watched using starlink middle of no where camped in RV mode - getting 150 to 200 mbs down V2 dish 8 months - Awesome - realized drop outs i was having was me walking in front of dish setting on ground -
Hello can i ask roughly where your at in the UK . Im looking at starlink for the east coast northumberland as the internet is absolutely diabolical out in the sticks .
@@grahambrown42 thanks for the reply man im genuinely considering it . Northumberland where im going has copper wire and the speeds from what im being told are absolutely shit so im genuinly considering starlink now its actually fully operational .
@@Husker5454 The fibre to house project in my area stopped around 25 years ago after company went bust and has never been restarted, so fibre is only to an Openreach green box about half a mile away, then copper. Don’t know what will happen when everyone changes to Sky via broadband, I foresee problems.
My satellite receiver just sits on top of my pergola, which fortunately faces the right direction (South), away from the house. No problems in nearly 2 years.
I've had it for almost a year now - and it's pretty awesome out here in rural New Mexico where getting Internet AT ALL is tough. At $100/month, it's a little cheaper than the microwave link I had before - but it's more than 10 times faster than the old service CLAIMED to be and about 50 times faster than the old system actually was. My only slight problem is that I do get occasional 1 to 2 second outages - and some internet appliances (such as my RoboRock vacuum cleaner) can't cope with that. It's not really StarLink's fault - when you access the Internet - you're supposed to retry when there is a loss of signal - and to keep retrying at longer and longer intervals for quite some time before giving up. But the PRACTICAL problems that this induces can be annoying. I use a VPN service to get to my workplace (I work from home) and their security system kicked in and cut me off if I had a >1 second dropout. Persuading them to relax this to a 5 second timeout was a pain - but they eventually did - and my problems vanished overnight. I'm still talking with the RoboRock service guys...I've tried saying "Shibboleth" (xkcd joke) - but I don't seem to be able to get this simple message ("retry more often before giving up") back to their software guys...so it's an annoying issue. I presume that as they add more satellites - that dropout will go away...but only time will tell.
Yep, that's exactly what I experienced before and simply doesn't happen anymore. So I would assume your dropouts will go away over time. I just didn't think the service would improve this quickly.
@@lowxx4645 well for me I'm Canadian so it was around $850 CAD with shipping included. Then after two weeks from the shipping date you get charged your first month
I completely agree, I've had it starting back with being a beta user. It's had periods of time of issues, however, I've seen extreme stability as of the last 5 - 6 months. The price has gone up, but yeah, what hasn't gone up in price. I've seen downloads sustained at well over 300Mbps using Steam and downloading games.
I have had starlink now for 3 months and my whole family is happy, we switch from viasat the was 250 a mo for 150gb cap, we had to limit everything for us so my wife who works from home had data to work. Now we have data for everyone and i even got back into xbox gaming now since we can now download the large files. I recommend starlink to anyone how is rural
2022 has seen dramatic availability improvements because they launched and put the 2nd shell into service, this filled in any holes in the first shell of satellites (there were many). They are now working on the third shell. This drives exponential reductions in outages. The shells move differently, sliding over each other (hard to describe, the animations are clear). I have it as well, and yes so much better the last 6 months. My only complaint is upload bandwidth is not great, but they control the time allocation up/down, so can change it whenever they like.
I’m watching this with starlink best effort in northern Arkansas, pings usually about 50-80 with speed tests of usually about 150 mbps ish. It really does vary from each Speedtest. The satellites move over so fast you could be getting slow speeds one Speedtest and the very next be getting 200mbps. I actually posted a video on this account of just a few speed tests if anyone’s interested.
Tesla owners are used to cars that get better over time - and internet connections that get better over time are beginning to set unreasonable expectations for other products! 🙂
Thanks Chris, Starlink was also my only option in Tucson and was a Godsend. I recommended it two of my neighbors, who also signed up. I have had it now for about six months and, while it has been pretty dependable, my disconnects and video buffering have actually increased noticeably. Not sure if that's just increasing density in my cell or something else but those issues have definitely increased in the last month or two. Since getting Starlink, Verizon has also introduced 5gHome to my area so I do have a fallback if Starlink gets swamped.
And here I was complaining about paying $60 for Gigabit speeds... thank you for putting my privilege into perspective 😅 I think we all need that once in a while.
A major advantage for my setup is connectivity during power outages. Yes, I jabbed solar w/ bu batteries. My former cable service would go down during power outages in about 2 minutes. I suspect that was due to repeaters with minimal backup power. With Starlink, we have close to 100% connectivity 24/7.
This helped a ton. Thank you. We are moving to a very rural area in Florida where the only internet options are satellite or DSL from a really crappy cable company. Totally going with starlink now.
