Installed mine this week. Incredible speeds. 150-300 mbs. And this is on a yacht in a marina where according to Starlink there is little or no coverage. My entire boat is now connected. Navigation, entertainment, iPads, iPhones, TVs. Amazing product and it sets itself up automatically. This will put every ISP on the planet out of business. And with Bezos launching a a competitive network the costs will be competitive. Love it.
Very good and fair review. Like you, we ordered a year ago (in Feb) and received ours two weeks ago. We're very rural in southern Pennsylvania and have the tree situation too, but luckily the lay of the land (and tree locations) is such that the northern exposure is obstruction free. We've had almost no outages so far and those we did have only lasted 4 or 5 seconds. We were previously on DSL with 9 down and 1 up. Painful! We've been quite pleased with Starlink after living with that, I can tell you! Haven't checked you previous videos yet, so you may have done this, but it would be nice to see your "obstructions compass" while you had the app open. Thanks for taking the time to do your review.
Thanks for the comment! Yes we are very happy so far with it like yourself. Our obstruction map was so minimal, barely any trees in the picture, but I guess I can’t complain! Thanks for watching!
I'm excited to see someone close to us got Starlink! We put our reservation in on 2-9-2021 and have been impatiently waiting for almost 13 months.. We are stuck with DSL or hotspots. We luckily have a clear view of the sky and shouldn't have any obstruction issues (fingers crossed). I sure hope we get ours soon here in Northwest PA!
@@davidsobina180 It'll happen, and sooner rather than later, we hope! Every day we're more pleased with ours and are getting 200 - 250 down and 10 to 20 up routinely and NO outages. The only thing we're waiting for now is the ethernet adapter and the wall mount. We've run all the wire and just place the dish on the roof temporarily using the mount it came with attached to 2X8's and weighted with bricks. I know a guy on the southern tier of NY that got his a year ago and he raves about it all the time.
Great video, very helpful. It's nice to see this after coming from an entitled Starlink user whining about not getting his 1gbps speed, not having a mesh system included, having to download the app to configure the setup, and was just basically "annoyed" with the whole deal. After living with the speeds I've had to run for more than a decade, this will be heaven sent. We were paying more than this for 1.1mbps dsl because it was the only game in town for years. Switched a few years back to 4G internet that was better at 10 - 15mbps on a good day but still... I'm just over a year on my wait. Got into beta on 2/20/21 and got my notification the other day so just waiting to ship now. Can't wait. Congrats on getting yours and I subbed so looking forward to more videos!
Thanks for watching! We right at the year mark so I hope it’s coming soon for you!! It’s made life on the web so much more convenient thus far. Take care!
Outstanding Video and report! Thank you. 2 questions: 1. You mentioned you have lots of video conference calls, as do we... how often are your conference calls interrupted? This is my major worry. 2. On your existing home, how did you get the system into your home/office or IT closet? It seems the cable has fittings and such. On my house I do have a cable box, but no holes large enough for passing the cable into the home. Cheers, Eric
Great questions! 1.) On average I would say once a Zoom meeting I will freeze and then it unfreezes like 10 seconds later so not too bad. But I think that will depend on multiple things, your location, time of the meeting, software being used etc. That’s just our experience. 2.) I had to drill into the house and fill in the hole. Don’t necessarily recommend especially if you already have other practical entry points. We didn’t so that was our only option. The hole needed is only about an inch in diameter. Hope that helps!
I've had mine for almost a year now and I have to say I like it . I'm outside Seattle so I do have a duel line DSL in my house also which is supposed to be 100Mbps but I rarely see it above 50 . I still have both internet providers in my house but am thinking about dropping the DSL , probably after I get rid of the 4 trees that give me some obstruction is when that will happen .
@@slathibatfas7682 250k is far too slow to stream even one device, I had 256K back when I had dial up and it was really slow plus there are 5 adults and 2 kids in this 7 bedroom house which makes the 50gbits we get out of our dual line DSL(supposed to be 100) too slow for the household needs. Since I upgraded to the Gen3 router my actual speed is over 200Gbits so I'm pretty happy with Starlink.
Thanks for your experience. I just got my confirmation and paid for Starlink. I had been waiting since 2-21-2021. Can’t wait to see what I can do with it. Just hoping all my possible tree obstructions don’t cause too much problem.
I currently have Viasat. My real-world download speed is about 1 Mbps. Yep, 1. With a 40 GB cap for $85/month. I can't use any streaming services. I just sent Starlink my $99 fee to get on the waiting list. I'm in Florida, and it looks like Florida is very low on their priority list. If I can get Starlink before the END of 2023 it will be a miracle. As frustrated as I am with satellite internet, I'm glad I have at least that. Thanks for your video!
I've had my Starlink for over a year. It's better in almost every way than Comcast. There are fewer buffering pauses and fewer outright outages. I can get Comcast at 1 MB speed. But I choose to use the cheapest which is 300mbs speed. Th fastest Starlink test I've run has been about 280 Mbs. The Comcast tests at about 340 Mbs. Since I stream video each app takes some time to load. Starlink, is faster. I can be running two HD televisions and surf the web with no slow downs or pauses. Originally a 3 or 4 minute pause was normal every day, but now I notice no pauses. Starlink prices are rising, so that will stop a lot of people from using it. It was intended to supply people in areas where there are no sufficient solutions so the $599 price plus $110 a month will still be very attractive to people who have poor service.
Been waiting for 2 years here in Alaska since I signed up for beta. That said you are still seeing much better bandwidth than our current DSL of 15mbs down/1mbs up that costs me $120.00 a month for. So Starlink will be a huge upgrade (its due sometime in 2022), though honestly I was hoping for more upload bandwidth, as 3 to 7mbs still seems super low for uploads. I would be happy to sacrifice 20% off the download speed to put that bandwidth on the upload speed. Or even better yet, allow some of us to choose symmetric plans (same average speeds up and down) rather than the asymmetric that it currently is.
