Despite my skepticism, the beta is going well. Two weeks, a hailstorm and a lightning strike later… And we are still enjoying way faster speeds than ever possible before. The cows are finally streaming their favorite Netflix shows in high def.
I for one am exstatic that you're sharing a real life example of what this product was made for. OFF grid internet with few compromises. One look at other satellite internet service costs and capabilities and you'll understand why STAR-LINK appears to be a bit revolutionary. But we need the real life EXP Annie, keep us posted!
Still doesn't compare to the price of cable internet. The price still needs to come down significantly if they want to compete, thus allowing for the freedom they so brag about.
A thought on your cousin not getting her dish yet. I pre-ordered days after they opened the public beta. Several months later (a little after they a had projected I would get it) started seeing them around (I'm on the road most days so I noticed them), including some people I knew who had signed up quite late. So I started looking into how to contact support and one of the things I did was finish setting up my Starlink account. Never figured out how to contact Starlink, but about week later I got a notice that it would be shipping on a certain date. It may have just been a fluke, but it can't hurt to make sure her Starlink account is all setup.
We love our Starlink setup. It arrived less than a month after ordering, was super easy to set up and it very comfortably runs 3 tv's, 2 laptops, several cell phones and tablets plus around a dozen smart light bulbs.
I've had Starlink for about 4 months now. I finally received the ethernet kit. I don't need the super kit. On average I get 30-40 Mbps to my computer. Way better than the local ADSL at an average 3 Mbps. I meets all of our needs just fine.
@@JeffGeerling When I ordered my Starlink they were still selling the round version. It took over a year to get my kit and we got the smaller square version. I realized that we would need the ethernet cable capability, so I immediately ordered the additional kit. Took about 2 months. Not too bad for Starlink. We have a large 2 story house so a single wireless router doesn't cut it, and the Starlink wireless router capabilities leave something to be desired. Also the total lack of any technical details. The ethernet adapter allows for only one IP address, so don't hook up a switch to it and hope to connect multiple wireless routers. My current configuration is the WAN connection from my third party wireless router connected to the Starlink ethernet and two access points wired connected to the router LAN ports.
@@brettcombs774 My old ADSL downlink was maxed at 12 Mbps and 900kbps. The SL raw to the ethernet port is 160 to over 200 Mbps and uplink over 40. With the wired/wireless setup I have my devices get 40-80 Mbps downlink and up to 20 Mbps (more likely around 5-8 Mbps) uplink. Considering we usually got 5-6 Mbps downlink with ADSL and questionable reliability, the SL is a godsend.
While we struggle to get high-speed internet connection in rural areas of the country, Arabs are sitting in caves with gigabit connections. Thanks, bureaucracy and red tape.
Thank you, Jeff! Good to see your struggles to get it working on the farm finally paid off! Glad the circumstances worked out that roaming works now! Thank you for the update!
Pre-ordered last March, initially said i'd have it around September last year, still not here and now says late 2022. Wish Elon would spend more on rolling this out instead of buying Twitter.
Would be nice if there was something that Elon could do about it, but business processes in the space industry tend to be limited by a lot of other things and not the CEO
@@librab103 I love how hypocritical elon hater are. When one of his companies does something good, it's the engineers or the team that did all the work. But when they do something bad, it's always Elon's fault
@@Ignacio.Romero none of his companies have done any good. It amazes me the number of people who come to defense of a guy who should be in jail for fraud.
Thank goodness that I live in a developed country. I have 2GB download and 256MB upload and I only pay the equivalent of $25 a month. USA has a lot of catching up to do. Now you know why most of the world would have no need for starlink
In the the days of IoT, you can find a lot of ethernet modules, the size of the ethernet jack itself, for dollars. There is no excuse to not put in an ethernet jack, than to take advantage of people's money.
