The fleet laid over real event grounds
Towers are placed on the camping, parking, audience, and staging zones mapped for each venue, and kept off stages, racing surfaces, grandstands, water, the Augusta National course, and major highways. The count follows the Event Scenario.
How the radius and client counts were set
Starlink’s own router is the backhaul gateway, not the field radio. The Standard router is specified for up to 235 devices and 3,200 ft², indoors. The Mini is specified for up to 128 devices and 1,200 ft². Spread into a circle, that is about a 32 ft radius for the Standard router and a 20 ft radius for the Mini. A Standard dish is planned here at 100 Mbps down, inside the Mini plan sheet’s stated 75–240 Mbps band and below the Performance kit’s published 400+ Mbps. Speeds are not guaranteed. The tower radio is planned as an outdoor Wi-Fi 6 access point at a 50 m (164 ft) design radius, the recommended 2.4 GHz planning radius for that class of omni. Vendor maximums of 150–300 m are line-of-sight claims and shrink in a crowd. Event design uses one access point per 25–50 concurrent users and 1–2 Mbps per active user, so this page plans 40 clients and 1.5 Mbps. Peak load is 25% of the Event Scenario attendance online at once.