Starlink RV setup checklist

Before the first trip (at home)

• Activate the kit and the plan at home, with good internet, and update the Starlink app.
• Set it up once in your driveway: learn the kickstand, the cable and the router.
• Plan where the cable enters the rig (five ways) and where the router lives.
• Check your power: the Standard averages 75–100 W average, the Mini 25–40 W average.
• Note your billing date: plan changes and pauses line up with it.

At every campsite

1. Look up before you level. If you can choose, pick the site with the most open sky. Trees to one side are fine if they’re low.
2. Place the dish on its kickstand on the ground, or on your pole or ladder mount. Not on a metal surface: third-party metal mounts that wrap around the dish’s base, or setting it directly on metal, can hurt GPS and are not supported.
3. Run the cable to the router without pinching it in a door or slide-out.
4. Power up and give it a few minutes to find its location and satellites.
5. Run the obstruction check in the app and move the dish if it shows blocked sky.
6. Secure it against wind and curious dogs. Both dishes are rated to 60 mph operational, but a kickstand on loose ground can tip.

Power

• On shore power: use the supplied power supply.
• Off-grid: the Mini takes 12–48 V DC input, so it can run from a 12 V RV system without an inverter. For the Standard, a separate Standard DC-DC power supply takes 12–48 V DC in, sold in select markets, or an inverter.
• Battery sizing and solar are covered by our sister site, Starlink Mini USA.

Packing up

• Unplug at the dish end first and cap the connector if you have a cap.
• Coil the cable loosely; tight coils and kinks damage it.
• Pause or cancel between trips, if that’s your plan: pause or cancel. Paused service is not meant for use while moving.