I'm in Suffolk, England. Weve had ours for 2 months and apart from 1 micro outage of 3 minutes it's been great. Download between 250 and 340mbs Upload around 25mbs Annoying that you have to buy an extra box to hard wire into your system as the new version only comes with wifi now. For our business its been well worth it and cheaper than our existing fibre supply which had less than half the upload speeds.
Nice profile picture… I never knew there’s fellow Leeds United fans, living in Suffolk. Hopefully your Starlink allowed you to watch last Sunday’s epic game against Brentford. Those download speeds you’re getting are insane, I live kinda rural in Lincolnshire and my wifi provider gives me 44 to 47 Mbps download, which is fast enough to stream video
tried the same server and averaged ping of 89, up of 7.5 and download of 100+. Not bad from Victoria, BC, Canada. It was worth the wait to get it ( first gen dish ) and was cheaper as the house has not had cable or telephone for over 10 years and the ' install cost ' for either of the 2 providers would have been well over $300CAD and then the equipment ( forced rental for the life of the contract, no outright own from either ) plus the ' discount ' being half the rate for 3 months on internet, 6 months on TV ( that I didn't want ) and the remainder of the contract due if canceled early ( from either provider). The install cost at the rate mentioned was after half an hour discussing it with a sales agent and would have been bundled in to the first bill along with equipment rental and the 6 months of TV/Internet package. It would have been higher for JUST internet ( what I want ) and no discount, ever, and having to call in at any outage of service. I lived on a gulf island and know how my family still there have to call in daily during the storm season to ask for credit since their equipment to the island is still with out power and how it's like pulling teeth over the phone each day the power is out. Putting the dish on the roof, with the official pipe adapter, routing the cable inside and online in an hour ( had to warm up after being outside ) and it ' just working ' for the price I paid was cheaper, faster, on my time for install and best of all more reliable than what others in my neighborhood have with either of the ' Big 2 ' companies. I technically have the option for ' Optik ' to the house, however Telus will not give an installation quote over the phone, only try and arrange an appointment that will be charged for.
When they talked about lowering the cost of the terminal, it refers to production cost. In the early batch, a single dish that they sold for $500 cost around $2500, later they managed to reduce it to around $1500, and SpaceX's president said it would later reduce to half, so around $750. So, currently, if you buy a dish for Starlink they're subsidizing you for it. That's why Elon always said their focus is not going bankrupt.
Good point, I did see an interview where they Elon was talking about production costs and trying to lower those so that they don’t go bankrupt like you said. I saw another interview of him saying that as Starlink becomes more adopted and they get their production costs lower we could see decreases monthly pricing. I’ll believe it when I see but don’t mind wishful thinking. Thanks for the insight!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead I think it's a matter of "when" and not "if" they would lower the pricing. Since lowering the pricing is the only way they can massively increase the number of their customers/revenue, just like the Tesla Model 3 to Model S. After all, the marginal cost of serving an extra customer is pretty low. The satellite is practically everywhere whether there's a customer or not, unlike fiber service. So, extra power is practically the only marginal cost here, and that's coming from the satellite's solar panel, sun, free. With a lifespan of around 5-6 years max for each satellite, this just makes sense. Maybe, there would be regional pricing like games on Steam. And yeah, thank you for your review. While I currently have fiber service, the pricing isn't that good, Starlink has better pricing per Mbps. And it's all because of monopoly, my ISP is the only option available here. Can't wait till Starlink is available here and hopefully with even faster speed.
I have been dealing with rural telephone internet for 24 years. STARLINK opened a new chapter in our lives. I’d of paid $1000 up front to get this kind of speed.
Yeah $1000.00 upfront for StarLink is NOTHING when you are getting these speeds in rural areas. Especially if you have been on dial-up for over 20 yrs like I was. Heck we never even had cell service out where I like until StarLink showed up. Now we have cell service using the StarLink wi-fi and was able to ditch my land line and save $120.00 month.
Well for evrything they need goverment and and even this so far was still an uphil batlle not ony due to goverment /byrocracy but also LOBBYING from otehr Internet/satelite providers who went on ful on assault againts Starlink. For that it will take ma LONG time for them to do cbs hey still didnt finish their satelite coverage yet let alone otehr stuff/byrocratic stuf tat they still are doingand facing.
After a year of waiting, I finally received and installed our Dish v.2 first week of Feb. At first, everything was fine. But after abour 10 days the average download slowed down about 1/2-2/3 the stated download target... and upload was 1/2-3/4 what was stated in the email from Starlink. They are either throttling the speed OR they simply do not have enough ground station capacity. Either way, it needs to be fixed. And YES, I have 'factory reset' the router, per the recommendation from many sources. I have 0% obstructions, so that is not the cause at all. I'm going to give it about 3 months to stabilize before I reevaluate again and then determine my next steps.
The minimal blips in outage isn't a big deal, not enough to have any direct concern. I doubt it would pose any issue to streaming within that short amount of time. The big issue with the other Satellite companies or cell hotspots is the fact they are not really keeping up with the world today. The fact is our lives in 2022 + beyond, what we do, operate or work, etc, is totally data driven (movies, games, software, jobs, and so on). The cost of Starlink is actually a savings to me using ViaSat - about $150 per month of 25/5 and a 150GB lid. I never, ever, ever came close to those speeds and the cap...can be chewed up quickly.
For comparison, I have Spectrum cable broadband for $74.99 a month @ 13ms ping, 230mbps download speed and 11.5mbps upload. Only one outage last year was about 6 hours.
You can't compare like that. StarLink is for rural areas where there is no fiber optic or DSL. You obviously don't live way out in the sticks and have fiber optic or fast DSL. That's apple to oranges. What you should do is compare StarLink to Hughes Net. That would be fair and the way to compare StarLink to other rural providers.
