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.🌲🌳🌲
We lost all services when the NC mountains were hit by hurricane Helene. It's week 6 and all but Internet/TV/landline are restored. We live beside a creek which rose over banks, tore a sinkhole which ripped out cable and fiber optic lines. I like what I'm hearing about Starlink. My husband is addicted to his cell phone so IDK how this will shake out. This was a helpful video!
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.
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.
I just installed it myself and it's fairly amazing. I also have some nearby trees that will probably need to be taken down to clear up my obstructions but for my needs it's already working very well. I mounted on a pole from my porch beams to get another 12 feet back from the trees but I can't get high enough reasonably to completetly get over them. Even still I get some interruptions now and then but nothing that gets in the way of streaming and web use which are my main desires there, If I can get the 5 to 10sec interruptions gone with some tree pruning then I'll be able to work-from-home in a cabin that is 45 mins from EVERYTHING. Very middle-of-nowhere. Pretty impressive tech and service.
Thats great to hear! Even if it’s being partially blocked it will learn where the trees are after some time and will no longer have interruptions that are more than a couple milliseconds. Good luck on your cabin dream!
I'm living just outside of DC in an urban area however following Helene and Milton that just hit the south and thinking about a potential future where I'd want to be able to watch the news and communicate with family and friends if my cell signal/ wifi signal goes down
4:30, how high would you say the latency gets in milliseconds in bad weather conditions? I'm thinking of buying a starlink for my home since I live in a part of my country where not many ISP's offer fiber optic, and gaming on a 5G plan is not worth it since most games are 100+ GB's nowadays and I'll end up burning through bandwidth super quickly, so starlink seems to be the best and most obvious choice
In bad weather conditions it can jump between 120-500 milliseconds round trip. But thats very rare, the average in game milliseconds I hit is 60, and when it’s raining hard it’s about 80. Totally playable as I do almost every night and very rarely complain about the connection. (I used to play on 5G before this, and starlink is 100% better and worth it, i ended up lower my cell plan to save money as well).
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
@@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.
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?
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
Roughly, what is the range on the supplied router? Does the wi-fi cover your entire house and some outside distance? I am leaning pretty heavily towards investing in Starlink for our cabin. I still need to use the app to get an idea of which trees present an obstruction first. The tree issue might make it a no go. Hopefully not.
@@blainebigger8332 That is a very good range for a modem. Certainly cover the area we would need it too. Do you have any obstructions that show up during the scan? I checked and there are a few fringe obstructions. In our location the receiver would be (according to the app scan) be mostly looking straight up with a northerly tilt. We have one taller pine which is shown as an obstruction in about the lower 1/3rd of the scan towards the north. Unfortunately, it would be a bugger to cut down. The rest of the sky is mostly clear. Of course, its winter now so no leaves on the other fringe trees, so that may also affect the signal.
@@Tom-mo6tl he is in a low portion of our area.... 60 to 100 ft pines all around the back of his property..... his scan can see the trees.... he has still had speeds over 300mbps
@blainebigger8332 thank you for the reply! I won't be trying it until around sometime around May. With any luck trees won't be too much of a factor. Wait and see.
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.
What starlink setup did you go with? Starting mobile what package ?now in a house what package ? New to all this if you stayed it I didn not catch it. I have a house in suburbia and I do go off grid frequently. Any info would be great 👍
If stationary, Residential plan. If you wanna bring the dish for an outing or on an RV, you can bring it with you up to 30-40 km from your home address. This plan is applicable only for Gen 1/2/3 dishes. For the Mini, you're limited to the Roaming plan, which is more expensive, but you can bring it anytime anywhere.
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.
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
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.
I know nothing about Starlink I have just heard how it is used in the aftermath of Hurricane Helena. So my question is this, if all cell towers are down, all grid power is down I could plug Starlink into a battery backup generator and my dad 29 miles away also with no grid power or cell towers could plug his Starlink into his battery back up and we could call each other? basically, making our cell phone satellite phones?
Yes thats the idea, that’s basically how we lived for a few years as we were offgrid and had little to no cell reception. You can call each other over the internet using facetime or any internet calling service. Hope that helps.
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!
