April 14, 2025
The Starlink Flat High Performance Dish was the original commercial-level dish sold by Starlink for users who demanded the fastest speeds, lowest latency, and highest uptime reliability, especially in extreme environments.
Featuring a larger, more robust design than Starlink’s consumer dishes, it delivers superior performance in harsh weather conditions, such as heavy rain, snow, or high temperatures. With enhanced triple phased-array antennas and improved processing power, it ensures lower latency and higher bandwidth compared to the standard Starlink dish.
This makes it ideal for businesses, remote workers, and adventurers who need dependable, high-speed internet in challenging locations.
The Flat High Performance Dish is also compatible with in-motion use, providing seamless connectivity for maritime, aviation, and mobile applications.
The Starlink Enterprise Dish is a newer offering from Starlink that’s intended for commercial users.
While not as ‘beefy’ as the High Performance Dish, it still has a larger, more robust design than standard Starlink residential terminal.
Like the High Performance dish, it of course supports high-demand applications like video conferencing, cloud computing, and large-scale data transfers, making it ideal for enterprises, government agencies, and emergency responders.
Starlink’s low-latency, global coverage ensures seamless connectivity even in areas with limited infrastructure.
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While the FHP dish benefited from a faster download speed, the Enterprise dish edged out its more expensive sibling on upload speed. Similarly, the Starlink Enterprise dish had slightly, though perhaps immaterial, better latency performance.
NOTE: While we didn’t publish other speed tests results, we did run multiple speed tests from multiple speed test providers like Ookla’s Speedtest.net. Again, we didn’t see materially different performance results between these two dishes!
Unfortunately, it’s tough for us to test 1) uptime performance and 2) snowmelt performance at the moment. However, the Flat High Performance dish should perform materially better than the Enterprise dish in those categories due to its larger field of view (better chance of ‘seeing’ a satellite at any given time), and better snow melt heat rating.
We have a lot of northern hemisphere clients who deal with ice and snow.
We deploy a lot of Starlink for our clients, and we believe the Enterprise dish will be fine for 80% of our user base. The near same speed performance and affordability make the Enterprise dish an attractive choice.
However, for our clients who demand the highest uptime, dish build quality, and snow-melt capabilities, we’ll continue to recommend the Flat High Performance dish.
Tyler Hoffman
CEO
He serves as the owner and CEO of Metro Wireless, a Detroit-MI based company that delivers better commercial connectivity via wireless solutions to a national client base. He lives in Detroit, and holds an MBA from Kellogg @ Northwestern University, and a BBA from Ross @ University of Michigan. His guilty pleasures include craft beer and horror films.
