This is a problem for me. I missed an exam recently due to the internet connection here being unreliable. Even more recently, it slowed to a crawl again and I was fed up. Checking through my phone contacts I came across an old friend of mine, a certain E. Musk. After a quick call and an exchange of currency, a solution was on its way.
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A few weeks later and the solution was here. Starlink arrived and my worries were over.
The router it came with is a really nice design, in fact it all seems to be well designed.
I got to work plugging everything in and getting everything prepared for testing.
After placing the receiver outside, the system was ready to be tested.
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The Starlink app guides you through the set up and I want to thank the UX designers at Starlink for making this a really seamless and enjoyable experience.
Aligning the dish to the best direction (according to the app) was straight forward and the speed test I performed afterwards showed very promising results.
My gamble had paid off, at this point I was satisfied with my decision to get Starlink.
The next problem I faced was getting the cord from the router to the receiver outside in a clean and permanent manner.
As you can see, the temporary solution I had in place was just not good enough by any standards and needed improving ASAP.
Ideas on how to achieve this started to take form in my mind.
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I got to work tearing the cabin to pieces...
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This was the most nerve-racking experience of the whole ordeal so far.
The worry was that I would crack the plasterboard while attempting to drill through it but I felt the fear and did it anyway.
It was a success, so I fed the cord through and placed a rubber grommet in the hole to seal it off nicely.
I mounted the dish to the roof with a bracket I had purchased on ebay and I think it looks decent enough.
The reliability of the connection was no longer a problem and all my issues were now solved.
Thank you to all the people at Starlink for helping me fix everything, and thank you, dear reader, for reading about it.
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