99% of STARLINK owners don't know how to BOOST their SPEED

Learn from my mistakes! After 6 months of Living with Rural Internet & Starlink has taught me a lot & I am sharing the REALITY of what Starlink costs, how it works, what's wrong with it & how I made it FASTER and BETTER.
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[@SilverCymbal]

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[@Siberianhuskypuppy]

Storms most certainly affect the speed. Daytime I run about 50 at night time 100 to 125.

[@cdoublejj]

mine disconnects ever 40 seconds to 4 minutes with a 6% obstruction

[@quippishYT]

Starlink has a BBB rating of F. Be careful spending money on this product. 10 days of open tickets. 50Mbps down. That’s the high. They will not reply to support.

[@kahili56]

I have been running Starlink since Nov-2020 as a beta, speeds continually increase as does reliability.... I love it....but then my only other option was CenturyLink DSL. My question is, why do you find it necessary to use the Starlink router? I have never (other than for a moment during set up) used the Starlink router. Their router just doesn't provide the functionality of my ASUS AI Mesh.

[@agps4418]

I am in rural area in an oppressive country. My experience with starlink has been: 1. Life-changing. We had nothing previously. 2. 1-minute connection loss, for every like 2 hours. (that means no FPS online games) 3. 300ms latency, 20-80Mbps speed (this is because starlink had to move my service ground station to a much further country for my unit to work, because the one in my country is being manipulated by the government) 4. Unit i'm using is regional roaming, on a country that's not officially available.

[@chrisrichard298]

A true New Englander. Making sure you're getting everything you're paying for and standing outside in February in a t-shirt. 😆

[@SilverCymbal]

Very true. At least I didn’t have the shorts on. I do miss a Dunkin’s nearby at times.

[@chrisrichard298]

@@SilverCymbal You must be way up north! I’m in Manchester and I have two dunks within 3 minutes of my house. To be fair though, they’re both awful.

[@mwolrich]

@@chrisrichard298 yep, they can’t get any decent help

[@craigemilyoliver584]

Looking forward to the video you mentioned about explaining your entire setup as I don't know much about how to go about it. I'm building our house so looking for a good setup as we transition to it.

[@michaelsimmons1227]

Listen. At first I was like omg, a whole lot of words to say it’s Amazing if it’s your only option. Then I seen your comment and made me think of an old buddy from New England, and then i got it! 😅 🤣😂🤣

[@toolsandgadgetsreviews762]

The best most recent video on Starlink. Especially for us remote folks. Thank you for your clear, concise, and easy-to-watch review.

[@loriannah8854]

Love, love, love Starlink! (And LOVE your videos!) We live rural too and Starlink has been a Godsend especially after using ALL the other satellite services, which were completely unbearable. Now, I am working remotely from home and must have reliable service. Lately, I have been dropping some calls and so I CANNOT wait for you to release the video of your set up. (please hurry) I know my recent issues are NOT a starlink problem and I get it that my set up needs help, but I need your excellent step by step video so that I can do it right the first time. Thanks again for all you do, your videos have helped me with a so many household problems and I could not be more grateful! P.S. This is the very first time I have ever left a comment for a KZbin video EVER, even though I'm sure I've watched a million! Thank you!

[@stevephillips9233]

Great video. Im in central Wisconsin and in the middle of nowhere. My daughter lives with me and works from home on line with strict download/upload requirements from her employer. Even with me streaming all day and kids gaming we're very happy with speeds. I did install the either net kit you described and it's connected to my daughter's computer and works very well. We've had a few times of 1 sec outages but nothing that has affected anything we're doing. Its been reliable so far through heavy rain and now it's snow season and so far so good. Keep up the informative videos

[@garnetgirlvintage9560]

Thank you for sharing, 9 years my business has been struggling with only 3mbps, unable to grow my business, this may be life changing. Thank you for your insight😊. Keep up your awesomeness.

[@mattsitsback]

the variety of content we get from this channel is second to none. Now, I don't even have a starlink haha. But I appreciate knowing I can revisit these awesome videos for when I have a house and need help on some DIY project. Silver Cymbal is like the dad of youtube I swear haha.

[@SilverCymbal]

I really appreciate that, I try to share things I am working on. Thanks for watching!

[@black350Z]

Good stuff. I just got Starlink a month ago. At first, I was getting a lot of the "slow downs," etc, that some other users have reported. After watching this video, I completely upgraded my network and put the Starlink router in bypass mode. Since then, I've had zero issues with performance.

