We used our phones as hotspots for 6 years, though the data was always spotty until we upgraded with a booster antenna (purchased on Amazon for somewhere around $150), which ended up working much better, but not so much to reliably steam movies without getting chronically annoyed by the experience. We ended up installing Starlink 2 months ago, and it's been amazingly reliable and fast, typically 200-250mbs at the router and 110mbs at the device, while upload speeds are anywhere from 10 to as high as upper 30s. The emerging caveat with it however, is it's power draw. It's a rather complex arrangement of atmospheric conditions, obstructions, satellite positioning relative to geo-location and seasonal orbital tilt (seemingly), and temperature. So, when we first got it, the weather here in the western Maine mountains was warmer as the fall was still clinging on, and even as a ground pole mount, we have zero obstructions. For the first month or so, the dish was drawing a very stable and typical 40 watts, which was great. It took extra juice, often up to 90 watts for the initial searching every morning to position itself with the train, as we unplugged it every night to save some wattage, but always leveled off to 40ish within half an hour usually. Life was good. Then the cold ass weather hit, and temps have stayed consistently at freezing or below. There's a thermostat relay in the dish that calls for extra power when a certain temp is registered (and I'm guessing it's 35 or maybe a little higher) to heat up elements within the dish to prevent snow and ice from obstructing the signal... And if a phone tech is to be believed, play some role of pressure balancing in the dish. This has amounted to what I would consider rather exorbitant power draw just to have internet. These days, it's rare to see Starlink drawing less that 170 watts, and it usually stays right at 180. Which happens to be it's power brick's rating. Accordingly, the brick stays really hot most...all, actually.. of the day. I done expect this is helping to preserve longevity. And of course, 99% of the time, when it's cold here, it's not snowing or sleeting. This arrangement, to my mind, is absurdly wasteful and a real misstep in the engineering of an item to which the off-grid crowd was clearly if of it's major intended demographic markets. A much more sensible solution would have been to allow the user to enable/disable the temp relay via the app... In the very least. For us, running Starlink is virtually the same as running an additional 2.5 refrigerators. Therefore, we plug it in when we went to use it while these conditions of power draw remain, so that's an obvious (and intrusive) drawback with the system. Having said that, even in horrible conditions, and I mean big snow storms, heavily obscured skies, snow the does manage to accumulate before being melted away... The signal always remains strong and 99.8% of the time uninterrupted. So for all it's shameless power hungriness, at least it loyally delivers.