@@darylsmioth1904 I agree with you completely and did not intend a competitive comparison obviously fiber optic is better than satellite right now. I have never had Hughesnet personally but have indeed heard the horror stories from friends who have. I actually am very impressed with the performance of Starlink so far and believe it will get even better as it is completed.
@@TheHandyHam73 Its funny I have a good friend in Panama that lives even further out in the sticks than I do and in Panama they ran fiber right to her front door!
Worth it for me cannot get faster or more stable out here in the boondocks lte is shit thanks to old outdated towers capping speeds at 30mbps down 20up with ping over 150ms now I’m 50-250mbps down 5-30mbps up 30-100ms ping
lol mine is finally shipping in the next two weeks it says but the price went up instead. But I am still excited to try it out. We also run on an ATT Cellular Modem.
Only worth it if there is no availability or cheaper alternative in terms of good value for your money in the area. However, if you look around and you have all the available options to choose, then starlink would not be ranked top or near top. Because for a community fibre wired network in the city, we get around 3Gbps for Download and Upload speeds, and if you're a business willing to spend extra per month, you can get up to 10Gbps. This is why it is crazy and more of a...slap in a face to those who don't have this and are far out in rural/urbans area who pay a very high monthly price. There are pros and cons but hearing that makes me sick that the price should be reduced to below $40-50 per month in my opinion. More so for those in Australia who suffer the most in internet speed and realibility.
StarLink has implimented a Fair Use Policy now. After 1 TB of data in a billing cycle your data will be converted to basic access. Meaning deprioritized or best effort speeds. HOWEVER to avoid hitting 1 TB of priority data just do things off peak times currently 07:00- 23:00. For $110.00 plus tax I would highly recommend that you look into Verizon LTE or 5G(C Band) home fixed unlimited internet subject to give mobile users network priority at either $25 a month with Verizon service and applicable rate plan and autopay or $60 without service with Verizon. Or T-Mobile home internet if available in your area. Now that more and more people are seeing StarLink as an option they are facing network congestion issues, which is why they are doing the fair use policy now in my opinion. I would recommend them only if it is you only option.
Hey thanks for the insightful comment! Yes I did see about the fair use policy. I will be curious as to how much it slows down once you a user hits the 1 TB. For us where we live Verizon does not get reception for LTE (I'm not sure about 5G) unfortunately. You are right though, where we live Starlink is becoming the major internet provider which I'm sure will have a speed impact. Cheers!
I hope so I was looking forward to it but I'm on disability and was waiting on my tax return. Went to see about it and got a good scare 😆 so unfortunately I'll have to wait and see if it will come down. I have fiber optics cable on both ends of my road 1/2 maybe 3/4 mi. With 15 families and hoping they will run it by
Starlink is more suited for very remote rural locations where there’s no other option. If you can get fibre optic broadband where you are, then Starlink isn’t for you
It took me 2 years to finally get my Starlink system. It was fairly easy to setup, but there are many shortfalls on the design. There is no light to let you know if the dish has power or is working at all. The Starlink router only has a single pin light on the bottom that only shows if it has power and that is it. So after only 4 months my Starlink system went dead and would not come back online. It took over 2 weeks to get a replacement and after putting in a replacement, it ended up being a bad 150ft Starlink connection. so now I have to wait 2 more weeks to get the new cable. So it seems they have a supply chain issue that takes weeks to fulfill. Then to top it off, they have zero customer service contact for their customers. It is all via a support ticket. At this rate, I do not see Starlink lasting long enough to beat off any new competition that is already coming. I know I am not impressed at all.
Like so many things, it is worth it in some use cases and not others. Wouldn't be worth it for me, I have other, cheaper, and potentially faster options if I want to spend the money. But I could definitely see getting it if I did not have those options and especially if I could get it cheaper somehow. Not interested in setting it up on my roof, too windy here. Plus, outages are a no-go for me since I work online. Better to have other, redundant connections for a total of less money (which is what I am able to do).
Understandable. I think it depends on your location. I have seen some that don’t necessarily need to go on the roof. Just depends how much open space you have
Your EOL point is not in the same state? Why are you testing from WI all the way over in IL? That's not going to give you consistant numbers because you're dealing with internet traffic from tons of other people. Speedtest allows you to use a testing site closer to you. Those results should be much more reliable.
Obviously totally contention based speeds. Might be interested if they guaranteed 300Mbps download and at least 100Mbps UPLOAD for those prices (no real reason it can't be DSL and give equal upload). Currently stuck on 76Mbps download and about 15Mbps upload, unlimited data, via FTTC. Could be waiting years here in the UK countryside for 1Gbps FTTP :(
well ist no liek the materials for building thsoe things when up right?????Also you do knwo that Starlink/SpaceX is LITETRALY LOSING MONEY on creating those stuff.Basicaly they are SUBSUDIZING POEPLE FROM THEIR OWN POCKETS.
I have heard some people doing it! There is a popular video on CZcams of a guy going around his state and it still working. Can’t confirm though that it will work for everyone.
Thanks for watching! Yeah heavily wooded areas can be tough. You can actually download the starlink (without ordering) and can do a visibility test where you might think the dish would be placed. Doing that was helpful for us. Best of luck!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead we did and it said it was a good area. Are house is pretty high so just waiting for it to come in it’s been over seven months so I guess just wait and see. Thanks again
Thanks for this video. Those outages are a deal breaker. I'd rather have 1.5 Mbps and stable than having unstable internet as some games would be totally impossible.
That’s fair! We haven’t tried online gaming but the outages have never stopped a streaming video. Not sure how it would translate over to gaming though👍
I just saw another video from another family up in rib lake wi state that there is a tier program going to be enacted. And the cost is going to be $2500 for the start up and up to $500 a month for more bandwidth. Go check out the video at big family homestead posted 3 weeks ago.
