Starlink Full Installation and Speed Test

how's it going you guys it's scott with everyday home repairs and today i want to show you how to permanently mount your star link unit on your roof now each one of these installs can be a little bit different as you need to account for your roof line trees chimneys or other obstructions but at least this example should get you well down the road of getting your unit installed at your house as you are probably well aware there's a few different options when it comes to the actual mounting base i'll be going with what's called the volcano mount that you get from starlink it comes with everything you need to go ahead and get that installed on your roof and then start routing your wire into your house we'll start off by just talking about planning the path of your wire you definitely don't want to be jumping up on the roof and sinking lag bolts through the plywood until you know exactly where you want the ethernet cable to go to fit your actual install so we'll talk about planning then we'll go through the install on my roof line there's a few different products i'm going to use to try to keep everything watertight and secure one of those is i'm using a cover that you usually see use on boats to get wires through bulkheads and keep it water tight and then finally we'll do another speed test if you haven't seen my first video right here this goes through my initial just up where i put it out in the grass and i established the connection at that time it was march 2021 where about three weeks after that right now in april 2021 i was getting 40 megabytes download 10 megabytes upload in almost 40 milliseconds for my latency so i'll see if that has improved at all already and i would expect it to dramatically improve in the future so let's jump in and start talking about planning out that path of the ethernet cable so a couple basics to consider when you're planning out your path first off you have 100 foot of cable to work with this cable has all the integrated parts you need and is permanently fixed to the starlink unit itself two you need at least a three-quarter inch hole to pass the internet cable through and get it inside your house now this scrap piece of wood has a one inch diameter hole and that is plenty to pass the cable through then once i have the cable completely ran through and in place i'll just take the cover slip it over the cable and then tighten up the four mounting screws then i'll have a nice water type entry point into my house where i'm not kinking the cable too much because it has plenty of room inside that hole to actually come into the house and also the cable is going vertically down so you'll have a nice tendency to drip water down opposed to letting water drip inside and trying to come within your home so knowing that let's talk about some of the paths you can take inside your home options you have if you're going to mount on the roof is running on the outside and going low through your home this is an example of that type of install so i was thinking to install the starlink let's say right here so starlink installed but i didn't really love messing with this chimney and having that close and possibly being an obstruction but what that would have put me is running my ethernet down through this inside corner here so i would have ran it all the way down behind the ac unit there and then probably tucked it under here because i had an old access point right in this area which this is your rim joist and i have a basement so i would have been coming in through drilling a three quarter or one inch hole through the rim joists coming in the basement starting my routing two things i didn't want to mess with the chimney and i didn't like that much routing on the x exterior so instead of going low let's talk about the going high option taking a little different look at the roof line this was option one was over here don't change it white but this would have been option one for starlink instead i installed it over here where i could then run my cable a short distance so the cable's running across the asphalt shingles here and then loops right down and goes high through the attic space so that is the install i took i took option two it's the last routing x tier on the exterior obviously there's more additional things to do on the interior and that is what i'm going to walk you through now is that full install and how i went about it what parts i used and just lessons learned now starlink recommends that you use the longer lag bolts in the two center bolts here and hit a rafter instead i'm going to use this piece of 2x12 and position it between my rafters so now all six lag bolts have something more than just the osb sheathing to sink into then i just drilled one 5 32 pilot hole you can see it right there and then from the outside i could find that pilot hole right here and then align my volcano mount to drill all six pilot holes now whenever you're working on the roof obviously safety is first so please be careful take all precautions needed so you can do this job safely starlink does help you out a bit with a little sack there that you can put the star link unit and also the 100 foot of cable in while you're climbing up on the roof now i'll take the volcano mount and i'll position over the pilot hole and drill those six pilot holes and once you have your pilot hole set then you take each of those small little patches roll them in a ball and then apply those around each of the pilot holes making sure you're completely cover and go well beyond each pilot hole once you have all six in place then you use the larger patches for the top and the bottom and then take your volcano mount line that up with your pilot holes and then sink the two longer lag bolts in the center and tighten it down to about 90 percent here with the impact driver and then i'm going to come back through and just by hand tighten those so i can make sure they're all tight and also they're not stripped out then once you get them all tight you'll want to see that the sealant is actually squishing out from under the volcano mount additionally it's nice to see it coming out from the actual lag bolts themselves which gives me confidence that this should seal well and i won't have water leaks the only thing i'll probably come back to and seal right here in the middle to make sure water doesn't get under the bracket there and cause a leak now once you have it secured you'll take your actual star link you'll set it in it'll clip into place and now it's it's secure and now you have your hundred foot of cord and i'll just stretch this out