I am in the same boat, with a family member who is now "Borrowing" my dishy.. I am far more positive about it though - I see these "growing pains" as evidence of the extreme success in market interest. I've got friends who are jealous that I even got one at all, and in my case, the people who are using it on my account had only traditional satellite internet before which was virtually useless IMO. (They would have been satisficed with your "early 90s" DSL.. :-) SO, for now.. we'll run mine over there, in roaming mode, and I'll gladly pay the new roaming fee and accept that they have lower priority than those who actually have service addresses in their area, and hopefully their "Mid 2022" date wont slip again.. I've had them on the wait list since 2/21. I look forward to getting my dishy back, which is when I'll have to make the decision as to whether I want to go "offgrid" and never send Comcast another dime, which has been my goal for a long time.. Dealing with Comcast tech support will make anyone crazy. Maybe a little competition in my area will make them appreciate customers more.
Exciting that the coverage is getting better, but yes it's taking far too long to rollout. As a remote worker I'm hoping it'll be ready by the time I finish my camper conversion so I can travel and work from anywhere
I live in a rural area Starlink is the only highspeed option. Been using since beta launched total game changer. Rural areas in my location are around 15 years behind the city areas. Most of the larger cities I'm next to have had fiber and many internet options for an over a decade. I personally believe it's all about money and the bottom line. A company will not spend the money to run fiber in an area without a return on investment. In my case there would be about 6 houses that would use the fiber line. I've just recently called a company. Said look I'll rent the trencher for a day a week or a month what's it going to take to run fiber 2+ miles to my house. There is 6+ houses that would sign up for the service. They basically told me without grant money and plans to expand in my area it's not going to happen. I asked how much it would cost they said up to 40k a mile which would be around 80k for two miles plus the labor and other expenses so probably an easy 100k. That totally explains why it hasn't happened. At the end of the conversation the representative laughed and said if u want fiber just to move to a town that already has it. There is no established time frame when fiber will be available at my house if ever. Maybe if God made it happen or the president of the USA outside of that simply won't happen.
Your first mistake is relying on major providers. Our best bet for rural America is electric Cooperatives running fiber just like they ran electric lines
I am a ham radio operator. There has been some recent discussions in the radio community about frequency allocation for starlink. They may loose some band frequencies I think
With limited satellites, they are probably trying to avoid having too many users in a given area. Which is why your usage location is geo locked. That way they can ensure everyone gets proper bandwidth. You can see in their latest opening to allow starlink to be used in another location for $25. So its possible but discouraged.
To be fair to Starlink, can you imagine what the resale market would look like if they allowed service transfers? It would make those $250 ethernet adapters look like a bargain.
Considering that 400% more money is in circulation since then I'd say prices have actually gone down significantly; but the value of the dollar has gone down a bit faster.
Please make a video about turning a old phone into GSM voice gateway and integrating with 3CX as voice gateway to make and receive calls from 3CX from remote locations
I wish they would step their game up because this would be perfect for my parents house who only have one option for internet and its absolutely atrocious.
The delays were reported and known. Remember when an entire launch of new starlink sat's went wrong and a whole lot of them were ruined? I'm no super fan but hell even I remember something going wrong and hundreds of starlink units were useless.
Honestly was certainly glad to get mine finally but I think Starlink should really work on prioritizing people like us who have to live on cruddy DSL, Viasat or Hughesnet. I've seen in many forums of people buying starlink who have cheap options for cable or fiber and then complaining about it. People who have these options already shouldn't have the option yet to buy it until the people who don't have those options get theirs first.
with the new broadband network its now 40 megabits download and 10 megabit upload. A massive improvement but i still have no idea how its soo low compared to the world
Your cousins is higher than mine. My neighbors get comcast 400mbps and I'm 0.3 miles away and out of range supposedly. So we have to settle for CenturyLink 1.5mbps at around $90. Starlink not available in my area yet. Fingers crossed it comes here soon.
3 months later, it will stop working and you will have to bring dishy home again for a while. I had starlink, internet service was great, that's where it stops. Support is slow and knows nothing. I moved and left my equipment for the new owner, transferring was a huge pain. Even opening the required support ticket to do it is hidden.
