I ran my cable through 1 in. Liquidtight conduit from the moment it comes out of the pole until it is in my house. We have lots of squirrels, you know those rats with furry tails. I think that the conduit was $40 at my local Electrical Supply House.
They theoretically have more power budget to transmit from the terminal than they likely do from the satellite, but even if its the same, the way down/up speeds work on pretty much every communication system is dependent on how they allocate frequencies (literally so much frequency range to each direction). Good thing is whatever your maximum up/down speeds are, once they have enough coverage, that will probably be what you get all the time…. Which will be sweet. And yea I can’t tell if he means 30 up is good or bad, I probably wouldn’t want to go much below 30Mbps Up with all the video conferencing and work from home stuff these days. I live on a sailboat, and work off of dual LTE and a commercial modem, which works well enough but Starlink will eventually work anywhere.
Two things to consider for speed test: 1. Speeds will vary due to moving sats and how many are passing within range. 2. Trees which you stated but. It now fall/winter. No foliage. Many did their tests and then had to move again due to the leaves coming out.
Please, repeat the speed tests during spring, with all that trees full of leaves. Starlink can be used anywhere in the world, in theory. In practice, the terminal is associated to a postal code and there are even places where it is forbidden to use it (certain countries), but well.
I have had Starlink over a year. You are going to need a pole on your roof to clear those trees next Spring. If not, your speed will be degraded and you will have outages due to blockages. To perform properly, it needs 100% of the field of view to be unobstructed...
The other thing is the Starlink constellation of satellites is still being built out. They have 1,700 now on the way to up to 10,000. That will close many of the coverage gaps, increase capacity, and reduce speed drops.
Congratulations! I'm really glad that after the lengthy wait that you're getting decent speeds. Appreciate your feedback yesterday on my FSDBeta issues too. Looking forward to more videos from you now that you're operating in the 21st century ;-)
That’s pretty impressive. This will be huge for rural towns. I hope states start giving credits for people that buy these. This could save the country billions in trying to connect rural areas.
It is awesome that you’re able to get Starlink and have better internet!! Would love to see more videos in the future of how everything is going and whether or not having more satellites in orbit help you to get more consistent speeds. Super happy for you man!!!!!
I've had mine for about a week now and I average 250/21. I've tried them all and this system kicks ass. I live off grid for 28 yrs and I'm in the boonies.
@@DirtyTesla I would highly suggest that you wait until spring to do your permanent mount. I can tell you explicitly that you will have a lot of issues with the leaves by April or May. I had to raise mine 13 ft. to get a clear shot with no obstructions and my trees are not near as close or as large as yours are. I used a 13 ft. long 2 in. O.D. and 1.5 in. I.D. T6061 Aluminum pipe and I am barely clearing my trees... The issues that you have with a blockage is that you may have very fast speeds as long as the tree is not between you and the satellite, but as soon as the satellite is blocked by the tree you will lose you internet connection.
absolutely fantastic that you put also metric system measurements on the video. Often American content creators doesn't realize that there is so many people following which are not from North America.
@@DirtyTesla well I'm from Finland and I'm quite used to know also American units in many cases but I'm absolutely an exception what comes to this thing.
HEY!! Thank you so much for this. I wish the instructions came with "WORDS" but your video filled in all the blanks for me. Thanks a ton for posting this.😀
I m from india. This is incredible to see such tech in real life. Most of the rural areas it will be helpful. In city no one buy this because ultra cheap fibrenet everywhere easily gives 150 mbps up and down. Mostly they provide upto 1gbps with all ott subcription too. Starlink takes preregister for 6k inr. But govt holds for regulation and permissions. There are two more additional competition ahead here. One con is very low upload rate offcourse its a satelite network. Upcoming stadia, solidstate battery ev's, personal powergrid, takes a new leap on small towns and urban areas. Most of yhem need to like single package. Game stresm, internet, ott subs with family pack use.
This video has me very excited. I live just ONE county over to your East in Oakland. I also pre-ordered at the same time as you. Here's hoping! (FYI, nice video!)
