Waking this back up with some new info...
Got a hillbilly friend that is on the SpaceEx trial...
The hardware cost about 400 bucks, And consists of a powered microwave dish, about 100 ft of primary cable, a 10' patch cable, a power block/modem thingy, and a wireless router.
Setup was easy... a fixed place for the dish within 100', scan the northern sky with an app in your phone to figure out if you have enough clear space toward where the stats are flying... I guess you set the dish up level, run all the wire and plug everything together to get it ready, and then power the dish, which will auto-seek till it becomes stationary.
He's getting about 50mbs average with a latency of about 30ms, though there are times he's running over 120mbs (wow)... Cellular-over-wifi and voip both work... Excellent streaming (by comparison), and less trouble from wind and weather than he'd had previously with Hughs, Direct, and other sats.
Outtages mostly seem to be coming from the other end, and he speculates the short intervals to be sats realigning with each other as more are added... Something in a config reboot.... He has only had one major outage, which was about a half hour in the middle of the night (which sounds like an admin reboot to me)...
It is still pretty beta, but he is told to expect (that they are shooting for) an honest 100/120mbs. The cost monthly is around 100 bucks, which he is splitting with his kin sharing the connection. 3 houses are using the connection with reasonable success.