I saw they launched their “premium” level last week which says speeds can get up to 500 mbps. (Which blows my mind) I think it’s marketed towards gamers. I also watched the video you suggested, I sure hope that doesn’t happen. We haven’t experienced that yet but then my opinion would change on Starlink. I guess we will have to wait and see 😬
If you live outside the USA.. the costs are more expensive.. instead of 99 USD.. they are charging 120 USD and its 700 USD for the kit. So if you live in a third world country, this is only for rich guys.
It honestly depends on your situation alot of people don't seem to understand that in alot of places you have one provider that charges the same prices for 15 to 30 mbps on a good day. Some even worse
We had AT&T which worked dined but the highest data cap was only 40gb per month which if we streamed anything would eat it up real fast. But if your aren’t streaming anything then the cellphone providers aren’t a bad option!
you especialy in 5:40 are comparing aplles to oranges and ist a dead giveaway that you dont udterstad how things work OR PURPSLY ommiting stuff.Also when something is just STARTED you cnat expect to be immedietly cheap bcs if it would then TEHY WOULD GO BANCRUPT.Thats why EVERY SINGLE NEW THING that comes to market has high priece (EVEN THOU TEHY THEMSELF ADMITED THEY LOOSING MONEY ON THIS STUFF I THINK ESPECIALY DUE TO LOWER PRICE THAN EXPECTED). I NEVER SAW that some big thing came to market and be cheap.It was alwasy EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and ALWAYS had to pass atleast minimum 5-6 somethimes even 10 YEARS just for something to get bit or drasticaly CHEAPER.... When i personaly heard/saw the pricig i myself THOUGHT THAT ITS WAY TO CHEAP (considering they just went/got ito on the market).People NEGLECT AND FORGET that ONE OF THE BIG REASONS WHY stuff at beggining is more expensive is not only to earn from premium and from brand new tag status BUT also the reason why ist expensive at beggining is to TRY nad quicly REPAY/RETURN the borrowed/spent money that went into that project form paying teh people who designed,made,prototyped,reaserached it BUT also to have a head start and additional money to eigehr expand teh team or to fasten the upgrade/develompent process of that thing so to keep updated/evolved all the time and that costs ALOT OF MONEY AS A WHOLE.
I’m not quite sure what you mean comparing apples to oranges or omitting information. Just throwing out an example of another large internet company that might be an option for some people. In that sense, Starlink is not cheap or more accurately, less expensive. I understand they required a huge upfront capital to create the products, infrastructure, software etc. I don’t think I’m wrong in hoping the price decreases over time as more users adopt Starlink and the company lowers operating costs. Anyway thanks for taking the time to watch, cheers 😊
Agreed, it is at $120 now, unfortunately we don't have any other options until fiber comes our way in which case we would likely switch. But for now it gets the job done for the most part.
Installed mine this week. Incredible speeds. 150-300 mbs. And this is on a yacht in a marina where according to Starlink there is little or no coverage. My entire boat is now connected. Navigation, entertainment, iPads, iPhones, TVs. Amazing product and it sets itself up automatically. This will put every ISP on the planet out of business. And with Bezos launching a a competitive network the costs will be competitive. Love it.
Until there is a coronal mass ejection and the service is halted.
Very good and fair review. Like you, we ordered a year ago (in Feb) and received ours two weeks ago. We're very rural in southern Pennsylvania and have the tree situation too, but luckily the lay of the land (and tree locations) is such that the northern exposure is obstruction free. We've had almost no outages so far and those we did have only lasted 4 or 5 seconds. We were previously on DSL with 9 down and 1 up. Painful! We've been quite pleased with Starlink after living with that, I can tell you! Haven't checked you previous videos yet, so you may have done this, but it would be nice to see your "obstructions compass" while you had the app open. Thanks for taking the time to do your review.
Thanks for the comment! Yes we are very happy so far with it like yourself. Our obstruction map was so minimal, barely any trees in the picture, but I guess I can’t complain! Thanks for watching!
I'm excited to see someone close to us got Starlink! We put our reservation in on 2-9-2021 and have been impatiently waiting for almost 13 months.. We are stuck with DSL or hotspots. We luckily have a clear view of the sky and shouldn't have any obstruction issues (fingers crossed). I sure hope we get ours soon here in Northwest PA!
@@davidsobina180 It'll happen, and sooner rather than later, we hope! Every day we're more pleased with ours and are getting 200 - 250 down and 10 to 20 up routinely and NO outages. The only thing we're waiting for now is the ethernet adapter and the wall mount. We've run all the wire and just place the dish on the roof temporarily using the mount it came with attached to 2X8's and weighted with bricks. I know a guy on the southern tier of NY that got his a year ago and he raves about it all the time.
Nice report. Thanks. Price will come down after Comcast and Tesla reduce prices. Nice concept but EM won't leave money on the table.
Great video, very helpful. It's nice to see this after coming from an entitled Starlink user whining about not getting his 1gbps speed, not having a mesh system included, having to download the app to configure the setup, and was just basically "annoyed" with the whole deal. After living with the speeds I've had to run for more than a decade, this will be heaven sent. We were paying more than this for 1.1mbps dsl because it was the only game in town for years. Switched a few years back to 4G internet that was better at 10 - 15mbps on a good day but still...
I'm just over a year on my wait. Got into beta on 2/20/21 and got my notification the other day so just waiting to ship now. Can't wait. Congrats on getting yours and I subbed so looking forward to more videos!
Thanks for watching! We right at the year mark so I hope it’s coming soon for you!! It’s made life on the web so much more convenient thus far. Take care!
Outstanding Video and report! Thank you.
2 questions:
1. You mentioned you have lots of video conference calls, as do we... how often are your conference calls interrupted? This is my major worry.
2. On your existing home, how did you get the system into your home/office or IT closet? It seems the cable has fittings and such. On my house I do have a cable box, but no holes large enough for passing the cable into the home.
Cheers,
Eric
Great questions!
