I don't want to be that guy... silicone and asphalt shingles don't mix, the silicone erodes the tar base and pulls it up. I've had to replace shingles and flashing where people used silicone instead of tar caulking. The starlink is very intriguing good to hear you can get those speeds out away from the city 👍
Dude thank you! I had no idea! Being “that guy” is a huge help to me buddy. I will be swapping that out with something compatible as soon as it warms up from -30😆👍
Thank you, very much, Sir! Your video was the only one (of several I watched) that made sense for its clarity and amount of information given. I'm on a mission to get rid of cable because their cost is now higher than Starlink anyway. I still don't know where to install the "dish" or how to get the cable into the house but I will take your advise of using the app to test and get started!
A year later and I see your comment. I’m from Northern Nevada, Churchill County. Are you still using Starlink? What sort of speeds, up and down, are you experiencing? If you don’t mind my asking what is the monthly expense?
@@ZenSponge Ha, in Churchill too! Still on starlink. Speed test was 52 down and 15 up. Probably a bit better closer to the main building. I think it's like $120 or so.
Thankyou for the good video straight to the point review. I’m ordering starlink today as long as the app you mentioned says I’m good to go. Which I never knew existed
nice vid. We get a lot of off grid folks with the StarLink setups coming into our solar store asking about solar system sizing.. I'm curious what the power/energy is for these ranging from low (no heater, no scanning). up to full on. Also, if you can power it off , say during the day when nobody is home, and then powered back up without any (re)connection issues. Go oilers! (from Edmonton. ;))
I've had mine for almost a year and love it, I haven't seen any more than 100 Mbps but thats plenty. We are pretty much neighbors so I wonder what the difference is? I've seen -36 and two severe hailstorms that took out all my siding and most of my trees but the dish never even skipped a beat.
I was considering it for my home. The initial cost and monthly payments unfortunately were higher than other competitors who also gave us faster speeds. We ended up going with T-Mobile Internet though. In our area, we were seeing around 100mbps down and 20-30mbps up. That was about 2 years ago though. T-Mobile added a bunch of 5G towers in our area, and now we see 500mpbs down and 80-100mbps up. All for $50/month with no data caps or bandwidth throttling, and no contract too. Didn't even need to switch our phone carrier to T-Mobile either. But we aren't in a very rural area, so we had options to go with. I know my old home didn't have anything beside dial-up, or very expensive satellite internet ($250+/month) that wasn't even that fast. This is the best option for people out in places like that. Basically as long as you have a good view of the sky, you are good!
Oh yeah if I could get that type of 5G in my area I would be 100% down to just do that. We could have upgraded our Telus thing but only told we’d get up to 50Mbps download and it was $140 a month and that came with a data cap. The Starlink is $120 a month and here in Canada we get taken advantage of with this stuff compared to our neighbours to the south. Even cell service we usually pay about two to three times per month compared to US providers. Cheers 👍
THanks so much for your video. My wife and I just bought in Bancroft Ontario. I have been so stressed about internet providers as I need it to keep my job. Any more advice would be deeply appreciated.
Good to know! I signed up for it when it first came out, they made it available in my area a couple years ago but at that time it was only stationary. I really wanted something I could use for home but also take with me traveling with our camper. Last year the came out with the RV version and I've really been thinking about getting it. I can work remote full-time and it would be awesome to travel 4mon out of the year.
I watching this video through Starlink too... this thing its amazing. All the way south of Mexico (Chiapas). The thing i dont like about it its the "type C" thingy in the cable. You cant use some conduit or something to protect the cable.
Right on. Yeah that is a really good point. The install could be so much more professional and have better options if you could run the cable through conduit.
@@Simplelittlelife to each, their own... The problem here with me its the hot temperature, rain/high humidity and heavy sunlight trough the year, I'm worry that the cable wont hold on. in doesn't seem that "heavy duty". Im thinking on using a cable sleeve(like the one on the car) for the section that is directly on the roof.
Starting monthly cost is roughly $125 per month in the US. I am moving to Costa Rica, monthly cost is roughly $60 per month. Starlink monthly cost is based upon the country average monthly income. With adjustments. Smart... Someone in Nairobi could not afford $125 per month or even close. So Costa Rica monthly is set per the avg monthly income. Internet search your country for monthly cost... Starlink publishes country monthly cost. (Costa Rica hardware package is $500).
