I've had it for about 4 months. They had a global outage a while back for a few hours. That's been the only downtime besides 20 minutes during a very heavy rain storm. Lighter rain slows it down a little. Other than that it's been great.
Just got mine in the mail yesterday, can’t wait to get it installed. I was in a very similar situation with our DSL as you. Hoping to get similar results. Thanks for your video
Love this! Your experience mirrors mine--25 years out in the woods in my case, dial-up, then slow crawlin' DSL. Haven't got the Starlink yet--it's on the FedEx truck right now. Anything above 2.5 Mbps download will be an improvement for me.
Liked the video. I’m in a similar situation to you with slow internet so I bought Starlink only 2 weeks ago too but I’m living in France! The one thing additional on your video which is important to comment on is when connecting up the cable through any external walls. Most homes here are stone so making a hole in the wall is not easy like you demonstrated. In addition when you pushed the cable connector through the wall you put through the end that connects to the router. This is a moulded L shaped connector that is too large generally to pass in any solid exterior wall. Fortunately for any one who doesn’t have the luxury of easy access and has to drill holes through stone, rock or brick then you should disconnect the connector the other end which is connected to the satellite dish as this is not a moulded L shape and folds flat designed obviously for passing the cable easily through a smaller hole. If you need to drill a hole into stone or brick you will need to drill a 3/4 inch hole (20mm) and put the cable through conduit to stop snagging. Hope this extra tip helps. Good luck from your European friends across the pond….
Thanks for the kind comments! Yes you are correct, and I didn’t think of it at the time, disconnecting it from the dish would have solved that problem.
I was happy to get Starlink just like you. I’ve got it when It was available for me. I’ve had it for about 9 months and xfinity just laid fiber in my neighborhood. Im even happier now because I will get 2 cell phones service and internet for under $100!!! Plus my speed will be 5-10 times better!
49 ms is really good for SL. Also fyi - there are 8 bits in a byte, - so you would say 7 megabits or 100 megabits. You always measure internet speed in bits not bytes. Glad this worked out so well for you.
Thanks for the video we've been talking about getting starlink for a while now and after watching the video I'm going to go ahead and place the order again thanks for taking time to make this video
I have Starlink as our primary connection and then Land based fibre broadband as secondary, I use the secondary for all the smart home kit. My wife and I both work from home so I didn't want to risk losing connectivity. Love our Starlink and it's 2 to 4x faster than our land based connection, depending on the day :-) Just a correction on what Mbps stand for , a lot of people make this mistake : The term “megabits” is almost always used to show how much data you can transfer across a network in a second, abbreviated as Mbps. For example, an internet connection may have a bandwidth (or speed) of up to 940Mbps. The term “megabytes” is almost always used to show how much data a storage device can transfer in a second, abbreviated as MBps (or MB/s). For example, an SSD may record data it receives at 550MB/s.
Hi I got starlink here in OZ, I was only able to get 50mbps where I live (semi rural area) i wanted to double that so when I was streaming 4k I didnt get any buffering, I've had starlink now for 2 weeks and its really really great, Im getting between, 150 and 200 mpbs.
I'm in southern middle Tennessee and I ordered Starlink as soon as I found out it was available here. Our only options were the infamous Hughesnet or Hotspots from our phone companies. We tried Hughes at first and quickly found out why it's infamous so we went with a Hotspot from Verizon and that did work well for a few years but we pretty much lost the signal when Verizon shut down the old tower. So we switched to AT&T's Hotspot and while it was better than Verizon's at first, it seems to have a fading signal at times. I have not received the Starlink unit yet but from all the vids I have watched, it seems to be the best way to go. I will most likely also add a Mesh network to it as well. Hope it holds up in bad weather!
Same here just got mine up 2 days ago and it's like magic.😂 I still can't believe I have Internet in the middle of the woods. Pings are great also. Speeds keep climbing each day
@@ProjectDIY2 just alil wind and lite rain. It's also on the normal stand out came with on a flat metal roof. App speeds are fast from what starlink app says. Ookla says half of starlink so 50mbps. It should be higher. I'm thinking it's the metal roof or the satellite and modem are to close. 🤷
very interested in your Starlink experience, I assume you are near Lexington KY? The only reason I ask that is that we have a cabin in Blue Creek OH and it looks like Starlink MAY be available for us. We have had many issues with Wild Blue/Exede/Viasat or whatever the heck they're called now and looked into DSL then Fiber and since we're so far off the road, it'd cost $800-$1000 to string the cable or fiber to the house. Would love to see an update sometime in the future. Some places were showing $600-$2500 for the initial cost, hate to be nosy but could you explain costs sometime? If it was close to $600 for the initial and it worked good, I could live with that compared to the 800-1000 and I realize there is a monthly fee.
