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Rural

Starlink for farms and acreage

On acreage the dish is the start. The shed, the yard and the second building are the rest of the job.

Put the internet where the sky is

The dish goes where the sky is clear and the building can take the mount. That's often the house, not the shed. Once it's in, Wi-Fi and wireless links carry the internet to the other buildings, which a router in the lounge room won't reach.

The buildings

A workshop, stable, farm office or granny flat usually needs its own link and its own indoor coverage. Cameras ride that same path if you want them. Pearcedale is an example of a five-acre property where the house was not the only place that needed to be online.

Top-down site plan of a larger horse property on acreage, divided into fenced paddocks and yards with gates. A driveway runs from the road gate to the farmhouse, beside a fenced sand arena at the front of the property, which has no equipment. The farmhouse is the hub: the rectangular Starlink Standard dish sits on a tripod on its Colorbond roof, and the router gives Wi-Fi inside the house. Four separate dotted bridge links fan out from radios on the farmhouse eaves to radios on the eaves of the stables, the workshop, the foaling barn and the machinery shed down the back, which has the longest link. Each of those four buildings has an indoor Wi-Fi access point. Every link passes clear of the tree canopies.
Example layout: one Starlink at the house, linked to the stables, workshop, foaling barn and machinery shed.

Do it in an order

Connection first. Then the building that matters most. Then cameras or a gate. Mark it on the property planner first so each stage fits the next.

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