Recommended gear
TrackStarlink exists to answer two questions: where the satellites are, and how to get the most from the service. This page collects the physical gear that goes with both — optics for watching passes, mounts and power for running a dish well. Everything here is picked because it solves a problem the guides on this site talk about, not because a retailer offered a good rate.
See them better: spotting gear
Most Starlink passes are naked-eye events, but the right optics turn a bright dot into a satellite you can follow across the whole sky — and make the difference on fainter passes.
The classic satellite-spotting binoculars. 15x70 gathers enough light to pick up passes far too faint for the naked eye, and the wide field makes a fast-moving target easy to acquire and track by hand. If you buy one piece of spotting gear, this is it.
White light ruins your night vision for twenty minutes; red light does not. A red headlamp lets you check pass times on your phone printout, adjust binoculars and walk back inside without resetting your eyes — the unglamorous upgrade every spotter ends up making.
Once you are outside looking up, you will want to know what else is up there. This is the beginner sky guide that gets recommended more than any other: monthly sky tours and hundreds of objects you can find with binoculars or a small telescope.
Starlink at home: mounts & cases
SpaceX sells the dish; the ecosystem of mounts and cases around it is third-party. A solid mount in a clear spot does more for your connection than any software setting.
A dish propped on a patio chair works until the first storm. A proper roof or pivot mount fixes the dish above roof obstructions — the single most common cause of dropouts — and keeps it there. Check the mount matches your dish generation before ordering.
Starlink on the road: power
Off-grid Starlink is mostly a power problem. The dish draws roughly 50–100W in normal use, so your battery budget decides how many hours of connection you get.
A ~1 kWh power station runs a Starlink dish for roughly 10–15 hours and recharges from a vehicle or solar panel. It is the standard off-grid setup for RV and remote-work Starlink users, and doubles as home backup power.
Running the dish through an inverter from a 12V battery wastes energy in conversion. A dedicated 12V DC supply powers Starlink straight from the vehicle battery — more runtime from the same battery, less heat, one less box.
Faster home Wi-Fi
The dish can deliver 200 Mbps to a house whose indoor Wi-Fi then strangles it. If your speed test is fast next to the router and slow in the bedroom, the problem is not in orbit.
A mesh system replaces the single Starlink router's coverage with several cooperating nodes, so the speed the dish delivers actually reaches the whole house. Put the Starlink router in bypass mode and let the mesh run the home network.
Not sure where to start? If you came here from the pass pages, the binoculars are the purchase that changes what you can see. If you came from the guides about availability or speed, fix the mount and the home Wi-Fi first — they are the two unglamorous things that decide how Starlink actually feels day to day.