Starlink Technical Tips and Tricks

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All technically-inclined people, as well as many not so inclined, will want to plug the Starlink dish power unit Ethernet cable directly into their own router's WAN port, and not pass-through or otherwise use the Starlink-provided router.

However, if you do that, the Starlink mobile app loses the ability to connect to the dish, and no longer provides useful statistics and troubleshooting information. You also cannot send commands, such as stow, or reboot, to the dish.

Fortunately, the solution is simple. You just need to implement a static route on your router, in order to reach the dish.

Enter your router config area, and add a static route with Interface 'WAN', host or target '192.168.100.1', netmask: '255.255.255.255', gateway '0.0.0.0', and everything else left as default. It might be host of 192.168.100.1/32 with no netmask, depending on how your router does static routes. Save the settings.

Do the same thing again, setting up a new static route, except using host '100.127.255.1'. I've seen the dish use both networks, and it changes back and forth depending on whether it is disconnected from the satellite or not.

Now your Starlink app, on a device using your own wireless network, should be able to connect to the dish, and everything in the app should just work.