We had ViaSat for 6 years in rural Louisiana. Very expensive, with slow speeds. Could not stream, ANYTHING, with download speeds peaking at 13 mbps and upload speeds never getting over 2 or 3 mbps ! We were paying about $ 120.00 a month for about 300 gig of data. It would just slow down to a crawl if you went over your data amount. We are definitely going to check into this ! Thank you so much for this excellent review, I have been waiting to purchase this due to lack of knowledge about the system. You cleared up everything....
*I use Spectrum internet, the price is cheaper than starlink not by much. Starlink is about to come into my area, I just dont see it being worth it. I live in a small town, I just peformed a speed test via Wi-Fi the results - 491.51MBPS ping - 22ms. If starlink can compete with speeds like this I would consider it. The speeds are far superior when connected directly via ethernet obviously. I understand this is helpful in some places, don't consider this unless you are in extremely rural places. My town has roughly 3,500 people and the internet speeds are like this. I think this would only be beneficial to people that genuinely live in extremely rural places. An hour or more out of city limits, im not even considered inside city limits and have speeds like this. Granted I pay very close to starlink each month. If you're inside a town, the problem may just be you're not paying enough for high quality internet. If you're paying less than $100 a month this could be the reason your internet speeds are sub-par. We don't even have things like Taco bell, burger king, or many major fast food franchises. Our town doesn't even have a hotel lol. Im serious when I say don't consider starlink unless you're genuinely in the middle of nowhere.*
Thank you Chris for this honest review. And love that dirty Tesla behind you. We are having Xfinity melt down for 3 months and the starlink is looking better by the day.
Just set up my Star-link system. Living very rural in central Maine. Getting 198 Mbps DL and 10-15 Mbps upload. Can't say much to dish reliability/connection but will update in a few days when I've used it more. I really love not being a slave to my local ISP... It's a huge punch to the face.
Had it for 2 month here in Italy... Fast, reliable and definitely much cheaper... I pay 50€ a month for the 200 Mbit/s average, with the previous contract I paid 47€ for 50 Mbit/s...😎
Thank you for your update, we have just purchased and are eagerly awaiting its arrival. We have been charged by telcos for years, for less than third world supply. With two boys in the house playing thier games, will be a huge relief to us as parents, and a calmer house. Blessings to you, and Hapy New Year to you and your family. 👍
I live rural and all other satellite internet providers bow before starlink. It’s really like fiber optic internet. I can finally download and play games on my Xbox one
When league was new I used to play in Michigan and their servers were in Cali so my ping would always be 90+. When they moved the servers to Chicago and my ping dropped to 30ms I could not believe the difference... it was insane!
Gaming doesn't use much data. The big thing in gaming is updates, and if you can schedule the updates to happen after 11pm (which is what I do) this is a non-issue.
Hey @dirtyTesla What is the difference between the Speed Test in the App, and the Advanced Speed Test in the App? For me, the speeds are much better in advanced. Thanks!
Im waiting for it to come to my area, I've been on a wait list for almost two years now and im getting low key frustrated because I paid 500 for it and I haven't even gotten it
Started off at 99 USD per month, went to 110 and just a couple months later upped it again to 120USD. A bit ridiculous. But at the same time it's an expensive operation to get up and running, so I sort of understand. And your upload speeds are better than my cable internet from Spectrum. LOL.
I am on the waitlist for my Starlink set up since Sep and cannot wait for it’s arrival. I live in an internet black hole meaning the local Broad band service literally stops at the house next door 50yrds away on the Farm to Market road I live on and only option is Viasat or Hughes net which both are super slow, expensive, and give you a GB cap. The lesser of two evils was Viasat which currently costs me $200mo for 150GB and 100mbps speed; when you mentioned you pay $110mo with 1TB of data cap, I will take that all day compared to the rip off service I have right now. Viasat’s highest speed package is $300mo which gets you 200mbps and capped at 300GB data, once you use up that 300GB, you get throttled down or you can buy additional GB (which is a rip off as well) because with a family of 5, we would burn through 300GB in 20 days and you either buy more data, or you stay throttled down for 10 days. At one time I was paying over $400mo to Viasat to keep net usage the way our family was accustomed to using before moving here in the country from El Paso, TX. The reality of that 200mbps was really only 100 but once I added to mesh Orbi WiFi, I was able to get close to 180mbps on speed tests. Only con I figured out with the Orbi was that it was using 5GB of data a day alone to push a stronger signal. We had to have net to for our home security, so now until we get Starlink, we are on Viasats second to highest option package of 100mbps and 150GB data cap package at $200mo unfortunately.
I’m fully looking into this. I have Frontier DSL and looking at barley pushing 30mbps and my ping is decent around 12-20ms but with the 30mbps and couple device connected typically if I’m playing Warzone 2 I’ll get like higher latency issues from 150-200ms ping. Frontier is the only provider since I live in the country and frontier not having fiber out here until 3 years from now. When I go on the app it says I have to go on a waitlist? Do you know how long that waitlist typically is???
