Starlink Snow Update + Speed Test + Cloud Cover Speed Test

[@erichurst2496]

I'll pay extra just to stop giving Comcast money.

[@H3erobrineNotch]

You can, but be aware that ping is much higher via satellite. With a very high ping a high download speed doesn’t mater that much.

[@calebthomas1481]

@@basitwyne852 just tried that number it didn't work

[@Krobar]

@@H3erobrineNotch That depends on the type of thing you're doing. Playing a games, yeah latency matters, but for basically anything else it mostly doesn't.

[@neobaggins3718]

@@calebthomas1481 I might be a cynic, but I’d wager it’s just harvesting phone numbers to sell on to telemarketers...

[@tomservo5007]

as more people use starlink, will latency be an issue ?

[@johnd499]

It's good to get a perspective of someone that this system was actualy designed for!

[@skepthicc692]

You look like a good human being : )

[@chriskreidler1137]

He seems like someone who would be a cool friend. I wanna be friends.

[@Ryfried]

ikr

[@zeinomadikizela4783]

Lmao , true

[@bangchamber317]

I was thinking serial killer.

[@fluffy-_-bush]

Yall donate money i guesss lmao!

[@cargage9523]

Im getting an average of 170mbps this is literally life changing

[@calebthomas1481]

How did you get starlink?

[@BoxLaneProductions]

that's awesome, how often do you have outages and how long for? does it hop to different satellites

[@BitKing_Ross]

Thats awesome. Thinking about trying to go this route for my business. I live near Washington dc in the burbs. Stuck with only Comcast as a choice and by god its terrivble internet and service. All i need is 200mbps. This is life changing you are correct.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Last I studied the phone lines go not much past 50 and the transmissions over are never near half that.

[@hadleymanmusic]

I like the idea of being independent from current services like this phone is my only internet. My computer is just for DAW and DVW.

[@zurqex]

Man I cannot wait to get Starlink. Im in Rural Ontario Canada at 44.6°. Been frequently checking my email but nothing yet 😪. I have been lucky to get 3mbps pretty much all my life. Starlink will change the world, looking so forward to it!

[@mikerouse6004]

Check your junk mail folder....mine was in there

[@zurqex]

@@mikerouse6004 Ya I have heard that from a few people. I will be checking there too! Thanks

[@RogerDiotte]

@@mikerouse6004 Oh man Imagine overlooking that ONE!

[@mrmiittens9766]

I’m in the same Boat! I’m at 54.4* and I got buddy’s 45 minutes south from me and they just meet and are getting set up after the holidays

[@RogerDiotte]

C'mon internet Gawd.. I'm at 46 in Ontario.. Please rain unlimited data on me! Curse you Bell Turbo Hub Goughers.. ---------> 2021 (UPDATE) I've since received an invite and have Starlink now, the lazers have aligned to the stars and it's a 10 lane highway now unlike the cattle path I had before! Bell's Turbo Hub is officially in the history book now!

[@skeeterm0079]

Can’t wait until starlink is a available in my state !

[@gafen8130]

Cant wait till its available in my hemisphere. (aussie here)

[@kingcash3818]

Same can't wait for midwest (United States) coverage.

[@Fosterushka]

cant wait for starlink to be available in my country :D (rus)

[@tonn333]

Your state doesn't have access to the sky?

[@skeeterm0079]

@@tonn333 you would be surprised

[@mikeman230]

Hughesnet dishes don’t care about snow on the dish. It’s so slow normally it doesn’t make a difference

[@kodez79]

It does, but It probably auto-compensate for the signal drop. With geostationary satellites the travel time is significant and limits the bandwidth due to the TCP layer on your network packets.

[@mikeman230]

kodez79 It was a joke

[@msarchive6247]

Get wrek'd Hugh's net!

[@AS-rz3nj]

About the Hughesnet service - does the snow "download" on the dish count towards your monthly cap download? :D

[@mikeman230]

Aaron Siemieniec No. You have to buy extra tokens for that.

[@arnousteele4845]

3 videos in and you look like a professional! love your videos man

[@tony62803]

Wow that's incredible, those speeds even in the snowy conditions you're in beat LTE in most areas 😁

[@kaimekaimietis]

In LONDON 4G LTE goes Up TO 100 MBPS DOWN and 20 MBPS UP so but that is fastest and cheap company so FOR PLAN i only pay like 20$

[@compactcow]

@@kaimekaimietis yeah but it's probably not unlimited?

[@kaimekaimietis]

@@compactcow for 20$ i get like 80 GB full speed then unlimited at low speed but for 25$ i get unlimited and no speed restrictions

[@compactcow]

@@kaimekaimietis I'm moving to London what 😭

[@compactcow]

@@kaimekaimietis In the US unlimited is like $60 / month 😭

[@garyteano3026]

It really held up nicely even with the snow, can’t wait to see the results when there’s like double the number of satellites in orbit!!

[@haveafit94]

Yes! Been looking forward to an update video! Would like to see more of your property also! Your house looks very interesting!

[@Dew_-km7gr]

My dream is when I finish college move into a place like this out of this city with only the nature and the snow that would be beautiful 🌞

[@magnetarus8502]

I also have this in my dreams, I guess it may be easier for you to reach :) I hope you live your dreams

[@gwzipper1]

Northern Minnesota here, living in the woods. It's glorious indeed.

[@RogerDiotte]

Northern Ontario here on my farm surrounded by rolling hills and trees and my squirrel and weasel whom come to my window on my deck each morning. I have to go out and put out shelled peanuts and blueberries for them now. It's glorious here also!

[@RobbieStrike]

I take a broom to clean the snow off my Satellite dish's but it normally takes a few inches on the dish to loose signal for a TV dish! Thanks for the update. Also your getting better speeds than my Cable Modem, Better upload and downloading. But I wonder what it will be like when a billion people are using starlink!

[@eugenek9280]

Hey :-) Thanks for sharing your experience! Not sure, if anybody else has pointed this out, but I suspect/guess, that the tree in the line of site may be a bigger contributor to the intermittent slowdowns than the atmospheric conditions. I realise that relocating the dish is not a fun job... but it may help :-) A spring project maybe?

[@ShadowSphere-v6r]

wow you are living with my dreams sir. nice living place, nice family and living on the technology edge. thank you for sharing this with us

[@sethrich2790]

What a great presentation. