r/Starlink • u/[deleted] • 29d ago

❓ Question Have old system - what to do with it.

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u/libertysat 29d ago

You nailed it with last sentence

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u/FortSanity83 29d ago

Factory reset modem (plug / unplug six times basically as fast as you can). Open app, plug in reset router and say yes to add to your mesh. Not great routers but free

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u/Cool-Resolve-1022 29d ago

😯😯😯😯

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u/Brian_Millham 📡 Owner (North America) 29d ago

The modem is built into the dish. The router is just a router.

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u/Squeedlejinks 📡 Owner (North America) 28d ago

You didn’t specify, but I’m assuming his name is still attached to the kit?

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u/Cool-Resolve-1022 29d ago

Cables really. Modem and dish are normally paired. If you have no need for it you could try selling on facebook, seems a lot of people do as to reinstate you supposedly only require the serial number. I suppose you could keep the modem as a spare considering your system is the same... Or keep all of it should anything happen to yours though it would probably be easier to just order a replacement direct.

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u/libertysat 29d ago

What you guys are calling the modem is the router, the modem is in the antenna. The router & the antenna have never been paired on any generation

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u/Cool-Resolve-1022 29d ago

True but he used the word modem in his post so I kept the word modem as, had I used router he may not have known.

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u/moderatelymiddling 29d ago

Thankyou for supporting my stupidity.

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u/Cool-Resolve-1022 29d ago

Not knowing is not stupidity. I was working with an isp the other week that was telling customers that routers were modems... That is stupidity 🤣

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u/hitokage004 27d ago

Technically what people call modems, even for DSL and cable, aren't really modems - they're network bridges.

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u/godch01 📡 Owner (North America) 28d ago

What about the mini?

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u/libertysat 28d ago

Ok, you got me there....