LittleBill21
Veteran Member
pretty much. I can climb my roof, I would not be doing it just to pull a dish down.Buy a second unit.
pretty much. I can climb my roof, I would not be doing it just to pull a dish down.Buy a second unit.
With all the people waiting for their first unit, I doubt a second unit would come quickly. If you could get one would you also be required to pay the full monthly service fee instead of the mobility fee?Buy a second unit.
I will double check these numbers, but I believe the Starlink router uses 10.0.0.1 by default. And its DHCP serves up 10.0.0.x addresses. I have not tried to change that, and am not sure you even can?
My Netgear router is 192.168.1.1. I prefer to use that address for a router since (in the future) it will sync up to all my home devices which already use 192.168.1.x addresses. (Except for testing of a few components with Netgear/starlink, all my home devices still connect to my old network.)
I have tested three devices connecting to the Netgear router, then onto Starlink. Phone, tablet, TV. Mostly testing streaming video. Either direct to a TV (using wireless), or first to my phone then screen casting to TV (also using wireless.) Most of the time it works, but then, at times, the error message about using a "non-Starlink wifi router" pops up seemingly randomly.
I will add the Netgear router back in today, and see if the error message returns. If it does, I can always reset to factory config again. I have not yet opened up any service ticket with Starlink.
That doesn't make much sense. A big selling point of the Starlink system is that you can use the included router or replace it (via simple removal if you have the round dish system or putting router in bypass mode for the rectangular system) and use your own router. Tons of people do this. I've never heard of that error message you listed before and I pay pretty close attention to Starlink.Starlink "caught me" using the system outside my service address.
Oddly, it never caught me when I was away. But when I returned to my service address and fired it up, I got a message ... bitching ... about not be in the assigned location. Even though, I once again was at home base.
The system would not "wake up" and provide any service. I added the portability option, and it still didn't change. But I left it alone (and rebooted it) and eventually it was back to normal.
However, I am frequently getting an error regarding "Starlink has detected you are using a non-Starlink wifi router. Please only use the Starlink wifi router." I have been using a Netgear r9000 router (using ethernet cable) with Starlink wifi turned off. It has been problematic enough that, for now, I reset to factory config and am only using the dishy, the Starlink wifi router, and cable. Seems pretty primitive that it bitches if I want to integrate another device into the network?
I will double check these numbers, but I believe the Starlink router uses 10.0.0.1 by default. And its DHCP serves up 10.0.0.x addresses. I have not tried to change that, and am not sure you even can?