[@answernotfound5278]

I, a few months ago moved from my farm house in southern Tennessee. I am a network gru and was measuring my speed constantly with WiFi eithernet and from dish to router. The most speed I ever got from dish to router was 160 down and 15 up. Now this was ages better than the att dsl which was garbage (like 3 down and up didn’t exist). We had the best effort starlink and it was pretty good, the only time we lost our service was when it was a complete down poor and flash flooding was in effect. We now have Comcast and love it. Keep up the good work!

[@letter2steve]

I touched my first Starlink the other day for a friend/customer. I was quite impressed with the build quality and hope it helps them reduce the gouging prices they have received in the past. I really appreciate many of the suggestions and tips in your video. I've learned a bunch and will certainly pay it forward to others.

[@Maik1968]

Hy and greetings from Germany! Nothing to add, I am completely satisfied with Starlink. Though I am living 30 kilometers away from the headquarter of Telekom, they are not able to bring cable fast internet to our small village here. So I bought the dishy last year in October and tata, it’s works great. Measuring the download and upload speed definitely depends inside the house from the WiFi technology. When using your phone or iPad it’s okay to have less speed, when I use my computer it’s cable connected with full speed. I can only confirm your ideas and experiences. I recommended Starlink to 4 friends since and they are happy, too. Thanks for your videos and the time you put into creating them. Have a nice evening and keep on going (I love the launches of the SpaceX rockets 🚀) 😘😘🍀🌞

[@James_Hough]

I have gen 1 Starlink. I just ran the advanced speed tests per your suggestion. Turns out that even though I have good speed dish to router, the speed wifi to router far exceeds it, so I guess I'll leave it as-is. I use the Starlink built in wifi and it reaches, not only the entire 4k sq ft. of the house, but about 100 feet in all directions around the house in my yard. I have a cheap switch sending wired ethernet to the TVs and where laptops are frequently used, but regularly 8 to 10 wifi devices. No speed issues.

[@jasonmendoza8099]

As a remote location user this is the information I was looking for. I work IT and am using DSL currently which is no longer workable. Living in a remote location I don't have any other option for ISPs. Into the forums I went for info on Starlink. As you stated it seemed most people complaining had poor network setup, or the speeds were limited to their personal devices and not the service itself. and your video has confirmed this. We do get lots of snow where I live in the upper Midwest and i was concerned about that. Only other thing I am concerned about is performance in extreme cold. Sometimes we get up to -30 degrees. I was not sure if this has any effect on the hardware or if running the heater would impact the satellite longevity. Thanks again for the video!

[@aeson33]

I have worked in IT for 25 years. I am surprised folks know how to put their shoes on correctly at times. I have seen it all. Your assessments are correct.

[@MandoFettOG]

I’m so grateful for all this content you’ve put out. We’re moving to a rural location this summer and I need to get internet figured out.

[@sociopathmercenary]

I believe T-Mobile will let you cancel anytime. It works great for me. Depending on whether you also have phone plans, it's 30 or $50 per month with no data caps.

[@SilverCymbal]

I really appreciate it. I have a lot of fun stuff coming this Spring and Summer

[@cbeserra]

I did the same with ethernet port. The starlink router is actually very good. Some things you can do - run all smarthome on the starlink router, and then all your devices on a mesh.

[@_Wingman]

Mine will be delivered in a few days. Very informative video. Thanks for letting us know about the Ethernet adaptor, GREAT advice !!!

[@silveragnes8256]

Great video! I have had Starlink for more than a year for my RV. I originally bought residential service and later switched to RV (month by month). I’m told it’s deprioritized but we traveled coast-to-coast and back this summer and fall and saw consistently great performance wherever we had a reasonable view of the sky. I have my Starlink attached to a 25 ft. telescoping pole. From there I eliminated the Starlink router altogether for a POE injector and plugged Starlink directly into a PepWave mobile router via grounded ethernet. The PepWave has multiple LTE sims so I can fall back to Verizon or ATT automatically. Keep up the great videos !

[@mwolrich]

FYI, the “Nater Tater” KZbin channel has some great videos on the Peplink and other LTE/5G routers

[@JT_1]

Why eliminate it, just set it to pass through (no need for POE)and use a better router like the Ubiquiti Dream router, although it's always out of stock :\

[@silveragnes8256]

@@JT_1 Because it sucks precious watts and doesn't add any functionality while it's doing so.