Sign up now and pay the deposit if you can , I signed up 6 months ago and still haven't got it. I receive no updates as to when it will arrive and they do not respond to emails ( only way to contact them)
👍🏼 You're as excited as we were when we got into the Starlink beta this summer, in east central Minnesota! We're loving it, and customer service has been great! After all the alternatives for mounting, we went with pole mount (atop galvanized iron pipe)! And it was worth it to order the installation kit, rather than making the 18-mile round trip to the closest hardware store! 😅✌🏼😎
Excited to get this for our cabin in the UP! Only option is slow expensive satellite internet (don't even have cellular where we are!) Speed is an issue for us, yes. But more importantly we only get like 10GB/month which is enough to check twitter and stuff, but nowhere near what we would need to do things like WFH at the cabin, which would be nice. Glad you finally got it!
As far as cell reception up here in u.p. goes we got 1 bar reception outside and zero inside, had to get a cell booster, now reception everywhere in the house! Pretty much only verizon and AT&T works up here
Go ahead and get some zip ties zip tied tight to the unit mount so that it does not move and won’t come out go down to the hardware and get you some long electrical tubing probably 1 inch diameter and stick it high up in the air
The power consumption numbers are killing me. I can't find it anywhere and here this guy is with a functional unit and he hasn't grabbed the numbers. I'll head down there myself to pull the numbers if it is too much trouble for him to do it.
Just got my order confirmation in rural Wisconsin after being on the wait list for over a year. Easily $750 wrapped up into existing equipment to get 4/1mbps LTE. Can't wait to get real internet!
I'd def like a roof install vid. Finally got my order coming in the next couple of weeks. We're pretty rural too, family of 3, we have 3Mb/s. It's rough. Thinking about just putting it in the yard & then when the weather gets better, put it on my roof. Thx for the vid!
Nice! Here's my 3 month review studio.th-cam.com/users/videoaz_SrNMcXQ0/comments I talk about the install but don't show it. I'm going to change the mount and I will make a video on that process :)
OMG! I got something from Elon before Dirty Tesla did? I don't believe it, but I have had my Dishy since the beginning of October (I ordered in Feb, too). You are going to love it! Now if I could just afford a Tesla and a power wall or two.
For the USB plug in the 'Starlink Square-pants' satelite pole- put either a plastic tube, or length of springy foam, cut to size of course, in the empty space below it, to keep it from sliding loose.
This video is so helpful! Do you know if the router should always be located inside the house? I am unsure if I want to drill another hole in the house for the cable to come in and connect to power.
Nice, I'm happy you get the same speeds pretty much as I am getting now and I'm located up from you where Interstate 75 ends at the US/Canadian border! Back in early 2021 I was hitting 200's and 300's but since the last several months the speeds have gotten between 50 and 150 consistently now with uploads averaging 10 BUT with that said the system is super stable now cause before when I had the 200's and above the stability was POOP. My dish today has over 12 inches (30.48 cm) of icicle beard!
@@fritzkabeano1969 Even Frontier Communications, back from bankruptcy and "serving" many rural US customers, seems to be trying to up it's internet game these days after years of taking FCC subsidies for broadband build out but doing as little as possible (and letting its landline service slide too)! Way too little, way too late. Starlink has made them irrelevant, and that's real progress! 😎✌🏼
My parents where really lucky to get in the starlink beta really early in the Midland/ bay city area its been interesting to see the progress it's made. They had a fair amount of 10~ minute disconnects when they first got it but it's pretty solid for them for a while now. I know I signed up the instant I heard they opened up the $100 deposits. I live out in the thumb and I pay too much to 10mbps but only get 4mbps. Downloading a game or something is usually 0.5mbps so I was really happy to get the email the other day saying they expect to deliver to my area around March. Now if only I could get an email from tesla with a rough expected delivery month for my cybertruck I'm not so patiently waiting for. Lol
@@warpawsgaming4958 No data cap, no down-throttling after some arbitrary amount of use! Perhaps it'll change someday, but for now we're way ahead of where we used to be in terms of speed and usage, for a flat $99/month. 👍🏼😎✌🏼
Good luck I paid the deposit 6 months ago and have heard nothing from the company and ONLY way to contact starlink is email which is ok but they do NOT respond
Northeast TX here - we signed up the moment they opened up deposits in February and are still waiting. But we received the email about March 2022 too, so hopefully they can hit that target date!
