It was geek heaven reviewing these systems!
POWER CONSUMPTION
This is probably the single worst aspect of using our old Gen 2 system. It sucked down electricity as much as a small fridge. Various updates to the software have not improved this much at all. My experience has been that the average power consumption has risen slightly over time. While it can vary between 30 and 100W, the average would be in the 50 to 60W range.
I was expecting the Home system to be better than the Gen 2 but, to my surprise, it was very similar, averaging between 35 and 45W. It can go either side of this range, particularly at startup where it exceeds 100W, but only for short periods.
The Mini is a revelation. Its power consumption peaked at around 90W when starting up but quickly settled down to hover between 18 and 30W.
Interestingly, the Starlink app does display average power consumption over time, but I’ m not sure how much faith I would put in it. For the Mini and the Home, it was reasonably accurate based on my observations but the reading for our old Gen 2 was wildly optimistic.
INTERNET PERFORMANCE
Without question, the reason you would want to go with Starlink is to get better internet performance than what you normally get on the mobile phone network. In the two years we’ ve used Starlink, we’ ve seen download speeds of between 50mbps and as high as 300mbps. The average speed range would be between 80mbps and 150mbps.
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