Good rule of thumb is that you should never believe what Elon Musk says. He likes to promise stuff so he could make more money. He just don't like delivering. But interesting video.
I want to point out Starlink is not a novel tech and is a shitty business model. Low orbit data link was considered before Sat internet was a thing and its pretty obvious why its a bad idea: you need many satellites and they need to be replaced a lot. Some are saying well that's fixed now because its cheaper to send stuff to space. While I'd argue that was never really the issue. The problem is the situation so intensely bad for Internet service in the US that paying $110 for sub 150 mbps isn't considered outrageous.
You gotta give starlink a bit of a break, they are building a world wide satellite network. Don't forget that Elon Musk had to develop his rockets to deliver those satellites. Don't take technology for granted, it doesn't create itself.
coming from a peak of 60 megabytes download speed living much closer to the city center to a few kilometers away now having the absolute peak of 5MB/s at 3am and ping spiking to 500 while playing games and somebody watching netflix on the living room tv, i wish Starlink was available here (it says so on the map but im talking about actual practical availability)
Well to be honest with the way Politics is going and stuff, I don't see them having much of a choice on the price, although I understand your frustration. also, you make a lot of valid points and I do think "Star link" may have overpromised for being so so new to the platform. I do hope they get it working really good here soon as I am looking to get my own internet connection soon and frankly there are so few good ones to choose from.
People who gets 5 or 10 Mbps the highest in the main city in my country. And me who gets 500 kbps just right on the border of the city when I hear *105 not too bad* 💀
Ugh. Be patient. It is what it is! My mom is the same way. She would rather just deal with her crap Viasat internet than wait. Here I am with Fiber internet, lol!
Absolutely shocking how much you all pay for internet and cell coverage in the states. I pay £35 a month for unlimited cell data and tethering so I can go anywhere and connect via my phone for 20-100Mbps symmetrical. The idea of having to shell out $600 + 100 a month is wild
I wonder if she can get cellular signals out there? I have T-Mobile wireless home internet and that works pretty good. Kind of depends on the area of course and big cities usually have faster speeds.
I don't think I'm ever going to buy in to Starlink. Making an Ethernet port a paid add-on for a *router* is a huge red flag for me that Elon is going to nickel and dime the consumer just like any other ISP. The constant overpromise-underdeliver cycle with his companies is another major pain point.
Have you ever watched the cost that people pay for their cable and their Internet echos up regardless all the time only we don’t have a choice to go somewhere else like this
I live in California using conifer satellite internet. 600kb down 😭 imagine living with high speed internet for years gaming competitively and then you get slammed with 120ms on your servers
Remember when Starlink was going to make internet accesible all around the world even in remote areas of Africa or other poor areas that can't build the infrastructure for cable? 😂😂😂
Seems like Musk would rather save any new online capacity for those premium customers, especially the ultra premium boats & truckers. Maybe he'll let the rural residentials have it after it costs $200+/mo, and can get the government to sponser it for rural schoolchildren.
For me Starlink is still in beta testing. Starlink put Internet satellites into orbit Only Then did they decide to make roaming available Now Starlink is working on Ocean going Internet As I understand it. Starlink is maxed out in much of the US but is allowing roaming with no guarantee of speed. Home customers come first then mobile Internet users As with most systems people, will find a way to abuse it. Therefore premium rates.
The data is generally against all the bullshit that comes out of elon's mouth. I don't blame her for thinking it's all a scam, like almost everything elon has ever done.
Starlink was NEVER going to be competitive for anyone in an area with high-speed internet. Their customer base should be geared toward rural and remote areas. The question is can they profitably serve that specific low population density niche.
When I was growing up all the people in my Granny’s hometown had satellite dishes because you couldn’t get cable TV any other way. Star link is great if you’re stuck in Africa with no infrastructure.
