Starlink Internet in North Wales!
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2021
- Starlink Internet in North Wales!
Here in N Wales I've been plagued by slow internet for years. The fastest speeds I can get with home broadband are 1Mbps download & 0.3Mbps upload... not great for a content creation workflow! And then came along Starlink...
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This 10Gb, 4K video uploaded in two hours... it's actually taken CZcams longer to process it! Compare that to my usual case of having to leave a ~10minute, 3-4Gb video to upload overnight and just hope it's done in time to publish the next day - I'm very, very happy with it.
yeah should have given that dishy more time for the first test and also mount it on the roof
Awesome mate 👍🏻😎 I got the base model eero mesh network from Amazon and that’s been working nicely for the past 6 months in my house.
Had our 2 weeks now replaced router with a amplifi HD router just unplugged Starlink router and plugged Amplifi HD in not altered any settings all working fine well happy.
And me watching 240p lmao
Try replacing the Router with the one that provides Ai mesh.. Wifi extender is old sometime degrades the speed
We are near Llangollen with hisorically appaling broadband via landline and then 4G. We've had our starlink dish about 18 months and its been a game changer.
QQ - Do you find the clouds are an issue? I'm thinking about this and I'm in Y Bala so we'll have the same sky to contend with.
That is so nice. So glad that Starlink is working out for you. I live in southern Illinois in the US in an area near my town that doesn't need Starlink. But I love seeing stories like this where someone needs real high speed internet and couldn't get it until Starlink. 🙂
Thanks Tim!
Yayayayayayayay!!!! Your face said it all at the start! It's so blooming shiny too haha 😄
Not often I peak my audio either 🤣
That was one hell of an investment, keep uploading. plus your video quality is on god level
Thanks, will do!
Kudos to you, inspite of such problems, you stayed strong.
Thanks for the video. I was supposed to receive my Starlink two days ago. Never arrived, lost in transport.
Then they located again, it's supposed to arrive Monday. I've been waiting over six months since the preorder down payment so I have no issues waiting a few more days.
I ordered the pipe adapter so I can attach it to and old Hughesnet mount on my roof.
Great video, I subbed. Have a great day from eastern Washington state, USA.
Thanks Troy - hope you get it set up soon!
New to channel. Nice calm and methodical delivery. Great camera and lighting, btw. Pleased Starlink is working for you - just ordered mine for Aragón in Spain...let's see
Thanks very much Matthew! Hope you get it up and running soon enough 👊
thanks for this. Almost sold on it. Currently get 3mgb on 4g on an antenna too! Did have poor 'broadband' too which we used to get 5 or 6. Then this week had someone drive into the telegraph pole. Not been fun working on 3mgb I can say. Close to ordering and this helped. Thanks
Great video. Super useful and inofrmative. I would recommend a dedicated decent router with large Aerials and also a wesh wifi extension kit.
Good video, thank you! I live in a rural area ( Northern California Sierra Foothills) with few internet options that are expensive and unreliable. I received my Starlink system about a week ago as part of their beta group. Wow, what a game changer! With average download speeds of 120mbps I am thrilled with Starlink! Elon Musk is a hero to me.
And to many of us! I'm more than happy paying the premium if it helps us get to Mars 🚀
Would love to see a update on this as i'm in the UK Northern Ireland myself and am considering going with Starlink for the free 30day trial to see how it performs in my area.
I am glad everything worked for you finally. Enjoy!
Thanks!
4K goodness!! Lighting on point
Thanks Chris!
Good video thanks. How do you find it for things like Teams/Zoom calls in the end, where even brief drops of a few seconds every few minutes would ruin the usability? Really interested in getting this if I move house soon.
I had the same problem with WiFi range and the usual extenders mean you have to change the SSID all the time. I eventually bought Tenda WiFi mesh cubes (Amazon) that extend your signal to every room, I have 5 cubes and now have 200mgb to every room and the garden.
Yep, this has been my project this week - I've replaced the Starlink router with a TP-Link WiFi 6 router, and set up a mesh across the house using their Deco X20 units. Working great so far!
Thanks for posting this. We’re in north wales too, out in the sticks, running a production company. Would you mind telling me how it’s been now you’re nearly a year in. Is it reliable? What up and download speeds do you have on average? Thank you.
great vid very helpful
Cheers Tony!
