Taptap Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 We are in the process of switching from our current provider (DSL) to Starlink. I'm finding the the router signal of the Starlink router is a fraction of the one from the phone company. There are many areas of the house that has no Starlink signal but work fine with the old router (both are in the same room). Is this a known issue or is it possible that we have a defective router? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirecPC Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 19 hours ago, Taptap said: We are in the process of switching from our current provider (DSL) to Starlink. I'm finding the the router signal of the Starlink router is a fraction of the one from the phone company. There are many areas of the house that has no Starlink signal but work fine with the old router (both are in the same room). Is this a known issue or is it possible that we have a defective router? Thanks Our phone company dsl wireless router was never that good at getting a signal throughout the house. Starlink was slightly better but we use a some what higher end router as an access point to get a better signal everywhere. Also, You may be aware that that routers and access points in general broadcast two networks, one at 2.4 ghz and one over 5ghz. The lower frequency is better at penetrating walls. The starlink router out of the box just has one channel but there is a setting in the app for it to broadcast both frequencies separately as two networks. That's what we did to get better coverage. Because of occasional loss of signal in heavy rain, occasional network issues , concern that if we turned the dsl off the phone company might not be able to restore it qiickly during a major outage of SL, and starlinks internet message only slow customer support, we are keeping the dsl. Currently have starlink and dsl going into a dual Wan failover router that connects to our dual band access point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asrarman Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Try shutting off your DSL WI-FI ROUTER to see if there is interference with the signals. Change setting on starlink router to split 2.5/5 ghz. If that doesn’t help you may need to setup a mesh network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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