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There's two major versions of Dishy (and two variants of the first with the same cabling). The first round Dishy has what looks like an ordinary Ethernet cable. But there's a surprise inside! 100W of PoE with a wiring incompatible with every other PoE standards. The second square Dishy has a proprietary connector. But the cable itself is just a Cat5E cable. Again with unusual PoE wiring and a lot of power.

The square Dishy v2 ships with no ethernet ports btw; you're supposed to use the proprietary cable between their router and Dishy, then use WiFi to the router. Yes, everyone hates it. You can buy an ethernet adapter for cheap but it's a few weeks to get it shipped. Speculation is this is all related to a parts shortage.

Details on the proprietary cable: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/s0rih3/gen2_dishy...



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