Excellent, I’m in same position as you, west coast Scottish island. I’m ordering tonight , been holding back🤔, no more 🤩
No harm in making a pre-order, you can always cancel for a refund! I know there’s some users in Scotland already - hope you’re not waiting too long!
@@FamauMedia Got to totally convince the wife first with cost and service breakdowns 😆
I stupidly renewed my BT Openreach contract beginning of year before I had heard about Starlink so will have to keep it as a back up I guess.
Great video , are you still using it ? And would you recommend it still,thank you
Awesome! Im a videographer in Cardiff but want to move to north wales, The internet was the only thing which is putting me off as uploading content to websites takes ages.
Chances are in most places you could probably find a fibre provider, but not here 🤣
Curious to know if you ever tried a Draytek VDSL router to which you csn attach a second dsl router and a 4g USB to have all three connections in a multi wan set-up.
Can I ask what was the white (directional?) arial you were using for the mobile internet,please? That should work for me.
How have you found the cloud impacts in North Wales. I'm thinking about getting this myself (Y Bala) so it would be good know what your experience is after having it for some time. I work from the home so need something better than my EE connection but it needs to be stable
hey, just wanted to ask is this still a decent reliable connection? as I live fairly close and suffer the same issues still,
Verizon used to own my area and they starting the installation of a fiber line and literally got to the front of my driveway and completely stopped when they sold to Frontier. Who only offers DSL internet and refuses to acknowledge that there is a fiber drop even there. Got my starlink and it works amazingly!
Watching this video 2 years after you posted it, how you getting on with Starlink? I live not far from you, the other side of Mold and am considering buying Starlink but thought I'd look into it first.
Very late to the party. Was wondering if you could give an update 2 years later? Do you still have Starlink? How do the speeds compare now to what you got in this video? How many drop outs do you get/ what is latency like if you do any gaming at all? Cheers.
How do we order it here in Wales ? I can't get the option for UK on the site anywhere ? 😅
I’m keen too .my wife does same as you and we live in Wales.did you get from the their website?
The first line of this video is exactly how I feel right now
Nice, i have also pre ordered one for myself. Unfortunately, its coming next year in my country.
Stay strong 💪🏻 if it gives you hope I was told it was coming late 2021 and I’m getting my kit next week. So there might be hope for you my friend.
Same, I was told mid to late 2021!
Keep the router but ditch the wifi and use something like UniFi. I have a couple of AC Mesh units left from a project. You can link them together and have massive range and WiFi speed. Then with your Starlink you’d have a rapid network.
Wow man. First starlink video I've seen with over 300Mbps. I had a similar experience when Fiberoptic was recently installed at my place. At first the install guy had me setup on wireless and he apparently didn't know it couldn't deliver faster than 150Mbps. Was initially disappointed. He claimed the speed test wasn't accurate... but it was. After I used a good Ethernet cable my speeds shot over 900Mbps for downloads and uploads. But honestly unless your downloading massive files or uploading a massive 4K video, you won't notice much of a difference above 200Mbps for general web use. Fiber is spreading much faster than it had been in the past. You'll see it before too long. Cool to see those speeds over the air though too.
Correct, i also have 1G/1G fiber, but most servers in central europe can‘t even handle those speeds. And my WiFi also bottlenecks the connection to 400-500 MBit/s.
900 Mbps is fantastic. I myself currently only get 10 Mbps download and 0.8 Mbps upload (the fastest available in our area) and that's WITH fiber. Our local phone company switched from copper to fiber about 5 years ago which bumped up our DSL from 1.5 Mbps download so moving to fiber won't guarantee fast speeds, at least that was my case. I believe that's due to the majority of data still passing through copper and fiber only being used to connect the local telecommunications box to my house. Anything above 100 Mbps would be great; I'm really looking forward to Starlink.
Are the monthly payments paid through the app . If I wanted to stop the service and start it again at a later date is it possible just using the starlink service, ie thru the satellite link. I have great internet at the moment but as a precaution shtf scenario with loss of electricity to mobile masts then I could rely on solar and backup power and restart the starlink service so I am never without internet. Its so important nowadays not to have internet.
Thanks for the info, i'm in the hills outside Llangollen (just down the road !) and have the same issue. Your video was very informative. Currently on 4G LTE i get 15mbits down and 6.5mbits up. I'd love to go to Starlink but that initial outlay is tough to swallow :( Do you know if the kit is transferable should i later move house ?
Look into Welsh Government's ABC scheme - Access Broadband Cymru. They paid up for the whole kit & installation gear! You're meant to request it beforehand, but I wrote a soppy email and they paid up.