[@NotTured]

the video is good, don't get me wrong but how did he survived being out near the snow for more than 10 mins this is kinda a lot (i live in a warm climate so maybe you just had to get used to it)

[@ClarkVistan]

Best Starlink video I’ve seen! Thank’s for all the tips, I just ordered mine today! 👍

[@nvlong17]

I have been following for your Starlink contents. Great to see an update video. I would love to see a follow up on your home networking solution

[@SilverCymbal]

Thank you, yes I will be going through that from beginning to end. I returned a lot of stuff that didn't work and I am super happy with my final setup, should be out before the end of Feb

[@wendellcrim8647]

Using the ethernet adaptor, I ran Cat6 cable to all devices that don't move: desktop, TV and a laptop. TV performace increased 5X. We use WiFi only for phones and the weather station.

[@skoto8219]

Great video, I got set up a week ago and you covered everything I'd been wondering about, and some stuff I hadn't wondered about: it never occurred to me that the included router might have relatively lousy range - I'd kind of assumed that a router is a router. I've noticed a massive upgrade from our previous service, but the router is ten feet away from me. Other family members haven't noticed the massive performance gains that I have - that may be why!

[@Healcraft]

From my experience the included router is very bad. Compared to a relatively average or even below average ac1900 tplink router. When I first set up starlink for testing it was on my kitchen table, my other router was on the opposite end of the house, getting full bars in the kitchen, but for starlink it was around 1 bar and auto switched to 2.4ghz at the tplinks location.

[@huicmuse]

Had to subscribe -well spoken,informative to the max and will continue to sponge info. Thanks much

[@Joseph-ot8rc]

so what did you do to fix that? @@Healcraft

[@Healcraft]

@@Joseph-ot8rc i have a RBK-50 Orbi 2 piece mesh system hooked to it now as AP, and using a tplink er605 router. Router not needed for wifi signal but I had it to use my DSL line as a failover but now no longer have the DSL line

[@billybad5479]

Great information! Thank you for this honest info. My fixed wireless drops almost daily. I've just reserved my Starlink.

[@guermeisterdoodlebug7980]

A year ago I moved to a remote location in Florida, first time I’ve lived with no cable available. I paid my deposit to get on the Starlink wait list, and after a couple of months I was offered the service center than I expected. They shipped me a box with the components and for some reason I was so intimidated by the thought of having to figure it out and get it up and running that I procrastinated almost a month. Once I committed to doing it, I was truly😅 amazed at how simple set up was and how quickly I had it working. Performance is good and I’ve had no problems. It was so simple.

[@connorh5930]

I am an IT guy who does networking, and corporate IT support for the Portland Oregon area. I too have conducted the correct tests that measures the speed at the dish and not the rest of the network. In our area it is not uncommon to get the lower 80 Mbps download speeds. I do not work for Starlink but from what we have gathered it is related to network congestion at the base stations. Since our dishes point north our signals often go the satellites above Canada and beamed to Seattle. Although we have closer base stations just a few miles up the road, that's not how there telemetry works. My final conclusion, the Starlink network is not complete, its still being built, and Starlink is very popular in our rural landscape, In time the Starlink Network will get larger and better.

[@lookingbehind6335]

Much like the Hyper loop, Starlink will be a rotting corpse also. It’s capabilities aren’t even half their stated claims. Thousands of people can’t get customer service to help. The cracks are leaking already and the dam will fail. Is it better than absolutely nothing at all? Yes, of course it is. If you don’t mind constant signal loss, buffering , slow speed and throttling. The more people who use the service, the slower and less reliable it will become. Buy a cheap T-Mobile phone and get their unlimited data plan for 50 bucks per month. Bluetooth or cast off of it for your other devices.

[@jaycahow4667]

@@lookingbehind6335 I too wonder if a newer cheaper technology will cause the billions spent to setup Starlink to have been wasted in the future.

[@RagnarCrumpets]

@@lookingbehind6335Do you even own a Starlink…

[@Comatose_Era]

I enjoyed the video. Well spoken and accurate about starlinks service. Although i still dont have their service, been on the waiting list for over 2 years now. So long now that my light company has proposed, instituted, and built a 1gb fiber network that should be available to my area in the next couple of months (they've been building it in sections). At which time ill change the information on starlink to my in laws house the next town over so hopefully they can get high speed internet one day if they want to pay for it. But anyway thanks for the great info.

[@steelfist65]

My Starlink has changed my life. After suffering for years with Frontier DSL, I love my service and performance. I'm 100 percent unobstructed, and it makes a huge difference. This was a great video, thanks for posting!

