Starlink for business and job sites

What a commercial install actually needs

On a home you optimise for permanence — one install, done well, left alone. On a site you optimise for time. The link has to be up before the crew starts, which rules out anything that needs a building to be drilled, surveyed or signed off first.

That points at the freestanding answer. A tripod stand goes up on any reasonably level patch, needs no fixing, no permission and no roof access, and comes down again when the site closes. On a yard or a compound where traffic is a factor, the same stand with ballast or ground anchors on the legs is the version that survives being next to vehicles.

Repeatable across locations

The hidden cost on multi-site work is that every site is improvised differently, so nothing learned at site one shortens site two. Buy one mount type and one setup procedure, and the crew stops re-solving the same problem.

Standardising also solves the stowage problem. One tripod, one cable routine, one place the dish lives in transit — that is a five-minute setup at every subsequent site rather than a fresh engineering job each time.

Power and cable on a site

Most commercial sites have mains power somewhere, and the question is reach rather than capacity. Where there is no convenient supply, the dish draws continuously, so size the portable power on hours, not peak — the off-grid power guide works through it. On a site with pedestrians and vehicles, keep the cable out of the walkway with a proper entry point rather than a bare run across the ground.

When there is a permanent structure

If the site does have a building you control — a workshop, a warehouse, an office — then the permanent answers apply and are better: a roof mount for the highest, shortest run, or a wall bracket to leave the covering alone. Lower cost per year, no setup time at all.