I believe it's going to be transferable & mobile, honestly not been keeping up to date with it recently though. I have useable internet and that's enough for me 🤣
Hi Moel Famau man! How are you getting on with your starlink? I'm near Rhydtalog. Are you happy with it? What's it like for gaming, conf calls, etc etc? Does the connection terminate in the UK? Thanks man!
Enjoy the electric bill in this 😂
Made up for you, game changer for someone in your industry so will improve productivity and profitability 👍
Absolutely! I'm able to deliver work the same day now, rather than having to wait for it to upload or even physically drive back and hand them a memory stick just because it'd be quicker 👌
Very useful, Very informative, and now to brag - Im in Connah's Quay and i get 500+ over sky BB :D
I would get a new router. They seem to also improve speed as well.
The best I can tell, Northern Wales is 53°North Latitude. Starlink Shell 1, consisting of 1440 satellites, has an orbital inclination of 53°. This means all the satellites will be directly overhead or South of your location. It will do no good to have an unobstructed north sky, because there will be no satellites north of you. If you have a place with an unobstructed view up and to the south, east, and west, there will be no need to put it on the roof. If you are south of 53°, you may have to adjust to give some north access. I'm in semi-rural area of Louisiana in the Southern US, and am impatiently waiting. At 31° North Latitude, I will put mine on the top of my fireplace chimney. As you said, high speed fiber is not coming to me. It is however about 3 miles away, a little too far to get decent speed over copper lines.
In my case it's 300m down the road!
Man that's awesome! Ping seems a little high but what a difference! Guess it's high because it's literally bouncing from space!!!
As for your router range problem, don't use extenders. They can't carry nearly enough speed, just get a router that's able to do "Bridge mode". Ethernet from one to the other and make the ISSID the same and your phone should just bounce in-between them depending on signal strength 👌🏼
Thanks man, super happy so far! I'm getting a TP-Link WiFi 6 router along with their Deco X20 mesh system, should be able to cover the whole house... Just need to get the dish on the roof first 🤣
50ms aren‘t even that high, it should be usable for gaming.
@ on my speed test for 4g pings are always good 40ms but when gaming it's actually more like 90.
Nice presentation . I live in South Wales . My house is surrounded by trees and I can get a clear view straight up and south facing. I am not sure if it would be an issue . I have put a deposit down for skylink . Does it look straight up?
Initially yes, but then it tilts itself for the best tracking
Starlink does not like trees, the dish needs a clear look at the sky with an approx view of 100 degrees coming off the dish and the higher the dish, usually the better view. It is definenitly a game changer :)
as a rural American Fiber Is always coming soon to my area... and in fact there is a fiber Junction 1200 foot away but the 7 houses next to me have to buy into the service before they will connect me
Similar story here with rural community broadband schemes - unfortunately most of my neighbours are retirees or farmers!
@@FamauMedia same I literally live in a town called farmersburg
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Like you my BT broadband is useless (DL 8Mbps - UL 1Mbps) and I only live a couple of miles east of the Denbigh fibre! I ordered Starlink early January and it arrived mid April, since my Starlink install my fastest download so far is DL 330 Mbps with an average speed of DL 225 Mbps. Dishy is currently on my lawn like yours but I will be installing of dishy on my roof, next week I hope. Hope your roof mount works out for you.
All the commentators suggest Starlink can only get faster with all the additional satellites being launched fortnightly, currently 1563 launched with over 900 of them already on station. I for one will be interested in Starlink's stock IPO as and when it is offered to the public.
Can you let us know the url where you. bought it and price to purchase thank you
Starlink isn't actually in full service yet so It's very limited. But you can sign up here: www.starlink.com/
It costs around £400 for the equipment and £89 a month for service
Your opening line is 100% truth.
Based on your descriptions, and on the video, I'm probably living on one of the farms nearby. I can see Famau from my kitchen window. I'm considering starlink, as I currently get 5Mbps down and work from home. Long term, has it worked out for you? Did you mount it on the side of a property, or leave it on the floor? What's it like for birds & needing cleaning, or rain that we get?
Got mine on the garage roof after finding a ridge mount second hand - been up there over a year now, not even seen the face of it since. Never seen a bird or anything else on it.
