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06-12-2022, 12:45 PM
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: Flagstaff
Posts: 54
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Starlink
Starlink is now availoable for RVs
https://www.starlink.com/rv
Cheaper than cell phone systems (over time) and it is satellite.
I bot this mount
https://flagpolebuddy.com/ols/produc...2nd-generation
Home units are on extended back order. RV units ship right away. Got mine in a week.
Cool storage box that works:
Much cheaper than the $200-$300 storage systems seen on line
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06-12-2022, 02:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Kingman AZ and where our Seneca is today.
Posts: 3,118
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We have ours... and am heading out to Home Depot in a few minutes to grab that storage box...
I've set up the Router and Wired Ethernet port in our 'antenna, A/V cabinet with it able to run on our Genny/Inverter/AV-UPS for power. The thing is running strong !!!
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Steve & Stacy with Jasper (Australian Cattle dog)
2015 Seneca 36FK
Custom 27' flatbed trailer hauling:
07 Toyota FJC & Yamaha Kodiak 400 ATV
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06-12-2022, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 1,270
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbyg45
Starlink is now availoable for RVs
https://www.starlink.com/rv
Home units are on extended back order. RV units ship right away. Got mine in a week.
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Not around here, it isn't.
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06-12-2022, 03:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2019
Location: Glendale
Posts: 861
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Nice...we needed this thread
I'll be testing my 5g phone near Slopoke.... Williams AZ
If no better service I'll order the RV Starlink when I get home in about 10 days
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06-12-2022, 03:26 PM
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: Flagstaff
Posts: 54
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They currently won’t let you take the home unit on the road and you can’t use the RV unit at home. The guy I spoke with at Starlink said they are working on changing that. Nice thing about the RV unit is you can pause it when you aren’t on the road. I can’t get a home unit for about 6 months but maybe that’s just Flagstaff.
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06-12-2022, 03:29 PM
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: Flagstaff
Posts: 54
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Hey SloPoke,
You have to do a bit more trimming on the outside edges of the packing material than he shows in the video so the legs slip into the slots. Very creative!
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06-12-2022, 03:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: North Texas
Posts: 3,591
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You can use StarLink for RVs at home, just as I am doing now. The difference is that you will have “deprioritized” service. ~CA
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06-12-2022, 03:46 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: VULCAN
Posts: 697
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Quote:
Originally Posted by craigav
You can use StarLink for RVs at home, just as I am doing now. The difference is that you will have “deprioritized” service. ~CA
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What area are you in? I see your posted location is “north”. Where is “north” for you? North for me is the upper tier of the U.S., and Starlink is a year away from being deployed for home, and their rv service up here isn’t deprioritized, it’s non-existent.
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2019 Ram 2500 Cummins
2022 Jayco 28.5 RSTS
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06-12-2022, 03:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: North Texas
Posts: 3,591
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Lol, It should be North Texas. I will check that when I am back on my desktop computer.
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06-12-2022, 04:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: VULCAN
Posts: 697
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Quote:
Originally Posted by craigav
Lol, It should be North Texas. I will check that when I am back on my desktop computer.
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LOL now I get it! Starlinks deployment is kind of spotty it seems, but it seems they are boosting up new satellites pretty frequently. But in the state our Country is in, I have bigger things to worry and fret about. We haven't been to Texas in quite some time, would love to visit again. Last time was a visit to San Antonio for my sons graduation from Lackland. Late 90's. Really enjoyed the river walk and the great tex-mex food.
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2019 Ram 2500 Cummins
2022 Jayco 28.5 RSTS
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06-12-2022, 05:09 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Kingman AZ and where our Seneca is today.
Posts: 3,118
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbyg45
Hey SloPoke,
You have to do a bit more trimming on the outside edges of the packing material than he shows in the video so the legs slip into the slots. Very creative!
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You are absolutely correct!. ...
I needed to do some minor trimming on the exterior flashing of that moulded packaging, but after doing it - it fits really well. I also added a little foam filler on the sides of the bottom, to offer some more support to the outside edge of the tray that actually supports the dishy. Pictures to follow...
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Steve & Stacy with Jasper (Australian Cattle dog)
2015 Seneca 36FK
Custom 27' flatbed trailer hauling:
07 Toyota FJC & Yamaha Kodiak 400 ATV
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06-12-2022, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Kingman AZ and where our Seneca is today.
Posts: 3,118
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more pics
Quote:
Originally Posted by SloPoke
You are absolutely correct!. ...
I needed to do some minor trimming on the exterior flashing of that moulded packaging, but after doing it - it fits really well. I also added a little foam filler on the sides of the bottom, to offer some more support to the outside edge of the tray that actually supports the dishy. Pictures to follow...
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More Pictures are attached...
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Steve & Stacy with Jasper (Australian Cattle dog)
2015 Seneca 36FK
Custom 27' flatbed trailer hauling:
07 Toyota FJC & Yamaha Kodiak 400 ATV
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06-12-2022, 06:02 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2022
Location: Madison
Posts: 35
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbyg45
They currently won’t let you take the home unit on the road and you can’t use the RV unit at home. The guy I spoke with at Starlink said they are working on changing that. Nice thing about the RV unit is you can pause it when you aren’t on the road. I can’t get a home unit for about 6 months but maybe that’s just Flagstaff.
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Neither of these statements are true. If you have a residential Starlink, you can sign up for portability and travel with it and it will work just like the RV subscription. Deprioritized when away from your home area.
