How to add Starlink cable for router inside w/o drilling holes

[GOUSC]

I've recently purchased a Starlink Gen3 dish/router to use with the roam plan with my Airstream. My general plan is to do what some do. Plug in the electric for the router into my electric outlet in the curbside outlet under the awning. I would place it in plastic box under the body of the Airstream. I am able to receive the signal inside the airstream with no issue.

I saw someone (I forgot to get his contact info) at an Urban rally we attended who was able to route the cable from his dish into his front storage compartment using a thin wire that would not get crushed when the storage compartment was closed. From there, he just drilled some holes to route the cable inside wherever the router was.

In my RV (FB twins) there is a small gap between the plywood base of the bed and the wall where the cable could be pulled from the storage compartment above the plywood bed. There is an electric outlet in the nightstand between the 2 beds where the router could be powered.

Attached are 3 pictures. One is the set up this person used to pass the cable into the front storage compartment. It looks like he has a waterproof connection to connect the cable from the dish to the router cable. When not used, you just disconnect and place the router cable in the front storage compartment. The next 2 pictures are parts I ordered on Amazon. A female to female connector to join the 2 cables together and a 15' cat 6 cable to route from the front storage compartment to the nightstand.

The 15' cable works when I connect it to the dish and router. However the female to female connector does not work but it is able to pass thru the storage door without being crimped.

Does anyone know where I can purchase a female to female connector that will be thin enough to pass through the front storage compartment door. Or, company that makes special request cables, or how to make such cable myself?

[3OnOurWay]

Not sure if the residential kits would work for you. Likely depends upon the standards that Starlink has on there cat 6 cat 5 cables, but this is worked for me to build all kinds of cables, male and female at the house.

https://a.co/d/blmIRU7

[GOUSC]

Thanks for the info. A friend of mine on the forum sent me this video as an option.

I checked my cable and it seems to work for either my curb or streetside storage compartments. I have some female to female Cat6 couplers ordered to see if they will work to join the outside Starlink cable to a 15’ cable from the storage compartment to the router inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jx_GyR2jc

[GOUSC]

I was able to successfully complete my connections from outside to inside as shown in the previous video. I have a waterproof connection with female to female connections attached to my 15' cable. I will only add the other end of the waterproofing when needed. I figure 90% of the time I won't have rain and it would be too much of a pain to attach / re-attach each time.

speed times were good with the connection so I'm looking forward to using it. When boondocking I place my Yeti Goal Zero 1000 on the nightstand anyway so that can power it in those situations.

[Trekers]

We run our Starlink cable through the grommet in the front of the trailer underneath where the battery cables are already going in from the front battery box. Airstream already put a hole there, we're just adding one more cable through it. --Ari

[GOUSC]

Originally Posted by Trekers

We run our Starlink cable through the grommet in the front of the trailer underneath where the battery cables are already going in from the front battery box. Airstream already put a hole there, we're just adding one more cable through it. --Ari

My area was all closed up with sealant by the factory. If there was a grommet, it is all covered up and closed.

[3OnOurWay]

That sealant is pliable, you can shove something though to create a path for cable, it can be use a small dowel ( I wouldn’t use sharp metal ) or even shifting cable open to compress foam/ sealant. You can push a way through and then real seal it with foam/ caulking afterward.

[daleyocum]

For those of us with propane refrigerators, I found it handy to go in through the fridge door cracked open. There’s already 120v in there if you want to go that way.

I ran mine into a Peplink router in the nearby hall closet wall and injected the 56v it wants there with this POE injector and this voltage Booster. That 12v was easy to come by because the fridge is next door. That means I don’t need to run the inverter or have shore power to use the Starlink.