Hey neighbor nice video..thanx.. north of lapeer in mi.. been on waiting list since early march.. cant wait to get it.. where does ur dish usually point ?? North ..south ..east... ect ??
I'm working on a 1 month review and I'll touch on this but I didn't secure them yet. It's hanging off the roof and I drilled a hole in the side of my house and caulked it.
@@EddieAtLarge just watched the video and you did the inverter consumption but do you know what efficiency the inverter has? Like a 90% efficient inverter would add 6w to a 60w load. So the true consumption of the unit itself would be 61.2w if you are drawing 68w when isolating the load from base inverter draw.
@@fookschool I actually included that in the test. If you go back and watch, you will see that the inverter consumption is deducted. The inverter is drawing 12 W. Total watts drawn with both inverter and Starlink is 80 watts. I probably should’ve slowed that video down a little bit.
When you get the ethernet adapter, could you try plugging in a third party Wi-Fi router to see if it works? I've heard mixed results and want to be able to use my mesh Wi-Fi with it.
Great video! Thanks for doing this. Hoping to get mine next month. Gotta say you're killin' me with the complaints about your pre-starlink speeds. I'm working with 5mbps down/.75 up. Fingers crossed that my account update to "December 2021" is accurate.
Yeah, they got power consumption for the old dish to 40 watts the majority of the time during operation but it spikes to 150 when moving to acquire a satellite.
@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu yes, but what is the power consumption of this new dish? It should be less considering it is condensed version. If that unit is under 40w normal use that would be insane!
@@fookschool The rectangular one uses 40watts during normal use just like the second gray dish they made. It spikes up once plugged in but drops within 1 hour to 40 watts for the rest of the day.
@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu is this yours or did someone else actually check it? 40w is more than acceptable for power draw especially for internet that is 20-100x faster than what I have right now. My TMobile home internet is 14w power draw and gets 2-8mbps on good days. Bad days is like 1-2mbps. It is frustratingly slow.
Thank you! It’s comforting to know that antenna reception in your yard, on the ground, confirms the 50 years of science stuck in my head😎 I would think the ultimate Aiming/tracking would be triggered by internet activity, to reduce unnecessarily wear/power use.
so assuming when you where testing locations you unplugged the cord from the satellite itself. I did this to run my wiring and now the cord will not successfully seat back into the satellite plug housing. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Awesome, so I'm living in the mountains of Oregon, and on the roof I should get a pretty ok signal. That being said, I'm ready for an update on your Starlink... Pretty Please! lol
I am in Southern Illinois(about an hour north of Paducah Ky). I ordered in July and now have estimated delivery in April. My house is similarly surrounded by trees. I am thinking roof mount but then also maybe getting it up another 10 to 20 feet above the highest point on my roof. I’m thinking this extra height will give me fully unobstructed sky view in all directions even in summer when trees are at max foliage. Tons of people around where I live have old unused aerial antenna’s that I could repurpose. Just a matter of whether or not my wife will approve of the look of it. She really wants fast Internet so hopefully that will help.
Yep it stays connected! I have heard in extremely heavy rain it can lose connection intermittently but I have not experienced that for rain or snow myself.
Does it work in bad weather? Used to have DirecTV and any time we would get a storm the clouds and rain would block the signal and we couldn't watch TV.
When I have everything plugged in I don't have any lights on the front panel of the router. Only one light on the bottom of it. Are there supposed to be lights on the front of the router where they have the start link globe and logo? Anyway, I have a network error and it's not working so I'm thinking maybe they sent me a bad router
Question regarding the router being the POE supply to dish. My dish location will be ~100’ from the house, so a 75’ cable too short. The round McDishy had a separate power brick, which I had planned leaving in a water proof box at base of dish, with the extra cable coiled and stored. I have a 23AWG cat6 from house to the eventual dish location and the plan was that cable would feed my own router. With McRectangle, any suggestions on how to marry it all together? Like you, house is Ethernet wired and I have 3 outdoor access points. Looks like I definitely need the Ethernet adapter.
My plan is to just bring the cable into the house and have the router inside. I hope I can disable the wireless as I have my own router I want to use. But we'll see
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Do not forget to protect cable - squirrels likes them
I ran my cable through 1 in. Liquidtight conduit from the moment it comes out of the pole until it is in my house. We have lots of squirrels, you know those rats with furry tails. I think that the conduit was $40 at my local Electrical Supply House.