I just got it a few weeks ago. I love it in general, but it took me a while to find out that the WIFI name was STINKY. They have basically no instructions and I kept looking for something with the word Starlink in it to no avail. I had to find it in internet discussions. If it is your first time setting up, look for STINKY. Elon's sense of humour I suppose.
Hi. . . We live in the country and are in a heavely wooded area. Right now, hughs net is the only thing available for us. For 5G, it started at 120.00 but keeps going up and now is 175.00 just for internet + we are throttled down to 2g constantly, we are very unhappy with this service. Do you think starlink would work better?? It's definitely less expensive. Would our trees be a big problem? Could I use the mount that Hugh's Net was using to mount it? 🤔
7:42 lol, I wish I had ping like that. I'm running dota2 at 180ms on fiber, Ukraine to US east/west servers. it's playable, no visible lag, but you can tell there's some tiny de-sync.
Well, if you game that far away there's not much you can do. The example of 60-70 for me is Michigan to New York. I game with my friend in the UK so either he gets 110 ping or I get 130ish if we do an EU server.
any suggestions for starlink users who can't seem to keep the product online? it always goes online and offline, making sure plugs are snug or replugging entirely doesn't fix it either
:)) The place where we want to have something potentially is fully backed onto a forested hill. However the other direction is flat and coastal out to the sea. I wonder how much of the day we would have a good connection? It is in New Zealand also.
If I’m understanding well, satellites are moving very fast. So it should be okay. I don’t know if it’s the same in New Zealand, but right now in France, we can test the service for 1 € (they send you the dish, you test the service, if it’s okay you pay the rest and start paying the subscription the next month, if it’s not you send everything back and that’s it).
My Comcast home coax service has a cap of 1TB and there is NO time exclusion. I can easily hit that when I have to re-download games and trigger a new computer backup. I’d love if they excluded after hours transfer, I could easily throttle some of those high usage services during peak hours with no real impact.
How "far" does one terabyte go over a month of usage?. I'm trying to set up a live camera feed from a mountain cabin to switch between security cameras. Then during hummingbird season, I would like to move one camera to watch the activity at the feeders and let other people tune in. That would be from sunrise to sunset. How long could I go on a terabyte if I dial down the quality to 720 or lower? Just asking for a guess. thx
If you set it up right, you can do nonstop 1080p with around 30gb per day. With 720p, you can get away with around 20gb per day. So well, neither should reach the 1tb in a month.
I'm about to be moving into a rural area where ATT wont offer anything over 10mbps. I'm strongly considering Starlink. I do a lot of gaming online so I really hope this is a good option.
I just got Sterling but two months ago have a lot of issues with it but I am at 61° north just got a message from them that states the only satellites I am connecting to or low in the horizon but prior to Starlink house using a cellular device which put me probably max 5 MB per second I would stay with Sterling. I can only get DSL at my house but they wanted $6000 to run a wire to it it
I have a question that I did not find an answer for in any comments. I have a plot of 4000qm equal 40000sqft how much of this area will be covered by installing Starlink.
Damn bro I need this at the moment I'm using my phone hotspot and my average ping is around 156 and it sometimes takes days to upload videos I use my phone because my home WiFi is really really bad starlink would be very good for me and my family but we can't afford it
Gaming on starlink is abysmal. It’s not the average ping that matters it’s those 150ms spikes and inconsistencies bouncing between 30 and 75. It’s so inconsistent that your brain can’t get use to it. Unfortunately in my area there is no good option the best I’ve found is my cell providers hotspot on my phone.
I get it now! If you were to look up at the night sky and draw lines connecting all of the stars that you see to one another, it would create a giant net in the sky. Link the stars = Starlink, Net in the sky (Skynet). Starlink is the beginning of SkyNet. Musk is already well on his way to making his goal of building millions of Tesla Bots a reality. They will be controlled by SkyNet.
Please help me lol. We have 2 power users gaming all the time and downloading. And 2-3 watching tv if they aren’t gaming all in 4K. You think this will work for us in a rural area ?
I would think so. I mean what do you have now? If it's better than that, go for it. Just the other day I'm getting some speed tests better than 200 down!
@@DirtyTesla This was before we moved to a rural home. We have been here a month now dealing with DSL...... Its not cutting it but its all we had an option of. Starlink as of this week is now available in my area so im about to order it. Did you mount yours way high ? Do you have snow ? Any info I really apprecitate it !
Trying to convince a friend in Nebraska in a rural area where he can't get any other internet past a service that gives 4-8 mpbs max, to go to Starlink.
@@DirtyTesla Last week. I got starlink last may I believe, and the second day i had it it rained and i lost connection..kept it till august and canceled because of the price increase..simply couldnt afford it. I reactivated it last week and the first day of reactivation it rained and i lost connection...wasnt even a heavy rain.
