The $2500 "high performance" (square, not rectangle) dish is a direct ethernet connection. They still use a proprietary connector (mainly for weatherproofing a

The $2500 "high performance" (square, not rectangle) dish is a direct ethernet connection. They still use a proprietary connector (mainly for weatherproofing and durability reasons) and supply the power on different pairs than standard PoE (probably so people don't try to use their own PoE injector). But it's: dish -> PoE injector -> rj45 ethernet No wifi anywhere. Also no router, unless you count the dish itself. Each "->" is a cable. The dish->injector cable has proprietary connectors on both ends; the injector->rj45 cable has a proprietary connector on one end and an ordinary rj45 plug on the other end. Apparently this is done because the proprietary connectors are weatherproof and rj45 isn't, and people expect to be able to put the PoE injector outdoors. The proprietary connectors on the high performance dish are slightly different from the ones on the cheap rectangular dish, so you can't just use the proprietary->rj45 cable from a high performance dish with the cheap dish. Honestly I with Starlink would've just coughed up the few extra bucks it costs to use standard rj45 with a weatherproof shroud.