1.) On average I would say once a Zoom meeting I will freeze and then it unfreezes like 10 seconds later so not too bad. But I think that will depend on multiple things, your location, time of the meeting, software being used etc. That’s just our experience.
2.) I had to drill into the house and fill in the hole. Don’t necessarily recommend especially if you already have other practical entry points. We didn’t so that was our only option. The hole needed is only about an inch in diameter.
Hope that helps!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead thank you!
Ordered mine and it was delivered in 7 days here in Canada
Wow! I haven't heard of it coming that fast. Hope it's working well for you!
Hi Austin, Thanks for your report and supporting SpaceX. That thing is fast ! Cheers from Tucson, AZ.
Thanks for the kind words! Take care!
I've had mine for almost a year now and I have to say I like it . I'm outside Seattle so I do have a duel line DSL in my house also which is supposed to be 100Mbps but I rarely see it above 50 . I still have both internet providers in my house but am thinking about dropping the DSL , probably after I get rid of the 4 trees that give me some obstruction is when that will happen .
I don't get why you should use it if you can easily get 250k with standard DSL and 1 Gbit with fiber optic cables
@@slathibatfas7682 250k is far too slow to stream even one device, I had 256K back when I had dial up and it was really slow plus there are 5 adults and 2 kids in this 7 bedroom house which makes the 50gbits we get out of our dual line DSL(supposed to be 100) too slow for the household needs. Since I upgraded to the Gen3 router my actual speed is over 200Gbits so I'm pretty happy with Starlink.
Thanks for your experience. I just got my confirmation and paid for Starlink. I had been waiting since 2-21-2021. Can’t wait to see what I can do with it. Just hoping all my possible tree obstructions don’t cause too much problem.
Good luck! Our obstructions haven’t really caused any major issues. Far better than any other options we have at our location!
What is your location?
@@billypate2479 North Louisiana north of Bossier City. Living near Bellevue and out in pretty thick woods.
Thanks for this review. This will help a lot of rural located people giving them the option for this service and what to expect.
Thanks so much for watching!
I currently have Viasat. My real-world download speed is about 1 Mbps. Yep, 1. With a 40 GB cap for $85/month. I can't use any streaming services. I just sent Starlink my $99 fee to get on the waiting list. I'm in Florida, and it looks like Florida is very low on their priority list. If I can get Starlink before the END of 2023 it will be a miracle. As frustrated as I am with satellite internet, I'm glad I have at least that. Thanks for your video!
I hope it comes sooner for you!
I've had my Starlink for over a year. It's better in almost every way than Comcast. There are fewer buffering pauses and fewer outright outages. I can get Comcast at 1 MB speed. But I choose to use the cheapest which is 300mbs speed. Th fastest Starlink test I've run has been about 280 Mbs. The Comcast tests at about 340 Mbs. Since I stream video each app takes some time to load. Starlink, is faster. I can be running two HD televisions and surf the web with no slow downs or pauses. Originally a 3 or 4 minute pause was normal every day, but now I notice no pauses.
Starlink prices are rising, so that will stop a lot of people from using it. It was intended to supply people in areas where there are no sufficient solutions so the $599 price plus $110 a month will still be very attractive to people who have poor service.
Exactly! Not for everyone but for people with no options currently, it’s tough to beat!.
Been waiting for 2 years here in Alaska since I signed up for beta. That said you are still seeing much better bandwidth than our current DSL of 15mbs down/1mbs up that costs me $120.00 a month for. So Starlink will be a huge upgrade (its due sometime in 2022), though honestly I was hoping for more upload bandwidth, as 3 to 7mbs still seems super low for uploads. I would be happy to sacrifice 20% off the download speed to put that bandwidth on the upload speed. Or even better yet, allow some of us to choose symmetric plans (same average speeds up and down) rather than the asymmetric that it currently is.
Hope it comes fast for you guys up there!
I'm in Suffolk, England. Weve had ours for 2 months and apart from 1 micro outage of 3 minutes it's been great.
Download between 250 and 340mbs
Upload around 25mbs
Annoying that you have to buy an extra box to hard wire into your system as the new version only comes with wifi now.
For our business its been well worth it and cheaper than our existing fibre supply which had less than half the upload speeds.
Wow that’s incredible speed! It’s nice to hear from someone outside of the US your experience. Hope the high speeds keep up. Cheers!
Nice profile picture… I never knew there’s fellow Leeds United fans, living in Suffolk. Hopefully your Starlink allowed you to watch last Sunday’s epic game against Brentford.
Those download speeds you’re getting are insane, I live kinda rural in Lincolnshire and my wifi provider gives me 44 to 47 Mbps download, which is fast enough to stream video
tried the same server and averaged ping of 89, up of 7.5 and download of 100+. Not bad from Victoria, BC, Canada. It was worth the wait to get it ( first gen dish ) and was cheaper as the house has not had cable or telephone for over 10 years and the ' install cost ' for either of the 2 providers would have been well over $300CAD and then the equipment ( forced rental for the life of the contract, no outright own from either ) plus the ' discount ' being half the rate for 3 months on internet, 6 months on TV ( that I didn't want ) and the remainder of the contract due if canceled early ( from either provider). The install cost at the rate mentioned was after half an hour discussing it with a sales agent and would have been bundled in to the first bill along with equipment rental and the 6 months of TV/Internet package. It would have been higher for JUST internet ( what I want ) and no discount, ever, and having to call in at any outage of service. I lived on a gulf island and know how my family still there have to call in daily during the storm season to ask for credit since their equipment to the island is still with out power and how it's like pulling teeth over the phone each day the power is out. Putting the dish on the roof, with the official pipe adapter, routing the cable inside and online in an hour ( had to warm up after being outside ) and it ' just working ' for the price I paid was cheaper, faster, on my time for install and best of all more reliable than what others in my neighborhood have with either of the ' Big 2 ' companies. I technically have the option for ' Optik ' to the house, however Telus will not give an installation quote over the phone, only try and arrange an appointment that will be charged for.