Why did the second speed test still show Windstream? Also having your cable to the dish running across your hot metal roof as it will reduce your speed and cause some distortion.
Good question, I’m not sure. Every speed test after that says Starlink. Browser cache maybe? Good to know about the cable. I’ll look into that! Thanks!
I haven't had any issues with the Wi-Fi signal. I have a small house though, 1600sq ft. I have several Ring cameras outside and they connect just fine. I would say the signal strength is what you would expect from a good quality Wi-Fi router.
Hello sir, I'm a musician that uploads my recording to TH-cam and was watching how the upload speed is with StarLink. The current crappy internet that I'm using takes up to 2 or 3 hour to upload a 5 or 6 minute video to TH-cam. Can you give me and idea on want I would be looking at for upload times
We have no ISP’s that service our area except ViaSat and HughesNet which we have both tried and found them be unusable and way way overpriced. Our internet for the last 10 years has been a jailbroken iPhone with “unlimited” data connected to a WiFi router. 4-5mbs down and 0.05mbps upload.
I have had mine for 3 months. We had some really bad storms here, and I lost my internet for about 15 minutes, But with a landline, I would lose it for many hours at a time. I have put mine on a UPS, so I will still have internet even if we lose power. I live in Italy and receive about 150-250 -- 350 Down and 25-30 -- 50 Up. Few people have it here now.
just installed mine in Tucson AZ last night, it has been raining like crazy, but speeds are around 470 down, 30ish up, I am on regular plan, gen 3 set up, I am canceling Cox today, I have 2gbs down 100mbs up but fuck them, they keep raising their prices and customer service is horrible
Brother your story sounds lust like ours. Horrible dial up to overpriced slightly less horrible DSL then to expensive and sketchy at&t wifi hotspot that works OK as long as nobody else in the county is using it too. Yeah, it never works well. My gen 3 starlink kit arrives next week! Take care man!
Here is a tip you may not have thought of. If you unplug the cable from the dish you can use a smaller hole to go through the wall because it is not a 90-degree angle on that end.
Installed this baby in France and IT’S PERFECT! So much better than other local options.
I've had it for about 4 months. They had a global outage a while back for a few hours. That's been the only downtime besides 20 minutes during a very heavy rain storm. Lighter rain slows it down a little. Other than that it's been great.
Just got mine in the mail yesterday, can’t wait to get it installed. I was in a very similar situation with our DSL as you. Hoping to get similar results. Thanks for your video
No problem. Good luck!
This is great info. Im in rural area and my satelite service is awful most of the time. Thanks for video! Gonna look into this for sure.
You’re welcome. Glad I could help!
Love this! Your experience mirrors mine--25 years out in the woods in my case, dial-up, then slow crawlin' DSL. Haven't got the Starlink yet--it's on the FedEx truck right now. Anything above 2.5 Mbps download will be an improvement for me.
You’re gonna love it!!
@@ProjectDIY2 Can't wait!
Liked the video. I’m in a similar situation to you with slow internet so I bought Starlink only 2 weeks ago too but I’m living in France! The one thing additional on your video which is important to comment on is when connecting up the cable through any external walls. Most homes here are stone so making a hole in the wall is not easy like you demonstrated. In addition when you pushed the cable connector through the wall you put through the end that connects to the router. This is a moulded L shaped connector that is too large generally to pass in any solid exterior wall. Fortunately for any one who doesn’t have the luxury of easy access and has to drill holes through stone, rock or brick then you should disconnect the connector the other end which is connected to the satellite dish as this is not a moulded L shape and folds flat designed obviously for passing the cable easily through a smaller hole. If you need to drill a hole into stone or brick you will need to drill a 3/4 inch hole (20mm) and put the cable through conduit to stop snagging. Hope this extra tip helps. Good luck from your European friends across the pond….
