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Starlink Standard dish on a flat roof.
Horse properties

Internet and Wi-Fi for horse properties

Starlink on the house, then proper Wi-Fi out to the stables, tack room and sheds. We plan it around your block and check line of sight to every building. VINCONNECT installs and configures it. Want to see how the pieces fit first? Read how a connected horse property fits together.
Starlink Standard dish on the Colorbond roof of a rural home in Nyora, looking out over paddocks and a dam. Photo from a VINCONNECT job.
Real VINCONNECT job: a Starlink Standard dish on a Colorbond roof in Nyora.
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.

Starlink and stable Wi-Fi in three steps

  1. Starlink on the house. On Colorbond, the dish goes on a tripod tied to the existing roof screws. On tile, it goes on an under-tile mount. See our roof, wall and tripod mounts.
  2. Wireless links to your buildings. Bridge radios carry the connection from the house to each outbuilding, with no trenching. Here's how a point-to-point link works.
  3. Wi-Fi inside. An access point in each building that needs it, set up as one managed network.

Need Wi-Fi through the house as well? See whole-property Wi-Fi. Running a farm rather than horses? See rural connectivity.

Omada gear we use for horse property links

  • On the roof: a Starlink Standard dish on a tripod (Astrogear or Hills) tied to the existing Colorbond screws, so no new holes go through the roof sheet.
  • Links to outbuildings: bridge radios from the house to each building, or to several buildings in the same direction. We mainly use TP-Link Omada EAP215-Bridge kits, with UniFi Building Bridge or UISP airMAX bridges as the alternative. We work out the layout from your site plan. More on our building-to-building wireless links.
  • Inside each building: a TP-Link Omada EAP613 indoor access point (UniFi U6 or U7 indoor models as the alternative).
  • Switching and power: each building with a radio or access point needs a power point. Radios run on surge-protected power, and access points are powered from a PoE switch.
  • Distances: We check line of sight and distance on site before we quote.
  • Price: Enter your address in Get my price for the Starlink install price, plus mounts. The estimator shows mount costs for your roof. The bridge links and network are quoted after a site check.

A sample horse property with four outbuildings

Hypothetical example. Not a real customer.

A horse property with a single-storey Colorbond house and four outbuildings: a stable block, a tack room, a float shed and a round-yard shelter with a camera. The dish goes on a tripod on the house roof. Bridge radios on the house link to each of the four buildings. Each building that needs Wi-Fi gets an indoor access point, and the camera at the round yard uses the same network, powered from that building. (More on cameras on horse properties.) The access points are set up as one network the owner can manage from the Omada app.

Mark your stables and sheds on the planner

Drop a pin on the house. Mark the stables, sheds or gates you want connected, then send it through. We check line of sight and distance before we quote. Prefer a bigger screen? Open the property planner on its own page.

Horse property internet questions

Do you need line of sight to every building?
Yes. Each wireless link needs a clear view between the two radios. We check it on site before we quote. If trees or buildings are in the way, we'll tell you what will work.
Can I run cameras off the links?
Yes. Cameras at the stables or arena can use the same network over the link, powered from a PoE switch or injector in a nearby building. Gate cameras without power nearby are planned case by case. For horse properties, see our Stable Watch camera package.
Do the outbuildings need power?
Yes. Each building with a radio or access point needs a power point, so the gear can run on surge-protected power. If there isn't one, a new power point has to be installed by a registered electrician. We'll tell you at the site check. Solar can work in some cases, and we assess it case by case.
How much does it cost?
Enter your address in Get my price for the Starlink install price, plus mounts. The estimator shows mount costs for your roof. The links and Wi-Fi depend on the property, so we quote them after a site check.

Get a quote for your horse property

Tell us about your property and we'll check what's possible before we quote. Check whether we cover your area on our service areas page, for example Cranbourne or the Gippsland region.