New Starlink!

[DonP-KEY]

This could be along post, sorry. Set up our new Starlink over the weekend everything went great. My issue is, how to get the wire into the trailer.

We have a Cougar 26rbswe, we don't want the cable just lying on the floor inside (we plan on extended stays) and my wife is working parttime. The two locations I'm thinking about for the router and power are: 1 behind the TV (there's an inverted wall plug there, or 2 in the bedroom by the inverted plug. I want to avoid the reconnect each time we set up.

Thoughts on how to get the cable into the trailer. Thanks

 

[fatcatzzz]

My tv is in a slide and I installed my router and power brick behind the tv. I ran the cable through the wall of the slide. Did it similar to this.

Everything is plugged in behind the tv, so when I setup at a site I setup antenna, run wire, plug into socket at back of side. As soon as sides are extended, turn on power to router. router and connection is up and running before water and sewer connectios are finished.
Easy Peesy

 

[ProRoad]

Awesome! I have an older Cougar so I just did temporary wire work, ran it thru a hole that the outside shower is related to. I use it daily for work and it runs our two TVs for entertainment. If I put the router in the window, it even reaches my Daughters house a few hundred yards away for movie night on a projector and screen.

Congrats on the new setup!
Brian

 

[Flashracer]

Can’t you run the router in the basement? I have a plug in there.

 

[essarebee]

How about running the cable through the refrigerator vent?

 

[Notanlines]

We’ve always routed all cables through the edge of the slides, floor level, at the very corner. Easy-peasy!

 

[Rhagfo]

Why not mount in your front pass though?

 

[wiredgeorge]

I used an inlet plate mounted on the outside of my camper adjacent to where my Dish receiver was located. The Dish receiver was on a shelf in the entertainment center and behind my television. The rear of the inlet plate coax connection was connected to the receiver by a short piece of coax.

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[JBM3M]

I used this thru wall setup. Works just fine... Pick a wall to go thru.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBLWH4X6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

[Flashracer]

Would mounting router in basement of my fifth wheel work? I would get a good wifi signal.

 

[essarebee]

I've read about several router installations in the basement. It is almost certain to be OK, and would be so easy to try it in a temporary fashion.

 

[Rhagfo]

Would mounting router in basement of my fifth wheel work? I would get a good wifi signal.

Yes, ours is in the basement and works fine. We mounted our daughters in her attic and she gets good signal at her barn almost 200" away. The barn is metal sided so signal would die inside, so got a repeater, mounted just inside the door.