[@Liamgeorge1]

Are you in a wooded area? I'm getting mine tomorrow, can't wait to get off Frontier. I'm hoping it will work okay on my house without obstruction.

[@steelfist65]

@@Liamgeorge1 I'm surrounded by trees, but I have an open area in my backyard. I have zero obstructions, thankfully. I did an install for my neighbor and he's currently about 9 percent obstructed and it's still way better than the DSL. You have to have a decent view of the northern sky, at least where I'm located. Good luck!

[@jmac7947]

This is the most helpful Starlink video I have found. I'm moving to a rural area and had concerns.

[@markb3866]

Keep us up to date with time. Great video

[@ridingwiththerileys]

Thanks for the content. Going full time RVing in 2 weeks this great info.

[@esanford]

All of the points that you made are common sense. I've had mine for 7 months and love it. Last month when they turned the dish, unfortunately, mine ended up facing the side of my roof. I had it raised on a pole and everything is fine. Starlink re-pointed the dish from north to northeast to better balance the load. In the southeast, they pointed us toward the satellites that are over the Atlantic that had lower usage thereby reducing the loads over the continental U.S. I was a little upset; when I put my ticket in, Starlink reminded me that users are responsible for no obstructions on a 360 degree basis. Just because the initial setup was to the north, created no obligation to keep it that way. I have a mesh router system and it's fine. By the way, be careful keeping your heater on too long. It can actually melt the cable at the dish end. You're probably better off monitoring the snow and turn it off and on periodically.

[@markc3571]

I don’t have star link, but your video, as usual, is very informative! 👍

[@bignews7331]

Best Starlink video out there. I just purchased Starlink for my RV ($2,500) antennae. I connected to a Nighthawk AX2400 router. It works well. My download speed is roughly 210mbps. Keep up the good work.

[@mugshotmarley]

My brother got Starlink since fiber wasn't available in his area. It worked great with quicker/faster than cable. Earlier this year, we had lots of rolling blackouts in our city since power company had shut down some plants for maintenance and grid would get overloaded quickly (they sent out emails warning customers before hand). After the first blackout, the Starlink antenna died. It was unresponsive when the power came back on. He read about Starlink antenna issues with power outtages in forums, so he had a dedicated power supply/surge protector for the antenna and modem/router. Even with that, the antenna still died. They did send him a new antenna after a few weeks, but since hasn't encountered a black out yet.

[@McGTexas]

Starlink in Central Tx here. Our cable company stops a block away. Typical speeds are 40d/15u. Not wonderful and similar to wireless internet here but we wanted reliability and are happy with it!

[@ImFieldy]

wow mate u packed a lot of info in there - well done. I was hoping to hear more about adding that other router thing tho.

[@dm747]

Well said my friend. Love your channel. Thanks for all your good advice.

[@SilverCymbal]

Thank you kindly. I really appreciate it

[@stoojinator]

So many good points. I have Starlink on the east coast of Australia. My dish to router download speeds vary between 220 and 380mbps. When I first got it, I didn't realise it didn't come with an ethernet port, so was using the internet wifi. The best speeds I could get was around 150. I purchased the ethernet adatpor, disabled the wifi in the Starlink router, and then purchased a TP Link Deco X40 mesh wifi which now gives me pretty much consisten 200-250mbps downloads over wifi (and better over ethernet). Mesh is definitely the way to go if you live in a large house or a house with mutiple storeys.

[@azartyn2906]

so you used the bypass function on the starlink app? did you have to change any settings in your router? Im using an asus RT-AX58U . I just set starlink up today (9/19/2023) and am capping speed at 150ish.

[@rmi813]

Great info. Moving to new area without cable internet option. On wait list for Starlink and hoping it will become available soon.

[@sighterinfo]

I live on the Oregon coast. I was part of the Starlink Beta release. Was on the list for a year before they shipped the first systems. Took me 20 mins to install it and turn it on. I was constrained about where I could put the antenna and had to put it on the ground at first. Had about 20% obstructions from tree tops. Still got 150 to 300 mbps down. Best I've had is 401 mbps. But had frequent obstruction-based outages that lasted 1 to 15 seconds. Nonetheless, streaming was not impacted enough to piss me off. Live calls and video conferencing was a bit of a problem. Recently raised the antenna and have no obstructions and that problem evaporated. I'd gnaw my feet off before I gave up my Starlink.

[@JayZoop]

Wow! You put a lot of time and effort intot he video. Lots of great info. I'll be traveling in a camper with Starlink internet, and my cellphone as a hotspot for emergencies.

