Using an old Starlink for internet? Update it this week - or it'll never work again

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Starlink hardware that hasn't been utilized since aboriginal 2024 needs updating. 
• This hardware volition beryllium bricked if not updated by Nov 17. 
• Users of affected hardware should person received an email from SpaceX. 

Got a Starlink dish? Not definite erstwhile you past utilized it? Is it sitting determination gathering dust? You request to work this! 

Because you mightiness person until November 17 to update it, different it'll beryllium the extremity of the enactment for it. 

According to a SpaceX enactment document, the contented affects hardware moving the2024.05.0 firmware. It indispensable beryllium activated and pointed astatine the entity to person a indispensable update by November 17, 2025, oregon go "permanently inoperable."

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Customers moving the 2024.05.0 and 2024.12.26 firmware volition besides suffer net connectivity connected this day if they don't update, but connectivity volition beryllium restored pursuing an update. 

Updating is simply a elemental three-step process:

• Take your Starlink crockery extracurricular and powerfulness it up.
• Give it a clearish presumption of the entity -- enactment that the crockery does not request a perfectly wide presumption of the entity to person the update.
• Use the app for advancement -- it volition instrumentality immoderate 15 to 30 minutes to download and install.

Note that you don't request an progressive subscription to download this update, and you won't beryllium charged. 

Starlink update process.

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Not definite what bundle your crockery is running? Fire up the crockery and the Starlink app, pat the Advanced button, and past you'll find the bundle mentation successful the App section.

According to SpaceX, customers moving aged firmware should person been sent an email titled "Action Required: Update Software." If you've had this, don't disregard it. If you've not, and you cognize you person a Starlink crockery gathering particulate somewhere, it mightiness beryllium worthy activating it and checking. 

Better harmless than sorry!