Definitive Setup for Sky Q and Starlink ?

[Guyt]

Hi All, 

I posted a similar question a while back about integrating Starlink into a household SkyQ setup. 

Unfortunately it has now reached a point with my Sky Broadband, that I need to look at alternatives for higher speed. My current Sky Broadband gives me about 30Mb/s using a FAST test, which is just about ok...however it has started dropping out recently and sitting at 15Mb/s ....which isnt good enough to run the devices in the house and the home office etc. Have looked at a Sky service upgrade ( FTTP etc ) but this is a no go...and the current FTTC is bandwidth limited by a stretch of old BT aluminium cable between the cabinet and my house. !

I am looking at Starlink ...but my main stumbling block is that I want to keep the Sky Router. I have an extensive ( 3 minis and a main box ) Sky Q setup and despite messing around with a TPlink router a while back...I find the whole thing is a lot more stable when used with Sky's own router. 

Have read through the forums and the overall view I get is...try it and see ....which I dont want to do ....

My plan would have been to configure the Starlink system in "modem" mode and then connect this via ethernet to one of the Sky router's LAN ports. Clearly the WAN port of the router would be disconnected and the internet feed from the Starlink would come in via the LAN port. The Sky router would remain as the main DHCP server. 

It was mentioned earlier that the Sky Router might need to see the Sky DNS servers to work...so I just did a little ping test from my mobile phone over 4G to the servers listed in the Sky Router admin pages ,and they responded....so perhaps they are externally facing and as such the router would be able to see them via a starlink connection. 

I guess my quesiton is....will this work ...will the Sky router accept the internet connection on a LAN port rather than the WAN port...and am I right about the DNS servers. ?

Is it possible to bump this up to Sky Technical ( of some seniority ) to ratify that what I am suggesting makes sense and will work ?

cheers

Guy

[Chodley]

I see someone else has posted who is using a Sky router (I didn't even know this was a viable idea so I just asked them why they had a sky router a minute ago)

If the starlink hardware is only acting as a modem then I don't see how this would work. You need the router to have a wan and lan side. If the starkink modem was plugged in on the LAN side (I assume the ports are not configurable as LAN v WAN) then the router can't route traffic destined for the internet through the modem. It needs to obtain an internet IP (and subnet and routing info) negotiated via PPPoE via the wan port & modem and I can't see it doing that on one of its LAN ports.

The interesting thing is the other poster says their other devices work (their query is why Q can't connect) so either I'm wrong or they are doing something other than what you're suggesting.

[GuyTrem]

I guess that is the key question ....whether the lan ports can be configured ( or recognise ) the modem and hence route across them...rather than routing across the lan ports ( and wifi ) to the WAN port. 

[Chodley]

I think you might be better off with it acting like an AP so maybe the Q thinks it's Sky internet but you have it LAN connected to an ethernet router. That might work.

[GuyTrem]

So have the Starlink kit doing the routing and possibly the DHCP, with the sky box just acting as an AP with different SSID to the Starlink and the Q boxes attached to the Sky AP ?

[Chodley]

Yep

and make sure the 2.4 wifi channels don't overlap.