Extend Starlink Internet On The Farm - LiteBeam M5 Outdoor Long Range Wifi Access Point - 1000 Feet

okay so in this video what we're going to go over is how to get your starlink connection to communicate with other buildings on your property um I have spent months working on this project and I finally found a good solution I played around with some tp-link um outdoor I guess access points I spent probably three to five hundred dollars playing around with several different access points and then I heard that there was more Hardware I needed to buy and then it just got a little overly complicated a lot of things failed um you know a lot of troubleshooting and whatnot and I finally found something that's very affordable that can shoot this this wi-fi over to different locations for about 150 around there um at most two hundred dollars it just depends on how complicated you make the setup on your end if you're trying to make it somewhat decorative anyway so in this I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible and straightforward and I'll include all the links in the description on what I used and how I have it set up but basically this is what I'm doing I have starlink at site a this is my house uh start the dishes on the roof the router is in my kitchen up on my cabinets and I have a number of things hooked up to it uh this is the transmitter uh the transmitter and receiver usually come in a kit so I'll include a link in the description for those um they they include a transmitted receiver like two dishes uh as well as a it's like this little power brick where you can plug in two ports for an ethernet cable or two of them for each individual dish so you have two power bricks and then two ports for each power brick hopefully that makes sense anyway a transmitter if it's programmed properly will uh it says it can handle up to about six miles to share the Wi-Fi to the receiver uh and I believe with clear line of sight which in most cases when you know once you start traveling quite a bit you know to site Aid I site B there's going to be different things like trees and buildings and just different things are going to be in the way so I don't recommend pushing it to six miles but it you know if you keep it within a mile I can almost guarantee this will work um but you know it's worth testing maybe at your location maybe you can get three to four miles easily it just depends on the setup but for me uh from this house to this house on the property uh it's about a thousand feet and um that's been working great like uh starlink you know it can range from I think it's 60 megabits per second to 150 megabits per second around there um and then when I hooked these up I did a speed test with just this tiny router uh once I hooked up to the Wi-Fi over at this location even a thousand feet away I was still getting about 60 to 70 megabits per second which is awesome um you know with some of the previous tests that I've done on other products I was barely getting five to ten megabits per second and this was a huge upgrade even though I spent less so anyway uh that's basically what I'm trying to do there's a a small router that works as an access point to allow other devices at the the other location to hook up to that router uh for example phones iPads computers whatever it is I'll show you how to set that up another thing to mention is you're going to need a number of different connections um starlink and forgive my messy setup at this point I was just trying to get it working and not necessarily make it look clean um So eventually this is going to look clean but you've got the router at my house that you know that it's bringing in the internet from a satellite and then what I did was I bought a a starlink ethernet cable which you're going to have to order from starlink's shop I think it was 20 to 30 bucks so once you have that you plug in an ethernet cable that goes from this to here and then this the secondary ethernet cable goes into your computer to allow you to program the device to function properly because you can actually do much more complicated setups where you have multiple of these like working working together but for this it's just going to be two devices working with each other so uh here's another view of what we were doing I have the starlink dish aiming up towards the satellites and then I have the um I guess device a site a dish hooked up right below that aiming towards the house um down here in the picture and you'll notice there's even a few trees that are kind of in the way and I'm still getting an excellent signal from that location um honestly setting this part up is fairly easy you just have a hose clamp you hook it up to a pole or whatever on your house and point it in the right direction and then you're good that part's easy I don't have to show you how to set that up but the complicated part is the programming which we're going to be going over uh in this next part all right so in this video what we're going to be doing is taking the site a where you have the transmitter the the antenna that's pointing over towards the receiver we need to first get that device programmed properly so that it can communicate with the secondary device so we're going to start with first make sure that you have um you're going to need to plug in the ethernet cable from the power brick that's powering the um the transmitter the the antenna the light beam M5 so the order it would go in is the antenna to the power brick and the power brick to the uh the computer now a lot of computers some of the newer ones nowadays don't have an ethernet port so you might have to buy an adapter to get that to be compatible I'm going to plug in my adapter now I have a Macbook and this is not going to be the exact same setup I went through but I'm kind of kind of going over some of the basics on the programming I did on the back end so you can match that or make it similar and that way you can get it set up on your end and let's say you have another building across the property you need Wi-Fi too hopefully this helps anyway I plugged in the ethernet adapter and the next step is we're going to hit LaunchPad system preferences Network and this is the adapter I plugged in now if the ethernet is hooked up it might stay connected um in this video uh since this is just a demonstration I'm just going to show you the steps doesn't necessarily need to show is connected right now uh because I already have the devices hooked up um and working properly and I don't want to disable everything just to demonstrate in this video anyway showing it's not connected uh but in your on your side it would probably show connected we need to change the configure ipv4 the default is DHCP you need to change that to manual and you're going to put in a new IP address now I'm going to put in 192. um 168 1. and 2 0. that's the default to give you access to the settings and I believe you can select apply at this point okay normally on Windows if you select this area it like Auto fills with some other information I'm going to assume that this already Auto fills when I hit apply um if not in the edit I'll make sure to include the numbers but anyway yeah uh go ahead and go to your browser and just put in 192-168-1-20 select advanced then proceed use the default password which is ubnt for the username and password enter the country and language and log in login name with the same info select system and then change the device name to whatever is appropriate for the location for example I might say