Starlink UK Introduce £35 Month 100Mbps Satellite Broadband Plan

J_B

QrizB said:

J_B said:

Does that answer your questions?

Not exactly, but if one of those devices is a network switch that's connected to all the RJ45 points in your house then yes, you should be able to connect the Starlink device to one and have it accessible everywhere else.

Sorry - every room has numbered data points that I can plug in a RJ45 plug

In the cupboard is the box where all these various (numbered) points are wired to.

From here we can connect onwards.

e.g. Dish PoE is plugged into #45 in the attic, then in the Abitana box, I then plug #45 into the LINKSYS 'router' which gives us WiFi all round the house (and we also plug a few appliances directly into this) 

Is that clearer?

QrizB said:

Note that if you also keep the Airband service then, with two different internet services, you'll have to do some configuration to make sure ou've only got one DHCP server and so on.

The unreliable Airband system will be binned

QrizB said:

Sorry if this is all granny-to-suck-eggs stuff, I honestly can't tell how familiar you are with network configuration.

I just am able to plug stuff in and make it work, as long as I'm guided sufficiently! 🤭

QrizB

J_B said:

QrizB said:

J_B said:

Does that answer your questions?

Not exactly, but if one of those devices is a network switch that's connected to all the RJ45 points in your house then yes, you should be able to connect the Starlink device to one and have it accessible everywhere else.

Sorry - every room has numbered data points that I can plug in a RJ45 plug

In the cupboard is the box where all these various (numbered) points are wired to.

From here we can connect onwards.

e.g. Dish PoE is plugged into #45 in the attic, then in the Abitana box, I then plug #45 into the LINKSYS 'router' which gives us WiFi all round the house (and we also plug a few appliances directly into this) 

Is that clearer?

OK, sounds like the box in the cupboard is a patch panel, rather than an active component.  Just a convenient way to keep track of the other cable ends.

The basic Starlink kit looks to be the Starlink Mini:

https://www.howtogeek.com/starlink-mini-review/

The "dish" has the gateway, router and WiFi access point integrated into it. It does have a RJ45 socket so you could use a patch lead to connect that to one of your built-in sockets and get the data back to your cupboard. From there you'd be able to add a switch then send wired internet back out through the patch panel to other rooms, and/or add a second WiFi access point if you need a bigger bubble than the Starlink Min provides by itself.

J_B

QrizB said:

The "dish" has the gateway, router and WiFi access point integrated into it. It does have a RJ45 socket so you could use a patch lead to connect that to one of your built-in sockets and get the data back to your cupboard. From there you'd be able to add a switch then send wired internet back out through the patch panel to other rooms, and/or add a second WiFi access point if you need a bigger bubble than the Starlink Min provides by itself.

Our Abitata box looks a little like this https://abitanadirect.com/abi-hp3124s23-2008 but it's full of data points (45 in total) as well as TV, Telephone and wired speakers.

By 'switch' do you mean just something to take one data cable but with several outputs?

I'm hoping that our LINKSYS MX4200 can be our "second access point" - am I right?

This has 4 RJ45 sockets, so could this be used as the 'switch'?

QrizB

J_B said:

QrizB said:

The "dish" has the gateway, router and WiFi access point integrated into it. It does have a RJ45 socket so you could use a patch lead to connect that to one of your built-in sockets and get the data back to your cupboard. From there you'd be able to add a switch then send wired internet back out through the patch panel to other rooms, and/or add a second WiFi access point if you need a bigger bubble than the Starlink Min provides by itself.

Our Abitata box looks a little like this https://abitanadirect.com/abi-hp3124s23-2008 but it's full of data points (45 in total) as well as TV, Telephone and wired speakers.

Yes, that's a consumer-friendly patch panel.

J_B said:

By 'switch' do you mean just something to take one data cable but with several outputs?

Something like this (just an example):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-SG108S-Ethernet-Lifetime-Warranty/dp/B07HP6ZLSM

J_B said:

I'm hoping that our LINKSYS MX4200 can be our "second access point" - am I right?

This has 4 RJ45 sockets, so could this be used as the 'switch'?

Maybe, I'd need to look into its specs and right now it's dinner time!

J_B

LINKSYS MX4200

https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/952-en/

https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/426-en/

QrizB

Dinner is finished

Yes, your MX4200 will do what you want. Patch the Starlink into the "WAN" ethernet socket on the MX4200 in what I'm assuming is exactly the way that the Airband is currently connected.

J_B

Thanks - better get ordering .... 😁

J_B

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81843147#Comment_81843147

BUMP
Starlink arrived and set up, but struggling to make it work with the MX4200 having connected from Starlink router to the 'internet' socket …. well, I only tried it once (as suggested above) but it didn't work!

I have the Linksys app on my phone …. under 'advanced settings - internet settings' it's set to 'connection type' = PPPoe (which has a username and password) - maybe that's how Airband works???

Do you think if I changed the 'connection type' to 'Bridge mode' that it would then work with Starlink?

Don't want to try it and risk breaking something! 🤭

flaneurs_lobster

Seems to me that you would use "Bridge Mode".

Have you seen this Linksys guide?

https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/260-en/

J_B

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856942#Comment_81856942

Hmm - I don't have the 'starlink ethernet adapter' but the router does have two output ports in the back so I'm assuming (?) that the adapter isn't necessary. 🤔