Starlink Now Selling Pricey High-Performance Dish to Residential Users
SpaceX’s most powerful dish for its Starlink satellite internet system is expanding outside business customers to target residential users.
The company updated Starlink.com(Opens in a new window) to let residential subscribers order either the standard $599 Starlink dish or a “high performance” dish, which costs a whopping $2,500.
The high-performance dish was originally introduced in February. But at the time, it was offered through a new Premium tier that later became Starlink Business, which also required interested customers to pay $500 per month for the internet service.
SpaceX is now selling the high-performance dish to regular consumers, but nixing the $500 monthly internet fee. Instead, consumers can buy the $2,500 dish and pay the standard $110-per-month residential fee to receive internet via the dish.
The company seems to be marketing the $2,500 dish to users who live in harsh or rugged environments. On the Starlink support page(Opens in a new window), the company notes the dish performs better in hot, cold, and rainy conditions compared to the standard dish.
“High Performance is best for power users and enterprise applications,” the support page says, adding: “The High Performance can see 35% more sky, allowing it to connect to more satellites and better serve users with atypical installations, unavoidable obstructions, or in polar (>59 degrees latitude) and equatorial regions where there are fewer visible satellites.”
The dish is also physically larger(Opens in a new window) than the standard residential Starlink dish, and features double the antenna capability, which can allow it to receive faster download speeds. The Starlink Business tier currently offers expected speeds between 150 to 300Mbps—up from
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