Buy the equipment for $600, then pay $110 monthly on top of that. Now there's a data cap..... not for me. Liking the 5g gateway for $50 per month decent speeds.
Dude I have 1 gig up and download, this is a nightmare for me. 150mbps is too low for me. I think I’m just privileged at this point for $80 a month with Verizon. I can’t anymore due to the new home and I’m absolutely livid at the options available
I think he's been blessed already. He is a billionaire. Can some of us poor folk get some of your God's blessings? Just enough to buy groceries and a vehicle (an old and shitty looking one is fine). And yes I work and do side hustles.
@@MrRuss58 yeah, I'm not a fan of his either. However most of these satellite internet companies rent you the equipment. So a one time payment of 700 isn't that bad all things considered.
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watched using starlink middle of no where camped in RV mode - getting 150 to 200 mbs down V2 dish 8 months - Awesome -
realized drop outs i was having was me walking in front of dish setting on ground -
Ha that's awesome.
Have had Starlink in the UK for over a year now.
Consistent 200-250 mbps download and never drops out.
Even dropped the price from £89 to £75!
Hello can i ask roughly where your at in the UK . Im looking at starlink for the east coast northumberland as the internet is absolutely diabolical out in the sticks .
@Husker54 I am in Merseyside, still happy with Starlink. Dropped my Sky package to basic and cancelled my landline, so actually paying less in total.
@@grahambrown42 thanks for the reply man im genuinely considering it . Northumberland where im going has copper wire and the speeds from what im being told are absolutely shit so im genuinly considering starlink now its actually fully operational .
@@Husker5454 The fibre to house project in my area stopped around 25 years ago after company went bust and has never been restarted, so fibre is only to an Openreach green box about half a mile away, then copper. Don’t know what will happen when everyone changes to Sky via broadband, I foresee problems.
My satellite receiver just sits on top of my pergola, which fortunately faces the right direction (South), away from the house.
No problems in nearly 2 years.
I've had it for almost a year now - and it's pretty awesome out here in rural New Mexico where getting Internet AT ALL is tough. At $100/month, it's a little cheaper than the microwave link I had before - but it's more than 10 times faster than the old service CLAIMED to be and about 50 times faster than the old system actually was.
My only slight problem is that I do get occasional 1 to 2 second outages - and some internet appliances (such as my RoboRock vacuum cleaner) can't cope with that. It's not really StarLink's fault - when you access the Internet - you're supposed to retry when there is a loss of signal - and to keep retrying at longer and longer intervals for quite some time before giving up. But the PRACTICAL problems that this induces can be annoying. I use a VPN service to get to my workplace (I work from home) and their security system kicked in and cut me off if I had a >1 second dropout. Persuading them to relax this to a 5 second timeout was a pain - but they eventually did - and my problems vanished overnight. I'm still talking with the RoboRock service guys...I've tried saying "Shibboleth" (xkcd joke) - but I don't seem to be able to get this simple message ("retry more often before giving up") back to their software guys...so it's an annoying issue.
I presume that as they add more satellites - that dropout will go away...but only time will tell.
Yep, that's exactly what I experienced before and simply doesn't happen anymore. So I would assume your dropouts will go away over time. I just didn't think the service would improve this quickly.
It's complete BS that vacuum cleaner requires constant & stable connection to the internet to work...
I'm over in the 575 - think it'll come this way soon?
It is probably due to a satellite hop. More won't solve it.
@@816DawG It's already here. People say it works great.
Watching this on Starlink from a remote area outside of Austin :)
This made me realize just how much I’m taking $40 fiber for granted 😳
Same here.
Yep, I just ordered starlink, was paying for telus but there's tons of disconnects constantly and I get an average of 5mbps down on a good day
I hate you...
@@BMWSUPERCOOL do you pay the 599 out the door , or ??
@@lowxx4645 well for me I'm Canadian so it was around $850 CAD with shipping included. Then after two weeks from the shipping date you get charged your first month
I completely agree, I've had it starting back with being a beta user. It's had periods of time of issues, however, I've seen extreme stability as of the last 5 - 6 months. The price has gone up, but yeah, what hasn't gone up in price.
I've seen downloads sustained at well over 300Mbps using Steam and downloading games.
I have had starlink now for 3 months and my whole family is happy, we switch from viasat the was 250 a mo for 150gb cap, we had to limit everything for us so my wife who works from home had data to work. Now we have data for everyone and i even got back into xbox gaming now since we can now download the large files. I recommend starlink to anyone how is rural
Watching from Africa-kenya
Sheeesh
2022 has seen dramatic availability improvements because they launched and put the 2nd shell into service, this filled in any holes in the first shell of satellites (there were many). They are now working on the third shell. This drives exponential reductions in outages. The shells move differently, sliding over each other (hard to describe, the animations are clear). I have it as well, and yes so much better the last 6 months. My only complaint is upload bandwidth is not great, but they control the time allocation up/down, so can change it whenever they like.
