Starlink in Connecticut! Initial Review, Unboxing, and Service Quality

[@notreallyme425]

I trust your reviews way more than the Verge… just saying.

[@KevKlopper]

Did the verge bash starlink?

[@MrTBoneSF]

@@KevKlopper It was just a pile of ignorance, FUD, and/or bad faith arguments. Every strawman argument you could imagine was rolled up into one bad article. One of the most laughable was the 5G was not only a viable alternative, but was a better option even though probably 99% percent of the service area of Starlink has right now has no 5G coverage and easily 95% of the places WITH 5G coverage already have multiple, better and cheaper broadband options. That's putting aside the crippling data caps (which they someone get away with advertising as "unlimited"), throttling, and overall expense of 5G right now. Besides, does The Verge have any tech reporting cred left after that "Building a Gaming PC" video fiasco?

[@KevKlopper]

@@MrTBoneSF they probably don't agree with elons opinions on things. Ath this point they are just another propaganda site

[@wiziek]

@@MrTBoneSF Starlink will also be throttled but hey, maybe let's wait until Starlink will be out of beta? Current performance doesn't show how network behave under load.

[@vlv723]

Yeah that reviewer didn't know what he was doing. The Starlink reddit page ripped that review into oblivion.

[@Techtablets]

Very interesting, and good to see the ping times aren't really too bad at all. Spain is in beta now for it I might have to get it. I even see the line of Starlink stats above my house often in the evening when they reflect the sun light.

[@ganesang5537]

You're in Spain? 🤔

[@wiziek]

Wait until more people are using Starlink. Ping times aren't too bad for LTE too when there aren't many users like during night.

[@enhompe2]

Lon, you are performing a real public service here. Thank you.

[@KameraShy]

Good to see capable reviews like this keeping technical companies like Starlink honest.

[@jameskelly9457]

I didn’t think you could stop and restart service. I just got my Starlink 5 days ago here in upstate NY and love it. Speeds are like yours.

[@douginNC28139]

I’m in Western NC and have had Starlink for almost two weeks. It’s working perfectly. Speeds up to 250 Mbps down and between 25 to 40 Mbps up. A huge improvement for my internet service!

[@chetbodley8629]

Do you think Eastern NC would work?

[@FRANK45CASTLE]

My name is josh, and yes i am interested in that! This was a random recommend and i think you did a great review. This is what i call gold standard review.

[@ede8193]

Great review Lon, this is very very interesting!! I'm hoping this will add some good competition over time for the cable companies : ) Very impressed with your results.

[@AmigosRetroGaming]

We're praying for this to be a success in West Virginia...this would be a miracle.

[@JohnSmith-rf1tx]

Lon, just as a word of warning, though I don't recall exactly where I saw it, I did see a comment from Starlink Support that they don't really support your planned usage of stop/start service. I.e. if you stop service it may not be a simple matter (or even possible) to restart it when you want. At least that was the then current position of the company a month or two ago. Whether that will remain the case once the service is in "wide release" or if anything has changed in the meanwhile, I don't know. But you should definitely touch base with support to be sure you can use it the way you want before actually stopping service.

[@LonSeidman]

Yes I reached out to support - they said so long as they have spots available they will reactivate but service but can’t guarantee availability. Because I’m in an area with decent (albeit monopoly controlled) broadband I should be ok. I don’t think there are all that many starlink owners since I know most of them in my town :)

[@johntierney3353]

My understanding is that if you stop the service, there is no guarantee, that there will be enough unused capacity in your area that Star Link will restart you service. So if this is to be an insurance policy then you keep paying your premium. An interesting web sit: satellitemap.space . This will show you the star link satellites that are flying over your area and the land base station that you should be using to connect. Why is the dish not grounded like an outdoor antenna is required to be?

[@daveschmarder-US1950]

Great review, Lon. SpaceX launched more satellites today. I watch every launch (usually delayed) on YT. I never get tired of watching them, especially the first stage landing. I have a pretty slow Spectrum Cable internet here. I could get better from them, but I don't do much in uploading here.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

But you'd be giving up cable Nat service and going to carrier grade NAT.

[@passionatetechnology8306]

I actually just moved from southern CT to Northern PA. No joke, I had the same intermittent downed internet issues over the three some years I was in ct.

[@stevepotts4273]

I don't think you can put Starlink service "on hold". You cancel the service. Then you hope that you can restart when you call back. Your cancelation may have opened the door for another customer in your area to activate so now they have bumped back to the max number of customers in your area (cell). You can test this by typing in a neighbour's address and see what the estimate is for them to get service. I suspect that is what you would expect for a reconnect.

[@johnblackledge4009]

Great report! When can we have it in the UK?

[@aamcclary1]

Are you able to start your starlink service via the starlink or do you need a separate internet connection to start the service ? This would be important if you want to start/stop the service and it is your primarily/ only means of internet at your location.