to make sure i don't have any tangles in there before fishing it inside the house then i am going to make a small loop here and secure that with zip ties and that's the service loop so if i ever need to take off the starter link and do any service to it i have a little bit of wire to play with before i would reach the end of what's going into the house then i'll take one of those routing clips and secure it to the outside board and then additional one on the vertical surface now i did leave some slack because i did not want the internet cable rubbing on the edge of the ash fault shingles because over time that would cause a failure in the cable as the shingles move slightly and now i'm going to route the cable running along the edge of the fascia a little bit lower on the wall and then mount a routing clip to secure it to the vinyl siding once i have that now i'm going to position my one inch diameter hole so i can start to fish the cable into the attic space now once that hole is done make sure that the end of your ethernet cable is covered with electrical tape and then go ahead and fish that into the space which i have about 90 foot here that i'm putting into the attic then when you get all that fished in i am going to make a small loop here because again i want to make sure if any water gets on this cable it drips down opposed to wanting to come into the attic space and then additionally i'll put this cover which has four mounting screws if you want to know that exact cover just look down in the description you'll see a link to the exact product i used on amazon so the final routing isn't perfect obviously but it'll fit my needs and it should be water tight so now i'm ready to start completing the routing on the inside and getting everything set up and do my speed check sorry i know you guys aren't going to be able to see this very well but just to show you here is the cable coming in through the top up there in the attic and then all that excess ethernet cable that i routed down there and now i need to bring that over along with power i'm going to go through this wall here and then start connecting everything up here is the ethernet going down within the wall cavity and then here is my new road max that will be feeding the receptacle that will power the starlink unit [Music] so now we have all of our wires where we need them and i'm putting most of the setup inside a closet so it's just out of sight so i have the power supply i'm gonna have extra cables and cords here inside the closet and then on the other side of the wall in a nice centrally located open spot in the house i have the wi-fi router positioned high off a shelf that i installed that was the best setup that i could do since i'm coming top down through the attic now if you're going bottom up through that rim joist which is super common you're gonna have a little different setup but this is what i'm dealing with so i'll take this old work two gang box and i have a low voltage side i did have to modify it slightly on the low voltage side to get the cable through but i am keeping the low voltage here on the one side and then my rail mix and the receptacle on the other side the one thing i'm waiting for which they didn't have at the hardware store is the low voltage insert so you can put low voltage and high voltage in my area in the same box but you do need to have that divider plate in there to keep those separated remember if you're going to be doing electrical work it's on you do it safely know your local code and maybe consult a professional if you if you're uncertain so i'm reaching the home stretch here i'm going to get this all inserted in the wall and then power everything up and then do that speed [Music] check [Music] so [Music] so power is back on i'm going to check [Music] and outlet tester says we're good so now i have the black cable coming from the dish white that's going out to the wi-fi router on the other side in the hallway that i showed you so now i'll power this up should see those lights come on now your dish remember that dish is not stationary so it's going to now establish itself and go through the initial initialization or calibration procedure where it's trying to find the best angle in terms of position of satellites currently so once the starlink unit has established that optimal position you can run your speed check as we outlined at the start of this video three weeks back i was at about 40 megabits per second download and about 10 to 11 megabits upload and that was with a 40 millisecond latency so i've ran several tests now here is one representative test and it has varied quite a bit now the bottom side i'm at least 50 to 55 megabits per second on the download and then around 10 to 12 megabits on the upload with a very pretty consistent 38 to 40 second latency now i have seen all the way up to about 110 to 120 on the download speeds and all the way up to about 25 or 30 megabits per second on the upload speeds so why is this and why do you see that wide variety of speeds now a really cool website if you want to kind of nerd on dive deeper is dot space this will actually show you in real time the position of all the starlink satellites and you'll look around the world and see these strips these lines of satellites it almost looks like a glitch like that can't be it actually is those are fairly new flocks 60 satellites that went up in a falcon 9 rocket and have not went to their final destination so they're still kind of traveling in the ribbon for which they were deployed from the falcon 9. you can also focus in on your area and just see what kind of coverage you have so i know that's a lot of details probably more than what you guys want to know but overall my current speeds have increased it is now beating my comcast 100 megabit download internet so my plan is to test it out for a few more a week to make sure it is a stable network and once it is stable cut the cord on comcast and go full starlink if you have any questions because you got your starlink and trying to install it or you're just thinking through whether or not to go with startling jumping out in the comments we'll be in there myself and many others trying to answer those questions and help you along in your decision making or help you along with your install and before taking off if you 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Channel: Everyday Home Repairs

Views: 34,167

Keywords: starlink volcano mount, starlink installation roof, starlink cable into house, starlink midwest, starlink illinois

Id: 6JBzxHRTOV4

Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 14 2021