@@Dave102693 Do you have any idea how much it cost to lay fiber per mile? How many customers will you have? How long will it take to recoup that cost, much less make a profit? My driveway is 3 miles long. That gets you to an unpaved county road that's another 20 miles to a state highway then another 26 miles to the nearest town (7,000 people). The town doesn't have fiber optic, but let's say they did, to run a fiber optic cable to my farm it would cost $1,350,000.00. It's not really an option in a lot of areas in the U.S..
Despite my skepticism, the beta is going well. Two weeks, a hailstorm and a lightning strike later… And we are still enjoying way faster speeds than ever possible before. The cows are finally streaming their favorite Netflix shows in high def.
You heard it from the horse's mouth!
Ha ha! Keep us updated. How long have you had this slow ADSL speed?
@@JeffGeerling imagine calling your cousin a horse 🐴 😝
I for one am exstatic that you're sharing a real life example of what this product was made for. OFF grid internet with few compromises. One look at other satellite internet service costs and capabilities and you'll understand why STAR-LINK appears to be a bit revolutionary. But we need the real life EXP Annie, keep us posted!
Still doesn't compare to the price of cable internet. The price still needs to come down significantly if they want to compete, thus allowing for the freedom they so brag about.
A thought on your cousin not getting her dish yet. I pre-ordered days after they opened the public beta. Several months later (a little after they a had projected I would get it) started seeing them around (I'm on the road most days so I noticed them), including some people I knew who had signed up quite late. So I started looking into how to contact support and one of the things I did was finish setting up my Starlink account. Never figured out how to contact Starlink, but about week later I got a notice that it would be shipping on a certain date. It may have just been a fluke, but it can't hurt to make sure her Starlink account is all setup.
Clearest and most honest ad I've ever seen, you should make pace, I'm sick of hidden annoying sponsors. Kudos to you, sure!
Love the mini tour of the various locations!
Almost spat out my coffee when she said this could all be a deepfake. LMAO!
She seemed fake, to me.
she was probly think he shooting video to be shown around April 1ST, so yes, it well with in his skill set to do! 🙂
@@dh2032 How is he going to fake a speed test?
Could have been Red-shirt Jeff…
@@michaelterrell Make a fake website that just displays some random number. That isn't hard
We love our Starlink setup. It arrived less than a month after ordering, was super easy to set up and it very comfortably runs 3 tv's, 2 laptops, several cell phones and tablets plus around a dozen smart light bulbs.
Let me just say that 5Mbps at 83ms is not bad for country internet. We just "upgraded" from a 3Mbps package a few years ago - game changer.
I've had Starlink for about 4 months now. I finally received the ethernet kit. I don't need the super kit. On average I get 30-40 Mbps to my computer. Way better than the local ADSL at an average 3 Mbps. I meets all of our needs just fine.
How's the uptime. I've got ~8mbps adsl. Ordered SL back in Jan for Eastern NC. No word yet.
Did you order the Ethernet kit when you ordered the dish originally? That would be a long time to ship!
@@JeffGeerling When I ordered my Starlink they were still selling the round version. It took over a year to get my kit and we got the smaller square version. I realized that we would need the ethernet cable capability, so I immediately ordered the additional kit. Took about 2 months. Not too bad for Starlink. We have a large 2 story house so a single wireless router doesn't cut it, and the Starlink wireless router capabilities leave something to be desired. Also the total lack of any technical details. The ethernet adapter allows for only one IP address, so don't hook up a switch to it and hope to connect multiple wireless routers. My current configuration is the WAN connection from my third party wireless router connected to the Starlink ethernet and two access points wired connected to the router LAN ports.
@@brettcombs774 My old ADSL downlink was maxed at 12 Mbps and 900kbps. The SL raw to the ethernet port is 160 to over 200 Mbps and uplink over 40. With the wired/wireless setup I have my devices get 40-80 Mbps downlink and up to 20 Mbps (more likely around 5-8 Mbps) uplink. Considering we usually got 5-6 Mbps downlink with ADSL and questionable reliability, the SL is a godsend.
