Starlink HP Mobile Dish

[dbsea]

So, I've had my "normal" RV version Starlink dish for a few months now and have been generally satisfied, although speeds continue to average down with as many new customers as there are onboarding. I'm debating moving up to the larger high performance flat mount dish. My C30CB has the TV dome on the front, which I have disconnected since I just use Amazon Fire Sticks connected to the TV (I use these because they send TV audio over bluetooth to my Fusion). I'm debating removing that dish and mounting the Starlink HP dish in that spot. My question is, how much of my boat interior am I going to have to rip apart to get the wiring for the TV antenna out, and the starlink cable in? Has anyone ever removed the tv dome / wiring before?

 

[MV Toujours]

Dave,

Your speeds are not going to change with the HP version. What it will give you is the ability to have a connection while underway.

Your speeds are a not a function of your dish, but what plan you are on and how many other users are online. Do you have a Residential or RV Plan?

A lot of people are getting dishes under the RV Plan because they live in areas that are already saturated with Residential Plan users and can't get a dish otherwise. RV users are given "best effort speeds," which means they are throttled when there is a lot of traffic.

There have been many complaints in congested areas because there are a lot of users and Elon hasn't launched enough satellites to keep up.

If you are going to remount a new dish, see if Ivan at Des Moines can do it for you,

Patrick

 

[dbsea]

Hi Patrick,

You’re totally right and I am aware, I did a poor job of Segwaying into the reason for the hp dish, which I want for in motion and looks. I am on an RV plan. Sorry for the disjointed conversation!

 

[FlyMeAway]

Hi Patrick,

You’re totally right and I am aware, I did a poor job of Segwaying into the reason for the hp dish, which I want for in motion and looks. I am on an RV plan. Sorry for the disjointed conversation!

If you can get on a residential plan with EBM as your home base, you'll have much better service at the dock (may or may not be your use case). ANECDOTALLY, I have heard that roaming residential plan users seem to get middle-priority (below res. users in the same cell, above RV users) when roaming. YMMV.

 

[MV Toujours]

Hi Patrick,

You’re totally right and I am aware, I did a poor job of Segwaying into the reason for the hp dish, which I want for in motion and looks. I am on an RV plan. Sorry for the disjointed conversation!

No worry. Thanks.

I opted for the small dish because of the large dish power drain.

Patrick

 

[dbsea]

Hi Patrick,

You’re totally right and I am aware, I did a poor job of Segwaying into the reason for the hp dish, which I want for in motion and looks. I am on an RV plan. Sorry for the disjointed conversation!

No worry. Thanks.

I opted for the small dish because of the large dish power drain.

Patrick

I may also stick with the small dish for that reason. I converted mine to 12v and eliminated the router, and I enjoy the low(er) power usage and everything running through my Peplink setup and having the redundancy to failover to cellular data or vice versa if one or the other isn't working well.

 

[sgeary]

Dave,
Can you post details on how you converted your Starlink to 12 volt.
Thanks.
Steve

 

[dbsea]

Dave,
Can you post details on how you converted your Starlink to 12 volt.
Thanks.
Steve

Hi Steve,

I followed this guide from the off grid CTO:

https://www.offgridcto.com/2022/05/23/s ... -dc-power/

I mounted everything inside a waterproof box and mounted that on the underside of my flybridge helm. I connected the power to an open spot on the flybridge fuse block, and added a toggle power switch so I can shut the whole thing off when I'm not using it. The hardest part is getting the twisted pairs right and adding new RJ 45 connectors. You'll want to make sure you have all the tools he calls out. Feel free to send me a direct message and I can pass you my phone #, and happy to give you more details / answer any questions.

 

[MV Toujours]

Hi Patrick,

You’re totally right and I am aware, I did a poor job of Segwaying into the reason for the hp dish, which I want for in motion and looks. I am on an RV plan. Sorry for the disjointed conversation!

No worry. Thanks.

I opted for the small dish because of the large dish power drain.

Patrick

I may also stick with the small dish for that reason. I converted mine to 12v and eliminated the router, and I enjoy the low(er) power usage and everything running through my Peplink setup and having the redundancy to failover to cellular data or vice versa if one or the other isn't working well.

Dave,

Which Peplink router are you using and how much power savings have you seen?

By your description, your install sounds pretty sweet.

Patrick

 

[dbsea]

I'm using the BR1 Pro 5g router, and the 42g mobility antenna. The router uses 8w nominally, 19w max. I've never seen it use 19, though. I am hovering around 50-55w all in with the SL dishy and the router combined. For me not having to use the inverter to power it has been key, given I don't have a generator and only 200w of solar.