I GOT STARLINK INTERNET AT HOME.IWISHI KNEW THESE 6 DETAILS FIRST

OUT IN THE BOONIES, I'M STARVED FOR CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO FAST INTERNET... SO I WENT WITH STARLINK.

- JON MARTINDALE

I recently moved to a much more rural area, so getting Starlink set up was one of my top priorities. My area is an internet dead zone where you might get a bit of 4G on a nearby hill, but that's about it. There's no cellular for phone calls, and the best I can hope from a landline connection is 3 Mbps.

As a modern man with a modern family full of modern devices, I need fast internet-so | readied Starlink even before my kids' beds.

It worked pretty well, too. At first I heard a bunch of buzzing noises that I was not expecting, but that sort of coil whine is apparently pretty typical. A few minutes later, I was online! But it wasn't all smooth sailing.

Having Starlink isn't like having fiber internet, and I ran into several surprises along the way.

Here are all the things I wish I'd known before getting Starlink at home.

STARLINK IS BETTER WHEN IT'S MOUNTED...

As soon as I had Starlink working, I messaged my friends saying "Space internet installed!" with the image shown below attached.

That's right. The Starlink dish is propped up in the cardboard box it came in, sitting on some steps leading to a lawn that was never intended as its permanent home. It worked well enough for the first night-but that's as long as I would ever want it to be there.

The Starlink dish propped up in its packaging.