[Starlink] reverse engineering the starlink router

[Nathan Owens]

It’s a cat5e cable with custom waterproof connectors, still seems to be
Ethernet+ PoE

Haven’t seen a teardown yet…

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:27 PM David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:

> The new square dish no longer uses a rj-45 cable between the dish and the
> router, they have some new connector (looks limilar to USB-C, but flared
> on one
> side like micro-USB)
>
> has anyone seen a teardown of the new dish/router yet? (I'm not willing to
> sacrafice my dish, but I may be willing to open the router for what little
> good
> it will do, but will probably wait until after I get the ethernet adapter
> first.
>
> David Lang
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, Dave Taht wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:32:34 -0800
> > From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
> > To: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
> > Subject: [Starlink] reverse engineering the starlink router
> >
> > Really good teardown and analysis here:
> >
> >
> https://olegkutkov.me/2021/12/25/analysis-and-reverse-engineering-of-the-original-starlink-router/
> >
> > According to his twitter feed, he's now deep into the dishy:
> > https://twitter.com/olegkutkov
> >
> > I really hope the original starlink router gets updated to a modern
> > openwrt. The offloads they presently use in that product are just not
> > needed at the speeds the dishy runs at and there are so many
> > advantages to that modern codebase.
> >
> > I did get a shot at the newer dishy and wifi router over the holiday
> > myself, (without, sigh, an ethernet port) but my primary interest is
> > merely in finding a way to effectively run fq-codel derived algos on
> > or near it and not have to tear it apart.
> >
> >
> > --
> > I tried to build a better future, a few times:
> > https://wayforward.archive.org/?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icei.org
> >
> > Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
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