Yep I'm excited for an upload improvement. I have 2 neighbors that are still waiting from day one reservations. I am lucky I even have mine.
I’m watching this with starlink best effort in northern Arkansas, pings usually about 50-80 with speed tests of usually about 150 mbps ish. It really does vary from each Speedtest. The satellites move over so fast you could be getting slow speeds one Speedtest and the very next be getting 200mbps. I actually posted a video on this account of just a few speed tests if anyone’s interested.
I will take 50 ping over my dsl in a heartbeat!
@@snowyman42 feel that I came from viasat 😂600+ ping
I think Starlink is one of these rare products that actually get WAY better with time! Super exciting to hear about!
Google Duo doesn't exist anymore. It's now Google Meet :P
@@sirbughunter 🤣 I still call it duo
@@DirtyTesla My dad as well. You've become full-on dad mode hehehe
Tesla owners are used to cars that get better over time - and internet connections that get better over time are beginning to set unreasonable expectations for other products! 🙂
Thanks Chris, Starlink was also my only option in Tucson and was a Godsend. I recommended it two of my neighbors, who also signed up. I have had it now for about six months and, while it has been pretty dependable, my disconnects and video buffering have actually increased noticeably. Not sure if that's just increasing density in my cell or something else but those issues have definitely increased in the last month or two. Since getting Starlink, Verizon has also introduced 5gHome to my area so I do have a fallback if Starlink gets swamped.
And here I was complaining about paying $60 for Gigabit speeds... thank you for putting my privilege into perspective 😅 I think we all need that once in a while.
Lmao I was paying $90 for 10mbps
It will just get better and better
A major advantage for my setup is connectivity during power outages. Yes, I jabbed solar w/ bu batteries. My former cable service would go down during power outages in about 2 minutes. I suspect that was due to repeaters with minimal backup power.
With Starlink, we have close to 100% connectivity 24/7.
This helped a ton. Thank you.
We are moving to a very rural area in Florida where the only internet options are satellite or DSL from a really crappy cable company. Totally going with starlink now.
You'll love it!
Thanks for the update
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I'm in rural Texas, and considering Starlink. Very helpful information!
As someone who lives in rural California and has Verizon with a data cap of 8 Gbs and top speed of maybe 5 Mb/s, this sounds amazing
We had ViaSat for 6 years in rural Louisiana. Very expensive, with slow speeds. Could not stream, ANYTHING, with download speeds peaking at 13 mbps and upload speeds never getting over 2 or 3 mbps ! We were paying about $ 120.00 a month for about 300 gig of data. It would just slow down to a crawl if you went over your data amount. We are definitely going to check into this ! Thank you so much for this excellent review, I have been waiting to purchase this due to lack of knowledge about the system. You cleared up everything....
*I use Spectrum internet, the price is cheaper than starlink not by much. Starlink is about to come into my area, I just dont see it being worth it. I live in a small town, I just peformed a speed test via Wi-Fi the results - 491.51MBPS ping - 22ms. If starlink can compete with speeds like this I would consider it. The speeds are far superior when connected directly via ethernet obviously. I understand this is helpful in some places, don't consider this unless you are in extremely rural places. My town has roughly 3,500 people and the internet speeds are like this. I think this would only be beneficial to people that genuinely live in extremely rural places. An hour or more out of city limits, im not even considered inside city limits and have speeds like this. Granted I pay very close to starlink each month. If you're inside a town, the problem may just be you're not paying enough for high quality internet. If you're paying less than $100 a month this could be the reason your internet speeds are sub-par. We don't even have things like Taco bell, burger king, or many major fast food franchises. Our town doesn't even have a hotel lol. Im serious when I say don't consider starlink unless you're genuinely in the middle of nowhere.*
You need to watch this one th-cam.com/video/az_SrNMcXQ0/w-d-xo.html 😉
Thank you Chris for this honest review. And love that dirty Tesla behind you. We are having Xfinity melt down for 3 months and the starlink is looking better by the day.
I am on best efforts service in Ontario. It's still amazing. 750 Cad$ Hardware, 160 Cad$ Monthly. I can game without disconnects.
Just set up my Star-link system. Living very rural in central Maine. Getting 198 Mbps DL and 10-15 Mbps upload. Can't say much to dish reliability/connection but will update in a few days when I've used it more. I really love not being a slave to my local ISP... It's a huge punch to the face.