Hi! are you using the same unit when you move to Costa Rica? the reason I am asking I am planning to buy here in Canada and I will set it up in Philippines I am not sure if that works though. Thank you for your reaponse in advance!
We had one of those Telus LTE modem/routers and they were garbage. I don't know if it's a network limitation or just bad hardware but had that exact same issue with multiple users. Could stream 2 HD movies at once no problem but if someone was scrolling on their phone it would basically kill the connection for everyone. Starlink has been a million times better. Had a couple days at -40C out here without a blip, but I have the original round model. They place nice with the Ubiquiti Unifi hardware if you want to have a better Access Point and/or shoot internet over to the shop.
Right on! Yeah the folks that are in our old place had it delivered while we were still there and I asked how he likes it. He says the same thing you and I do. Cheers 👍
Definitely considering going to starlink. Curious if you had any issues late last week when we dipped down to -35ish? I’m in Monarch just outside of Lethbridge and having some of the same issues you were with our max download speeds of around the 20 range. Our upload currently is capped at 2😢
Right on! During our last cold snap we didn’t have a single problem. I think we go down to -32 here but since making this video I’ve heard from people who have had theirs below -40 with no issues whatsoever. I am really impressed with this system. 👍
$110 USD for residential use, no monthly cap... with not warrantied speed. BUT, in my case, i have better latency and almost the same speed that used to have back when i was living in my hometown with a hard line internet connection(regular, not optic fiber)
I've been considering buying one of these for a while since my house is way up in the mountains and can't get any service, barely any phone signal and want to install security cameras in my house that I could monitor when I'm not home, my question is where can I buy the whole thing?
If you had 20mb/s download with the telus ZTE modem, maybe you only needed a new router and use that device as a modem. You will have double NAT, but I doubt you had a private public IP on mobile network anyway so it probably doesnt matter. Modern mesh routers are day and night compared to what was before.
Around our house we don’t need one at all. Upstairs and the basement get excellent signal and even out in the lawn. It is the most powerful router we’ve ever had.
Question: does the dish continually follow satellites, therefore requiring continuous power? And am assuming that is 110v ? I run solar in Northern Ontario and a simple 12v system although i do have a 175w inverter for laptop.
Thanks for the video...would like to hear where you're located, cuz we're in Canmore, AB and considering their service...out of privacy, if you could only give me a rough indication, so i can compare what I may get in terms of signal. Cheers
There's really only two things keeping me in the city. Fiber and commute times.. Which sucks as I desperately want out of suburbs. Having neighbors just sucks.
It’s worth the sacrifice trust me you can still get all the necessities if your not deep in the woods even then you can come up with alternatives for power source.
I think you’ve got some terminology wrong here - you’re talking about megabytes but you actually are meaning megabits. That’s almost a order of magnitude of difference
There are no terms. Basically you’re not tied into a contract, but they can change their service at any time they want too. Guess we’ll see how it ends up playing out.
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Internet bandwidth is usually measured in Mbps (MegaBits/Second). MBs (MegaBYTES) is usually used as the amount of storage data something uses/occupies. To understand how they can be converted between one another, remember this: 8 bits (valued 0 or 1) is equivalent to 1 byte (which is smallest amount of bits that can contain useable information to a computer). If you want to download 100 MB file, and have an AVERAGE download bandwidth of ~100 Mbps, it would take ~800 seconds to transfer the data, ignoring any dropped packets or other transmission related inefficiencies. EDIT: Thanks for catching and pointing out the error in my writing. 8 seconds is the correct time, I was half asleep when I wrote this comment and I didn't even catch it.
For those non Calgarians, correct pronunciation is Calgiree and not 2 word Cal Garry. I’m not native to Calgary but have been there long enough to be sworn in…..
Hahahaha! The classic debate. I get into this a lot with folks. If you had a friend named Gary, you wouldn’t call him Giree would you? I was born and raised in Calgary and I hold fast to saying it as it’s spelled. To each their own though 👍
😂 Could you imagine sticking one of these bad boys on a drone and flying it into North Korea.... Wouldnt giving them access to our internet be the funniest prank ever or what?!
I really dont care how good it is.... The amount of power and control we are giving to very, very few people in our world is a problem. Simple as that.
My sister has starlink and boy it’s a game changer. Very fast. Even with 10 devices like smartphones and smart tv and laptops usage at the same time it hasn’t lagged at all. Amazing technology. Thank you Elon!
@@Simplelittlelife That's what I thought. But there are several people on youtube with the same experience. Once it goes down, there is sometimes no getting it working again. I probably have 50 messages back and forth trying to get them to help men get it working again. It's been a nightmare.
