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Here is someone who has tried to extend the cable without success ...
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Bullwinkle123
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Perhaps it's for the same reason they put a telephone jack outside the house, so you can connect to it to determine whether it's your house wiring that's to blame, or whether it's on the phone company's side of the wiring that's to blame. (Weather protection aside, I'm sure starlink will figure that out).
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A rather readable Starlink overview from RV Mobile internet, with attention to some of the limitations Starlink (power, temperature, bandwidth, geofencing, and ongoing improvements, as well as competitors, both real, and potential.)
All the best,
Peter
All the best,
Peter
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Starlink Average Download Speed Among The Lowest For U.S. Users Globally
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service has the lowest latency in the U.S. and the highest download speed in Australia reveals data.
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Maybe it was published before, but I noticed it said that in certain areas capacity will be limited and only offered to a certain number on first-come first-serve.
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This is an interview with Starlink girl who I've never heard of before and Warren is interviewing her and I'm 22 minutes in and I think a few of you may be interested.
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I'm interested and the video hasn't even started! 
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Apologies if this has been discussed before. I'm currently on the preorder list for Starlink, and for my existing setup, I have about 120 feet of buried cat5e cable running from my network closet inside the house to a pole outside where my current internet provider's dish is located. I intend to mount Dishy to that same pole.
Given that I don't require the 100 feet of cord that comes with Dishy, and the reported issues some have experienced trying to extend Dishy's cord, is it possible to simply cut Dishy's cord to a shorter length, and add a new RJ-45 connector to it? In the unboxing vids I noticed the cord does have what appear to be ferrite chokes or something else on them. Not sure how critical those are to the operation of the cord. I believe I read somewhere about someone cutting the cord for a splice, and that it appeared to be typical cat5e cord, albeit with a more robust exterior covering.
Given that I don't require the 100 feet of cord that comes with Dishy, and the reported issues some have experienced trying to extend Dishy's cord, is it possible to simply cut Dishy's cord to a shorter length, and add a new RJ-45 connector to it? In the unboxing vids I noticed the cord does have what appear to be ferrite chokes or something else on them. Not sure how critical those are to the operation of the cord. I believe I read somewhere about someone cutting the cord for a splice, and that it appeared to be typical cat5e cord, albeit with a more robust exterior covering.
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The cable between the dish and the controller box is (apparently) not a standard cable. Some have speculated it is some type of enhanced CAT 6e variation that can support more power than standard PoE. It isn't recommended to cut it, nor to extend it. If your dish mount has to be more than 100' from your in-home network location, the recommendation would be to provide an weather-tight enclosure with AC power within 100' of the dish mount location, store the dish controller there, and then connect it back via any standard supported length of CAT 6e to the router location in your home*. You can use the included Starlink router then or any other router of your choice. The Starlink router is also powered via PoE so the cable run from the controller to it needs to be within PoE supported length if you use their router. Obviously if you use your own router that has its own power supply then no need for PoE from the controller so length can be higher.
Some folks have altered the included dish cable and been successful. Some not. It's your $500 to experiment with.
Rob
*Note that knowledgeable folks will generally recommend using a CAT to fiber converter and run fiber if you need to bury or string it outside, to avoid lightning risks. Starlink doesn't seem to think that is vital, given their stock CAT connection though. YMMV.
ponytug
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You are aware that you will need 120V power within 100' of your Starlink antenna, right?
Short answer; you can do anything you want. It is your dish.
Longer answer; as @BigBlue1 wrote, no, not a good idea. The dishy cable is a weatherproof, UV rated, direct burial rated cable of heavier than normal gauge. Starlink is running an atypically high amount of power (up to 150W) from the POE power supply block to the dish. I believe that that caused Starlink to limit the length of the cable, and increase the required wire gauge to lower the power losses to acceptable levels. If you splice the cable, you would need to go even larger. (Hint: very, very few Ethernet cables are as heavy as the Starlink cable.) I would suggest that you run power out there, put in a ventilated weatherproof enclosure for the dishy power supply and then use your existing cable to bring to the Starlink router in your house.
I wouldn't try to lengthen the cable.
But your call.
All the best,
Peter