[@slendermen6667]

I can't wait to get mine were getting ours mid june I just hope that we get it cus I have not been able to play games for awhile

[@JosephBeltran48]

Thank you for the review I also have shadow gaming

[@guyincognito1985]

I wish I was Lon's neighbor and got to help him play with all this cool stuff!

[@marksmith9566]

Can you film shutting down Comcast router and enabling the sayellite. then broadcasting the video in a live cast through satellite? Restoring service could also be part of it or another video.

[@ganesang5537]

Haven't been to your channel in months. Did you just get a haircut? Self cut?

[@rodh6642]

Might be a stupid question but.. Can you move your satellite dish up the road to another property and connect there or more importantly could you go to another state or your brothers state and get it going in the 25 minute setup you had……. Ie can starlink be used in a caravan as portable and set itself up at another location as you travel around to another camping spot ?

[@miguellopez3392]

For right now service us restricted within ~20 miles of the assigned adress, spaceX plans to make it mobile and usable while In motion on a RV later in the future.

[@gravijta936]

Starlink is fun and all, but nothing compares to Stargate. What a rush!

[@michaellandon8334]

Do you have an update on speed now that they have updated the satellites?

[@praveendissanayake2509]

How does starlink compare to legacy satellite services like iridium, Inmarsat etc?

[@kensingtonwick]

Doesn’t the dish track satellites going west to east? Why do you have to have clear line of sight North?

[@tonberryhunter]

I thought you had somewhat of a New England accent!! ha ha good times. I have a friend here in MA that just got Starlink. It was really easy to setup he said.

[@enhompe2]

I grew up in Massachusetts and I dispute the assertion that Lon has an NE accent

[@LonSeidman]

We don’t have accents in New England, everybody else does :)

[@rls567]

Hi Lon. Rickey here. I live in Deep Southern Mississippi. Where can I go to find out when Starlink will be available in my area? Also, do you know, will we be stuck with the Beta stuff if there are hardware upgrades?

[@LonSeidman]

Not sure on the hardware revisions but if you go to starlink.com it’ll tell you if it’s available in your area. If they let you buy the whole setup it’s ready.

[@johnpoldo8817]

Lon, every time I check availability for friends, family, and myself in Boston,MA area and south Florida, the signup page says available second half 2021, pay now $99, which may result in Dec 2021 delivery. Was S. Connecticut immediate delivery? Where is immediate delivery?

[@ernstoud]

Got a message that it is in beta in The Netherlands now, but in the meantime got 700 Mbps fiber, symmetrical and 4 ms. latency.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

If you have fiber available starlink won't be available to you when it comes out of beta. And they might even cancel your service when they find out.

[@gudenau]

How does this handle hosting a service that requires open ports? Maybe something like Plex could be a decent test for that.

[@LonSeidman]

Covered this topic in the other video, it’s using carrier grade NAT and won’t allow for port forwarding, server hosting.

[@gudenau]

@@LonSeidman Ah I didn't catch that, sorry.

[@Bluem00n7]

How good is the actual router? as nobody's really covered this in great detail

[@ElectroSwingable]

Nice one

[@slickwilly4613]

How does it transmit back to the satellite?

[@Msdaynanuh]

Still impatiently waiting for my $499 invite. I badly need this because we don't have any reception or internet in my area. Sadly, we don't have any ground station in my country yet. I may have to wait until mid-2022. 🥲

[@1010tesla]

any chance you can get your hands on a multi wan router and test it while you have two ISP's available? I am in the market for a multiwan router for the purpose redundancy.

[@Bryan-Hensley]

If you hook a separate router to starlink you will most cause double Nat

[@1010tesla]

@@Bryan-Hensley There are special routers called "Multi-Wan" that are designed to have to multiple ISP's connected to them. this wouldn't be second router.

[@shackdaddy7106]

Starlink and services like it literally will revolutionize the world because of the fact it will give everybody high-quality Internet. I used to work for dish technical support and used to troubleshoot their satellite Internet. It was barely OK for Internet surfing and if you wanted to stream Netflix or Hulu forget about it. But for rural areas it was better than nothing. Starlink is so much better that there is no comparison.

[@wiziek]

It won't give everybody good internet, Starlink is targeting 3 to 5 percent of population, this won't be universal service.

[@nc3826]

and it's not cheap... but it's a great deal for ppl with crappy and nonexistent internet service....

[@shackdaddy7106]

@@wiziek That is true for now. Once all the satellites are launched it will cover the whole country.

[@wiziek]

@@shackdaddy7106 No this is true overall. Starlink is targeting rural areas over whole country, you won't be able to use Starlink wherever you want due to bandwidth issue, just like with ovecrowded LTE/5G....

[@shackdaddy7106]

@@wiziek What I should’ve said is that Companies like stalink will provide Internet throughout the country irural areas many of which have little or nothing right now.

[@j.vi-geant6784]

O.k. first in France then Connecticut, hm, that's here in the U.S. Slowly, that's interesting. Thank you very.much - how exciting - next up FREE ENERGY!

