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by PinkPigeon 1421 days ago
Do you happen to know anyone who managed to figure out what the electrical requirements for the cable are? We tried mounting the antenna outside and connecting the cable via an external box to the inside (using cat 6 cable), but Starlink immediately started complaining about a 'bad connection', which went away when we routed the cable to the power brick unimpeded. But it would really be much neater if we could use our own house's ethernet wiring. But evidently Starlink doesn't like it.
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I'm on the original, round dish, not the rectangular new one. I wonder whether this can be done on the round dish, as that one used even more power.
It's pretty low as long as its not a rev1_preprod, the rev2_proto2 and proto4 models use 30-50W for me.