Thanks for the kind comments! Yes you are correct, and I didn’t think of it at the time, disconnecting it from the dish would have solved that problem.
I was happy to get Starlink just like you. I’ve got it when It was available for me. I’ve had it for about 9 months and xfinity just laid fiber in my neighborhood. Im even happier now because I will get 2 cell phones service and internet for under $100!!! Plus my speed will be 5-10 times better!
Lucky you!!
49 ms is really good for SL. Also fyi - there are 8 bits in a byte, - so you would say 7 megabits or 100 megabits. You always measure internet speed in bits not bytes. Glad this worked out so well for you.
Yeah I realized that mistake after the fact. I’ll know for next time! 😂
Thanks for the video we've been talking about getting starlink for a while now and after watching the video I'm going to go ahead and place the order again thanks for taking time to make this video
You’re welcome!
I have Starlink as our primary connection and then Land based fibre broadband as secondary, I use the secondary for all the smart home kit. My wife and I both work from home so I didn't want to risk losing connectivity.
Love our Starlink and it's 2 to 4x faster than our land based connection, depending on the day :-)
Just a correction on what Mbps stand for , a lot of people make this mistake :
The term “megabits” is almost always used to show how much data you can transfer across a network in a second, abbreviated as Mbps. For example, an internet connection may have a bandwidth (or speed) of up to 940Mbps.
The term “megabytes” is almost always used to show how much data a storage device can transfer in a second, abbreviated as MBps (or MB/s). For example, an SSD may record data it receives at 550MB/s.
Thanks for the information, I was not aware of the difference!
@@ProjectDIY2 no worries, there are 8 bits in a byte so quite a difference, if I was getting 200MBps = 1600Mbps 🤯
Good Video's. I'm in Niota TN and will be installing mine this weekend.. Thank You
You’re welcome!
Hi I got starlink here in OZ, I was only able to get 50mbps where I live (semi rural area) i wanted to double that so when I was streaming 4k I didnt get any buffering, I've had starlink now for 2 weeks and its really really great, Im getting between, 150 and 200 mpbs.
Congrats! And as for your better half, "happy wife, happy life."
Exactly!!!
I have been thinking about Star link but was not sure what to think?
I was wondering after 2 month of having star link is it worth the money. I also have 7 download and only like 1 upload and I play online games?
Totally worth it. I haven’t had any problems and it’s light years faster than my old provider. I would not go back.
I just ordered mine. I also ordered the right mount, the Ethernet port and longer cable from Starlink at the same time.
Ah, another satisfied former CenturyLink customer!
Yes! My centurylink was 3 Mbps download, and 0.2 Mbps upload. Now we have starlink and it’s 60-160 Mbps download. Absolutely insane 😂
I'm in southern middle Tennessee and I ordered Starlink as soon as I found out it was available here. Our only options were the infamous Hughesnet or Hotspots from our phone companies. We tried Hughes at first and quickly found out why it's infamous so we went with a Hotspot from Verizon and that did work well for a few years but we pretty much lost the signal when Verizon shut down the old tower. So we switched to AT&T's Hotspot and while it was better than Verizon's at first, it seems to have a fading signal at times. I have not received the Starlink unit yet but from all the vids I have watched, it seems to be the best way to go. I will most likely also add a Mesh network to it as well. Hope it holds up in bad weather!
So far so good! I’ve had steady signal everyday since I installed it. Good luck!
make sure you have a gigabit router to get the most out of your star link
Same here just got mine up 2 days ago and it's like magic.😂 I still can't believe I have Internet in the middle of the woods. Pings are great also. Speeds keep climbing each day
Any issues with weather affecting it? So far it’s only rained a little here, no storms.
@@ProjectDIY2 just alil wind and lite rain. It's also on the normal stand out came with on a flat metal roof. App speeds are fast from what starlink app says. Ookla says half of starlink so 50mbps. It should be higher. I'm thinking it's the metal roof or the satellite and modem are to close. 🤷
very interested in your Starlink experience, I assume you are near Lexington KY? The only reason I ask that is that we have a cabin in Blue Creek OH and it looks like Starlink MAY be available for us. We have had many issues with Wild Blue/Exede/Viasat or whatever the heck they're called now and looked into DSL then Fiber and since we're so far off the road, it'd cost $800-$1000 to string the cable or fiber to the house. Would love to see an update sometime in the future. Some places were showing $600-$2500 for the initial cost, hate to be nosy but could you explain costs sometime? If it was close to $600 for the initial and it worked good, I could live with that compared to the 800-1000 and I realize there is a monthly fee.
