Starlink sells you the hardware, but nobody from Starlink shows up to install it. What a professional install costs comes down to one question: how much work sits between the box on your porch and a dish with clear sky view, properly mounted, with cable cleanly inside the house? Here is how that work is actually priced.

The mount decides most of the price

Eave, fascia, or wall mounts are the quick end. The dish bolts to the structure you already have, the cable drops along a wall or through a soffit, and the whole job stays in the two-to-three-hour range.

Roof mounts add flashing, sealing, and risk. On a composition shingle roof this is routine work for someone with the right hardware. On foam-coated, tile, or standing-seam metal roofs, drilling is the wrong answer entirely. We have walked away from roof penetrations on foam roofs and built a ground solution instead, because a sealed roof is worth more than a convenient mount point.

Ground poles are the premium option and the right call when trees crowd the roofline or the roof cannot be touched. The price reflects real work: digging and setting a pole in concrete, trenching the cable below grade in conduit, and a 811 utility-locate call before any shovel touches dirt. That locate is free but adds lead time, and skipping it is how people hit gas lines.

The cable run is the second cost driver

The dish cable has to get inside, and the difference between a clean install and a mess is this part:

• Entry point. A drilled, sealed, weatherproofed wall penetration near the router location is the goal. Going through a window frame or under a door saves an hour and looks like it.
• Run length and path. Attic and crawlspace routing takes longer than an exterior wall drop but hides the cable completely.
• Conduit. Any buried or exposed exterior run should be in conduit. It is a small materials cost that prevents the redo.

Obstructions: the survey that saves the whole job

Starlink needs a wide cone of open sky, and Texas live oaks do not care about your download speeds. A proper installer checks obstruction maps at your actual mount candidates before drilling anything, because a perfectly executed mount with 15 percent obstruction is a perfectly executed disappointment. This survey step is built into a real install quote; its absence is built into the cheap one.

What a real quote includes

• Mount appropriate to your roof type, with flashing and sealant where penetrations happen
• Obstruction check at the proposed location before any holes
• Cable routed and secured, wall penetration sealed, conduit where exposed
• Router placement, bypass-mode setup with your existing WiFi or mesh system if you have one
• The dish actually online, speed-tested, with the app showing a clean sky view before the truck leaves

If your install should bundle a hardwired office connection or a couple of security cameras while the ladder is already out, one combined visit beats two service calls.

Get a real number for your property

Every property is one mount type, one cable path, and one tree line different from the next, which is why we quote after seeing yours. No obligation. See our Starlink installation service or call 469-293-2893.