Awesome, glad it worked for you!
When they talked about lowering the cost of the terminal, it refers to production cost. In the early batch, a single dish that they sold for $500 cost around $2500, later they managed to reduce it to around $1500, and SpaceX's president said it would later reduce to half, so around $750.
So, currently, if you buy a dish for Starlink they're subsidizing you for it. That's why Elon always said their focus is not going bankrupt.
Good point, I did see an interview where they Elon was talking about production costs and trying to lower those so that they don’t go bankrupt like you said.
I saw another interview of him saying that as Starlink becomes more adopted and they get their production costs lower we could see decreases monthly pricing. I’ll believe it when I see but don’t mind wishful thinking. Thanks for the insight!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead I think it's a matter of "when" and not "if" they would lower the pricing. Since lowering the pricing is the only way they can massively increase the number of their customers/revenue, just like the Tesla Model 3 to Model S.
After all, the marginal cost of serving an extra customer is pretty low. The satellite is practically everywhere whether there's a customer or not, unlike fiber service. So, extra power is practically the only marginal cost here, and that's coming from the satellite's solar panel, sun, free. With a lifespan of around 5-6 years max for each satellite, this just makes sense.
Maybe, there would be regional pricing like games on Steam.
And yeah, thank you for your review. While I currently have fiber service, the pricing isn't that good, Starlink has better pricing per Mbps. And it's all because of monopoly, my ISP is the only option available here. Can't wait till Starlink is available here and hopefully with even faster speed.
Worth it for people who need it like you and people like me. Not for people who don't fucking need it and have cable.
I have been dealing with rural telephone internet for 24 years. STARLINK opened a new chapter in our lives. I’d of paid $1000 up front to get this kind of speed.
Haha many people feel the same way!
Yeah $1000.00 upfront for StarLink is NOTHING when you are getting these speeds in rural areas. Especially if you have been on dial-up for over 20 yrs like I was. Heck we never even had cell service out where I like until StarLink showed up. Now we have cell service using the StarLink wi-fi and was able to ditch my land line and save $120.00 month.
I go between 29 and 190 MPS. I have 17 devices connects and have not had any lag since I installed two months ago
I also use hotspot and at&t doesnt have a unlimited plan which sucks but it still works
They need to offer a payment plan on the equipment. That would make it easier to purchase for some.
Well for evrything they need goverment and and even this so far was still an uphil batlle not ony due to goverment /byrocracy but also LOBBYING from otehr Internet/satelite providers who went on ful on assault againts Starlink.
For that it will take ma LONG time for them to do cbs hey still didnt finish their satelite coverage yet let alone otehr stuff/byrocratic stuf tat they still are doingand facing.
After a year of waiting, I finally received and installed our Dish v.2 first week of Feb. At first, everything was fine. But after abour 10 days the average download slowed down about 1/2-2/3 the stated download target... and upload was 1/2-3/4 what was stated in the email from Starlink. They are either throttling the speed OR they simply do not have enough ground station capacity. Either way, it needs to be fixed. And YES, I have 'factory reset' the router, per the recommendation from many sources.
I have 0% obstructions, so that is not the cause at all. I'm going to give it about 3 months to stabilize before I reevaluate again and then determine my next steps.
Hoax
@@rodolfoganzon9047 Nope. Truth.
Had mine for nearly 2 months and no complaints other than my download speeds rarely exceed 45 mbps and I have zero obstructions.
Interesting hopefully it will get better with more satellites are them getting a closer ground station to your location
The minimal blips in outage isn't a big deal, not enough to have any direct concern. I doubt it would pose any issue to streaming within that short amount of time. The big issue with the other Satellite companies or cell hotspots is the fact they are not really keeping up with the world today. The fact is our lives in 2022 + beyond, what we do, operate or work, etc, is totally data driven (movies, games, software, jobs, and so on). The cost of Starlink is actually a savings to me using ViaSat - about $150 per month of 25/5 and a 150GB lid. I never, ever, ever came close to those speeds and the cap...can be chewed up quickly.
Yes data caps really stink. We would go through ours pretty quick on our old service.
i just set it up and I love it!!!! I live in the woods.
Congrats! Hope it stays awesome!
For comparison, I have Spectrum cable broadband for $74.99 a month @ 13ms ping, 230mbps download speed and 11.5mbps upload. Only one outage last year was about 6 hours.
That’s sounds pretty good! We don’t have spectrum out here. Thanks for watching!
You can't compare like that. StarLink is for rural areas where there is no fiber optic or DSL. You obviously don't live way out in the sticks and have fiber optic or fast DSL. That's apple to oranges. What you should do is compare StarLink to Hughes Net. That would be fair and the way to compare StarLink to other rural providers.
@@darylsmioth1904 I agree with you completely and did not intend a competitive comparison obviously fiber optic is better than satellite right now. I have never had Hughesnet personally but have indeed heard the horror stories from friends who have. I actually am very impressed with the performance of Starlink so far and believe it will get even better as it is completed.
@@TheHandyHam73 Its funny I have a good friend in Panama that lives even further out in the sticks than I do and in Panama they ran fiber right to her front door!
This goes way back but you had to buy your directv reciever and a dish and mount. It still came up to 500.
Awesome video my dude, cant wait for mine, i live in a place where net is not that good.
Appreciate it! Hope yours comes fast, it was worth the wait!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead yea thanks.
Worth it for me cannot get faster or more stable out here in the boondocks lte is shit thanks to old outdated towers capping speeds at 30mbps down 20up with ping over 150ms now I’m 50-250mbps down 5-30mbps up 30-100ms ping
Good review! thanks dude
Thank you! Take care 😊
A wish list item: Can we have a stop time so the next song will play automatically? Sometimes I get busy and cannot run back and click next.
Prices never decrease. They only increase so don't ever expect a lower monthly bill.