While we struggle to get high-speed internet connection in rural areas of the country, Arabs are sitting in caves with gigabit connections. Thanks, bureaucracy and red tape.
"Until next time, I'm Jeff Geerling" Sir, you're still going to be Jeff Geerling after that!
Oh, shoot!
Azov Steel is still online being surrounded by enemies for 2.5 months. Thanks Elon for this technology.
Thank you, Jeff! Good to see your struggles to get it working on the farm finally paid off! Glad the circumstances worked out that roaming works now! Thank you for the update!
Thank you for that little detour and sharing the landmarks in the park! I appreciate it
If you look at the coverage map, you see that coverage is primarily where sparse internet is available. Starling’s plan all along.
Pre-ordered last March, initially said i'd have it around September last year, still not here and now says late 2022. Wish Elon would spend more on rolling this out instead of buying Twitter.
Would be nice if there was something that Elon could do about it, but business processes in the space industry tend to be limited by a lot of other things and not the CEO
You would think.
@@CelluloidRacer2 I love how it is never Musk's fault.
@@librab103 I love how hypocritical elon hater are. When one of his companies does something good, it's the engineers or the team that did all the work. But when they do something bad, it's always Elon's fault
@@Ignacio.Romero none of his companies have done any good. It amazes me the number of people who come to defense of a guy who should be in jail for fraud.
Thank goodness that I live in a developed country. I have 2GB download and 256MB upload and I only pay the equivalent of $25 a month. USA has a lot of catching up to do. Now you know why most of the world would have no need for starlink
Can I just say that if you read anything on Starlink’s website when ordering it, you would know that it is fixed your address.
I want more content about how cool St Louis is.
In the the days of IoT, you can find a lot of ethernet modules, the size of the ethernet jack itself, for dollars. There is no excuse to not put in an ethernet jack, than to take advantage of people's money.
I’m pretty sure this was an ad for St Lewis rather than a Star Link video
With boats, planes, cruise ships and defense contracts, its possible that Starlink wont even need the hassle of private consumers.
I am in the same boat, with a family member who is now "Borrowing" my dishy.. I am far more positive about it though - I see these "growing pains" as evidence of the extreme success in market interest. I've got friends who are jealous that I even got one at all, and in my case, the people who are using it on my account had only traditional satellite internet before which was virtually useless IMO. (They would have been satisficed with your "early 90s" DSL.. :-) SO, for now.. we'll run mine over there, in roaming mode, and I'll gladly pay the new roaming fee and accept that they have lower priority than those who actually have service addresses in their area, and hopefully their "Mid 2022" date wont slip again.. I've had them on the wait list since 2/21. I look forward to getting my dishy back, which is when I'll have to make the decision as to whether I want to go "offgrid" and never send Comcast another dime, which has been my goal for a long time.. Dealing with Comcast tech support will make anyone crazy. Maybe a little competition in my area will make them appreciate customers more.
4:40 I recognize that park! It's right by my house!
Hello fellow St. Louisan!
@@JeffGeerling Maybe I'll run into you while walking my dog sometime. My mom knows you from where she used to work.
@@Ryyi23 Nice! Mercy, possibly?
@@JeffGeerling Nope. My mom worked in the tech office at Kenrick
How comes Ukrainian militia are getting starlink quicker than the clients from USA who pre ordered a year ago?
My friends and I call the art museum SLAM since it’s a great acronym; much more interesting than just saying St. Louis Art Museum.
I ordered mine pretty close to announcement so happy when it came on time. Didn't even know there were issues now. Nothing but good for me
Exciting that the coverage is getting better, but yes it's taking far too long to rollout.
