🇧🇯 Benin @Starlink ✖️ No service The Chinese are really helping to fix up the place, could be a factor. Cleaner streets in Cotonou than Paris.

🇹🇬 Togo @Starlink ✔️ Lome: 46 Mbps The first thing I saw after crossing the border was a naked dude defecating on the beach in a heap of burning garbage. Didn’t stay in the country long.

🇬🇭 Ghana @Starlink ✔️ Cape Coast: 141 Mbps ✔️ Accra: 156 Mbps ✔️ Volta Delta: 86 Mbps Officially available and works everywhere. Progress

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast @Starlink ✖️ No service It worked at the Liberian border but never again. Geoblocked in Côte d’Ivoire.

🇱🇷 Liberia @Starlink ✔️ Monrovia: 79 Mbps ✔️ Nimba Mountain: 43 Mbps Was faster than hotel WiFi and I could take it with a battery to have internet where the WiFi didn’t reach.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone @Starlink ✔️ Freetown: 178 Mbps The police at the border did not like my Japanese/British RHD vehicle. Apparently banned in the country. After some discussion, we agreed a ‘fine’ and I promised to only drive through the country, so I didn’t stay long.

🇬🇳 Guinea @Starlink ✖️ No service Geoblocked at the border was a huge bummer, especially later in the night with no cell service. Woke up in my tent the following morning to chants of “Prooooo Government”. Many stories about Guinea, not on my recommendation list for

🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau @Starlink ✔️ Cacheu: 71 Mbps ✔️ Outside Bissau: 136 Mbps ✔️ Buba: 173 Mbps ✔️ Guinea border road: 86 Mbps Worked like a charm in the most remote areas of Guinea-Bissau, where there was zero cell service.

🇬🇲 The Gambia @Starlink ✖️No service 32 Mbps for a few minutes, then no service That’s the pattern for Starlink geoblock, managed to get my https://t.co/p8VZUuF4Vv booking in though haha

🇸🇳 Senegal @Starlink ✔️ Borderlands: 146 Mbps ✔️ Saint Louis: 158 Mbps ✔️ Dakar: 61 Mbps Not on the official Starlink map, but the mini on roam definitely works in Senegal

🇲🇷 Mauritania @Starlink ✔️Nouadhibou 96 Mbps ✖️Middle of nowhere dry lakebed: No service ✖️Nouakchott: No service ✖️Diawling NP: No service Starlink didn’t really work in Mauritania for me. I think the only way I got service in Nouadhibou was because I tried on a new coastal

🇲🇦 Morocco @Starlink ✖️Rif Mountains: No service (Switched from Roam -> Global Roam plan) ✔️ Atlas Mountains: 48 Mbps ✔️ Erg Chigaga Sahara: 150 Mbps ✖️Western Sahara (disputed territory): No service My Starlink service location is in England, so the continent/Europe ‘geolock’

Pillars of Hercules @Starlink 🇬🇮Gibraltar 48 Mbps 🇪🇸Ceuta 15 Mbps It works on both sides of the strait

Download speed was about twice as fast a bit later, but told me it had some obstructions, will test more at a clearer location

It worked immediately, but said it needed some time to calibrate

Setting up the mini really wasn't anything more than plugging it in and few taps in the app

For comparison, here is what my home Starlink looks like in the app

Passport for scale

This is the box it came in and what's inside

I am driving from London to Cape Town with my dad and got a Starlink mini to stay connected on the trip. We'll be crossing the Sahara, Congo and Namib so should be a proper adventure. Today I set the mini up and from the Kent Downs, England. I am getting: @Starlink senior: 222