You sure it's not cats 🤔
@@brumarly Cats are not rodents. Squirrels are furry tailed rats...
I use my starlink since march, no problem with connection, speed around 270 down and 30 up. Really a game changer
I 'kind of' get how the down works. But 30 UP blows my tiny little mind.
@@willdarling1 why is that? 30 up is around normal for me, but also got 70 up some time ago
They theoretically have more power budget to transmit from the terminal than they likely do from the satellite, but even if its the same, the way down/up speeds work on pretty much every communication system is dependent on how they allocate frequencies (literally so much frequency range to each direction). Good thing is whatever your maximum up/down speeds are, once they have enough coverage, that will probably be what you get all the time…. Which will be sweet. And yea I can’t tell if he means 30 up is good or bad, I probably wouldn’t want to go much below 30Mbps Up with all the video conferencing and work from home stuff these days. I live on a sailboat, and work off of dual LTE and a commercial modem, which works well enough but Starlink will eventually work anywhere.
That's insanely slow...You could get better speeds with a Cell Hotspot...
@@otockian What's that?
Two things to consider for speed test: 1. Speeds will vary due to moving sats and how many are passing within range. 2. Trees which you stated but. It now fall/winter. No foliage. Many did their tests and then had to move again due to the leaves coming out.
Thanks for the reply I think I’m gonna stay with what I got I just don’t need it I want it but I don’t need it
Please, repeat the speed tests during spring, with all that trees full of leaves. Starlink can be used anywhere in the world, in theory. In practice, the terminal is associated to a postal code and there are even places where it is forbidden to use it (certain countries), but well.
I have had Starlink over a year. You are going to need a pole on your roof to clear those trees next Spring. If not, your speed will be degraded and you will have outages due to blockages. To perform properly, it needs 100% of the field of view to be unobstructed...
The other thing is the Starlink constellation of satellites is still being built out. They have 1,700 now on the way to up to 10,000. That will close many of the coverage gaps, increase capacity, and reduce speed drops.
@@JBoy340a Starlink plans on 40,000, not 10,000 satellites.
Awesome! Thanks for the great video. New dish is so much smaller than the first gen one.
However rectangular
Big respect for putting the measurement conversions on screen! Thank you
Starlink is a game-changer for rural areas and offshore
and soon in the air!
@@dclpgh yea
Congratulations! I'm really glad that after the lengthy wait that you're getting decent speeds. Appreciate your feedback yesterday on my FSDBeta issues too. Looking forward to more videos from you now that you're operating in the 21st century ;-)
Oh man, I know the feeling here. I received my starlink back in may and I have been super happy! Its almost like a "welcome to the world" moment!! lol
That’s pretty impressive. This will be huge for rural towns. I hope states start giving credits for people that buy these. This could save the country billions in trying to connect rural areas.
It is awesome that you’re able to get Starlink and have better internet!! Would love to see more videos in the future of how everything is going and whether or not having more satellites in orbit help you to get more consistent speeds. Super happy for you man!!!!!
Your final tip regarding the "cable security" into the dish. Was spot on to my initial set up issue. Thank you!
Wow!! the box is much smaller, easier to manage now!! Thanks for your hardwork man
I've had mine for about a week now and I average 250/21.
I've tried them all and this system kicks ass. I live off grid for 28 yrs and I'm in the boonies.
Lol my neighbor just got there starlink I ordered 7 mos before them lol.nice first come first serve
I can hear the joy in your voice. One day I shall be free from my late internet
press that Visibility button on the app - you can see what it 'sees' (treewise)
Yeah it needed a few hours but looking pretty good!
@@DirtyTesla I would highly suggest that you wait until spring to do your permanent mount. I can tell you explicitly that you will have a lot of issues with the leaves by April or May. I had to raise mine 13 ft. to get a clear shot with no obstructions and my trees are not near as close or as large as yours are. I used a 13 ft. long 2 in. O.D. and 1.5 in. I.D. T6061 Aluminum pipe and I am barely clearing my trees... The issues that you have with a blockage is that you may have very fast speeds as long as the tree is not between you and the satellite, but as soon as the satellite is blocked by the tree you will lose you internet connection.
absolutely fantastic that you put also metric system measurements on the video. Often American content creators doesn't realize that there is so many people following which are not from North America.
