We took advantage of Starlink’s special offer of half price Mini’s in January 2025 and ordered a Mini for $299 and paid extra for the 12V cable. We also ordered a suction cup device to hold the mini in place in the overhead skylight of the motorhome.

We set up the Mini with a Roam plan unlimited that can be paused and unpaused whenever you begin or end your travels. It’s a little expensive at $195 per month but, for the benefit and safety of having internet wherever we are, we’re willing to give it a try. We’ve been many places where there is no mobile service and have often thought we should get a satellite phone. We no longer have to worry about that.

The Mini and 12V cable arrived in a timely fashion in Starlink’s very neat packaging. The suction cup holder arrived shortly after from Temu. Setting the Mini up was a simple as downloading the Starlink app to my phone, plugging the Mini in to the 12V socket in the motorhome, searching for the Mini on the app and after selecting the correct Roam plan, away it went. It all just worked…easy peasy!

We had a little difficulty working out how to remove the stand from the Mini so we could insert the suction cup holder but a quick search on YouTube gave us the answer we needed and it was simple really, once you knew how!

With the suction cup holder properly attached we stuck the Mini to the inside of our central roof hatch. We draped the dangling cable across to the side where we wouldn’t walk into it and that was it.

I use my iPad constantly when we are on the road and I am impressed how fast Starlink is. WikiCamps is so quick to load and I can check out potential camp sites quickly and easily as we travel along. There were no dropouts and we had full service all the time.

Even camped remotely on the Murray River where we are now a quick Speed Test showed 141Mbps. My Telstra phone shows 1 bar of 4G service.

So far, so good.