Yes I’m close to Lexington. Cost for the equipment was $600 plus $120 per month. I plan to do an update soon. 😉
They suggest the router be out in the open for best results.
Why did the second speed test still show Windstream? Also having your cable to the dish running across your hot metal roof as it will reduce your speed and cause some distortion.
Good question, I’m not sure. Every speed test after that says Starlink. Browser cache maybe? Good to know about the cable. I’ll look into that! Thanks!
Where did u get that pole or pipe mount?
It came with it.
Got mine in the mail today! 3mb speeds for 3 Years. Still in the beginning of your video hope it's great!
You’ll love it!
Any need for a signal booster? Our LTE internet requires a signal booster for devices that are further from router.
I haven't had any issues with the Wi-Fi signal. I have a small house though, 1600sq ft. I have several Ring cameras outside and they connect just fine. I would say the signal strength is what you would expect from a good quality Wi-Fi router.
Hello sir, I'm a musician that uploads my recording to TH-cam and was watching how the upload speed is with StarLink. The current crappy internet that I'm using takes up to 2 or 3 hour to upload a 5 or 6 minute video to TH-cam. Can you give me and idea on want I would be looking at for upload times
Currently a 10 minute video takes me approximately 30 minutes to upload.
@ProjectDIY2 thanks for the reply sir. 👍
@@ericholmesmusic771No problem!
Great video. Looked very easy to install. I want to see a 6 month or 1 year update!
Thank you! That’s the plan!
Mine comes in today. Looking for a differ mount
My Starlink comes next week … I hope I’m as satisfied as you.
If you’re coming from a slow internet provider then you’ll definitely be satisfied. 😉
We have no ISP’s that service our area except ViaSat and HughesNet which we have both tried and found them be unusable and way way overpriced.
Our internet for the last 10 years has been a jailbroken iPhone with “unlimited” data connected to a WiFi router.
4-5mbs down and 0.05mbps upload.
love mine for the RV life. The biggest issue is the tree line... we need to stay clear of them.
Yeah that would suck, especially when you want your camper to be in the shade during the summer. I have that same problem with my solar panels.
exact, we r in the same boat.. i mean rv hahah @@ProjectDIY2
Very interesting. Can weather affect your signal. We had satellite internet with Wildblue at one time, and heavy rain would disrupt the signal.
It can, so far stormy weather hasn’t affected it. It has a built in heater on the dish to melt snow and ice off in the winter time.
I have had mine for 3 months. We had some really bad storms here, and I lost my internet for about 15 minutes, But with a landline, I would lose it for many hours at a time. I have put mine on a UPS, so I will still have internet even if we lose power. I live in Italy and receive about 150-250 -- 350 Down and 25-30 -- 50 Up. Few people have it here now.
How is it today im trying get the starlink today
I’m still completely satisfied! Thanks for watching!
@@ProjectDIY2 just ordered mine thx bud
I’ve had my Starlink for 3 months now and the reliability has been awesome. Just say’n
I agree so far!
got mine up. very inconsistent connection. When its working its great, when its not its bad.
How to order please
starlink.com
just installed mine in Tucson AZ last night, it has been raining like crazy, but speeds are around 470 down, 30ish up, I am on regular plan, gen 3 set up, I am canceling Cox today, I have 2gbs down 100mbs up but fuck them, they keep raising their prices and customer service is horrible
Brother your story sounds lust like ours. Horrible dial up to overpriced slightly less horrible DSL then to expensive and sketchy at&t wifi hotspot that works OK as long as nobody else in the county is using it too. Yeah, it never works well. My gen 3 starlink kit arrives next week! Take care man!
Here is a tip you may not have thought of. If you unplug the cable from the dish you can use a smaller hole to go through the wall because it is not a 90-degree angle on that end.
Fantastic idea! Wish I had thought of that earlier!