We’ll have to wait and see!
lol mine is finally shipping in the next two weeks it says but the price went up instead. But I am still excited to try it out. We also run on an ATT Cellular Modem.
Best of luck! Hope it works great for you!
@@Sawcey I ordered in June of last year
Only worth it if there is no availability or cheaper alternative in terms of good value for your money in the area. However, if you look around and you have all the available options to choose, then starlink would not be ranked top or near top. Because for a community fibre wired network in the city, we get around 3Gbps for Download and Upload speeds, and if you're a business willing to spend extra per month, you can get up to 10Gbps. This is why it is crazy and more of a...slap in a face to those who don't have this and are far out in rural/urbans area who pay a very high monthly price.
There are pros and cons but hearing that makes me sick that the price should be reduced to below $40-50 per month in my opinion. More so for those in Australia who suffer the most in internet speed and realibility.
Yeah if I had a choice I would probably go fiber optic because of price and reliability. But haven’t gotten it yet, we’ll see what the future holds!
That's kind of the point of it
Informative critique. ty
Thank for watching!
got mine last week, but I am not able to download the app on my phone, and when i finally got it on my phone it will not open. i have a samsung 12
Anything using satellite goes down periodically because the cloud cover or static charge in the atmosphere that's just common sense
Right, We have noticed that the app notifies us when obstructions (our trees) are blocking the connection. It's interesting to track.
StarLink has implimented a Fair Use Policy now. After 1 TB of data in a billing cycle your data will be converted to basic access. Meaning deprioritized or best effort speeds. HOWEVER to avoid hitting 1 TB of priority data just do things off peak times currently 07:00- 23:00. For $110.00 plus tax I would highly recommend that you look into Verizon LTE or 5G(C Band) home fixed unlimited internet subject to give mobile users network priority at either $25 a month with Verizon service and applicable rate plan and autopay or $60 without service with Verizon. Or T-Mobile home internet if available in your area. Now that more and more people are seeing StarLink as an option they are facing network congestion issues, which is why they are doing the fair use policy now in my opinion. I would recommend them only if it is you only option.
Hey thanks for the insightful comment! Yes I did see about the fair use policy. I will be curious as to how much it slows down once you a user hits the 1 TB. For us where we live Verizon does not get reception for LTE (I'm not sure about 5G) unfortunately. You are right though, where we live Starlink is becoming the major internet provider which I'm sure will have a speed impact. Cheers!
I went to sign up today 4/21/2022 and it has went way up. Now it's 599.00 hardware, 50. Shipping, 43. Tax and 110. Per month quite a jump in price
Yes I know, I was kind of surprised/ bummed when they made that announcement. Hopefully the monthly price will come down within a year or two.
I hope so I was looking forward to it but I'm on disability and was waiting on my tax return. Went to see about it and got a good scare 😆 so unfortunately I'll have to wait and see if it will come down. I have fiber optics cable on both ends of my road 1/2 maybe 3/4 mi. With 15 families and hoping they will run it by
599.99 for dish 110.00 a month for service plus extras so for 800-1000 usd really expensive for high speed internet
Not the cheapest option for sure. Just depends on if you have other options or not 🤷♂️
Starlink is more suited for very remote rural locations where there’s no other option. If you can get fibre optic broadband where you are, then Starlink isn’t for you
It took me 2 years to finally get my Starlink system. It was fairly easy to setup, but there are many shortfalls on the design. There is no light to let you know if the dish has power or is working at all. The Starlink router only has a single pin light on the bottom that only shows if it has power and that is it. So after only 4 months my Starlink system went dead and would not come back online. It took over 2 weeks to get a replacement and after putting in a replacement, it ended up being a bad 150ft Starlink connection. so now I have to wait 2 more weeks to get the new cable. So it seems they have a supply chain issue that takes weeks to fulfill. Then to top it off, they have zero customer service contact for their customers. It is all via a support ticket. At this rate, I do not see Starlink lasting long enough to beat off any new competition that is already coming. I know I am not impressed at all.
Like so many things, it is worth it in some use cases and not others. Wouldn't be worth it for me, I have other, cheaper, and potentially faster options if I want to spend the money. But I could definitely see getting it if I did not have those options and especially if I could get it cheaper somehow. Not interested in setting it up on my roof, too windy here. Plus, outages are a no-go for me since I work online. Better to have other, redundant connections for a total of less money (which is what I am able to do).
Fully agree, not for everyone but an option for some. Great take 👍
But the Internet is a gigant cable that goes across the seas
My hold back is installation. I don't want to drill holes in the roof. I'm not a carpenter.
Understandable. I think it depends on your location. I have seen some that don’t necessarily need to go on the roof. Just depends how much open space you have
got mine today - its WoW
Good luck!
Your EOL point is not in the same state? Why are you testing from WI all the way over in IL? That's not going to give you consistant numbers because you're dealing with internet traffic from tons of other people. Speedtest allows you to use a testing site closer to you. Those results should be much more reliable.
Obviously totally contention based speeds. Might be interested if they guaranteed 300Mbps download and at least 100Mbps UPLOAD for those prices (no real reason it can't be DSL and give equal upload). Currently stuck on 76Mbps download and about 15Mbps upload, unlimited data, via FTTC. Could be waiting years here in the UK countryside for 1Gbps FTTP :(
They raised the prices from $99 to $110 and the unit is now $600 instead of $499
I did see that unfortunately.
After waiting 14+ months I had to suspended my order, and the increase in price was the "last straw" had to cancel...
@@billypate2479 Chances are you couldn’t afford it anyway.
well ist no liek the materials for building thsoe things when up right?????Also you do knwo that Starlink/SpaceX is LITETRALY LOSING MONEY on creating those stuff.Basicaly they are SUBSUDIZING POEPLE FROM THEIR OWN POCKETS.
@@macclark4112 💀💀💀
AT&T has more outages than that every month, actually more than that a lot of days.
