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When the power flickers, a Starlink router can factory reset itself, and the dish can need half an hour or more to come back. Here is the fix order after an outage, how many hours each Starlink kit runs on a battery, and how to keep it online through the next one.
The Starlink app raises named alerts that point at why it dropped, from Obstructed to Thermal Shutdown. Here is what the dropout alerts and router lights mean, why a drop around 3 AM can be a scheduled update reboot, and the fix order for drops that keep coming back.
Every Starlink dish sold today heats itself to melt snow, from the Mini's 1 inch an hour to the Performance kit's 3.5. Here is what the Snow Melt setting actually does, what it costs in watts on a battery, why the Mini really does have it, and the fix ladder for a dish that is buried anyway.
Starlink has renamed its dishes twice, shipped a V5, and sells a Mini X that is the same Mini in a bigger box. Here is which Starlink you own, which four you can actually buy in the US today, what each one draws and costs, and which one fits a home, a camper, or a boat.
A Starlink Mini kit costs $199, Roam service is $55 a month, and Standby Mode keeps it alive for $10 a month between trips. Here is the real yearly cost of owning one for camping, road trips, and home outages, compared with renting, plus the routers, cables, mounts, and batteries that make it work inside a cabin.