Join JD as he shares his personal journey of setting up Starlink at home. This video looks to guide you through the process of securely mounting your Starlink satellite dish on your roof to achieve the best possible signal. Learn valuable tips and tricks and find out about the potential challenges of a DIY Starlink roof installation.
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0:00 Intro
0:42 What You’ll Need for the Setup
1:26 Necessary Prep Work
2:22 Determining the Cable Run
3:32 Establishing the Mount
5:15 Connecting Your Starlink
6:00 Outro
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@ebenrealJD
July 19, 2025 at 8:01 am
What if you live in a village?
@RaviKumar-hi4oe
July 19, 2025 at 8:26 am
If u live in village..u enjoy with nature..no need technology..you have power of nature..👍
@ebenrealJD
July 19, 2025 at 8:29 am
@@RaviKumar-hi4oe yes we will look at the trees and the sky
@ilm__0802
July 19, 2025 at 9:42 am
Starlink coverage is global. As long as you have electricity, you’re good to go
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:27 am
@@ilm__0802all your personal data gets mined by starlink.
@Ric0chetAus
July 19, 2025 at 8:52 am
Screw Elon.
@turbyoulance
July 19, 2025 at 9:37 am
lololol
@Groegselmaschupp
July 19, 2025 at 9:52 am
How to install SL?
Rip the Package open.
Plug-in the power cord.
Setup the wifi.
Done.
@chemjam92
July 19, 2025 at 10:42 am
Term is rafter not stud for roof. The term stud is used for walls and joist is term for floor and ceiling.
@jezza6575
July 19, 2025 at 11:27 am
Bro is scared of ladders and getting on the roof…I know because I’m the same and I recognize the symptoms. Ok once we’re up there but ladders suck!
@acemacgruber6593
July 19, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Starlink = Elon = No way.
@ronnieron5368
July 20, 2025 at 12:30 pm
Yes way, it works better than anything else except fios.
@Ray__E
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 pm
Same. I refuse to give that garbage any money
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 am
@@ronnieron5368cue Europe-wide outage.
Also it doesn’t work better, just more expensively even though it gets tax subsidies/welfare.
@ronnieron5368
July 26, 2025 at 4:43 pm
@jesipohl6717 Works faster here in the U.S. for me.
@tomschi9485
July 19, 2025 at 1:46 pm
You are unbelievably perverse: *Musk deliberately destroys hundreds of thousands of families – and you support Musk?* 🤮🤮
*Well, this karma will certainly affect you.* 😍😍
@Rob-p2c
July 19, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Didn’t mention costs or performance???
@BrendaCrispim-b2f
July 20, 2025 at 6:06 am
I have one and the cost for initial was $50 plusish. For residential service is $120 a month. I did get my starlink for free provided it stays in one place for a year,if you move or change addresses before the year is up the cost for the starlink is $325.00
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 am
Enjoying sharing all your personal data with Musk’s companies?
@JamesLeroy-x7u
July 19, 2025 at 11:22 pm
That mount is not plumb it should be strait up and down
Studs are in the walls. RAFTERS are in the roof
You didn’t even need to go that high up on the roof.
Mount isn’t properly sealed
Should have fished that wire down the wall instead of drilling a hole in your ceiling
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:30 am
All of Musk’s businesses are crackerjack operations, nobody should be surprised that they can’t even portray a simple instal correctly.
If you do get starlink, enjoy all your personal data getting illegally mined.
@nooahchannel
July 20, 2025 at 3:30 am
Interesting video.
@SwederZ
July 20, 2025 at 10:52 am
Never Musk
@ronnieron5368
July 20, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Your loss for very fast internet.
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:29 am
@@ronnieron5368so you’ll stan a nzi for good Internet. Priorities I guess. Im sure your kids will love you when they grow up.
@zero11010
July 20, 2025 at 2:11 pm
Or better yet … don’t support Elon Musk.
@jbonez___
July 22, 2025 at 9:10 pm
Super cool bringing politics into everything! You’re a very cool person!
@AL-HD
July 23, 2025 at 3:38 pm
@@jbonez___ shut up
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:28 am
@@jbonez___so you’d buy Internet from anyone if it was hyped enough (I was going to say cheap, but it’s actually mond-bogglingly expensive from starlink).
@PatienceSikhue-vd1wj
July 21, 2025 at 2:49 am
Where can l buy it
@kylemaccash9517
July 25, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Best Buy
@awcoolpad
July 21, 2025 at 9:06 am
I rather not support Elon Musk Starlink because I cannot trust what internet filters, propaganda, censorship and tracking Elon is doing to my internet data. Believe me, they know every bit of data that comes through their network – that is how they know where to deliver the data. How will I know that Elon’s algorithm is giving me full unfeathered access to the real internet, instead of the internet according to Elon, where there is a white genocide in South Africa and Hitler was not that bad? Furthermore, with how erratic Elon has been, when will he cut access to anybody he does not like? Finally, if you care about cosmology, Elon’s satellites are blocking every ground based space observatories as their constellation of 8,000+ satellites (40,000+ more coming) pass in front of the observatories every night and constantly blocks their observations.
@prembagthaliya8353
July 22, 2025 at 11:07 am
Welcome to India fast.
@jamesbroderick3660
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 pm
My question is, why would you mount it to the roof and not to the side of the gable?
@Systembounce
July 24, 2025 at 4:07 pm
How did you get the chord to unplug from the dish to feed through the attic? Mine seems to be non removable on the back
@BenB-x4f
July 24, 2025 at 9:18 pm
No not helpful
How to plug in and pull out cables
@jesipohl6717
July 25, 2025 at 6:24 am
You forgot the part with the swastika.
@Airtel.com.101
July 25, 2025 at 11:59 am
How many time to install you
@erichjalmarson6429
July 25, 2025 at 10:22 pm
Well this was a waste of of time. Does not show how to set it up just how to mount the dish