[@rljensen3]

With all you went through to get gigabyte Comcast. I would think it's a rock solid connection in any storm. Love your content though.

[@LonSeidman]

Unfortunately our fiber optic cables are on poles and the power company who is responsible for maintaining those poles is incompetent. Week long outages are common due to tree damage. They had to rebuild most of the area after the last one.

[@KameraShy]

Comcast in my town has its cable strung on the telephone/electric poles, as is the line running to my house. The electric company keeps ITS lines clear of trees, but refuses to clear the trees that are growing up into the cable and telephone lines. I am looking out right now at the massive growth up in those lines from the neighbor's trees. I have complained to Comcast, and they respond that if the line breaks, they will fix it then.

[@bgregg55]

Those are faster speeds than I can get on my cable.

[@insainllama]

They probably have a couple different manufacturers for the hardware, so that may be why there are some differences.

[@LonSeidman]

Nope this is indeed a revision 2 version of the hardware

[@nc3826]

@@LonSeidman Elon loves change.... So grey and smooth surfaces must be the flavors of the month lol... Luckily he able, to hire ppl... who know how to make the important decisions and upgrades, which is really what matters....

[@KameraShy]

@@nc3826 A smooth surface would seem to make much more sense as it would be less likely for dirt, ice and snow to adhere. They should have thought of that at the beginning.

[@nc3826]

And the change to using grey can be rationalized, as a way to limit its heat absorption.... bottom like is that they are, classic Elon inspired marginal changes have no substantial effect....

[@jrr851]

"I've got pretty good internet now" - Yeah a 2Gbit link directly into the Comcast backbone via dedicated single mode fiber is "pretty good". Yuuupppp! (I'm still jelly of your Gigabit Pro)

[@Alex-un5tl]

great!

[@gartennelke]

Do you have Electricity back up too where you are?

[@elnegrolopez1990]

So is this unlimited because I stream tv an I pay 145 for Cox but I’m thinking of changing to this

[@slendermen6667]

Yes it is for rn since its just a beta

[@wiziek]

This isn't service for people with high speed broadband.

[@feldmanjared]

Could this replace hardwired internet from Xfinity? hate them so much.

[@KameraShy]

No. Supposedly it will not have the capacity to handle large numbers of subscribers in congested urban areas. Particularly multi=family housing units. I have and hate Comcast equally. I am a free-market capitalist, but the US lags far behind the rest of the world in providing higher speed (fiber) service. Internet service has become a public utility like water, electric and gas. It used to be just a play thing for computer nerds with dial=up modems, but that has changed. Something needs to be done.

[@hagbard72]

Like your cool toy.

[@TheKingOfInappropriateComments]

I guess comcast is getting nervous with that starlink stuff. They cut my rate to $20 a month for 50mbps (the cheapest plan) for a 2 year agreement. Starlink is not available yet here thoufgh.

[@coolerking7427]

What do you think of OneWeb?

[@nc3826]

or Kuiper

[@Christopher_Ago]

Are you the only person in Connecticut to have it?? I’ve tried different addresses along the shoreline, my work address in Stamford and even Danbury hospital since it’s close to you, still says it’s not available yet… Is yours a beta of the beta?? Lol

[@LonSeidman]

I know three people in my town that have it already - I think it's a matter of the geometry of the orbiting satellites in their relationship to the ground. It also sounds like you're testing addresses in more densely populated areas which I don't think they are prioritizing right now.

[@ramshambo2001]

can you get a static ip?

[@wiziek]

Don't think so, maybe for companies.

[@shahriarXplorer]

❤️

[@TamimLB]

Step 1: Pause the video Step 2: Click this 4:40 Step 3: Captain America

[@regolith1350]

Regarding the dish's startup lag time, you say the long wait was only on initial setup and that subsequent startups should be much faster (a prediction) because it was faster on your second attempt. This may well be true but you've only set it up twice. So you're making broad conclusions based on TWO data points. You should be careful about what you base your conclusions on, especially when doing a product review. Just saying...

[@LonSeidman]

This is consistent with my brother's experience in Vermont.

[@quench89]

Why don't you have any sort of sponsorships?! It's really unfair

[@JeskidoYT]

Satellite TV? Old school Satellite Radio? High quality Satellite internet? The future

[@EmergencyChannel]

Satellite radio is lower audio quality than most FM broadcast radio.

[@igeekone]

Sat TV is one way Sat Radio isn't really high quality, it's heavily compressed equating to an internet stream quality. Just like sat TV, it's also a one way service. Sat Internet has been around for decades but what Starlink is doing is vastly superior to current providers. Starlink is Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites that give what you see in the video, low latency and high bandwidth without the need to align a dish.

[@WallaceRoseVincent]

Lon, Have you heard of this new thing called starch? You need this other device called an iron. I'll get with you later and explain. Also, thanks starlink!

[@vagabond-yj8pn]

Lon I would like to see you in a beard.

[@nc3826]

lmfao

[@sagarparmar-mp6hb]

Verge article is bulls#$t