Very nice
Thank you!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead
Elon Musk is something else wouldn't you say.
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also on CZcams
It would be cool if you could roam around with it, like if you go away in mobile home...
I have heard some people doing it! There is a popular video on CZcams of a guy going around his state and it still working. Can’t confirm though that it will work for everyone.
@@CypressSparrowHomestead wow!
Thank good video. But l am worried l have a lot of tree about my property
Thanks for watching! Yeah heavily wooded areas can be tough. You can actually download the starlink (without ordering) and can do a visibility test where you might think the dish would be placed.
Doing that was helpful for us. Best of luck!
@@CypressSparrowHomestead we did and it said it was a good area. Are house is pretty high so just waiting for it to come in it’s been over seven months so I guess just wait and see. Thanks again
went up to 110 and 599 too costly .will be watching price
Unfortunate about the price hike.
It used to take like 12 hours. Now, it's like a matter of hours. Huh??
Thanks for this video. Those outages are a deal breaker. I'd rather have 1.5 Mbps and stable than having unstable internet as some games would be totally impossible.
That’s fair! We haven’t tried online gaming but the outages have never stopped a streaming video. Not sure how it would translate over to gaming though👍
Grow up..games...lol
The cost of equipment at $599 and $110 per month isn't a good value, that's my opinion.
It’s not cheap that’s for sure!
Im pissed because I ordered in 2020 and am told it's still another 6 months without internet (except my mobile hotspot).
Sorry to hear that, the biggest down fall of Starlink is unfortunately the wait time for most people. I hope it comes soon for you!
I just saw another video from another family up in rib lake wi state that there is a tier program going to be enacted. And the cost is going to be $2500 for the start up and up to $500 a month for more bandwidth. Go check out the video at big family homestead posted 3 weeks ago.
I saw they launched their “premium” level last week which says speeds can get up to 500 mbps. (Which blows my mind) I think it’s marketed towards gamers. I also watched the video you suggested, I sure hope that doesn’t happen. We haven’t experienced that yet but then my opinion would change on Starlink. I guess we will have to wait and see 😬
@@CypressSparrowHomestead keep us all posted:)
ISP's that charge data limits are pathetic. I will never pay an ISP that has a data limit.
Then this will not work in my apartment then so it's no good to me !
Doesn’t seem worth it if you live in a city. I pay $70 for 1tb download speed.
I would agree. If you have better options in the city go with those. Rural living there just aren’t as many options.
Bro. .. in alberta ,$200 a month
😲 I hope it doesn’t get to that here! But it has been creeping up since the original $90 we paid a month. Up to $120 now
sounds like you said "Elon Must"
😂
If you live outside the USA.. the costs are more expensive.. instead of 99 USD.. they are charging 120 USD and its 700 USD for the kit. So if you live in a third world country, this is only for rich guys.
Very interesting, I honestly did not know that. They just bumped up from $99 to $110. Hoping that will be the highest it ever gets 🤞
Coronal mass ejections = NO.
Way to expensive to buy and waaaaay to much each month
Not for everyone 🤷♂️ I think it just depends on a person’s options and how much they value internet. Cheers 👍
@@CypressSparrowHomestead true agreed
It honestly depends on your situation alot of people don't seem to understand that in alot of places you have one provider that charges the same prices for 15 to 30 mbps on a good day.
Some even worse
@@Caboolable for me would be no reason to pay that much and now with the greed kicking in and big price hikes nope
@@daveswanson5350 well literally everything has had a price hike recently so good luck doing or eating anything
Too expensive for me
Hope the prices come down someday!
Hello fellow Leeds United supporter.
You been better off trying t Mobile internet for less than $60 a month
We had AT&T which worked dined but the highest data cap was only 40gb per month which if we streamed anything would eat it up real fast. But if your aren’t streaming anything then the cellphone providers aren’t a bad option!
Your speed tests need to be averaged to be useful.
too much a month.
Definitely not the cheapest option.
you especialy in 5:40 are comparing aplles to oranges and ist a dead giveaway that you dont udterstad how things work OR PURPSLY ommiting stuff.Also when something is just STARTED you cnat expect to be immedietly cheap bcs if it would then TEHY WOULD GO BANCRUPT.Thats why EVERY SINGLE NEW THING that comes to market has high priece (EVEN THOU TEHY THEMSELF ADMITED THEY LOOSING MONEY ON THIS STUFF I THINK ESPECIALY DUE TO LOWER PRICE THAN EXPECTED).
I NEVER SAW that some big thing came to market and be cheap.It was alwasy EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and ALWAYS had to pass atleast minimum 5-6 somethimes even 10 YEARS just for something to get bit or drasticaly CHEAPER....
When i personaly heard/saw the pricig i myself THOUGHT THAT ITS WAY TO CHEAP (considering they just went/got ito on the market).People NEGLECT AND FORGET that ONE OF THE BIG REASONS WHY stuff at beggining is more expensive is not only to earn from premium and from brand new tag status BUT also the reason why ist expensive at beggining is to TRY nad quicly REPAY/RETURN the borrowed/spent money that went into that project form paying teh people who designed,made,prototyped,reaserached it BUT also to have a head start and additional money to eigehr expand teh team or to fasten the upgrade/develompent process of that thing so to keep updated/evolved all the time and that costs ALOT OF MONEY AS A WHOLE.
I’m not quite sure what you mean comparing apples to oranges or omitting information. Just throwing out an example of another large internet company that might be an option for some people. In that sense, Starlink is not cheap or more accurately, less expensive. I understand they required a huge upfront capital to create the products, infrastructure, software etc. I don’t think I’m wrong in hoping the price decreases over time as more users adopt Starlink and the company lowers operating costs. Anyway thanks for taking the time to watch, cheers 😊
For the price there should be no drops
Agreed, it is at $120 now, unfortunately we don't have any other options until fiber comes our way in which case we would likely switch. But for now it gets the job done for the most part.