As a remote worker I'm hoping it'll be ready by the time I finish my camper conversion so I can travel and work from anywhere
I live in a rural area Starlink is the only highspeed option. Been using since beta launched total game changer. Rural areas in my location are around 15 years behind the city areas. Most of the larger cities I'm next to have had fiber and many internet options for an over a decade. I personally believe it's all about money and the bottom line. A company will not spend the money to run fiber in an area without a return on investment. In my case there would be about 6 houses that would use the fiber line. I've just recently called a company. Said look I'll rent the trencher for a day a week or a month what's it going to take to run fiber 2+ miles to my house. There is 6+ houses that would sign up for the service. They basically told me without grant money and plans to expand in my area it's not going to happen. I asked how much it would cost they said up to 40k a mile which would be around 80k for two miles plus the labor and other expenses so probably an easy 100k. That totally explains why it hasn't happened. At the end of the conversation the representative laughed and said if u want fiber just to move to a town that already has it. There is no established time frame when fiber will be available at my house if ever. Maybe if God made it happen or the president of the USA outside of that simply won't happen.
Your first mistake is relying on major providers. Our best bet for rural America is electric Cooperatives running fiber just like they ran electric lines
I live in the middle of nowhere. Starlink gave us a “non-priority” option. Not gonna pay full price for that.
I am a ham radio operator. There has been some recent discussions in the radio community about frequency allocation for starlink. They may loose some band frequencies I think
No you aren't.
@@coloradostrong I aren’t what?
Ayyy you showed my town on the map! Edwardsville
With limited satellites, they are probably trying to avoid having too many users in a given area. Which is why your usage location is geo locked. That way they can ensure everyone gets proper bandwidth. You can see in their latest opening to allow starlink to be used in another location for $25. So its possible but discouraged.
To be fair to Starlink, can you imagine what the resale market would look like if they allowed service transfers? It would make those $250 ethernet adapters look like a bargain.
You guys know that starlink is mostly just piggybacking on cell towers right. That is why it was location locked at the beginning.
If there's no significant roaming charge leave it there if you have (like me) availability of 300 mbps up down with fios for 39 a month
Considering that 400% more money is in circulation since then I'd say prices have actually gone down significantly; but the value of the dollar has gone down a bit faster.
While in denmark “most taxes in the world, bad bad country” we have 1000/1000 for 36$ a month.
I remember the days of 10 mb/s being a fast connection, this brought me back to the stone days of the internet
I feel bad reading your comment knowing that 10 mb/s is the speed running on my country :( Life isn't fair
Please make a video about turning a old phone into GSM voice gateway and integrating with 3CX as voice gateway to make and receive calls from 3CX from remote locations
I wish they would step their game up because this would be perfect for my parents house who only have one option for internet and its absolutely atrocious.
portable internet still faster than my in-home cable
I moved from the city into the country and now have download speeds at 3.48 mbps
Hello from Ukraine!
The delays were reported and known. Remember when an entire launch of new starlink sat's went wrong and a whole lot of them were ruined? I'm no super fan but hell even I remember something going wrong and hundreds of starlink units were useless.
Honestly was certainly glad to get mine finally but I think Starlink should really work on prioritizing people like us who have to live on cruddy DSL, Viasat or Hughesnet. I've seen in many forums of people buying starlink who have cheap options for cable or fiber and then complaining about it. People who have these options already shouldn't have the option yet to buy it until the people who don't have those options get theirs first.
I live in inner suburban sydney Australia and our download speed was 4 megabits and 0.1 megabit upload all the way until 2019
with the new broadband network its now 40 megabits download and 10 megabit upload. A massive improvement but i still have no idea how its soo low compared to the world
Starlink $500 a month. I pay $30 a month for faster internet connection.
Your cousins is higher than mine. My neighbors get comcast 400mbps and I'm 0.3 miles away and out of range supposedly. So we have to settle for CenturyLink 1.5mbps at around $90. Starlink not available in my area yet. Fingers crossed it comes here soon.
Very interesting video! :D
3 months later, it will stop working and you will have to bring dishy home again for a while.
I had starlink, internet service was great, that's where it stops. Support is slow and knows nothing. I moved and left my equipment for the new owner, transferring was a huge pain. Even opening the required support ticket to do it is hidden.
