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<\/a>When we got home, I ordered mine thru MobileMustHave.com.\u00a0 It drop-shipped via Fedex from Winegard the next day.\u00a0 It arrived in San Diego less than a week later.\u00a0 When I got home, I unboxed it immediately as there was a hole in the box.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure everything was in good shape and all the cables I expected to be there were there!<\/p>\nIt all looked good.\u00a0\u00a0 I set up a table out front on the driveway and hooked I decided to <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I cleaned the area of the roof a few days prior with Acetone and then the day of with alcohol and roughed it up with 200 grit sandpaper.\u00a0\u00a0 It was as clean a surface as I was going to get it.\u00a0 Then I brought up the wedge and placed it where I thought it should go, brought up the Dishy and mounted it to look at clearances for the A\/C and spotlight.\u00a0\u00a0 Both were far enough away to not be part of any obstructions to the view of the Dishy and it looked straight from the ground way in front of the coach. \u00a0\u00a0 I then marked the roof with a Sharpie so I knew where it needed to be glued down.<\/p>\n The next The next part of the project was to connect the Starlink into my existing internet system, namely, making it a WAN connection on my Max Transit cellular router.\u00a0\u00a0 The most interesting part of the equation was the Starlink was providing internet access thru the Max as soon as it was connected, no configuration other than the WAN wired port was in the Priority 1 position beforehand.<\/p>\n Then I started testing the SL app on the phone and noticed it would only connect using its “remote” feature.\u00a0 It wouldn’t connect as local.\u00a0\u00a0 Without the local function, some of the Dishy configuration was not accessible.<\/p>\n I could find nothing about getting it to work via the Max.\u00a0 A few days of posting on the Peplink forum, I got a response from a vendor out of Texas that sent a picture of a part of the configuration that allowed my app to connect local.\u00a0\u00a0 I had to edit that WAN connection and add an address.\u00a0 Then I had to add a DNS entry:\u00a0 dishy.starlink.com = 192.168.100.1\u00a0 \u00a0 Once done, my app would connect local to the Dishy.\u00a0\u00a0 We were done!!! <\/p>\n UPDATE 2 weeks<\/strong> into our Alaska trip we are in Glacier National Park in Canada.\u00a0 The In Motion Dishy has NOT lost connectivity yet.\u00a0\u00a0 Which was totally unexpected camping in canyons and under trees many times during this journey so far.\u00a0\u00a0 As we get further north I expect that to change as the Starlink 3rd party maps show very few satellites in those orbital planes.\u00a0\u00a0 We are camped in the Waterton Lakes Townsite Campground for the next three nights, surrounded by tall mountains, very close on three sides but the app says “no obstructions”.\u00a0 So far this very expensive piece of hardware is preforming way way better than expected.\u00a0 Here is a screenshot from Waterton Lakes…<\/p>\n UPDATE 5 weeks<\/strong> into our Alaska trip.\u00a0\u00a0 We are outside of Watson Lake, Yukon.\u00a0 The In-Motion dishy has been a god send.\u00a0 The last 10 days we have been camping and driving the ALCAN.\u00a0 No cell service here, and no service most of the way since Dawson Creek.\u00a0 We have camped under trees and surrounded by mountains.\u00a0 Yes, some drops but phone calls were working and data was moving quickly.\u00a0 I am very glad I opted for the $2500 hardware and not the $600 option.\u00a0\u00a0 I am parked under trees as I write this update.<\/p>\n This thing rocks!\u00a0 [06\/07\/2-23]<\/p>\n<\/a>it up with a small travel router I’d used in the past.\u00a0 It started working within minutes and I was a happy camper!\u00a0 I figured I would let it run till it got dark out, then bring it back in the garage.\u00a0 Then I’d deploy it in the backyard in the morning for a few days to “burn in” while I got the motorhome roof ready to mount it.<\/p>\n<\/a>use a 12″ square piece of 5962 VHB from Digikey.com.\u00a0 5962 is slightly thicker.\u00a0 That would give me 144 square inches of bond.\u00a0\u00a0 The wedge mount was a bit smaller than that size, <\/a>so I purchased a piece of 5150 1\/8″ sheet aluminum and counter sunk some flat head screws from the bottom up thru the wedge mount and locked them with Nylock nuts.\u00a0 Now I had the <\/a>12×12 square that would hold the SL In-Motion Dishy to the roof and it would be difficult to remove.\u00a0 I used CSL silicone to surround it and over the nuts to prevent water from trying to get under it and possibly pop it off if I was ever in a spot that it could freeze.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>It was a nice warm day, probably 80 degrees, perfect for the VHB to bond to the fiberglass; so I put it in its place and slowly pealed off the red cover a little at a time to make sure it stuck in the correct spot.\u00a0 I used some heavy tool steel to hold it down after I was done pushing it down for a while.\u00a0\u00a0 A few hours later I gave the wedge mount a yank and realized the roof would probably come off first before the wedge did.\u00a0 It was well bonded.\u00a0\u00a0 If I needed <\/a>to get that wedge off,\u00a0 I will need to cut off the bolts.<\/p>\n<\/a>morning I installed the Dishy on the wedge and wired it up and put the small end thru my roof access port and snaked that wire over to the cabinet I installed the POE device in that it plugs <\/a>into.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That POE device is plugged into an outlet that is supplied by the inverter.\u00a0 It’s a really large device that uses 80 watts of power almost all the time.\u00a0\u00a0 If you use the Dishy’s sleep mode, that cuts the power by 1\/2, to 40 watts, which isn’t really a light load for something that can be running on batteries often.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n