I don't want to be that guy... silicone and asphalt shingles don't mix, the silicone erodes the tar base and pulls it up. I've had to replace shingles and flashing where people used silicone instead of tar caulking. The starlink is very intriguing good to hear you can get those speeds out away from the city 👍
Dude thank you! I had no idea! Being “that guy” is a huge help to me buddy. I will be swapping that out with something compatible as soon as it warms up from -30😆👍
@@Simplelittlelife nice warm long dry spring days are perfect for that. No need to get cold.
I just said the same thing.
Thank you, very much, Sir! Your video was the only one (of several I watched) that made sense for its clarity and amount of information given. I'm on a mission to get rid of cable because their cost is now higher than Starlink anyway. I still don't know where to install the "dish" or how to get the cable into the house but I will take your advise of using the app to test and get started!
+1 for Starlink. We're in rural Nevada, off-grid. Works great!
Sweet!
A year later and I see your comment. I’m from Northern Nevada, Churchill County.
Are you still using Starlink? What sort of speeds, up and down, are you experiencing?
If you don’t mind my asking what is the monthly expense?
@@ZenSponge Ha, in Churchill too!
Still on starlink. Speed test was 52 down and 15 up. Probably a bit better closer to the main building.
I think it's like $120 or so.
Great review. We are thinking of getting Starlink.
be blessed . that was perfect . Good luck using it👍👍
Thankyou for the good video straight to the point review. I’m ordering starlink today as long as the app you mentioned says I’m good to go. Which I never knew existed
nice vid. We get a lot of off grid folks with the StarLink setups coming into our solar store asking about solar system sizing.. I'm curious what the power/energy is for these ranging from low (no heater, no scanning). up to full on. Also, if you can power it off , say during the day when nobody is home, and then powered back up without any (re)connection issues. Go oilers! (from Edmonton. ;))
I've had mine for almost a year and love it, I haven't seen any more than 100 Mbps but thats plenty. We are pretty much neighbors so I wonder what the difference is? I've seen -36 and two severe hailstorms that took out all my siding and most of my trees but the dish never even skipped a beat.
Right on. Yeah so far I am super impressed. Some folks have terrible reports but from what I’m seeing most people like them a lot.
Thank you for a great video, Looking into StarLink for our church which is in a rural location and has no other options for high speed internet.
I was considering it for my home. The initial cost and monthly payments unfortunately were higher than other competitors who also gave us faster speeds. We ended up going with T-Mobile Internet though. In our area, we were seeing around 100mbps down and 20-30mbps up. That was about 2 years ago though. T-Mobile added a bunch of 5G towers in our area, and now we see 500mpbs down and 80-100mbps up. All for $50/month with no data caps or bandwidth throttling, and no contract too. Didn't even need to switch our phone carrier to T-Mobile either. But we aren't in a very rural area, so we had options to go with. I know my old home didn't have anything beside dial-up, or very expensive satellite internet ($250+/month) that wasn't even that fast. This is the best option for people out in places like that. Basically as long as you have a good view of the sky, you are good!
Oh yeah if I could get that type of 5G in my area I would be 100% down to just do that. We could have upgraded our Telus thing but only told we’d get up to 50Mbps download and it was $140 a month and that came with a data cap. The Starlink is $120 a month and here in Canada we get taken advantage of with this stuff compared to our neighbours to the south. Even cell service we usually pay about two to three times per month compared to US providers. Cheers 👍
T mobile is trash , it probably works because your in the city , Starlink is a god damn blessing I’m a game streamer and it works super fast
THanks so much for your video. My wife and I just bought in Bancroft Ontario. I have been so stressed about internet providers as I need it to keep my job. Any more advice would be deeply appreciated.
Good to know! I signed up for it when it first came out, they made it available in my area a couple years ago but at that time it was only stationary. I really wanted something I could use for home but also take with me traveling with our camper. Last year the came out with the RV version and I've really been thinking about getting it. I can work remote full-time and it would be awesome to travel 4mon out of the year.
That would be sweet! I’ve heard good things about the RV versions too.
I watching this video through Starlink too... this thing its amazing. All the way south of Mexico (Chiapas). The thing i dont like about it its the "type C" thingy in the cable. You cant use some conduit or something to protect the cable.
Right on. Yeah that is a really good point. The install could be so much more professional and have better options if you could run the cable through conduit.
