Adam Dodds

🇧🇯 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.

Starlink doesn't work in South Africa. When I fired up my Global Roam Mini it started a software update and then shut down, never to work again in SA.

This is what I had with coconut trees obstructing a full sky

🇬🇭 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 prospective travellers.

🇬🇼 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.