I get many comments from other parts of the world on the self driving videos and I know it's annoying when I'm not understanding the units!
@@DirtyTesla well I'm from Finland and I'm quite used to know also American units in many cases but I'm absolutely an exception what comes to this thing.
HEY!! Thank you so much for this. I wish the instructions came with "WORDS" but your video filled in all the blanks for me. Thanks a ton for posting this.😀
I m from india. This is incredible to see such tech in real life. Most of the rural areas it will be helpful. In city no one buy this because ultra cheap fibrenet everywhere easily gives 150 mbps up and down. Mostly they provide upto 1gbps with all ott subcription too. Starlink takes preregister for 6k inr. But govt holds for regulation and permissions. There are two more additional competition ahead here. One con is very low upload rate offcourse its a satelite network. Upcoming stadia, solidstate battery ev's, personal powergrid, takes a new leap on small towns and urban areas. Most of yhem need to like single package. Game stresm, internet, ott subs with family pack use.
This video has me very excited. I live just ONE county over to your East in Oakland. I also pre-ordered at the same time as you.
Here's hoping! (FYI, nice video!)
Thanks. I hope you get it soon!
Congratulations. I am considering this for my rural Kentucky home when it becomes available in my area next year.
Sign up now and pay the deposit if you can , I signed up 6 months ago and still haven't got it. I receive no updates as to when it will arrive and they do not respond to emails ( only way to contact them)
So happy for you, Chris!! :D Thank you!
Finally I'm happy you reviewed it
We are rural and pay 100 month and get 10 down and 3 up. Got our Starlink this week and can't wait. Thank you for the video.
Thanks for specifying what State and County. Very helpful
Very helpful - thanks. I am about to open my starlink box. It looks like the bigger round dish. We’ll see!
Sir, how much you pay per moon for starlink
definitely do a follow-up vid. i'd like to see how it holds up over time.
Welcome to the party 🎉. I have been on the beta since February. System is now stabilizing with no outages since September...for southwest Utah.
Thank very much, I was wondering what the new dish looked like up close and in person.
Dang I am right down the road! South Lyon. Thanks for the good video. My Starlink is currently "Preparing Shipment" . Very excited.
Thanks excited to see you get your Starlink setup. I am in line to get it in Edmonds, WA and hopefully will get it soon.
Great info in this...I am in Alaska and this will be a game changer!
👍🏼 You're as excited as we were when we got into the Starlink beta this summer, in east central Minnesota! We're loving it, and customer service has been great! After all the alternatives for mounting, we went with pole mount (atop galvanized iron pipe)! And it was worth it to order the installation kit, rather than making the 18-mile round trip to the closest hardware store! 😅✌🏼😎
How do you get a hold of customer service?? I have no phone number , just email and they have not responded to any of my emails
Thanks for the info! I just received my unit today, can’t wait to get it setup.
Enjoy! It's awesome!
Man i cannot wait when this gets worldwide. I will definitely buy one and try it out in our remote village in Somalia.
Nice finally seeing a Gen 2 “in the wild”.
Excited to get this for our cabin in the UP! Only option is slow expensive satellite internet (don't even have cellular where we are!) Speed is an issue for us, yes. But more importantly we only get like 10GB/month which is enough to check twitter and stuff, but nowhere near what we would need to do things like WFH at the cabin, which would be nice. Glad you finally got it!
👍🏼 Hope your order gets filled soon! Unlimited data (no cap, no extra fee) IS fantastic! 😎✌🏼
Good luck, I'm in u.p. and signed up 6 months ago, still waiting and they will not respond to any inquiries I have....
As far as cell reception up here in u.p. goes we got 1 bar reception outside and zero inside, had to get a cell booster, now reception everywhere in the house! Pretty much only verizon and AT&T works up here
What is the size of your tube video as it takes 4 hr
Go ahead and get some zip ties zip tied tight to the unit mount so that it does not move and won’t come out go down to the hardware and get you some long electrical tubing probably 1 inch diameter and stick it high up in the air
Super happy for you! So glad to see that it’s working well 😃
how is the power consumption compared to the old starlink?