The RV version you can use anywhere on the this continent that there is service, whether it is your home address or not. The main thing for the RV subscription is it is for those without necessarily a fixed residential address so the network traffic is always deprioritized.
I use my RV service both traveling and at home and it works equitably well in both situations.
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06-12-2022, 06:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: North Texas
Posts: 3,591
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More for FYI:
This is the email I received May 23, 2022 and shortly afterwards (a couple of days) I signed up and received my setup in a couple of days after the order was placed. In this email they state that this service is available anywhere there is active coverage and also include areas on the waitlist (as I was and am still on).
I checked their maps and all of the US and lower half of Canada shows to have active coverage. In any case, they may not have this offer anymore or in certain areas so I am not saying they do, but perhaps so. There are instructions with a link at the bottom of the email regarding how to order. On another website, some users reported that they had to create a new account instead of their waitlisted account in order to purchase the StarLink for RV's. I didn't have that issue with my order. ~CA
https://www.starlink.com/map?source=rv
If you are receiving this email, you are currently on the waitlist for Starlink in your area. We are launching additional satellites as quickly as we can to expand network capacity in your region, and will fulfill your order as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we are now offering Starlink for RVs at any destination where Starlink provides active coverage. Currently there is no waitlist - all orders will be shipped shortly after the order is placed, including to "Waitlist" areas on the Starlink Availability Map. You can pause and un-pause service at any time.
Users can expect high speed, low latency internet in areas marked "Available", and notably slower speeds during events with many collocated users, or during hours of peak usage in areas marked as "Waitlist”, where residential users are prioritized. Prioritizing residential makes it possible to offer Starlink for RVs immediately with minimal impact to the most loaded portions of the network.
You can order Starlink for RVs directly from www.starlink.com/rv or by selecting the "+" button under "Your Starlinks" on your account page. To learn more about Starlink for RVs, please read our FAQ page.
Thank you for being a supporter of Starlink!
The Starlink team
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06-12-2022, 06:15 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: .
Posts: 15
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Starlink needs a very wide field of view completely unobstructed. Any trees or branches are a non starter. Our dish measures about 2-2.5% obstructed view using their app and that causes enough issues that VPN for work gets dropped frequently. Is okay for surfing and video if you accept some occasional pauses.
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06-12-2022, 07:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Kingman AZ and where our Seneca is today.
Posts: 3,118
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We have been using our Starlink for almost a month. During that time, we have tested the service in a different location every 2-3 days and capturing metrics of the service on a Mikrotik RB750 configured to log every dropped session to a syslog server.
While our tests are not complete, Early analysis is very impressive - even with the obstructions we have purposely introduced. (See pictures of purposely placed Dishy with those obstructions.)
Ours is originally purchased as a home unit, that we added the mobility feature. We traveled to Scottsdale AZ where the location we tested it in was listed as fully subscribed, but we did not see any difference in the service we received from our home location that is still taking new customers.
So far, our worst level of service was when we placed the dish right beside a structure, about 8' away from the wall to the North of the dish. If we placed the dish on the other side of that structure, we had almost no problems at all (even though the APP is reporting visibility as 4% obscured) We were still able to conduct two Teams video conference calls with as good of service as our wired Suddenlink Business Service.
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Steve & Stacy with Jasper (Australian Cattle dog)
2015 Seneca 36FK
Custom 27' flatbed trailer hauling:
07 Toyota FJC & Yamaha Kodiak 400 ATV
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06-12-2022, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: North Texas
Posts: 3,591
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Here is a cool website that if you choose your current location with the icon 3rd from the top right, will show you what satellites you would be connected to, along with other interesting settings such as your needed field of view. FYI, this is not from StarLink . ~CA
https://starlink.sx/
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06-12-2022, 10:50 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Oregon Coast
Posts: 3,099
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Quote:
Originally Posted by craigav
Here is a cool website that if you choose your current location with the icon 3rd from the top right, will show you what satellites you would be connected to, along with other interesting settings such as your needed field of view. FYI, this is not from StarLink . ~CA
https://starlink.sx/
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Here is the one I use.
https://satellitemap.space/
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Brian & Jeannie
2018.5 Seneca 37RB with to many mods to list
2015 Jeep JKU Rubicon
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06-12-2022, 11:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Oregon Coast
Posts: 3,099
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I have been using Starlink at home and the Seneca when there was just “roaming” turned on before the Portability feature was added to the home unit and it’s been great. I don’t have a ladder on my Seneca so I came up with a mount that goes on the cab mirror frame using 2 quick release fire extinguisher mounts which also give you the ability to put a lock through the mount holes once attached. The Starlink cable on just Cat5e and I have it all set up so I never have to remove the cable using their Proprietary plugs that seem to be pretty fragile. I cut the Dish end at about 10’ long and added a RJ45 weatherproof plug on the end and then mounted the socket up under the fiberglass cab corner. From the back side of the socket, the cable runs right up into the tv/fireplace cabinet of our RB and has a RJ45 end on it and the router has a 3’ cord on it with a RJ45 and just use a coupler to hook it it. I designed and 3D printed the adapter for the dish to the pole and also covers to go over the base mounts that stay on the mirror frameI have my house set up the same so I can just unplug the dish cable and router cable and move to the Seneca in bout 5 minutes.
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Brian & Jeannie
2018.5 Seneca 37RB with to many mods to list
2015 Jeep JKU Rubicon
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