Starlink internet service begins public beta in the Methow Valley

My roof is 7/12 pitch with a 6 inch ridge cap. I bought the ridgetop mount which is like a metal sandwich board. It comes with a rubber mat the sits under the mount. The mount straddles the ridge and locks in place. You place 2 8x16 inch pavers on either side of the mount which holds it down. After mounting it there was no movement of the mount, it was solid. The dish mounts into a tube on the mount and locks into place. I first brushed away any snow from the mounting spot. Last night it snowed a foot and it is working like a charm. If you live in LRAA, you will see my dish on the roof driving up Harris Rd. Securing the cable is also important.

In addition, Starlink confirmed there was 0% obstruction of signal.

What is your ridgeline like? I am out by LRAA too. Right now I have the dish out in our yard but as you wrote, we too are getting intermittent drops of about 30min every 24 hours. I want to put it up on our roof on the ridgeline but I am afraid of 2 things.
1) We have metal roof and the ridge cap is pretty wide. I'd say at least 8 inches. I fear that the 'feet' on Starlink's ridge adaptor will not go over that ridge. It is a pretty common ridge shape for metal roofs so maybe you have the same one.
2) The snow will get up to 3 feet deep on our roof and then come off one side at a time in a huge avalanche. I fear that it will rip down the satellite when that happens. Thoughts? Our chimney stays up but it is right on the ridge and doesn't have anything for the snow to 'hold' on to.

Maybe I'll get the ridge adaptor and put it up for winter and see if it survives a few big snows and roof avalanches. But I want to be sure that it'll fit over our ridge cap.

Thanks!

I'm in LRAA and have had the Starlink beta since the end of October. I first mounted it in my front yard, but was experiencing intermittent interruptions. I now have it solidly installed 31 feet up on the peak of my roof using the rooftop mount and have no interruptions now. You not only need a clear view looking north, but obstructions east or west need to be 1.5x further away than above the dish. If you have tall trees, get it as high as possible and only use Starlink mounting hardware. The snow mode software is now installed to keep the dish snow free.

Speeds are fantastic. Good bye Century Link and Hughesnet.

We have had our Starlink internet up and running for about a week now. Set up was easy. Took it out of the box, put dish in yard, put cord through a window (sealed with towels), plugged it in ...and we had 170Mbps internet. Wow. The cord will require a 3/4" hole through the house so we didn't want to do that right off. So for now it's going through a bedroom window that is cracked open but sealed well with towels. For now the dish is just out in the yard on the snow. Eventually I will get it up on a pole. I don't want to put it on the roof since we get so much snow build-up that the dish would not survive the winter.

Service review. It's great. Speed varies between 40 and 170Mbps. Our old service was 0.5Mbps on a fast day. It does drop for 1-5 seconds fairly frequently. So we need to warn people when we are on VOIP calls or video conferencing. So far Zoom and Google Hangouts doesn't drop during that off-time. We just see a spinning wheel and have to wait. Frequently = like 10 times in an hour call I'd say. But the 5 second drops are not that common.

When I say 'plug it in', we just used the equipment supplied with the dish. One is a black box (power??) and the other, a small white triangular box, is the wifi router (?). They come plugged in and didn't take them apart. Literally just plugged into a receptacle. Then STARLINK-#### appeared on the list of wifi networks. A box popped up asking for a password for it, we set one. And that's it.

Oh and fyi, the dish did not come with any instructions except a cartoon which indicated 3 steps: Set out dish, plug in, connect to your new Starlink network. At least that is how we interpreted the cartoon. There are no words on the cartoon. I knew from the article to get the Starlink app on my phone so we could find a good place in the yard for the dish with nothing blocking view of the northern sky. We have trees blocking the bottom of that view but connection still seems fine.