From what I heard, you can even use it on planes with starlink mini (travel version) I would say yes since it gets its signal from satellite and not cell towers.
A single Starlink router can handle up to 128 devices simultaneously, but realistically can it handle 40 people on heavier bandwidth platforms like instagram, youtube, and Netflix all at once? probably not. That being said it could handle 40 people all at once doing basic web browsing like emails etc. hope that helps
For this type of deployment you could look into a ubiquiti UniFi deployment to provide wifi coverage to all the cabins and outdoor areas you would like to cover. Should you then need to increase internet capacity (which I doubt) you can look into a peplink bonded WAN gateway and combine 2 or more Starlink connections into 1 for increased internet throughput
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.
People with Dish/DirecTv/At&T are getting scammed. We had to use satellite for years because we live in the wilderness. It sucker. The latency and data limits were crazy bad. We FINALLY got Fiber Optic a couple years ago,and as it ages the reliability SUCKS. And it’s EXPENSIVE. Now we have a local WISP and it’s proving to be both unreliable and SLOW. I’ll HAPPILY pay an extra 20 bones a month for Reliability and speed. Buffering grows weary.
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!
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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!
We lost all services when the NC mountains were hit by hurricane Helene. It's week 6 and all but Internet/TV/landline are restored. We live beside a creek which rose over banks, tore a sinkhole which ripped out cable and fiber optic lines. I like what I'm hearing about Starlink. My husband is addicted to his cell phone so IDK how this will shake out. This was a helpful video!
I hope your state has a strong recovery. ❤️🩹
I am having Starlink put in our entire RV park next week, great vid thanks!
Thats awesome! Good luck and thanks!
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.
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!
Thanks for the clearly explained review as we consider a change to Starlink for work/home.
Glad it was helpful!
I just installed it myself and it's fairly amazing. I also have some nearby trees that will probably need to be taken down to clear up my obstructions but for my needs it's already working very well. I mounted on a pole from my porch beams to get another 12 feet back from the trees but I can't get high enough reasonably to completetly get over them. Even still I get some interruptions now and then but nothing that gets in the way of streaming and web use which are my main desires there, If I can get the 5 to 10sec interruptions gone with some tree pruning then I'll be able to work-from-home in a cabin that is 45 mins from EVERYTHING. Very middle-of-nowhere.
Pretty impressive tech and service.
Thats great to hear! Even if it’s being partially blocked it will learn where the trees are after some time and will no longer have interruptions that are more than a couple milliseconds. Good luck on your cabin dream!
I'm living just outside of DC in an urban area however following Helene and Milton that just hit the south and thinking about a potential future where I'd want to be able to watch the news and communicate with family and friends if my cell signal/ wifi signal goes down
4:30, how high would you say the latency gets in milliseconds in bad weather conditions?
I'm thinking of buying a starlink for my home since I live in a part of my country where not many ISP's offer fiber optic, and gaming on a 5G plan is not worth it since most games are 100+ GB's nowadays and I'll end up burning through bandwidth super quickly, so starlink seems to be the best and most obvious choice
In bad weather conditions it can jump between 120-500 milliseconds round trip. But thats very rare, the average in game milliseconds I hit is 60, and when it’s raining hard it’s about 80. Totally playable as I do almost every night and very rarely complain about the connection. (I used to play on 5G before this, and starlink is 100% better and worth it, i ended up lower my cell plan to save money as well).
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.
Thank you. Made it very easy to understand.
Thanks!
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
We use it we stream and I can play anything online no lag just make sure you have no obstructions and you will be golden
Who do you contact if the Starlink service goes out? With fiber optic and cable service based internet there’s a service number to call
can you not put the dish higher up above the trees?
Roughly, what is the range on the supplied router? Does the wi-fi cover your entire house and some outside distance? I am leaning pretty heavily towards investing in Starlink for our cabin. I still need to use the app to get an idea of which trees present an obstruction first. The tree issue might make it a no go. Hopefully not.