One of the best decisions I've made was cancelling my preorder 2 years ago.
this is way better than my NBN at home in australia
Good rule of thumb is that you should never believe what Elon Musk says. He likes to promise stuff so he could make more money. He just don't like delivering. But interesting video.
We're just going to let that crime against bagels go unremarked?
Once you slice it up that way, is it proper to call it a 'bagel' anymore?
Elon failed to deliver on something he promised? I'm just shocked. Absolutely can't believe it
im sure this is a niche case, and he will DEFINITLEY keep his word with everything else he promises
Elon priding all those StarLink units to Ukraine also slowed the rest of us on the Waiting-and-Waiting List even more. . .
it's not just starlink, where are the cybertrucks or the semi, where is the long promised hyperloop??
I want to point out Starlink is not a novel tech and is a shitty business model. Low orbit data link was considered before Sat internet was a thing and its pretty obvious why its a bad idea: you need many satellites and they need to be replaced a lot. Some are saying well that's fixed now because its cheaper to send stuff to space. While I'd argue that was never really the issue. The problem is the situation so intensely bad for Internet service in the US that paying $110 for sub 150 mbps isn't considered outrageous.
Still on the "Wait List" since 2/13/2021.
I hated the increase prices
I love how there donate it to Ukraine.
Don't you think there might be a connection there just maybe
So did your cousin actually confirm the data, that you were really there..? 😂👍👍💚
did you drive around with your plates taped up XD
Tell me the last time, on the job, you said to the Client, it'll be ready someday.
Why did you use tape to censor your license plate instead of doing it in post? Idk if you got pulled over for that or not though.
You gotta give starlink a bit of a break, they are building a world wide satellite network. Don't forget that Elon Musk had to develop his rockets to deliver those satellites.
Don't take technology for granted, it doesn't create itself.
coming from a peak of 60 megabytes download speed living much closer to the city center to a few kilometers away now having the absolute peak of 5MB/s at 3am and ping spiking to 500 while playing games and somebody watching netflix on the living room tv, i wish Starlink was available here (it says so on the map but im talking about actual practical availability)
Well to be honest
with the way Politics is going and stuff, I don't see them having much of a choice on the price, although I understand your frustration.
also, you make a lot of valid points and I do think "Star link" may have overpromised for being so so new to the platform.
I do hope they get it working really good here soon as I am looking to get my own internet connection soon and frankly there are so few good ones to choose from.
A 300w inverter would have done the job. Much simpler than using solar & batteries.
I'd like to know if they use a local proxy/cache in their ground stations when you do speed tests. Some speed tests are really weird.
Every 5 yr short satellite life, yeah at current prices I doubt they'll survive.
People who gets 5 or 10 Mbps the highest in the main city in my country. And me who gets 500 kbps just right on the border of the city when I hear *105 not too bad* 💀
I have a dishy in my back yard. I canceled the service because IT SUCKS ASS! I’m keeping it to teach me a lesson. No more empty promises from Elon.
Psst. USAID is pronounced USA-I-D. :)
The State Department does some amazing things.
You guyes are paying for 110 doller for this speed. Here in India we pay only 5 to 8 doller. We are blessed 🤣
So even before delivering their product, their want customers to buy more dongles on it. Is Starlink speedrunning something?
Ugh. Be patient. It is what it is! My mom is the same way. She would rather just deal with her crap Viasat internet than wait.
Here I am with Fiber internet, lol!
Absolutely shocking how much you all pay for internet and cell coverage in the states. I pay £35 a month for unlimited cell data and tethering so I can go anywhere and connect via my phone for 20-100Mbps symmetrical. The idea of having to shell out $600 + 100 a month is wild
I wonder if she can get cellular signals out there? I have T-Mobile wireless home internet and that works pretty good. Kind of depends on the area of course and big cities usually have faster speeds.
I don't think I'm ever going to buy in to Starlink. Making an Ethernet port a paid add-on for a *router* is a huge red flag for me that Elon is going to nickel and dime the consumer just like any other ISP. The constant overpromise-underdeliver cycle with his companies is another major pain point.
