that a dial-up modem was better). As far as Starlink - I'm not stopping with what I've got. My antenna is out in a 3 acre field, sitting on the ground. It's showing 6.5% obstruction because I own a lot of tall trees. Tomorrow wind permitting Dishie goes upward on the Starlink pole which by my lousy trig calculation should cut the obstruction in half at only 8 ft off the ground. The pole might be good enough. If not I'm prepared to go higher using a ham antenna tower or the like. The problem with that will be that the Starlink cable is 150' and going upward will require a location that's closer to the obstructing trees. It eats wire to make a turn in any direction including up. These are the sorts of things that keep us young, eh?

Do you have a cat? The buckets in which kitty litter is sold are a perfect size for the Starlink router. No, I'm not joking. I have a remotely mounted Starlink router on the side of my small barn, painted to match of course. I mounted the bucket to a piece of scrap plywood with shelf brackets to hold the assembly to the barn. A 2" hole out the bottom for cabling and the bucket's big attached lid as an access door to the router. Being plastic I don't think it interferes much with signals although so far I haven't got the whole wild set of ideas operational. I know - no pics means it didn't happen but then we don't yet know if you own a cat.

I'm reading this as the poster did receive his/her Starlink kit but then 'loaned' it to someone known to the poster and now cannot retrieve it from that person who denies knowing where it is now. Poster asks if there is a locating mechanism like the apps which will locate your phone/car/keys/etc. I'd imagine that if the antenna is in use Starlink has its location by the dishie's internal identity. I lost a Makita recip saw that way once. It demonstrates Shakespeare's advice: "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend." (Hamlet)

Ricochet, Your experiment (above) ALMOST worked. I disconnected and powered off the bridge devices and plugged in one Starlink mesh router....no notice of new component by Starlink main, in the field. I was/am still getting a weak wifi from Starlink at the house - runs 10 to 24 mbps variously. So just for the heck of it I plugged in my 2nd Starlink mesh router in another part of house and it woke up the APP (!). I had a notice that a mesh device was attempting to pair with Starlink asking me yea or nay. Of course I gave it my permission to proceed. Well.. it's been in "Pairing node...This may take a few minutes" for almost an hour right now. I do still have my weak wifi in the house but it's the signal from the original setup more than 300 ft away. I'm guessing that the signal shared with the mesh routers isn't strong enough to enable the three of them to communicate well enough to complete the pairing mechanism, whatever it is. So I've now unplugged the first of the two in-house routers and nothing changed. I've got a feeling that if my distance were shorter like 150 to 200 feet it would be running great but it can't be so there I am. It's good brainstorming by you and I thank you again! I've got a router arriving Monday. I'll see if it will bring to life his 'bridging' business. If not I'm gonna' hardwire using good outdoor/on the ground cable. Our first snow or freeze usually comes late in October so I'd like to get it going ASAP. (About 15 people living up here got Starlink kits all at about the same time as I got mine. Three so far are settling for signals of 6 to 30 mbps - all have said "I'm happy, It's the best internet I've ever had! I can sure relate to that but I'm not gonna' settle for less than 100 mbps! )

Thanks Ricochet, I do think you may have helped with the info that Starlink routers will not work as a connected mesh when connected to a bridge device. It makes sense although my initial planning to extend the antenna's reach to my house was the advise I saw from Starlink (somewhere, probly Reddit) that rather than attempting to hack the Starlink cable to lengthen it the better approach is to work the 'back end' between the Starlink system and my house either by wire or bride devices. The bridge things are UeeVii Model CPE-820. So, to take the signal from receiving bridge to a new wifi modem and forget trying to use a Starlink mesh within the house? That'd be OK as I'm not gonna' let cost be a consideration in this - I've been too long without decent connectivity. I have good lights with data activity indicated on both bridge devices. I don't have any idea what might be going between them so have thought that they are just continually doing a "handshake" or some such. Whatever it is it's lighting the full series which look to be signal strength indicators. There's five of them in a row and all light brightly. Something is going on but it ain't Starlink. BTW, I have a weak signal from the Starlink system 300+' away that gives me between 14 and 20 mbps down. That's 4 times the strength of my DSL costing over $100. a month. So their router isn't doing bad, IMO.

New Starlink user, I hope, home amongst tall trees in rural SW Washington state. I have 11 acres - 8 are thick with Douglas Fir, the rest a field/pasture once used to keep horses. My house is in the trees; the pasture is also surrounded but I'm able to get low obstruction readings in the middle of it. So the dish on a pole in the field, 150' cable to router at small barn with power. A bridge setup to the house 300' line of sight. Another Starlink router. I bought two extra Starlink routers, two ethernet adapters, the 150' cable, and even the 8' pole. I knew this wasn't gonna' be easy. I've tried everything I can think of except to put the original Starlink router into bypass and use the ethernet adapter to feed into the barn bridge device. Will it help to use bypass mode? Does Starlink wifi router need an ethernet line to bridge transmitter? I've tried it both ways at both ends. Starlink is working great at the barn by itself but how to use this bridge stuff has me stumped. I'm about to buy and run long distance ethernet cabling but I have placed hope in the bridging idea. (25 years of crummy DSL service is WAY too much!)

Marcel, no apologies for your use of English - it's perfect! Over the years I've had several satellite installations to my home, both for TV and internet, and each of them pointed to a single relevant satellite from somewhere on my house because those were "stationary" satellites orbiting in synch with the intended Earth location. Technicians would struggle to find a location for a dish because my home is surrounded by trees up to 150' tall. That sort of situation is what I expected with Starlink at first. However, each Starlink account/location may use several satellites at varying times of day. Watch one of the Starlink dishes and see that it moves, driven by an internal motor(s) in order to maintain its best possible connection to a number of orbiters. It's a fascinating system and I am in no way an expert in the technology. The problems arise when the portion of sky that a Starlink system expects to use is blocked (obstructed). It may be a relatively small portion as with your 6%. The app tells us how often we can expect outages because we chose such inappropriate locations for our dish without acknowledgement of our lack of choices in the matter. Now then: I came to this thread because Starlinkleader above used the word "Bridge" which is my search term. Is it appropriate to extend this discussion into the use of wireless bridge products or should I start a new thread or continue my search? I'm new here and am sensitive to a site's use of protocols/etiquette standards and such.