[@sociopathmercenary]

I have T Mobile home internet and it's not blazing fast but it's super cheap. Since I have the top mobile plans, they only charge me $30 and I average 150 MB down and 20 MB up. I work from home and that is more than adequate for work and streaming.

[@sociopathmercenary]

Just to add... I'm about 7 miles outside of a small town and my only alternative ISP is a cable provider. A comparable plan with them is $90 per month with a 1.5 TB data cap. Loving me some T-Mobile

[@rongrady4501]

We live in a rural area in WV, have had Frontier for years, the slightest wind always knocks out service, when you call for service, it’s always 20-25 days before you get a technician, we’ve had Starlink for two days, I’m trying to not get too excited, so far not a blip.

[@joeglennaz]

Great great video!! hello from phoenix Arizona. I don’t have Starlink I don’t need it. I have a 500 MB hard wired connection that I love your videos and just enjoy learning about Starlink. It’s exciting to me that if I do go off grid one day I can have Internet.

[@EricJLarsen]

I got the round disk early version. this had an ethernet port built in. I also am in IT in the NW Oregon area. Compared to the DSL (my only other option), Starlink has been outstanding. Always faster than the DSL, much lower latency than Geo-sync Satellite internet.

[@groundzero_-lm4md]

Not having Ethernet built in is a major flaw. It wouldn't even cost that much to implement.

[@stijnbarbe5575]

It's still ethernet on the newer dishes. Just a propietary jack/plug. Cut it and crimp a normal rj45 on it in the 568B standard. Power the dish with a Poe injector and then you don't even need the starlink router. Just treat it like a wan on your own router. Check "Everlanders" KZbin channel.

[@Healcraft]

@@stijnbarbe5575 I haven't tried this yet, can you still control the heating setting and stow/unstow?

[@Boza_]

Amazing video sir I live in an area with no internet providers and starlink just notified me it’s available in my area

[@BadUncleIke]

Here in Florida we have blackouts from bad weather and serious speed reductions. We notice the streaming TV picture degrade and then run a speed test, it is often 3-8Mbs. This has gotten better over time but for a year our top speeds were often in the 80Mbs range. It seems like the more northern locations are doing better than Florida.

[@belgeresistant9286]

Hi. Nice explainations.I bought a TP-Link AX55 to link to the Starlink router using the Bypass on the Starlink router. Works so fine. Have a nice day. Hello from brussels, BELGIUM.

[@baasmaak1722]

Let me give you respect Finally someone who explains it well. Thank your sir

[@heeber7084]

I ordered the ethernet adapter and am hoping to see some significant speed increases. Thanks for this channel! Great information in a very practical "non-techy" easy to understand way!

[@kevyyar]

Any updates?

[@heeber7084]

@kevyyar drastically difference in speed with ethernet adapter. 185-205 download on average (or less congested times) and 8 to 15Mbs upload. This may not be super speed but compared to what it was its a big difference

[@spotonpsychicreadingsbyt-qf8ee]

Wow. Youre amazing! Thank you. That was thr most helpful video yet! Can you tell us more about your tower? I need that!!

[@BlueDart1971]

We recently got it here in Alaska. When it works it’s the fastest I’ve ever seen but it’s spotty and has lots of interruptions. I have a clear view of the sky but it still says I have obstructions. Overall it’s great for areas that don’t have internet.

[@ibgeorgeb]

Great information clearly explained. Thank you. 👌🏾

[@PecosNM]

Can you also do an update on the Tmobile internet service you have? Your videos are very helpful.

[@DanielNotDeadYetThomas]

Thanks for your info, was on a waiting list here in WV. I look forward to anything going up at more that 700kbs and 6mbs down. I will take your advice and try the ethernet adapter and use my existing distribution system. At my home only DSL or cell is an option and it sucks. The cable company will not run our street because at the time they were installing the density was too low. 15 years and 40 houses later they still say for cable access we need to pay $70,000. Hard to complain to a state sponsored monopoly, but that's what WV did to us.

[@kljmbusiness7246]

Nice informative video and appreciate you making it. I also have the Harvest King, three point blades for my tractors......(I know that has nothing to do with the topic, I just thought about that as I don't see them in any of the other videos I have watched in general.)

[@geraldarcuri9307]

Really, really helpful information! Thanks.

[@HeartOfTheHorses]

We had a person move our starlink under the front of our trailer because it started raining and I didn’t realize it for two days because it still worked great. We were in West Yellowstone Montana. That made be a believer.

