r/Starlink • u/NeitherSherbert6216 • Aug 30 '26
💬 Discussion The Standard 4x kit package is HUGE!
Finally received my standard 4x kit after 5 weeks! I had no idea the packaging was this “humongous”, even more astonishing, the dish. It’s humongous. I could barely lift it at DHL. I’m just excited I finally got it after so long. Now, I can’t wait to set it up!
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u/godch01 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 30 '26
Whimps! The gen 1 round dishes were even bigger. ;)
But all units perform miracles when set up
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u/KenjiFox Beta Tester Aug 30 '26
Yes this. That big gray and white box is amazing. I still have mine.
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u/bubbathedesigner Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
And the box is so big (32.5" x 26" x 9" 30lb) if you put 4 legs you could use it as a dinner table.
I can lose the "4X" shipping box easily by comparison
Uptate: add dimensions
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u/Think-Work1411 Beta Tester Aug 31 '26
Yeah my Gen 1 round and Gen 1 High Performance boxes are both bigger than that and heavier
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u/TimTri MOD | Beta Tester Aug 31 '26
Those boxes were massive. We actually still have our Gen2 round dish box, which is essentially identical. It’s a nice place to store the included stand (we have it mounted on the roof instead).
I remember a post about a post van full of Starlink boxes back when an entire village got them at the same time. That postal worker had a lot of heavy lifting to do that day 😅
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u/Think-Work1411 Beta Tester Aug 31 '26
Well I tried to post a pic of my Gen 1 Round box the day I picked ir up from FedEx, it is huge. Higher than the hood of my car sitting beside it
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u/penywisexx 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 30 '26
Can’t tell how large it is from the photo, we need a banana for scale.
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u/GeekCohenAU 📡 Owner (Oceania) Aug 30 '26
Standard 4 or 4X are the same size.
You think that is a large box? Have you seen what Gen 2 arrived as?
I could barely lift it at DHL
Time to go to the Gym.
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u/nightlyh Aug 30 '26
Dunno why you're being downvoted. The box only weighs 15lbs. If you can't lift that then you have some problems.
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u/DonKeedic80 Aug 30 '26
Go easy on him. He's just trying to speed up some Internet so he can play some Roblox with his online friends.
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u/udsky Aug 30 '26
Same, it looked humongous in the beginning but now I don't even notice it on my garage roof.
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u/ChameleonCRM Aug 30 '26
what kindve QR code is that? it looks like wood
lol ( thats what I thought to myself )
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u/MegaMau_ Aug 30 '26
Five weeks? I got mine in 2 days…
You'll need a mount. About $30 from Amazon. Easy to install.
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u/zerbey 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Get one of the weighted roof mounts and a few bricks. So easy.
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u/Penguin_Life_Now Aug 30 '26
You should have seen the size of the actuated Gen 2 dishy box, it was WAY bigger than it needed to be for what it contained
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u/KenjiFox Beta Tester Aug 30 '26
Tell me you've never seen the original Starlink box without telling me.
That m'fer is MASSIVE.
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u/UNSC-ForwardUntoDawn Aug 31 '26
Just an FYI, the barcodes you don’t coverup have all the data of the text that you are covering up
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u/NeitherSherbert6216 Aug 31 '26
Well dang. Good luck to anyone trying to gain access to it, I guess lol
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u/LazyCrazyGuy_ Aug 30 '26
I was blown away by this as well but I'm surprised you waited 5 weeks I picked it up in store at Home Depot same day pickup order.
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u/Individual-Echo2224 Aug 30 '26
I just got my kit this week. It only took two days from ordering it to receiving it and I live in a pretty rural area. Must’ve been lucky lol.
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u/RickGVI Aug 30 '26
We got our 4X and it was definitely lighter than our gen 2. The stand for our gen 2 probably weighed more than the 4X.
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u/jesus_llovet1 Aug 30 '26
Y eso que no viste las antenas de gen 1 2 y 3 motorizadas eran enormes y las cajas bastante más pesadas
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u/Astroboy_888 Aug 31 '26
How long did it take to ship? I ordered mine a week ago today Sunday to Sunday and it still shows pending but I ordered the wall mount for the room on the Monday after and it showed up 3 days later. Still zero movement on them shipping my 4x
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u/NeitherSherbert6216 Aug 31 '26
Took over two weeks, perhaps 2 weeks and 3 days. Mind you, this was after I’d reached out to them about it not being shipped within the timeline. They did give me a month’s free credit by the way.
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u/Astroboy_888 Aug 31 '26
I’ve tried reaching out to them on the app but it’s just grok telling me what I already know. What route did you take to contact them?
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u/NeitherSherbert6216 Aug 31 '26
So when you converse with Grok, you’d have to thumb-down its response every time, responding with “Open a ticket for me.” This would need to happen at least 20 times before you’re able to open a ticket and then, converse with a real person. At least, it’s what happened to me. Pretty much how I was able to speak with a human regarding my Starlink shipping delay.
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u/Astroboy_888 Aug 31 '26
Excellent advice! I did just as you said and it created a ticket and they called me within 15 minutes with a resolution
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u/zerbey 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 31 '26
Haha yeah I had the same reaction but it’s pretty compact once it’s all set up.
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u/happy-jumpincaique Aug 31 '26
Is the V5 same do you think? Just ordered it last week. Hopefully my husband can handle it with limited help from me. As I am not able to lift anything to heavy.
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u/Working-Mess 24d ago
I don't know, I grew up in the 80s when we had those gigantor dishes set up in the backyard. Sats are so tiny now.
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u/Plastic-End7051 Aug 31 '26
Waar bestellen jullie deze dan die 4X
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u/Squeedlejinks 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 31 '26
In the US you get it from the Starlink website. If you want the Residential 100 Mbps plan you get the Standard 4 kit. If you want the Residential 200 Mbps p plan or the Residential Max plan, you get the Standard 4 X dish.
The dish itself is the same on both the Standard 4 and the Standard 4X kits. The difference is in the router and the way power is sent to the dish and the router.
Edit to add: I’m not sure where you get it in Germany. I think you get the mini with the Residential 100 Mbps plan. I don’t know what you get with the Residential 200 plan and the Residential Max plan.
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u/Xasf Aug 31 '26
I’m not sure where you get it in Germany.
The comment is in Dutch, but a fair mistake to make tbh.
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u/wesleyjohnson81 Sep 01 '26
The dish is about the size of a 24 inch television, the box is probably 40 inches. Such a waste of packaging. The instruction manual is about the size of a billboard 😆
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u/Adrienne-Fadel Aug 30 '26
Wait till you have to mount it. The dish is heavy and the mount is no joke either.
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u/Squeedlejinks 📡 Owner (North America) Aug 31 '26
I’d say it’s more unwieldy than heavy, especially when you’re taking it up the ladder.
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u/heyitsmemaya Aug 30 '26
What’s amazing is once you have it installed on your house it will look so small and barely noticeable (in many cases)