@@Simplelittlelife to each, their own... The problem here with me its the hot temperature, rain/high humidity and heavy sunlight trough the year, I'm worry that the cable wont hold on. in doesn't seem that "heavy duty". Im thinking on using a cable sleeve(like the one on the car) for the section that is directly on the roof.
Thanks for the video man😎
I think we need a dedicated satellite for our region (Zambia). But all in all it great
Starting monthly cost is roughly $125 per month in the US. I am moving to Costa Rica, monthly cost is roughly $60 per month. Starlink monthly cost is based upon the country average monthly income. With adjustments. Smart... Someone in Nairobi could not afford $125 per month or even close. So Costa Rica monthly is set per the avg monthly income. Internet search your country for monthly cost... Starlink publishes country monthly cost. (Costa Rica hardware package is $500).
Its 50€ in luxembourg and luxembourg is one of the countries with the highest salary per resident
Hi! are you using the same unit when you move to Costa Rica? the reason I am asking I am planning to buy here in Canada and I will set it up in Philippines I am not sure if that works though. Thank you for your reaponse in advance!
Nonsense
We had one of those Telus LTE modem/routers and they were garbage. I don't know if it's a network limitation or just bad hardware but had that exact same issue with multiple users. Could stream 2 HD movies at once no problem but if someone was scrolling on their phone it would basically kill the connection for everyone. Starlink has been a million times better. Had a couple days at -40C out here without a blip, but I have the original round model. They place nice with the Ubiquiti Unifi hardware if you want to have a better Access Point and/or shoot internet over to the shop.
Yeah they the LTE things are such a pain. Glad this system came out. I think they might be giving Telus a run for their money.
Those slow speeds are what I get on Viasat. My dish got damaged in the hurricane so looking to switch to starlink.
We are extremely happy with starlink. Out by your old place.
Right on! Yeah the folks that are in our old place had it delivered while we were still there and I asked how he likes it. He says the same thing you and I do. Cheers 👍
Wow, thank you for the video, question what is the monthly cost estimated?
The internet where I am only offers 3 maps download. I've ordered starlink now I'm just waiting.
Stupid question- can I set the dish up by an unobstructed window or does it have to be inside? Great video, very informative!
Definitely considering going to starlink. Curious if you had any issues late last week when we dipped down to -35ish? I’m in Monarch just outside of Lethbridge and having some of the same issues you were with our max download speeds of around the 20 range. Our upload currently is capped at 2😢
Right on! During our last cold snap we didn’t have a single problem. I think we go down to -32 here but since making this video I’ve heard from people who have had theirs below -40 with no issues whatsoever. I am really impressed with this system. 👍
If it's less or close to $215 a month it's worth looking into. After initially buying it all.
$110 USD for residential use, no monthly cap... with not warrantied speed. BUT, in my case, i have better latency and almost the same speed that used to have back when i was living in my hometown with a hard line internet connection(regular, not optic fiber)
I've been considering buying one of these for a while since my house is way up in the mountains and can't get any service, barely any phone signal and want to install security cameras in my house that I could monitor when I'm not home, my question is where can I buy the whole thing?
Looks great! Just got mine in. How long of lag screws did you use?
If you had 20mb/s download with the telus ZTE modem, maybe you only needed a new router and use that device as a modem. You will have double NAT, but I doubt you had a private public IP on mobile network anyway so it probably doesnt matter.
Modern mesh routers are day and night compared to what was before.
I just moved from Ontario to New Brunswick. We got starkink and it works great.
Any need for a signal booster? Our LTE internet requires a signal booster for devices that are further from router.
Around our house we don’t need one at all. Upstairs and the basement get excellent signal and even out in the lawn. It is the most powerful router we’ve ever had.
Question: does the dish continually follow satellites, therefore requiring continuous power? And am assuming that is 110v ? I run solar in Northern Ontario and a simple 12v system although i do have a 175w inverter for laptop.
Yeah it does require continuous power. And it will constantly self adjust as needed. I’m not sure what the power draw is in it though.
@Simplelittlelife gracias. I assume is Gen 2 system? From what I am seeing on line, Gen 3 seems to be a stationary dish (sit UBU sit) type thing.
Yeah I believe we have the gen 2👍
Did you get the “home” version or the “RV” version?
how long did it take for you recevied starlink thank you
It was 2 weeks from when we ordered it to when we got it. They were good about sending status updates and tracking info so that was nice.