Why not just wait for the roaming option to get enabled and then install it at your cousin's place?
Have you ever watched the cost that people pay for their cable and their Internet echos up regardless all the time only we don’t have a choice to go somewhere else like this
Can we say "Bait and Switch?"
Wow @JeffGeerling, your cousin.
Moo Moo, Oink Oink
Im going through the same situation from 2021 now it says 2023
I live in California using conifer satellite internet. 600kb down 😭 imagine living with high speed internet for years gaming competitively and then you get slammed with 120ms on your servers
I have 500 kilobytes down and 250 kilobytes up latency 400 ms so that's still good
Remember when Starlink was going to make internet accesible all around the world even in remote areas of Africa or other poor areas that can't build the infrastructure for cable? 😂😂😂
The STL zoo is amazing!
Looks to me like one group of users is subsidizing the others
Seems like Musk would rather save any new online capacity for those premium customers, especially the ultra premium boats & truckers. Maybe he'll let the rural residentials have it after it costs $200+/mo, and can get the government to sponser it for rural schoolchildren.
wow and i was complaining my 400mbps up was bad...
Well my Hughes satellite dish makes her DSL look fast
For me Starlink is still in beta testing.
Starlink put Internet satellites into orbit
Only Then did they decide to make roaming available
Now Starlink is working on Ocean going Internet
As I understand it. Starlink is maxed out in much of the US but is allowing roaming with no guarantee of speed. Home customers come first then mobile Internet users
As with most systems people, will find a way to abuse it. Therefore premium rates.
That was really great thank you. Now I'm curious how it aligns and the type of servo motor that it's using with omni direction? 2 servos or 1?
I have the same decathlon shoes as you, they’re great.
I love these shoes-bought two more pairs, since they fit so well and they match up to almost any clothing I wear :)
@@JeffGeerling same here, they also last longer than any major shoe brand. I buy a new pair every 6 months
I take mine every where and it works great! Is it not supposed to?
That is NOT a bagel.
AND I THOUGHT EVERYONE HAD GIG INTENET SPEED !!!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT MY COUSIN IN GEORGIA WAS LYING TO ME !!!!
I love how she is saying she's "very skeptical" while wearing a shirt that says "but what does the data say?"
Hahaha
Best comment on the Internet this week.
The data is generally against all the bullshit that comes out of elon's mouth. I don't blame her for thinking it's all a scam, like almost everything elon has ever done.
@@Bubu567 TRUTH.
The shirt can be taken both ways depending how you think about it
To be fair if I saw Jeff in my living room, I wouldn’t believe it either. Love your content Jeff as always thanks so much
I live in St. Louis and I probably wouldn't believe it either!
To be fairrrrrr……
@@Randrew who hurt you?
@@Randrew lmfao
@@Randrew you're this guy, "Where straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it".
Starlink was NEVER going to be competitive for anyone in an area with high-speed internet. Their customer base should be geared toward rural and remote areas. The question is can they profitably serve that specific low population density niche.
When I was growing up all the people in my Granny’s hometown had satellite dishes because you couldn’t get cable TV any other way.
Star link is great if you’re stuck in Africa with no infrastructure.
Technically? Yes. Remote workers would be their best clientele. High wages in low income areas.
Or telecoms can just run fiber to rural areas instead of being el cheapo.
@@Dave102693 Do you have any idea how much it cost to lay fiber per mile? How many customers will you have? How long will it take to recoup that cost, much less make a profit? My driveway is 3 miles long. That gets you to an unpaved county road that's another 20 miles to a state highway then another 26 miles to the nearest town (7,000 people). The town doesn't have fiber optic, but let's say they did, to run a fiber optic cable to my farm it would cost $1,350,000.00. It's not really an option in a lot of areas in the U.S..
Also they should focus in airlines and sea transportation. There are lots of people that want a better Internet while they are on a flight.