I’ve a Peplink MAX BR1 Mini 5G I’ve acquired with which to learn the ropes integrating Starlink into a Peplink MAX BR1 cell modem here at home before integrating Starlink into my buddy’s MAX BR1 Pro 5G in Michigan’s north woods.
The Starlink product is their Enterprise dish. No Starlink router. Just a PoE injector.
I’ve searched here and the web looking for a straightforward, succinct integration “How To”, to no avail.
Anybody know where I can find a step-by-step “Do this, then this, then…” HowTo, preferably written, perhaps with screenshots, rather than an interminable YouTube video with a bunch of excess commentary?
I imagine I could just go throw the dish up on a pole in the back yard, fire up the Starlink app on my iPhone, get the dish happy, plug it into the Peplink’s WAN port, and figure it out—eventually. But a HowTo would be better
I’m in a similar boat as you. I’d like to setup my Peplink Balance with a Starlink dish, and the documentation surrounding how to do this is scarce at best. Peplink recently put out a flashy press release announcing some kind of “Authorized Solution Provider”, where apparently you’re supposed to reach out to a third party who will assist with this some way or another. It sounds like you’re ahead of me though - you already found out how to get a dish, and apparently a PoE injector? I’m assuming at this point that you can just plug it in and configure. Interested to hear what you find out though.
This is for deployment at the north woods cabin of one of my best friends. I did a cell modem install for him a couple years back, using a MAX BR1 Pro 5G. Now he wants to add Starlink.
My research suggested the best way for him to go was a Starlink Enterprise kit. That comes with a PoE injector and no router.
It was essentially plug-and-go. Despite the fact I had no WiFi available (my Peplink is a MAX BR1 Mini 5G w/o WiFi), so I wasn’t able to complete the setup with the Starlink app, I just aimed the dish north-ish, as I’m told that’s where the constellations are up here, plugged it in and it just worked ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Heck, the vast majority of the effort was in hauling everything out to the back yard, getting it set up, then tearing it all back down. The actual “plug it in and test” part took all of the 15 minutes of the about four hours it took to do all that.
(A good deal of the time was spent locating the bits for my old 20 ft. Ham Radio “field base station” mast system, getting it erected & guyed, taking it back down, putting the dish on, and raising it back up.)