Had it for 2 month here in Italy... Fast, reliable and definitely much cheaper... I pay 50€ a month for the 200 Mbit/s average, with the previous contract I paid 47€ for 50 Mbit/s...😎
Thank you for your update, we have just purchased and are eagerly awaiting its arrival. We have been charged by telcos for years, for less than third world supply. With two boys in the house playing thier games, will be a huge relief to us as parents, and a calmer house. Blessings to you, and Hapy New Year to you and your family. 👍
I live rural and all other satellite internet providers bow before starlink. It’s really like fiber optic internet. I can finally download and play games on my Xbox one
Anything over 50 mps in Australia is fast so we would be very happy.
I’m tempted to get one myself- this is pushing me closer! Thanks
60 ms is perfectly usable for casual gaming.
but personally I've gotten so used to sub 20 ms I can't go back.
When league was new I used to play in Michigan and their servers were in Cali so my ping would always be 90+. When they moved the servers to Chicago and my ping dropped to 30ms I could not believe the difference... it was insane!
Awesome to know just ordered it live in the middle of nowhere Colorado only people that i can get is starlink
Meanwhile me watching this video at 8mbps
Atleast its playing in 1080p
ahhhh I was honestly thinking about it but the 1TB softcap is a deal breaker. 2 Gaming kids during summer break and we get up to 1.5TB
Gaming doesn't use much data. The big thing in gaming is updates, and if you can schedule the updates to happen after 11pm (which is what I do) this is a non-issue.
I’m waiting for it to hit Oklahoma so I can grab it while I wait for my fiber to be installed.
Hey @dirtyTesla What is the difference between the Speed Test in the App, and the Advanced Speed Test in the App? For me, the speeds are much better in advanced. Thanks!
The advanced test can show you speed from your device to your starlink router which should always be very fast.
Thanks for the review man.. Been lookin for some good legit reviews like this one.. I seen your comment on a Starlink post on X
Im waiting for it to come to my area, I've been on a wait list for almost two years now and im getting low key frustrated because I paid 500 for it and I haven't even gotten it
Reservation should only be $100
Started off at 99 USD per month, went to 110 and just a couple months later upped it again to 120USD. A bit ridiculous. But at the same time it's an expensive operation to get up and running, so I sort of understand. And your upload speeds are better than my cable internet from Spectrum. LOL.
Good video, Chris. Thanks for sharing your one-year thoughts. What is your total monthly bill with taxes and all?
It's $110 exaclty
I am on the waitlist for my Starlink set up since Sep and cannot wait for it’s arrival. I live in an internet black hole meaning the local Broad band service literally stops at the house next door 50yrds away on the Farm to Market road I live on and only option is Viasat or Hughes net which both are super slow, expensive, and give you a GB cap. The lesser of two evils was Viasat which currently costs me $200mo for 150GB and 100mbps speed; when you mentioned you pay $110mo with 1TB of data cap, I will take that all day compared to the rip off service I have right now. Viasat’s highest speed package is $300mo which gets you 200mbps and capped at 300GB data, once you use up that 300GB, you get throttled down or you can buy additional GB (which is a rip off as well) because with a family of 5, we would burn through 300GB in 20 days and you either buy more data, or you stay throttled down for 10 days. At one time I was paying over $400mo to Viasat to keep net usage the way our family was accustomed to using before moving here in the country from El Paso, TX. The reality of that 200mbps was really only 100 but once I added to mesh Orbi WiFi, I was able to get close to 180mbps on speed tests. Only con I figured out with the Orbi was that it was using 5GB of data a day alone to push a stronger signal.
We had to have net to for our home security, so now until we get Starlink, we are on Viasats second to highest option package of 100mbps and 150GB data cap package at $200mo unfortunately.
Ping will also be dramatically reduced with Starlink!
I’m fully looking into this. I have Frontier DSL and looking at barley pushing 30mbps and my ping is decent around 12-20ms but with the 30mbps and couple device connected typically if I’m playing Warzone 2 I’ll get like higher latency issues from 150-200ms ping. Frontier is the only provider since I live in the country and frontier not having fiber out here until 3 years from now. When I go on the app it says I have to go on a waitlist? Do you know how long that waitlist typically is???
Besides the Antenna Mast Pole Adjustable Roof
Mount did you need another attachment or addition that goes between the pole and satellite receiver?
Amazing option if you live in the middle of nowhere on a farm or something, doesn’t replace full fibre though.
I just got it a few weeks ago. I love it in general, but it took me a while to find out that the WIFI name was STINKY. They have basically no instructions and I kept looking for something with the word Starlink in it to no avail. I had to find it in internet discussions. If it is your first time setting up, look for STINKY. Elon's sense of humour I suppose.
