Starlink Mini

[WILDHOBO]

It works through the hardtop with coverking headliner installed. While in motion.

Wow. Pretty surprising, but very cool. Have you tried it outside, or with the top off, to see if it’s better performance?

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[jav_eee]

Wow. Pretty surprising, but very cool. Have you tried it outside, or with the top off, to see if it’s better performance?

Only other time I’ve tried it was a couple of days ago. Dish was placed out in the yard and powered on for an hour. Speeds were much higher and latency was much better. This 19 minute “test” was not enough to say it’s better outside of the vehicle. I’ll be taking a drive this weekend which will give the dish at least an hour of runtime at which point I can form a better opinion of out in the open versus under the hard top performance.

My original plan was to mount the dish externally on a bed rack but I wanted an easy way to run the dish out from under any kind of overhead obstructions I might park under. This is what I came up with for now.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Only other time I’ve tried it was a couple of days ago. Dish was placed out in the yard and powered on for an hour. Speeds were much higher and latency was much better. This 19 minute “test” was not enough to say it’s better outside of the vehicle. I’ll be taking a drive this weekend which will give the dish at least an hour of runtime at which point I can form a better opinion of out in the open versus under the hard top performance.

My original plan was to mount the dish externally on a bed rack but I wanted an easy way to run the dish out from under any kind of overhead obstructions I might park under. This is what I came up with for now.

Thanks for the info. And this is the standard panel? I’d love to compare your results either way that to mine with the high performance panel I have on mine. I’m going to need to add panels to one or two more vehicles when we move, and would like to not need to spend that much.

 

[jav_eee]

Thanks for the info. And this is the standard panel? I’d love to compare your results either way that to mine with the high performance panel I have on mine. I’m going to need to add panels to one or two more vehicles when we move, and would like to not need to spend that much.

Yeah this is the standard gen 3. I’ll keep you posted on this weekends results.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Yeah this is the standard gen 3. I’ll keep you posted on this weekends results.

Thanks. If this move works out, our new house will have Starlink, along with the Jeep and at least a second car. If the standard panels work while moving, I’d probably do both my daily and my wife’s daily with standard panels.

 

[jav_eee]

Ok I drive with it for about 1 hour each way. I drank on it for a while and this is what I’ve come up with so far:

Speeds are all over the place. That might be dependent on where you are and how many are also drinking from the same bowl but I saw highs of 88mbps and lows of 10mbps. That being said the kid was able to play Roblox and not get disconnected and according to him that means the “internet works good enough”.


For keeping devices connected while in motion I see no issues running in this configuration. The slow speeds while in motion could either be market saturation (which I don’t think is the case) or something going on with the network itself as I read a couple of Reddit posts today where people were complaining about really slow speeds today.

The mini would be more convenient but if I’m already getting slow speeds with my use case then paying double for portability and convenience just doesn’t make sense to me. I think I’ll stick with the gen 3 for what I need it to do.

If this post makes no sense I apologize. It’s late and I had a Starlink dish in the cab that might have been pushing RF energy into my brain for a good 2 hours. LOL

 

[WILDHOBO]

Ok I drive with it for about 1 hour each way. I drank on it for a while and this is what I’ve come up with so far:

Speeds are all over the place. That might be dependent on where you are and how many are also drinking from the same bowl but I saw highs of 88mbps and lows of 10mbps. That being said the kid was able to play Roblox and not get disconnected and according to him that means the “internet works good enough”.


For keeping devices connected while in motion I see no issues running in this configuration. The slow speeds while in motion could either be market saturation (which I don’t think is the case) or something going on with the network itself as I read a couple of Reddit posts today where people were complaining about really slow speeds today.

The mini would be more convenient but if I’m already getting slow speeds with my use case then paying double for portability and convenience just doesn’t make sense to me. I think I’ll stick with the gen 3 for what I need it to do.

If this post makes no sense I apologize. It’s late and I had a Starlink dish in the cab that might have been pushing RF energy into my brain for a good 2 hours. LOL

Speeds are all over the place even with the high performance panel. Your post is great news as far as I’m concerned. It’ll be plenty good for receiving and making wifi phone calls in dead zones.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Ok I drive with it for about 1 hour each way. I drank on it for a while and this is what I’ve come up with so far:

Speeds are all over the place. That might be dependent on where you are and how many are also drinking from the same bowl but I saw highs of 88mbps and lows of 10mbps. That being said the kid was able to play Roblox and not get disconnected and according to him that means the “internet works good enough”.


For keeping devices connected while in motion I see no issues running in this configuration. The slow speeds while in motion could either be market saturation (which I don’t think is the case) or something going on with the network itself as I read a couple of Reddit posts today where people were complaining about really slow speeds today.

The mini would be more convenient but if I’m already getting slow speeds with my use case then paying double for portability and convenience just doesn’t make sense to me. I think I’ll stick with the gen 3 for what I need it to do.

If this post makes no sense I apologize. It’s late and I had a Starlink dish in the cab that might have been pushing RF energy into my brain for a good 2 hours. LOL

Doesn't it make sense for speeds to be all over the place while in motion, though? It's got to maintain a link to satellites - while moving. As you move you change the angle of the connection to a set of satellites, then must switch to another. You'd hope it would be seamless, but there's a lot that has to happen. Low orbit satellites would see the angles change more drastically than if you were linked to something up higher. (imagine it being a rope from the Jeep to the satellite array) There's also clouds, air pockets, whatever. Around here, the cloud cover can be so dense, especially if there's fog, that GPS doesn't work well - if at all. I gave up HughesNet because it was crap if we had anything other than a sunny day without different air pockets moving in. Even our cellular connections are impacted by the weather.

I think it's fantastic that this setup worked so well for you. I'd be satisfied with those results.

 

[Deemer]

I mounted mine in the bed. Wired a 12V adaptor to the blank panel and just clawed it to my cover handle.

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