[@happyzahn8031]

wow, your starlink is 5 times faster than my wired internet. I didn't know they were so fast now. Not going to switch as it would cost a lot more but that's still pretty good.

[@lannyplans]

Great content and presentation, thank you!

[@kaboom362]

Clearly, this man knows his stuff. Another valuable video. Thanks for sharing

[@genxgamerdad141]

In AZ, do see some night time congestion but it is improving. Overall very happy with SL. Been great on camping trips as well. I rarely get any interruptions, really surprised you're getting so many, doesn't seem right.

[@AndrewWells527]

I find that the auto heating mode only kicks on when the snow/ice starts affecting the signal, so few minute outages are common in winter storms.

[@starfleetintelligence-sect130]

Actually considering starlink and this is really helpful thanks

[@MrCris2205]

Amazing video! Greetings from Guatemala.

[@libertyqueen]

Excellent video... we're off the grid and use a phone Hotspot to access internet on our laptop ... yes, it's Dark Ages. We're switching to Starlink. You said you would post a video in a "couple of weeks" on connecting up the Starlink Dish system but didn't find it among your videos. This is what I was able to follow: Starlink Dish to Starlink Router to separately purchased Starlink Ethernet Adaptor ($25) for the purpose of bypassing WiFi issues and finally to a separately purchased TP-Link Router. Do I have this right? If you could do the video, I'm sure many of us would like to see it. Please let us know what TP-Link Router model you are using and why. Just tested speeds DL: 4.60 MBps and 3.02 MBps; UP: 0.00 MBps and 0.12 MBPS Thats it, we're done with the Hotspot and getting Starlink. Looking forward to seeing your follow-up video on Starlink.

[@janinegrosenick]

brrrrr Feeling cold just watching you. T-shirt? 🥶😆 I am new to Starlink, installed it a few days ago, and loving it. I am living in rural Ireland and I work from home. Good internet is crutial, happy to have invested into Starlink,would do it again!

[@9111logic]

I have just ordered mine here in the UK so I shall test the system and report however, since I will probably mount the receiver on the roof of my solar shed, I am in doubt wether to connect the Ethernet adaptor to the house and live my Victron system relying on the StarLink WiFi since they both live in the same building or instead do the reverse and hard connect to the solar shed where may Micro Grid is and use another access point in the house. Obviously option one would be the easiest one so I'll have to try that first unless I receive better ideas from this channel. Just for the records I have a land line with Sky but it's providing me with a ridiculously 10Mb/s when I'm lucky and they are charging me £55.00 a month so I've decided to give them the elbow. 🙏Thanks for sharing your discoveries that will certainly help us all obtaining a better performance of the StarLink System

[@mcdrone3932]

@SilverCymbal, I believe the true internet speed test would be measured using something like Okla Speedtest where it measures between you and the source of the internet. The SL App is measuring between you and the Satellite. But doesn’t take into account their ground station, and furthermore their connection to an ISP.

[@petemiller519]

Good video, super content. One question, why are you blocking the barn door with your tower brace? That door is not useable anymore. Also, I would pop in a few lag bolts through the horizontal 2x4 into studs within the wall. The battens look like they are not aligned with the studs since they appear to be at 12" o.c. spacing, and wall studs are at 16" o.c. spacing. You'll need to find the studs to hit them with lag bolts. Sorry, but I can't help myself, I am a retired structural engineer trying to justify my existence...lol. Cheers from Canada :)

[@joeb7508]

Looks to me he’s changing the location of the entrance

[@smokey0066]

I agree with a lot of the points you’ve made here. I regularly hit 5tb a month with my Linux isos. Dreaming of fiber but will likely never see it.

[@SilverCymbal]

Ah, that would take a lot of data! We could have something here but our problem is the town has cable for about 60% of it so grants are usually only if a town is totally underserved. Without Starlink and TMobile I would be in the stone ages here, and this is our full time house so we need internet all the time.

[@jimstrube294]

I just purchased the hardware. Thank you for the info.

[@t.d.5804]

SL here at 52°N in Europe gives me 360MBit/sec most of the time, it sometimes drops to 160MBit. Very pleased with it.

[@KumiOriFarm]

Love my Starlink, worked here when Nothing else would. I plugged an Orbi mesh network directly into the router, don't understand why you had to add another gadget in-between. My DL speeds vary, normally in 100-200+mbs range though my mesh network is about 160. I appreciate your YT content!!

[@sonictech1000]

Not all starlink routers have a built in Ethernet adapter. I believe that's one of the things they eliminated with the rectangular dishes.