The power consumption numbers are killing me. I can't find it anywhere and here this guy is with a functional unit and he hasn't grabbed the numbers. I'll head down there myself to pull the numbers if it is too much trouble for him to do it.
Just got my order confirmation in rural Wisconsin after being on the wait list for over a year. Easily $750 wrapped up into existing equipment to get 4/1mbps LTE. Can't wait to get real internet!
Isn't upload limited by WiFi when you're that far outside? I'd think so.
The router is in the garage for now until final installation
Upload is limited by the power of the transmitter. It's only 3.4 watts.
Build a 50 foot tall tower pole with some guide wires attached for stability to get it as high as you can in relation to the trees.
I'd def like a roof install vid. Finally got my order coming in the next couple of weeks. We're pretty rural too, family of 3, we have 3Mb/s. It's rough. Thinking about just putting it in the yard & then when the weather gets better, put it on my roof. Thx for the vid!
Nice! Here's my 3 month review studio.th-cam.com/users/videoaz_SrNMcXQ0/comments I talk about the install but don't show it. I'm going to change the mount and I will make a video on that process :)
Awesome video. Keep the videos coming. Maybe every 3 months to see if deployment is going better. Fantastic
Hi. Waiting on mine… does the Ethernet adapter have to be bought from them specifically or any BestBuy/ Radio Shack one can work?
You need their ethernet adapter as far as I know.
OMG! I got something from Elon before Dirty Tesla did? I don't believe it, but I have had my Dishy since the beginning of October (I ordered in Feb, too). You are going to love it! Now if I could just afford a Tesla and a power wall or two.
Very cool. How bad is weather going to impact the throughput? Rain ? Snow ?
so far mine seems to be about the same as an old Sky satellite dish - OK except for in extreme storm / thunder
For the USB plug in the 'Starlink Square-pants' satelite pole- put either a plastic tube, or length of springy foam, cut to size of course, in the empty space below it, to keep it from sliding loose.
This video is so helpful! Do you know if the router should always be located inside the house? I am unsure if I want to drill another hole in the house for the cable to come in and connect to power.
Really happy you got this at last
yeah its a much needed investment
Can you send a link for the Ethernet adapter I do not see it on the Starlink website
Good Wowwww here in Mozambique we are used to have a 3Mbps download net and i feel like is fast
Nice, I'm happy you get the same speeds pretty much as I am getting now and I'm located up from you where Interstate 75 ends at the US/Canadian border! Back in early 2021 I was hitting 200's and 300's but since the last several months the speeds have gotten between 50 and 150 consistently now with uploads averaging 10 BUT with that said the system is super stable now cause before when I had the 200's and above the stability was POOP. My dish today has over 12 inches (30.48 cm) of icicle beard!
The Soo is covered by Tmobile's 5G and their internet receiver/home internet box is free and service is $50 a month.....just saying
@@fritzkabeano1969 Even Frontier Communications, back from bankruptcy and "serving" many rural US customers, seems to be trying to up it's internet game these days after years of taking FCC subsidies for broadband build out but doing as little as possible (and letting its landline service slide too)! Way too little, way too late. Starlink has made them irrelevant, and that's real progress! 😎✌🏼
I'm waiting here patiently in rural Australia for my starlink. Currently getting ~10mbs download, 2mbs upload. Ping never below 100 ms
Been waiting 6 months here....
In the UK we had a square satellite dish for TV that was called a 'squarial' for square aerial.
My parents where really lucky to get in the starlink beta really early in the Midland/ bay city area its been interesting to see the progress it's made. They had a fair amount of 10~ minute disconnects when they first got it but it's pretty solid for them for a while now. I know I signed up the instant I heard they opened up the $100 deposits. I live out in the thumb and I pay too much to 10mbps but only get 4mbps. Downloading a game or something is usually 0.5mbps so I was really happy to get the email the other day saying they expect to deliver to my area around March. Now if only I could get an email from tesla with a rough expected delivery month for my cybertruck I'm not so patiently waiting for. Lol
so is it totally and truly unlimited?
@@warpawsgaming4958 yes. They've never been limited or slowed but they're not really major power users.