Thanks for the video...would like to hear where you're located, cuz we're in Canmore, AB and considering their service...out of privacy, if you could only give me a rough indication, so i can compare what I may get in terms of signal. Cheers
Hey you're welcome! We are near Chestermere so not too far from you. Cheers👍
So i can use this thing out in the winter im in saskatchewan and it gets so snowy lol im thinking of switching to starlink
is the signal strong enough for my neighbor to use it so we could split the bill?
I don't have the information to answer that
Just a correction. The speed you are referring to is not Megabytes per second, it is Megabits per second. Big difference.
Starlink looks like a sail. What about high winds?
We have crazy winds in southern Alberta but so far, so good.
There's really only two things keeping me in the city. Fiber and commute times.. Which sucks as I desperately want out of suburbs. Having neighbors just sucks.
It’s worth the sacrifice trust me you can still get all the necessities if your not deep in the woods even then you can come up with alternatives for power source.
Looked into this at my house and it’s not available until next year apparently in my area, but will look into it when it’s up and running
Hopefully it’s soon. I am super stoked we were able to get it and it’s working out very well.
Does anyone else refer to their starlink as "Skynet"? Lol, we call it skynet so often that i sometimes have trouble remembering it's real name.
I have done it when looking it up. Lol
You live in beautiful area ❤
"It's not cheap"? So what is it? I'm trying to figure out what the cost is and this is no help.
I think you’ve got some terminology wrong here - you’re talking about megabytes but you actually are meaning megabits. That’s almost a order of magnitude of difference
What does the terms say?
There are no terms. Basically you’re not tied into a contract, but they can change their service at any time they want too. Guess we’ll see how it ends up playing out.
I keep waiting for a clown-donkey to poke its head out.
Hahaha!👍
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Internet bandwidth is usually measured in Mbps (MegaBits/Second).
MBs (MegaBYTES) is usually used as the amount of storage data something uses/occupies. To understand how they can be converted between one another, remember this:
8 bits (valued 0 or 1) is equivalent to 1 byte (which is smallest amount of bits that can contain useable information to a computer). If you want to download 100 MB file, and have an AVERAGE download bandwidth of ~100 Mbps, it would take ~800 seconds to transfer the data, ignoring any dropped packets or other transmission related inefficiencies.
EDIT: Thanks for catching and pointing out the error in my writing. 8 seconds is the correct time, I was half asleep when I wrote this comment and I didn't even catch it.
with a 100 mbps connection it takes 800 seconds to transfer a 100mb file? math isn't mathing, it takes about 8 seconds if it's stable 100mbps
@Nico21 Oops. Thanks, added an edit....
For those non Calgarians, correct pronunciation is Calgiree and not 2 word Cal Garry. I’m not native to Calgary but have been there long enough to be sworn in…..
Hahahaha! The classic debate. I get into this a lot with folks. If you had a friend named Gary, you wouldn’t call him Giree would you? I was born and raised in Calgary and I hold fast to saying it as it’s spelled. To each their own though 👍
😂 Could you imagine sticking one of these bad boys on a drone and flying it into North Korea.... Wouldnt giving them access to our internet be the funniest prank ever or what?!
Aren’t you scared it will get covered in snow ?
The heater that is built in melts it when it detects snow. We just had 6” overnight and no issues at all.
do yall homeschool?
You betcha! We have been for about 10 years now. I was even homeschooled as a kid 👍
we're about to start
10-40 mbps isn’t fast enough for a family of six. 200 down minimum and at least 20 up
We’re not a bunch of dorks gaming or something stupid so yeah, it’s fast enough.
I really dont care how good it is.... The amount of power and control we are giving to very, very few people in our world is a problem. Simple as that.
Lol what ? 🤣
Spotted the redditor. That echo chamber really fries brains
@@VG_164 what echo chamber?
We got one!
My sister has starlink and boy it’s a game changer. Very fast. Even with 10 devices like smartphones and smart tv and laptops usage at the same time it hasn’t lagged at all. Amazing technology. Thank you Elon!
Starlink? It was the worst buying decision I have ever made.
My parents just got one too and they love it also. From what I’ve seen your experience is an exception to most.
@@Simplelittlelife That's what I thought. But there are several people on youtube with the same experience. Once it goes down, there is sometimes no getting it working again. I probably have 50 messages back and forth trying to get them to help men get it working again. It's been a nightmare.
i'm getting 1 point 2 mbps down and point 25 up and paying 72 bucks a month for that slow speed