[@KumiOriFarm]

Yeah, I have the original round dishy

[@Keyboardletters]

Does starlink support wifi6? My orbi mesh is wifi6.

[@pauldoran3990]

@@Keyboardletters The Starlink routers only have wifi 5

[@Keyboardletters]

@@pauldoran3990 boo

[@nameofthegame9664]

I live above the arctic circle in the north of Sweden. I got the Starlink Residential and pay 69 bucks a month. I have the Ethernet adapter for my main rig and two extra nodes. I have around 200-250 mbps on the Ethernet and 100-200 mbps on 5Ghz WiFi. I’m really happy and impressed with Starlink so far.

[@GeekandGlory]

Thank you very much. This is great information.

[@michaelafcadio]

Good stuff in this video. I've been on the Starlink waiting list for almost 4 years and still waiting. I'm in Southwest New Hampshire between Keene and Nashua. I'm curious where in New Hampshire you were that you're able to get Starlink.

[@Mr.OCanada]

There is no dedicated heater inside the dishes. Videos dismantling the dish have shown this. The heat comes from the antenna (s) and how much power they use which is variable based on need. The dish will never point entirely the other way as mentioned in the video that some people reported that, which from this video where the dish is now (north) and where the tall trees are (assuming that is this the dish's south) because starlink services cannot interfere with other providers sending their signal from that angle. They will always point somewhat north in North America.

[@mikhalych9748]

Thanks for the info. Im not super far out of town but my only option is fixed wireless and it has become abysmally slow to the point I canceled and have nothing but my cell phone. I am considering paying the $99 to wait. The monthly fee is only $20 more than my 7mbps connection I had lol.

[@davesthedude]

i have been a starlink user since 3-15-21, i was a better than nothing beta user... here in northern michigan i have noticed that speeds here started around 250-350mbps download with 20-40 up... now a days we average 150-200mbps down-20-40 up... i still use the good old gen 1 round dishy still holding up well even almost 3 years in.... strange thing tho... lol the gen 1 routers have cat5 port so i never had to deal with the wifi issues i heard so much about. got the routher plugged into a netgear switch and it runs to 2 routers on my property giving the whole internet

[@lpconserv6074]

Great video and great topic. Just got Starlink this week. Got it set up for my extended family and did it all in one day. My view of the sky is essentially 100% with no trees above the roofline of my house, where the antenna is located. Almost 200mb/s download most of the time. Yes hook up with the wired connection is essential if you want good speed. Wireless connections are rarely good enough for what I do. At the moment I am using old routers for the kids and casual browsers in the family, and my desktop is wired solid. Laptop, as it is within 5 feet of the wireless antenna, does fine on wireless posting 50+mb/s download speed which for my use with the laptop, is good enough. Thanks for the info..

[@kuyavenzinfovlog]

that is correct my friend used adapter of starlink and attach to their network like TPLINK ER605 and activate the load balancing

[@johnnysweekends]

Dude, T-shirt…I can’t 😂. Anything under 30 I’m in trouble lol. Good video 👍🏼

[@paulsmaglik5063]

Awesome video. I deal with users every day and they always want to blame it on the computer or the network but in reality, it they who are causing the problem. You need to create end user training videos lol.

[@jellyfish181]

Great video. What... short sleeve weather? Above freezing I guess 😀

[@braer240]

I’m happy that I have WiFi when I didn’t before. But I’m seeing 30-50 tops and I thought I should be running wired Ethernet, this video is exactly what I was looking for

[@MrCanadiandad]

Subscribed to watch for your actual router setup you configured to work with your Starling system. Haven't seen anything yet. Very interested

[@SilverCymbal]

Sorry, I have 3 other network videos coming hopefully all in July

[@jmt979]

Well done and well said. Any issue with the latency with video calls?

[@insley1085]

I just ordered STARLINK, so you have a video on what router you are using and how it’s set up? Thanks 👍 Your videos are really informative and easy to understand!

[@insley1085]

*do

[@acidbran]

NH. here, no cable offered and never will be. Just got Starlink today and running it from my deck. Works, but need to get it on the roof ASAP. Many tress in my way but it's a massive improvement over DSL fro CC, who I hate.

