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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ") wrote:

I got out before the heat this morning and put a new connector on the buried gen2 starlink cable so it would work with the new dish, and was then able to clean up the temporary cat6 cable I had laid across the yard.

What took me 2 minutes inside sitting at my workbench took 45 minutes standing on top of a ladder in the yard, because I just could not get the cables straight enough to go through the connector in the right order.

But it is finished, and I should be done climbing up and down the ladder in the yard.

View of 150ft cat6a cable strewn across a tree-lined yard from the house to the satellite dish.
Crimper, tape, wedge, rj45 connector, and hex key layer out on top of a ladder
Ethernet cable pulled through the new rj45 connector end out in the yard about 12ft off the ground
Finished product, showing the old Starlink cable crimped and connected to the new dish.