04-21-2024, 08:24 AM
(04-20-2024, 11:35 PM)montana Wrote: Try downloading the Starlink app first. It has a check for obstructions routine. You will probably have to make an account with Starlink, but you should be able to use it without purchasing anything.
Also, with the ethernet adapter you can have the dish a long way away from the router.
Since reading one story about a couple in the same situation as we are, that being, surrounded by trees, they had to call in an independent install company which did find a LOS path through the trees, otherwise the couple were planning to cut down trees.
I also just read that Elon/Starlink is looking into using lazer technology as a means for the signals to reach the receivers. I'm not so sure this would more or less harmful for the environment, animals and us than their present means of delivery.
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