Hi. . . We live in the country and are in a heavely wooded area. Right now, hughs net is the only thing available for us. For 5G, it started at 120.00 but keeps going up and now is 175.00 just for internet + we are throttled down to 2g constantly, we are very unhappy with this service. Do you think starlink would work better?? It's definitely less expensive. Would our trees be a big problem? Could I use the mount that Hugh's Net was using to mount it? 🤔
Lol that segue was a bit of a stretch 😂
Update: LOL, I just saw you said around 60 ms with up to 150 ms spikes.
-What is the latency in games via Starlink? Under 50 ms?-
That's good for me, I'm a night owl. That is the time that I'm up
Thats fast download speed
I wanted to comment on your tesla, but then i saw your channel name 😂 props to you
Seems like yesterday for this install. ;-)
Bummer about the trees, hopefully not to expensive or damaging.
It was a bit expensive but oh well you live and learn. And I agree, I cannot believe how fast time is going!
@@DirtyTesla Yeah live learn make new mistakes learn more and keep on motoring. ;-)
What about multiple people playing video games and streaming? Not just 1 person?
7:42 lol, I wish I had ping like that. I'm running dota2 at 180ms on fiber, Ukraine to US east/west servers. it's playable, no visible lag, but you can tell there's some tiny de-sync.
Well, if you game that far away there's not much you can do. The example of 60-70 for me is Michigan to New York. I game with my friend in the UK so either he gets 110 ping or I get 130ish if we do an EU server.
I don't see the link to the sat mount in your amazon or the description. what is the link ;)
any suggestions for starlink users who can't seem to keep the product online? it always goes online and offline, making sure plugs are snug or replugging entirely doesn't fix it either
My internet gets my 2-3 mbps download where I live so I’m hoping starlink will make my internet significantly more usable
It will!
:)) The place where we want to have something potentially is fully backed onto a forested hill. However the other direction is flat and coastal out to the sea. I wonder how much of the day we would have a good connection? It is in New Zealand also.
If I’m understanding well, satellites are moving very fast. So it should be okay. I don’t know if it’s the same in New Zealand, but right now in France, we can test the service for 1 € (they send you the dish, you test the service, if it’s okay you pay the rest and start paying the subscription the next month, if it’s not you send everything back and that’s it).
My Comcast home coax service has a cap of 1TB and there is NO time exclusion. I can easily hit that when I have to re-download games and trigger a new computer backup. I’d love if they excluded after hours transfer, I could easily throttle some of those high usage services during peak hours with no real impact.
SL imposes no hit to your cap from 11 PM to 7 AM local time. Besides, the cap is only a soft one so you might not experience any issues over 1 TB.
Thank you so much for the video!! This was great info :D
How "far" does one terabyte go over a month of usage?. I'm trying to set up a live camera feed from a mountain cabin to switch between security cameras. Then during hummingbird season, I would like to move one camera to watch the activity at the feeders and let other people tune in. That would be from sunrise to sunset. How long could I go on a terabyte if I dial down the quality to 720 or lower? Just asking for a guess. thx
There is a period of time, say from 11pm to 7am that it might not tick over the TB
If you set it up right, you can do nonstop 1080p with around 30gb per day. With 720p, you can get away with around 20gb per day. So well, neither should reach the 1tb in a month.
Do you have the link for the antenna mount?
I'm about to be moving into a rural area where ATT wont offer anything over 10mbps. I'm strongly considering Starlink. I do a lot of gaming online so I really hope this is a good option.
Let me know how it’s going mate I’m in a rural area too and CenturyLink offered me a whopping 6 mbps service
Can you post a link to your twitch?
Here ya go www.twitch.tv/degumaster :) I don't stream much.
I just got Sterling but two months ago have a lot of issues with it but I am at 61° north just got a message from them that states the only satellites I am connecting to or low in the horizon but prior to Starlink house using a cellular device which put me probably max 5 MB per second I would stay with Sterling. I can only get DSL at my house but they wanted $6000 to run a wire to it it
Well it should improve over time!! I am hitting new speed records almost every week now. Just saw 223Mbps down
Next time make it a stream, so we can see the quality 😊
Can I get the link to this kind of star link satellite dish mount from the Amazon?
Sure thing amzn.to/40Ca3hy
@@DirtyTesla thanks now it’s @ $68 bucks
No cable or fiber here DSL only with up to 7 MBPS down and don't bother to upload. I'm going to try this after holidays are over.
Thanks
I get 960mbps and 40mbps upload for not much more per month with Cox. I hope they improve enough to be worth the price tag.
If you have fiber this will never be worth it... Maybe at half price lol
@@DirtyTesla This hurts the Elon fan boy in me.
I have a question that I did not find an answer for in any comments. I have a plot of 4000qm equal 40000sqft how much of this area will be covered by installing Starlink.
The wireless router is pretty standard. You will need a more powerful router or a mesh system. Starlink does sell mesh points to add.
What's your average ping?
Nevermind I just needed to finish the video.
If I had the choice between fiber and this what should i choose?