@@warpawsgaming4958 No data cap, no down-throttling after some arbitrary amount of use! Perhaps it'll change someday, but for now we're way ahead of where we used to be in terms of speed and usage, for a flat $99/month. 👍🏼😎✌🏼
Good luck I paid the deposit 6 months ago and have heard nothing from the company and ONLY way to contact starlink is email which is ok but they do NOT respond
Northeast TX here - we signed up the moment they opened up deposits in February and are still waiting. But we received the email about March 2022 too, so hopefully they can hit that target date!
Hey neighbor nice video..thanx.. north of lapeer in mi.. been on waiting list since early march.. cant wait to get it.. where does ur dish usually point ?? North ..south ..east... ect ??
It has pointed itself mostly north/north-west ish and has not moved from what I can tell
Do you have a video of how you installed your cables?
I'm working on a 1 month review and I'll touch on this but I didn't secure them yet. It's hanging off the roof and I drilled a hole in the side of my house and caulked it.
I don’t understand, u have to connect to WiFi to get Starlink to work? I thought Starlink was supposed to replace WiFi
I was connecting to the starlink wifi.
What does Starlink use for uplink service?... GSM radio?
Thanks man, can you also test the energy consumption of this dish? the old dish consumed quite a lot of energy.
Yes! For the love of god, power consumption numbers!
Approx. 5 Amp & 68 Watts when plugged into our inverter. We show on our video here: th-cam.com/video/wm8IJ65dgag/w-d-xo.html
@@EddieAtLarge ok. That is a reasonable power usage for entire setup. Router itself is most likely 20w+
@@EddieAtLarge just watched the video and you did the inverter consumption but do you know what efficiency the inverter has? Like a 90% efficient inverter would add 6w to a 60w load. So the true consumption of the unit itself would be 61.2w if you are drawing 68w when isolating the load from base inverter draw.
@@fookschool I actually included that in the test. If you go back and watch, you will see that the inverter consumption is deducted. The inverter is drawing 12 W. Total watts drawn with both inverter and Starlink is 80 watts. I probably should’ve slowed that video down a little bit.
Is every kit order from now on including the rectangular dish and not the circular one?
In the USA yes. Other parts of the world I'm not sure
When you get the ethernet adapter, could you try plugging in a third party Wi-Fi router to see if it works? I've heard mixed results and want to be able to use my mesh Wi-Fi with it.
I hope it works as that's what I want to do! I have a really nice wifi 6 router I'd like to use.
I live in Michigan as well not far from you , just got our starlink today
Was life changing for me. We get ripped off really bad in rural areas now I have better & faster than the city slickers. 😂😂😂
Mounted mine on a 40’ pole a now get consistent 250Mbs down 80Mbs up
Great video! Thanks for doing this. Hoping to get mine next month. Gotta say you're killin' me with the complaints about your pre-starlink speeds. I'm working with 5mbps down/.75 up. Fingers crossed that my account update to "December 2021" is accurate.
👍🏼 Good luck! Thinking you might be surprised how great it can be! 😎✌🏼
I'm quite interested how the power consumption of this unit differs from the first iteration.
Yeah, they got power consumption for the old dish to 40 watts the majority of the time during operation but it spikes to 150 when moving to acquire a satellite.
@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu That is a massive improvement. Thanks!
@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu yes, but what is the power consumption of this new dish? It should be less considering it is condensed version. If that unit is under 40w normal use that would be insane!
@@fookschool The rectangular one uses 40watts during normal use just like the second gray dish they made. It spikes up once plugged in but drops within 1 hour to 40 watts for the rest of the day.
@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu is this yours or did someone else actually check it? 40w is more than acceptable for power draw especially for internet that is 20-100x faster than what I have right now. My TMobile home internet is 14w power draw and gets 2-8mbps on good days. Bad days is like 1-2mbps. It is frustratingly slow.
Thank you!
It’s comforting to know that antenna reception in your yard, on the ground, confirms the 50 years of science stuck in my head😎
I would think the ultimate Aiming/tracking would be triggered by internet activity, to reduce unnecessarily wear/power use.
OMG this is a gamechanger
Absolutely ! It looks amazing !
Is there a way to change the bandwidth usage ? Or do I need to have another router ? Thanks
The included router is pretty limited for now. I don't think that's an option but I haven't tried.
Square space?
