No help on the Starlink stuff, just an anecdote from the past. I had a work friend who got no TV signal where he lived,
down in a canyon. At my suggestion, he mounted a piece of wire (chicken wire, hardware cloth??) on a frame he made up,
on the ridge and reflected the signal down to the antenna on his house.
Used a walkie-talkie with his wife in the house to set the angle.
Worked great.
Different Solutions Moose
On 4/24/2026 1:57 PM, Mike Lazzari via olympus wrote:
The internet here over the rusty wire is so bad and unreliable, <10Mbps
on a good day, if it works at all. Most streaming services recommend 25
so we are seeing lots of circles going round and round. Running fiber
is well into 5 figures and we have a sketchy cell signal at best for a
hotspot. I finally caved (hate to give my pesos to the a**hole) and
took the Starlink offer of $30/mo for 100Mbps. The kit arrived and was
easy to setup. But there is a problem. We are surrounded by trees and
the only marginally good location for the antennae is quite a ways from
the house. I can run the 50' cable to a rock outcrop from an out
building and get a clear enough view. Beaming the router back towards
the house works but isn't strong enough to get to the TV
Plan B:
I built this outbuilding when we put in the well thinking I would
need a water softener (we don't). Now it is a storage shed Anyway when
a ditch is open you throw in everything that you can think of, Right?
So along with the water lines and power lines I threw in a couple runs
of CAT6. I'm thinking that this will pay off. At the house end of the
CAT6 I'll splice/coupler on a piece to run up to where the house router
is located. Plug this into the WAN port. The house wired network has a
direct wire to the TV. And the router (TP Link AX1800, Archer AX21)
will provide wifi to the house as well. So far does this make sense?
The question I have is how to connect the CAT6 to StarLink. Right now I
have the Mini Router connected to the power supply via the proprietary
water resistant plug (see photo). I'm thinking to connect the CAT6 to
the house to the other port of the Mini Router. does this sound
reasonable? Do I have to bridge the mini router? Is that even possible?
Can I bypass the SL router and connect the CAT6 directly to the
supplied proprietary SL cable via a pass thru coupler.
Any help appreciated.
Mike
photos:
[1]http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/StarLink/
References
1.http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/StarLink/
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