Fiber almost every time, depending on price and advertised speeds of course.
$600.00 for Hardware
$100 deposit
$111.00 for shipping, handling, and taxes
$120 per month now
It's May 17th, 2023
With Starlink + Their router + your router you might be triple-NAT'd... may be good to remove one of those...
I might be haha but tbh I don't even know what to do about it and it hasn't caused a problem soooo I've just ignored it lol
A couple mornings ago my Starlink was offline and had to be re-configured as if it had been factory reset. Anyone else seen this?
Dirrrrrrttttyyyyyyy!!!! Good video man 🤜🤛
incredible!
Damn bro I need this at the moment I'm using my phone hotspot and my average ping is around 156 and it sometimes takes days to upload videos I use my phone because my home WiFi is really really bad starlink would be very good for me and my family but we can't afford it
Could I stream on twitch with these speeds?
Gaming on starlink is abysmal. It’s not the average ping that matters it’s those 150ms spikes and inconsistencies bouncing between 30 and 75. It’s so inconsistent that your brain can’t get use to it. Unfortunately in my area there is no good option the best I’ve found is my cell providers hotspot on my phone.
I get it now! If you were to look up at the night sky and draw lines connecting all of the stars that you see to one another, it would create a giant net in the sky. Link the stars = Starlink, Net in the sky (Skynet). Starlink is the beginning of SkyNet. Musk is already well on his way to making his goal of building millions of Tesla Bots a reality. They will be controlled by SkyNet.
Hi! have you heard how World of Warcraft does with star Link?
I don't play it but it shouldn't be a problem at all. I will sometimes get quick lag spikes but I can go weeks without it happening at all
Please help me lol. We have 2 power users gaming all the time and downloading. And 2-3 watching tv if they aren’t gaming all in 4K. You think this will work for us in a rural area ?
I would think so. I mean what do you have now? If it's better than that, go for it. Just the other day I'm getting some speed tests better than 200 down!
@@DirtyTesla This was before we moved to a rural home. We have been here a month now dealing with DSL...... Its not cutting it but its all we had an option of. Starlink as of this week is now available in my area so im about to order it. Did you mount yours way high ? Do you have snow ? Any info I really apprecitate it !
Nevermind I just rewatched the video and you answer some of those.
Does it provide my cell phones with data?
trying to convince my dad to buy it, we get an average of 300KBPS - 2MBPS and its sooooooooo horrible
What speed test app do you use?
That was the one built into the starlink app but I'll use speedtest.net as well
Trying to convince a friend in Nebraska in a rural area where he can't get any other internet past a service that gives 4-8 mpbs max, to go to Starlink.
There is no reason not to!
@@DirtyTesla My friend is cheap...😆. I did share your video with him so he can see someone else who is satisfied with their move to it.
Oh crap. 1TB of data is so much. That’s like downloading red dead 2 like 10 times. Who needs more than 1TB a month?!?
120 now 😂
Car might need a wash 😅
I lose connection when it rains.
Recently? This would happen a bit maybe a year ago, but lately, i don't lose connection even with heavy snow.
@@DirtyTesla Last week. I got starlink last may I believe, and the second day i had it it rained and i lost connection..kept it till august and canceled because of the price increase..simply couldnt afford it. I reactivated it last week and the first day of reactivation it rained and i lost connection...wasnt even a heavy rain.
Buy the equipment for $600, then pay $110 monthly on top of that. Now there's a data cap..... not for me. Liking the 5g gateway for $50 per month decent speeds.
Yeah that seems to work well too, but not available in my area
how is it to play COD MW2 ?
I only downloaded Warzone 2 but working great so far!
Lol, 115 ping is normal for me
Dude I have 1 gig up and download, this is a nightmare for me. 150mbps is too low for me. I think I’m just privileged at this point for $80 a month with Verizon. I can’t anymore due to the new home and I’m absolutely livid at the options available
gee i was expecting Mbps much faster i get 445.5Mbps with my provider ascending 55.6Mbps ping 9ms gigue 2ms MOntreal Canada area
Watch the first 2 minutes of this one th-cam.com/video/az_SrNMcXQ0/w-d-xo.html 😉
You should wash your Tesla, it's dirty. /s
May God bless and protect Mr Elon Musk.
From himself
lol..700 dollar for the setup is not cheap.. he is getting plenty of money
@@MrRuss58 and offering plenty of value in return 😉
I think he's been blessed already. He is a billionaire. Can some of us poor folk get some of your God's blessings? Just enough to buy groceries and a vehicle (an old and shitty looking one is fine). And yes I work and do side hustles.
@@MrRuss58 yeah, I'm not a fan of his either. However most of these satellite internet companies rent you the equipment. So a one time payment of 700 isn't that bad all things considered.
id rather keep dealing with my shitty wifi than give money to elon musk