[@MattLesak]

From one IT guy to another, thanks for posting. As we know, the big trick is getting them to listen 😂

[@felaxchow207]

I put my deposit for Starlink and on the wait list for 2023 due to it being at capacity. I have a choice of 3 traditional wireline and 3 cellular carriers. I totally agree that if you have access to get better speeds and price on traditional wireline or cellular, you're definitely better off doing that. With that being said, why Starlink? The reason is for redundancy since I live in a subtropical zone and is prone to tropical cyclones annually. Mobile carriers systems here are fairly hardened from damages that tropical cyclones can throw at them, but they're still linked together by some wireline link to each site. With their fairly low latency, I can still have my remote video conferences and general communications when my primary services goes down.

[@krel7160]

This. I'm in the boonies, no fiber optic, the only ISP was centurylink (now britespeed, but they havent been able to fix centurylink's nightmare of 10 years outdated and unmaintained lines yet). Mobile hotspots got better speed and latency than the cabled internet. Starlink got better speeds than the hotspots. Although, something like the Caylix Institute's uncapped T-mobile hotspot, if you're near one of the major highways/roads where T-mobile is most active, you can reach speeds far an above starlink at almost no ping. But that is location dependent, opposed to starlink which is effectively plug and play so long as you have a clear horizon somewhere on the property.

[@felaxchow207]

@@krel7160 T-mobile definitely has a few good things going. I've seen speeds upward of 1 Gbps down and 350 Mbps up in 5G Ultra Capacity mode if the tower has the available bandwidth, but averages out to 300/100 Mbps. I really have no complaints. For a city that is only 60 sq land miles, some parts have access to fiber. Several companies including Google talked about bringing more fiber in, but its been almost 12 years. Frontier who took over the former Ma Bell system is restarting their fiber to home again, but who know when that will be. TBH, I really don't really want to deal with Ma Bell just from the crappy experience in the past. As for Starlink, I finally got it in mid April and been fairly happy with the service so far. I take it with me to the cabin in the swamp since there is absolutely no cell service once I get about 3 miles off of the main road.

[@gulfstream-tvstudios9546]

we have starlink now on our ship, florida/bahamas ..... what a game changer ... wow

[@nicole_catari]

I just ordered Starlink. I live in the desert and we get high winds up to roughly 65-70ish mph. I need to mount my Starlink on the roof, but after looking through the Starlink mounting instructions and reading that mounts are not for high wind speeds/tornado/etc. weather, I am not sure what to do. I've been digging around the i-net, and as far as I can tell, I think I will be fine. Any suggestions or opinions would be very appreciated. *Your video is very helpful and I appreciate the info you shared!*

[@ok-ranch3125]

I have mine on the ground in the yard with a couple 12 inch nails/spikes through each hole in the base. Works good we get up to 60-70 mph winds.

[@pepcaone]

I've had Starlink since March 2021. After having to suffer using my cellphone's hotspot for the year prior due to our office shutting down for Covid, Starlink couldn't have come at a better time. Took me all of 90 minutes from unpacking the box to connecting to the service. Since then, other than the few times there have been major network outages, I have had no issues. My kids could stream and game on their computers, while my wife and I watched movies in the living room. I know some haven't had the "success" I've had, but I can't imagine what life would've been like if this didn't come along when it did. Traditional satellite internet is all we had before, with their ridiculous data caps that would max out in the first week of the cycle and slow speeds.

[@robertdecoopman2417]

Great video, thank you. When can we view the video on your wifi setup?

[@bmx135536]

Great video. Does your tower block the door to your garage behind you? Looks like it won't slide open now??

[@emmittvick4216]

A very helpful video, Thank you. I ordered my system today. I’m going to need an antenna tower like yours. Any advice where I can source a supplier and/or installer? I live rural in Kentucky and have Windstream. It’s horrible. I can’t take it anymore….

[@sheriffroylambifs894]

~ I JUST SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL...AFTER HEARING TESTES TRUTH...YOU ARE MY #1 STARLINK TECH MAN !!! ~

[@jdmgtfour]

I would say ping and jitter is more important than bandwidth (speed). Of course everyone wants the fastest speeds to download everything faster or so many people can say stream different things at once without noticing an impact. However for real time tasks, gaming and video calls being the big one these days, ping is everything. While actually playing an online game, very little data is actually being transferred, something around 100-300kbps is typical. Having huge spikes in latency however can be noticeable and more impactful then slow speeds. Stable steady ping (low jitter) is key.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Agreed. No point in having a fast car if the transmission is always slipping.

[@KenPaulsen13]

@@aguyandhiscomputer Agreed... have a quick car that doesn't even have a transmission. 😉

[@crushingbass7131]

I have starlink and I'm a gamer. I almost never have issues.

[@sgk8220]

What #s are good?