It’s done us aright for the year. My dad works from home doing a lot of teams calls etc. If you’re into gaming I’d look elsewhere, but otherwise it great. Still, if we’re ever offered fibre I’d cancel straight away
@@FamauMedia thanks for the reply, a ping of ~45ms that starlink supposedly gets is better than the 140+ that my 5mb ADSL pulls in. I still cope on Netflix/Teams calls working from home, but can only manage 720p streams. Re Fibre, I made a request under BT USO, plans have been drawn up, budgets approved, and they're just awaiting land owner permission to start the work. That will give me full FTTP. Hopefully that will at least provide better uplink for anyone else in the area still on ADSL. If you know where the "triangle" is, I'm just off one corner there.
Well, that is fast considering it‘s based on RF. I only had 6k for a long time, now i‘m on 1G/1G fiber.
Your property is gorgeous
Thanks!
back in April it wasn't fast but today it is OK
Legitimately curious how starlink handles ping.. living where I do, I've learned the location where you live/how far your internet needs to travel REALLY affects your ping. Got like 20 mbps down and 2 up but 600+ ping with everything. Causes a lot of problems
Ping isn't great, I get bouts of lag and packet loss on Forza & Rocket League etc... but it is still very much in beta phase, wouldn't expect it to be flawless
Starlink satellites have a low orbit of ~500km, that‘s why the ping is low.
Happy for your good results. Your first test by the wall shows you have little clue about what an ideal horizon for Starlink looks like :)
On the GHz frequencies used, just a branch of a tree probably will stop you signal ^^
But as more sats are deployed, it will be more and more forgiving, since we likely will have more options than just one at a time.
As you I live very much at the countryside, and have been waiting since 2014 for fibre. But actually I know I will get it next year, so the best thing for me is to wait for that. Meanwhile I have 10Mbit unlimited via 4G on a 35km 800MHz connection to the mainland! Its enough for watching video less than 4k, so no complaints.
But it will be a different story next year with 300/300Mbit for sure. No more waiting two days while downloading MS Flight simulator :)
LOL...the intro is a real slayer! I've lost all hope for our Canadian CRTC and their cronnies sending smoke bombs and mysterious grants to the big 3 telecommunications giants in Canada. I've paid dearly for overage charges for over 2 decades for my access to internet, the big jobs at those corporations have my retirement money so onto Starlink I go!
What an inspiring story...fascinating to hear your progress from carving a wheel out of wood to cruising the solar system on warp drive! I too lived the rural life...love it and it just now has a silver lining! Oh and I can't stop playing Rocket League myself now!
It's addictive isn't it! Built my first PC in October, spent loads in the Steam sale... and all I play is a free game through Epic 🤣
The big boys in the telecom industries (mainly BT & Openreach here in the UK) are going to start losing customers like crazy once Starlink gets publicly released. If anything I can see government approaching SpaceX directly rather than working through existing channels. Better for us consumers!
@@FamauMedia True, it's win lose world and right now to experience what my city folk have had for years is a huge relief now! Yes also I have Steam locked and loaded and get a kick of online multi games now also!
Piroan regane pak?
"its not"😁🤣
I cam feel it at 0:50
Pa pentre yn y gogledd?
Vale of Clwyd, near Rhewl
I live in a rural area and have no cell service so how could someone like me setup starkink without being able to use the app?
The app doesn’t require internet connection during setup - it’s just talking to the local network you’re setting up 👍
@@FamauMedia Thanks for the info, but can you set it up without the app, as i don't have smart phone since i have no service in my area.
Honestly, no idea. I assume so, but head to tier website FAQ’s
Give an update please
More videos will be coming, finally getting it mounted on the roof & routed through the wall this week (weather permitting) 🤓
Say you move can you move your starlink with you???
Soon, yes! Not right now during beta testing, but it's something they're actively working on 👌
Can this be got in Ireland?
Possibly! Check their website - it's still a beta program and is first-come, first-served. But put your address in and see what it says 💁♂️
@@FamauMedia Did this and service will be available mid to late 2021. I wouldnt mind paying large €500 price for device but €100 per month seems too much. Do you also have to pay this amount subscription monthly? I wonder is there a pay as you go service...
@@MarcusOSullivan123 that’s the price, £89 a month 🤷♂️ for me it’s a business expense and absolutely worth it, there’s no other way I can get speeds over 10Mbps. With any luck it may get cheaper after general release. I was also told mid-late 2021 but they shipped it mid-April, depends how many in each coverage area are using it
Why didnt you buy the roof mount for it SMH....