My satellite is on its way. Im having a tough time finding a location with less than 5 percent obstruction. Is that a big deal to have 5 percent?
so assuming when you where testing locations you unplugged the cord from the satellite itself. I did this to run my wiring and now the cord will not successfully seat back into the satellite plug housing. Any pointers would be appreciated.
I have unplugged and replugged multiple times with no problems. If you can't get it, I'd contact support.
Any news on the marine version for a moving sailboat would be great. I have placed my deposit almost a year ago now, but no update on delivery yet.
Love it. Thanks a lot!
That is a mico HDMI, my Raspberry Pi 4B has two of them for monitor output.
Are you using bluetooth or what's causing the audio artifacts?
Awesome, so I'm living in the mountains of Oregon, and on the roof I should get a pretty ok signal. That being said, I'm ready for an update on your Starlink... Pretty Please! lol
Working on it. It's been good!
Here's my 3 month review if you didn't see it! th-cam.com/video/az_SrNMcXQ0/w-d-xo.html
I am in Southern Illinois(about an hour north of Paducah Ky). I ordered in July and now have estimated delivery in April. My house is similarly surrounded by trees. I am thinking roof mount but then also maybe getting it up another 10 to 20 feet above the highest point on my roof. I’m thinking this extra height will give me fully unobstructed sky view in all directions even in summer when trees are at max foliage. Tons of people around where I live have old unused aerial antenna’s that I could repurpose. Just a matter of whether or not my wife will approve of the look of it. She really wants fast Internet so hopefully that will help.
I'm thinking of that but also concerned about lightning altho the faq says it's safe for lightning
@@DirtyTesla Definitely something to think about. Maybe I need to research/learn about lightning arresters or separate grounding rod.
@@ericdirnbeck3497 Only if you have a way to clear the snow off of it.
Question is it reliable for when it's rainy and when it's snowing?
Yep it stays connected! I have heard in extremely heavy rain it can lose connection intermittently but I have not experienced that for rain or snow myself.
Does it work in bad weather? Used to have DirecTV and any time we would get a storm the clouds and rain would block the signal and we couldn't watch TV.
So far it's good. We had some snow and it got a bit slower but didn't disconnect.
thnks for taking the time to put this together. Could you by chsance tell me what the diameter of the dish shaft is?
Thx
Thank you for sharing this video. Star link has been really fascinating.
mines on its way, i pay for att DSL and I only get 12/1 the 1 up is killing me, cant wait for starlink
I too, have been waiting since February, In Southwest Missouri here. Hoping to get the email that my unit is ready soon. lol
In the subreddit looks like tons of people are getting their orders shipped
Thanks! Wonder how it would be in the snow? We are moving out super rural off grid and lots of winter snow.
It is working in the snow but depending on how much snow, you will get some disconnects. For most things you still won't notice besides gaming
When the email went out did your delivery date change before you got the the email that your order was on the way
I didn't even get a shipping tracking number or delivery date for 2-3 days after they took payment
Finally getting my Starlink in a couple of weeks. It will be a major change from 5Mbps down that we have now.
Hi, could you check if the cable that connect to the antena can get in 3/4 inch conduit duct?, thanks.
Excellent as usual.
You got StarLink!!
When I have everything plugged in I don't have any lights on the front panel of the router. Only one light on the bottom of it. Are there supposed to be lights on the front of the router where they have the start link globe and logo? Anyway, I have a network error and it's not working so I'm thinking maybe they sent me a bad router
Hey did this clear up? There's only a single light on the bottom. I had network error for a while after a reboot one time but it's working fine now.
Is this fine to leave out in the rain?
Awesome man! Hopefully I can get it soon in Guam
Great video
Thanks for this review
Question regarding the router being the POE supply to dish. My dish location will be ~100’ from the house, so a 75’ cable too short. The round McDishy had a separate power brick, which I had planned leaving in a water proof box at base of dish, with the extra cable coiled and stored. I have a 23AWG cat6 from house to the eventual dish location and the plan was that cable would feed my own router. With McRectangle, any suggestions on how to marry it all together?
Like you, house is Ethernet wired and I have 3 outdoor access points. Looks like I definitely need the Ethernet adapter.
My plan is to just bring the cable into the house and have the router inside. I hope I can disable the wireless as I have my own router I want to use. But we'll see