Starlink

[IXLR8]

Log into your Starlink account. Go to 'Home'. On the left side under gray 'Account Summary' look down and you'll see the mount options listed.

Starlink

www.starlink.com

Looks like they have another style of roof mount now that they didn't have a few weeks ago.

On the "home" page in my account is only "Order Summary", there is no "Account Summary". Maybe I just need to wait a bit to get fully activated or something.

 

[BigBlue1]

Maybe. How about this link?

Starlink Shop

shop.starlink.com

 

[IXLR8]

Maybe. How about this link?

Starlink Shop

shop.starlink.com

That takes me to my account sign in page and then I end up at the same "order summary" page. Thanks for your attempt to help, I think I will wait a week and try again. Since I just ordered the Starlink, I suspect it will be 4-6 months before I actually see the dish so I have plenty of time to sort it out.

 

[ponytug]

I think that you need to be an approved buyer/user to see the additional options.

Roof mounting will be key for me; I would love to see photos of other options.

All the best, Peter

 

[BigBlue1]

Here's a PDF of the current mounting options. And this video goes over a couple of them.

 

[IXLR8]

Thank you for the PDF. I found some possibilities here.

Satellite Internet - Starlink - Accessories - Page 1 - Montana Satellite Supply

store.montanasatellite.com

 

[rekees4300]

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell gives Starlink update.

SpaceX is just a handful of Starlink launches away from blanketing Earth in broadband

 

[/pine]

OneWeb, SpaceX satellites dodged a potential collision in orbit

Space Force sent “red alerts” to OneWeb and SpaceX.

www.theverge.com

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Welcome to the information wars front line. There are regional information silos where internet goes through central government servers. Starlink will obliterate those. In some countries, a camouflaged antenna will be a premium product, and agents will cruise the streets looking for uplink signals.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Got a starlink user survey today. Apart from predictable questions about performance and satisfaction, there are useful questions about the phone app, obstruction issues, and installation details.

 

[ruffdog]

I'm really cautious about this starlink company. I'm wondering if people sign up only to have the rug yanked out from under their feet. Don't get me wrong....I think we need more options and a better system and maybe this is in the right direction. I hope it works out for years to come, but, it didn't for some solar panel customers:

Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago - Electrek

 

[rekees4300]

I'm really cautious about this starlink company. I'm wondering if people sign up only to have the rug yanked out from under their feet.

There are many folks who share your caution. For them it would be prudent to wait for Starlink's transition from beta to business before making a financial commitment.

 

[BigBlue1]

Caution and prudence is warranted, especially if you are trying to switch to it as a primary ISP. It's not ready to be considered a bullet-proof primary ISP with high uptime quite yet. But it is showing tons of potential.

As someone living in a rural area and needing to work from home I always have two ISPs. Having one of them be a slightly disrupted source of 100-200Mb/s unlimited data sure is a benefit and is worth it to me. I can leave my LTE-based modem with 30-80Mb/s and theoretically data-limited as my primary. Starlink will replace my previous backup, a sub-5Mb/s DSL connection and do so at the same monthly cost. In 6-9 months when it moves from beta to full production offering I'll be sitting in such a better place than we were in in early 2016 when the DSL line (then lucky if I got 1.5-3Mb/s reliably) was our only ISP.

Take it for what it is currently and you'll be happy. Expect too much right away and you'll be sad.

Rob

 

[Larry Caldwell]

If I had unlimited funds, I would add satellite internet to my home. Right now I'm happy as can be with FIOS. If I want to pay for it, I can get 1 gb service, but 100 mb works fine. If we have a big wind or ice storm, I expect the fiber to go down for some time, and that's my only communication here. There's no cell service and the decaying copper phone line was down more than it was up, so we switched to VOIP for telephone.

I suspect the satellites will go down during solar flares. They will probably have to shut them down to avoid circuit damage. I had the old Geosynchronous satellite internet before DSL was available here. It was OK for streaming, but the speed of light made browsing handshakes frustrating. Starlink promises to do better.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I opened my starlink app, it now has setup option. Last time I checked i don’t remember seeing that. Does that mean it’s coming??

 

[BigBlue1]

I opened my starlink app, it now has setup option. Last time I checked i don’t remember seeing that. Does that mean it’s coming??

I don't think so. I think mine always had it. How long have you had the app? Maybe you just got an update and they changed things in an update.

Rob

 

[cqaigy2]

Sigh, i saw that too and was hoping it meant something.

 

[BigBlue1]

Hey, I can't be 100% sure. I didn't have the app long before I ordered my system. Do either of you have one on order or just waiting list?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mines been ordered since February. The app used to only let me check the sky. I made a comment about it once, thinking what a waste of an app. Now there’s much more.
Didn’t see any update when I logged into my account.

 

[BigBlue1]

You paid the full $500+ for your order or $99? If you paid the full amount that's a long time to ship. Mine took 4 weeks and I ordered 2/16. But if you only paid for a pre-order there is no 'average time' for that to turn into an order.