My friend has his modem in his house living room, near the window.... he gets 15 to 25 mbps in his shop, and that's about 120 140ft away
@@blainebigger8332 That is a very good range for a modem. Certainly cover the area we would need it too. Do you have any obstructions that show up during the scan? I checked and there are a few fringe obstructions. In our location the receiver would be (according to the app scan) be mostly looking straight up with a northerly tilt. We have one taller pine which is shown as an obstruction in about the lower 1/3rd of the scan towards the north. Unfortunately, it would be a bugger to cut down. The rest of the sky is mostly clear. Of course, its winter now so no leaves on the other fringe trees, so that may also affect the signal.
@@Tom-mo6tl he is in a low portion of our area.... 60 to 100 ft pines all around the back of his property..... his scan can see the trees.... he has still had speeds over 300mbps
@blainebigger8332 thank you for the reply! I won't be trying it until around sometime around May. With any luck trees won't be too much of a factor. Wait and see.
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!
What starlink setup did you go with? Starting mobile what package ?now in a house what package ? New to all this if you stayed it I didn not catch it. I have a house in suburbia and I do go off grid frequently. Any info would be great 👍
If stationary, Residential plan. If you wanna bring the dish for an outing or on an RV, you can bring it with you up to 30-40 km from your home address. This plan is applicable only for Gen 1/2/3 dishes. For the Mini, you're limited to the Roaming plan, which is more expensive, but you can bring it anytime anywhere.
Whereabouts are you located approximately in the Michigan area perhaps?
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??
Even 400ms would be seemless
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
Thank you for the video
I saw them flying above my apartment an i freaked out..
By the way nice can if ur thinking of getting rid of reach out thanks
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.
I appreciate the “Ontario dinner jacket”! Immediate rural Ontario credibility
😂 you're not wrong
I know nothing about Starlink I have just heard how it is used in the aftermath of Hurricane Helena. So my question is this, if all cell towers are down, all grid power is down I could plug Starlink into a battery backup generator and my dad 29 miles away also with no grid power or cell towers could plug his Starlink into his battery back up and we could call each other? basically, making our cell phone satellite phones?
Yes thats the idea, that’s basically how we lived for a few years as we were offgrid and had little to no cell reception. You can call each other over the internet using facetime or any internet calling service. Hope that helps.
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!
Starlink is undervalued. The potential is out of this world.
Completely agree!
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
If the equipment you purchase has an operating issue or damage, who do you contact to get repaired?
starlink?
Can Starlink work with water near/or on it? 🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️☔🌧️ If so, then start collecting water from your roof to survive on.
From what I heard, you can even use it on planes with starlink mini (travel version) I would say yes since it gets its signal from satellite and not cell towers.
Hello, I am building cabins in de wilderness and we would host for around 40 people en weekends, can they all connect to startlink with one account
A single Starlink router can handle up to 128 devices simultaneously, but realistically can it handle 40 people on heavier bandwidth platforms like instagram, youtube, and Netflix all at once? probably not. That being said it could handle 40 people all at once doing basic web browsing like emails etc. hope that helps
For this type of deployment you could look into a ubiquiti UniFi deployment to provide wifi coverage to all the cabins and outdoor areas you would like to cover. Should you then need to increase internet capacity (which I doubt) you can look into a peplink bonded WAN gateway and combine 2 or more Starlink connections into 1 for increased internet throughput
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.
*megabyte
Connection speeds are measured in bits rather than bytes, same with starlink, so it’s megabits/second
Tiny home? Lmfao thats a 2 story house dude. These is 1 of those make believe play pretend youtubers
Nice one! 😂
Your getting scammed frr
How so?
People with Dish/DirecTv/At&T are getting scammed. We had to use satellite for years because we live in the wilderness. It sucker. The latency and data limits were crazy bad. We FINALLY got Fiber Optic a couple years ago,and as it ages the reliability SUCKS. And it’s EXPENSIVE. Now we have a local WISP and it’s proving to be both unreliable and SLOW. I’ll HAPPILY pay an extra 20 bones a month for Reliability and speed. Buffering grows weary.
Please explain what other option exists when you dont have fiber or coaxial?
Tell me you know nothing, without telling me you know nothing 😂
Having starlink and your job being based completely online is not living off the grid.
Living on the grid means using public utilities. Internet does not count.
Hi - can you have multiple dishes under the same account at different locations and pay the same monthly fee?
No each dish will have it’s own monthly cost
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