something like starlink site a select change and then update your password select change and then apply remember that whenever you make any changes you'll have to select change and then apply it's not just one button that you're working with it's kind of a sequence of buttons to make sure that everything's been saved on that page go to wireless change Wireless mode to access point change the SSID this is the username to log back into the software in case you need to make future adjustments change security to WPA2 Dash AES then type in your password select change and then apply go to network and make sure the network mode is showing Bridge go ahead and change the last few digits to the IP address to something random for example instead of the 2 0 at the end like we did originally you can just make it a one select change and then apply occasionally if the page locks up try refreshing the page by re-entering the IP at the top just remember that when you change the IP with the one you're going to need to re-enter that same sequence of numbers for the new IP address so you can log into that area again okay so now it's time to work with the second device at the other location so let's go ahead and just make sure that you bring the computer over to the other location hook up the ethernet cable from that second device into your computer kind of like what we did with the first area the first location and since we're working with a new device just realize that the default IP will be back to what it was before with the 2-0 at the end so once it's plugged into your computer make sure you go through the settings kind of like what we did on the network and take it into static mode so basically it's just here basically you just select the ethernet area you'd select to configure ipv4 and then change it from DHCP to manual kind of like what you did with the first device and then hit apply and then let's go ahead and go back to the browser enter in the IP address select Advanced and then proceed enter the default login info Select Wireless Select Wireless mode to station select Network and change the IP address to something random kind of like what we did before maybe this time for this IP address you added two at the end select change and then enter your password for your device a new one I I just matched the one I used at the other location technically that's still new select change and then apply enter the new IP address in the browser select Advanced and then proceed log in select system and then change the device name to whatever is appropriate for the second location select change and then apply Select Wireless and then select the button next to SSID this is when it starts to search for the first device so that it can properly communicate with each other once you've selected the first device and then select lock AP enter the new password under WPA pre-shared key select change and then apply now go back to your network settings select ethernet and then advanced change the configure ipv4 back to DHCP and then select ok all right so here's site a where starlink is hooked up and there is the second location off in the distance about a thousand feet away where the second antenna is hooked up let me head over there and I'll show you what it looks like and here is the second antenna right there and that's Amy back at my house which is which you can't see right now and if you were on the roof you'd be able to see the house you'll notice that I have a wire coming down and it goes through the wall and then I'll go inside and show you the router okay sorry for the mess back here but you'll notice um we got the wire coming into the wall it comes up here into the power brick similar to what I showed you earlier so it's plugged in right here the green one and the black one goes into this little router and that will be in the description of which router I'm using um so yeah so what I'll do is I'll connect my laptop to the router when you plug it in it'll show up as a new network just connect to that Network usually there's a password on the bottom default password just log into that Network and then I will show you which IP address to pull up on the browser so you can turn this into an access point go ahead and make your router into an access point so first of all I'm going to make sure you're connected to the router and then put in the IP address and then I remember the IP address usually shown on the router somewhere or maybe on the manual just pull that up to access the settings uh we'll give it a random password and we're logged into the settings for the router so now what I'm going to do is before we make it an access point we want to set this up to where we can recognize the Wi-Fi network so first I'm going to select the wireless and then you'll notice they have 5G and then also this I'm just going to go with the standard I'm going to turn this off sometimes not everything's compatible with 5G so oh okay that was already off anyway um let's modify this I'm going to change the network name to um home Wi-Fi and the password you can make it whatever you want and then I'm going to go ahead and hit apply so that's saving that information now once you've made all the changes that you want on this account then go and make the change to make it an access point because I noticed that when I use this router and I use this IP address and then if I don't make all the changes I want to make it an access point for whatever reason I'm not able to reconnect to these settings again now I'm sure someone else out there might know how to but I think it changes the IP address and I wasn't sure where to find that anyway uh just make the changes that you need then go down to more settings select Network Mode oh I might have to go back into the IP oh okay so when you change the name it needs to update here so give it a second to update there it is on Wi-Fi put in a password okay and then re-enter into the settings and you'll notice it changed the name so it's more settings Network Mode access point ply you need to plug in the Ethernet cable so let me go ahead and do that give me a second and remember this is the ethernet cable coming from the antenna that's on the roof so that cable goes down into the power brick and then an antenna goes from a power brick into your Wi-Fi router so plugging it in now okay that's plugged in I hit apply and then I'm most likely going to lose access to this page which means it's just resetting the the way that the router performs it's no longer working as a normal router it's an access point so that means other devices can connect to it wirelessly access you must Connect using the IP if obtained from the main router to get the IP check the connected clients list your main router's UI okay so that's how you re-access the settings select close okay so now what we'll do is we'll test the internet and there we go it's working let's do a speed test perfect there you go that's how you set that up have fun let me know if you have any questions in the comments section um because I'm sure you know everyone's gonna have their unique setup for whatever routers they buy and like I said I'll have all the uh product links in the description if you just want to match this exact setup because with what I have right now it works great one thing I do want to mention is if you have a big house the small router that I have is not going to always reach all the way across the house so you might need 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Published: Sun Aug 28 2022