Is it still worth it? My Honest Opinion of Starlink
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- We have had starlink for 3 years now, and I'm going to tell you if its worth it, or if you avoid starlink's satellite internet. I review its performance, speed, ease of use, setup and more. Ill tell you how much it cost, and how useful it is on our homestead in the wilderness.
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I am having Starlink put in our entire RV park next week, great vid thanks!
Thats awesome! Good luck and thanks!
Thank you for the information. We have an off-grid cabin that we are restoring. We are looking for the best connection and you information was great. We too have a lot of trees. Thanks again.🌲🌳🌲
Best of luck!
Live in west central Alberta, and it has been awesome for us. When the grandkids are here, there can be up to 9 devices, you tubing or gaming and it has been flawless overt the past couple of years. And that is gen 1. I would recomend to anyone.
Awesome, I would have to agree, it totally keeps up!
I appreciate the “Ontario dinner jacket”! Immediate rural Ontario credibility
😂 you're not wrong
Very interesting. I am in rural Texas. I also work from home. Mostly during the day I might stream NetFlix while I work. Is Starlink going to be handle that usage?
100% 2 of my friends use it for gaming and it holds up great just make sure there’s no trees in the way
apologies for very late reply, but yes it will perform well, my fiance will be watching netflix 4k while I game and do a bunch of other stuff and it handles it no problem
I don’t know if you figured out your smoke alarm issue. I noticed it right above your stairway. The heat might be going straight up the stairs. Setting it off.
I just ordered it today. Where I live I can get ATT (which I have and it’s awful. 25 up and like 3 down. Maybe 5. Horrible) Via Sat, or Starlink. I got fed up with ATT after trying to play some video games, so I ordered starlink. Luckily where I live I have zero obstructions so I’m gonna mount it on my porch next to my tv dish and be done with it. When I get it, honestly it will probably replace my Dish Network satellite and we will go strictly streaming for tv. And I’ll play my video games like I’m trying to do now. Can’t wait to get it in the mail.
Have fun! as someone who has been playing games on it most nights of the week for the past 3 years I can tell you it performs without you noticing anything 99% of the time. Its just harsh snow storms here when my ping is quite high
Any updates?
@@Bob-wq5xe over a month zero issues. I hard wired my ps5 to it via Ethernet cable and I play call of duty online with zero lag. Plus it’s running 8 other devices off wifi. Zero outages at all. Every now and then it will update of course and sometimes it will say it’s talking to satellites to determine the best blah blah blah whatever that is. I’m 100% pleased.
@Drewski423 very convincing, I'm planning on buying one
@@Bob-wq5xe did I mention my mom lives about 100 feet from me? Put a wifi extender in her house and it runs her phone and TV as well. Zero issues.
You didn't say anything about wiring the starlink dish to the router. Does the starlink dish comes wire free?
It comes with a proprietary wire from the dish to the router, you can also purchase much longer wires if needed
Would you recommend this for simply living off grid in an rv? I found other cheaper portable routers but I really don’t know the differences in the mechanics of how they all work, how to know which one is best, etc. I work off my computer mostly and do a lot of video editing (lots of data bandwidth) so using it for RUclips and phone internet would be my main needs. Do you have recommendations or thoughts?
Would definitely recommend for your uses, what you described is basically how we used it when we lived in our Van, it’s more expensive monthly than some other platforms but it’s also unlimited and super reliable with great customer service!
How do you power your home? Just solar panels?
We are on grid for now until we figure out a full time solution, It’s costly but allows us time to figure out the right plan. We were offgrid for 5 years in our van (mostly on the property) using solar and generator backup during winters
I am interested in getting starlink but we won’t have electricity right away when we move to our land. Can the home system be run from a vehicle?
If you have a traditional vehicle with a starter battery you could run the starlink but your vehicle would need to be on to be creating the power to an inverter. It consumers about 45W of 120v power. We have a jackery 1000 (portable battery) that can run it for about a day or so. I would invest in a portable battery for starlink and charging your phones while on your land for the first time until you have a generator up and running or another power source.
speeds doesn't look that good in there, here in Italy I am getting around 280 - 390 anytime of the day. I guess I am lucky. But definetely StarLink is a life saver.
280-390Mbps is amazing!
If it's high latency can you use it for zoom calls?
Without an issue, even with a high latency of 100ms most people wont notice it, just if you’re someone like me who plays games youll notice it from time to time.
Its latency drop happens a lot in a day??
How is customer service?
Really awesome, they respond really quickly and aren’t cryptic or ignorant. Only had to deal with them twice but have solved the problems immediately or sent me equipment for no charge incase that was the problem. 5 stars.
Your getting scammed frr
How so?
It is to expensive compare to other internet service hack you have to deal with latency problem and the weather rather than trying to push the product on people's throats as perfect product and not mention that environmental challenges that may impedes the service even on a perfect weather conditions but it is the price that gets to me honestly for the average end user who does not have a disposable income.
I see what you're saying. but Starlink is advertised to people who have extremely poor or no connection to the internet. If you live in a city, Starlink is not for you.
We don’t have disposable income, and this is necessity for our full-time online jobs. There are no fibre or cable options available in our location and even as an expensive option it works perfectly and barely ever have outages or issues, far less than my friends with fibre. But i hear you!
You can always count on someone making a stupid comment
Im 590mbps download & 40mbps upload on xfinity