Starlink Dish moves by itself get the best connection.. You need it mounted on your roof and away from everything.
I did, as I mentioned in this video. It works perfectly well on the lawn for now, mounting & routing it all next week.
@@FamauMedia how did it go? much better?
Waving at you from across the valley via our 72Mbps fibre straight to the office.
We don't get to play with an Elon Musk magic-wok though, so we're still jealous...
🙋♂️
If you ever have more than 64Gb to upload, give me a shout 🤣
@@FamauMedia There goes my idea for an 8K livestream...
I have family in Wales and yeah the internet access they have is terrible so I think Starlink is the best option right now. I guess it will be a while before it is affordable for simple home users but hopefully not too long. Glad it is working so well for you!
High speed internet is so important yet people still act like it is a luxury. After 2020 I am now of the opinion that decent internet makes life easier than grid electricity. After all it isn't that difficult (expensive maybe but not difficult) to setup a generator go power your home but you can't buy a drum full of "internet" like you can gasoline/oil!
Really hope this stuff kicks BT a kick in the ass to get fibre rolled out to more remote areas. I know it isn't super simple but if the area has electricity there is no reason they can't get fibre deployed as well, they have certainly had the money handed to them several times over the past twenty years! God knows what they've done with it 🙄
@Ben Dover I know the economics of it, that is why BT have been given billions over the past twenty years. Same thing in America yet still no nation wide high speed internet as the norm.
I live in France with 10Gbit fibre internet to my home that only costs me €40/month as the ISPs were actually held accountable for the rollout, I wish the same were true in the UK (where I am originally from).
Put the router in model mode, if possible - and get a mesh WiFi router solution. :)
Remember Starlink is now movable, as you could plug it in to a camper van and take it anywhere with you. For us content creators starlink, even right now. Is super cheap
@@callumglass I thought Starlink was still cell locked meaning it only works in the 'cell' it is registered to? Has that changed? According to the Starlink FAQ this is still the case so you cannot travel freely with it yet.
My nephew was an early beta tester for Starlink in Washington State, USA. He is just as happy as you are. In his case, he was already using an Amazon eero Pro router and a couple of Amazon eero Beacon's to provide a mesh WiFi system in his home. He kept that in place and just plugged in the eero Pro to the Aux port on the Starlink router and everything was up and running. You may be able to do the same thing to provide excellent Wifi coverage to your house. You end up with two networks, but that's probably not a bad thing since you would likely want to keep your business on the less congested Wifi anyway. Even better, if you just plug in your own Cat5 or Cat6 cable to the Aux port and then run it over to your house and set up the eero Pro there. Of course I mention the eero Pro just because that is what he used, so I know it works. There are plenty of other great Wifi Mesh products to choose from, if you have another preference.
You should get yourself a mesh WiFi, I would say using 3 satellites (3 cubes)...
That's the plan - planning on getting the TP-Link Deco X20's. Will post another video if/when I do 🤓
Yoooooo
I know $100 a month is expensive but most people pay $100 for 200 megabytes per second a lot even pay $100 for 100 Mbps internet the only people who pay $50 which is the lowest price internet for 100 Mbps internet with spectrum but most people still have to pay $100
I pay 44.95€/Month for 1G up and down, fixed internet isn‘t that expensive in Germany.
@ 45$ FOR 1GB WHAT!???
It's not just 100 a month this thing drinks the electricity
Replace the router with a 3rd party model, the wifi on the Stalink router is terrible. Also, connect your main computer via ethernet if you can for max throughput.
My plan exactly - picking up a TP-Link Archer AX10 router this week and adding the X20 mesh in the near future (whenever clients pay me!)
Lol I though my download speed was the worst in the world. I had to laugh out loud at your 1MBPS. I get 2MBPS.... I feel like I'm rich now.
Oops, talked too soon your internet speed is far better now. I'm broke again :|
Lol you get 2.2 mbps this is not what I thought waits few minutes this is absurd
Use a Mast.
Nah
Dektite
is not... :) LOL
For goodness sakes, stay away from this company, if possible. If your service goes down, you may be in for the most frustrating, incompetent, ridiculous customer service possible. I will be contacting the Texas attorney general to get my equipment back. Starink has no right to keep my equipment. I paid $649 for that equipment. It isn't theirs to keep.
No one do the instruction test it dose not mean anything it's always wrong mine said it would not work but works fine has no obstructions just its wrong don't worry about it