I am fitting Starlink to the cars. It is the SpaceX satellite internet you have probably seen on boats and in far-off places, and it is going into the fleet so the connection holds where your phone usually gives up. This is the honest version of what that does for you, and where it does not.
What we are actually doing
A flat antenna on the roof, wifi in the cabin, and a private connection that does not lean on the nearest phone mast. It is a rollout, not a switch I flicked overnight: more of the cars carry it each month, and we are still going. So if being online matters for your trip, ask me when you book and I will tell you straight whether your car has it yet.
Where it genuinely earns its place
The long runs. The M4 to Bath, the M40 to the Cotswolds, the drive up to Manchester or Birmingham, the airport runs that take you out past the suburbs. That is exactly where mobile signal thins out and a call drops mid-sentence, and it is where Starlink holds a line when 4G will not. You can be on a video call from the back seat on the motorway and have it stay up, which anyone who has tried it on a normal signal knows is not a given.
Where your phone is still the better bet
I would rather say this plainly than oversell it. In the middle of London your 5G is already strong, and tall buildings and tunnels can block the satellites, so Starlink is not the reason to book me for a crawl across Mayfair. It shines on the open road and it complements your phone rather than replacing it. If a firm tells you satellite internet is flawless everywhere, including a central London tunnel, they are selling you something.
What to expect, honestly
It is fast enough for calls, email, cloud files and streaming, comparable to a good home connection on a clear stretch of road. It can dip for a moment under heavy tree cover or in a tunnel, the way any signal does, and it settles again once there is sky above the car. Nothing to set up on your side: you join the car wifi like any other network, and that is it.
Why it matters if you work in the car
For the clients who treat the back of the car as a moving office, this is the point. A private connection, not a shared hotspot or public wifi, so confidential work, a VPN and large files stay yours. The two hours to a meeting become two hours of actual work instead of two hours of "sorry, you cut out". If you take me by the hour for a day of meetings, or on a long-distance run, the connection travels with you.
A real example
A client with a nine o'clock meeting in Bristol leaves London at half six and needs that hour and a half on the M4 to prepare, on calls and in the shared documents the whole way. On a phone signal that run is a series of reconnections. On Starlink it is one unbroken session, and they step out of the car ready rather than flustered. That is the whole case for it in a single journey.
And on the family and leisure runs
It is not only for work. The drive to school, the long holiday run to the coast or up north, the airport dash where everyone wants to be online at once. The children stream, the adults catch up, and the miles pass without the usual dead spots on the motorway.
Ask me when you book
We are mid-rollout, so not every car is fitted yet. If reliable internet is part of what you need, tell me when you get in touch and I will put you in a car that has it. As ever, the price is fixed and agreed up front, and this comes as part of the car, not as a line on the bill. Tell me about your trip and I will sort the right car for it.
