I've got an older-generation Starlink, and I had to buy the extra adapter to break out a single port for an RJ45 CAT5 cable. That single connection supplies my TP-Link Gateway with internet. Be aware that if you decide to hide your WiFi radios since they are outside the realm of control, you need WiFi to access the Starlink. I opted to hide only the radio names. There is a greater security risk in doing this, but I really doubt a hacker is going to sit in my yard banging on the Starlink WiFi.
The setup of my Acurite weather tower required the Starlink WiFi to be split between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. Acurite only needs the single 2.4 GHz band of WiFi, since it can use the 5 GHz band. Now that I did this, it wiped out my passwords and then left the old Starlink (multi-band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) listing both Starlink 5 GHz and Starlink 2.4 GHz. The old multi-band was 192.168.1.x, and the new split radio was 192.168.2.x. I deleted the old multi-band 192.168.1.x, and POOF, internet disappeared in the house completely. I worked my way from Mark's Roku back to the WiFi head and rebooted that. Then I noticed no signal and rebooted the TP-Link Gateway. I noticed the IP address was pointing to the wrong place after removing the radio from Starlink, and the gateway got lost. No internet.
It has been a huge learning curve to build a full home network and have an on-site 16-terabyte cloud server. This cloud server is running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server software, and I have both beautiful workstations and 4 terabytes of storage. So, I'm going to tell my stories about Linux and Networking. This is just one of many where I've jump to the rescue and return internet and cell service to the home.
I've got an older-generation Starlink, and I had to buy the extra adapter to break out a single port for an RJ45 CAT5 cable. That single connection supplies my TP-Link Gateway with internet. Be aware that if you decide to hide your WiFi radios since they are outside the realm of control, you need WiFi to access the Starlink. I opted to hide only the radio names. There is a greater security risk in doing this, but I really doubt a hacker is going to sit in my yard banging on the Starlink WiFi.
The setup of my Acurite weather tower required the Starlink WiFi to be split between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. Acurite only needs the single 2.4 GHz band of WiFi, since it can use the 5 GHz band. Now that I did this, it wiped out my passwords and then left the old Starlink (multi-band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) listing both Starlink 5 GHz and Starlink 2.4 GHz. The old multi-band was 192.168.1.x, and the new split radio was 192.168.2.x. I deleted the old multi-band 192.168.1.x, and POOF, internet disappeared in the house completely. I worked my way from Mark's Roku back to the WiFi head and rebooted that. Then I noticed no signal and rebooted the TP-Link Gateway. I noticed the IP address was pointing to the wrong place after removing the radio from Starlink, and the gateway got lost. No internet.
It has been a huge learning curve to build a full home network and have an on-site 16-terabyte cloud server. This cloud server is running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server software, and I have both beautiful workstations and 4 terabytes of storage. So, I'm going to tell my stories about Linux and Networking. This is just one of many where I've jump to the rescue and return internet and cell service to the home.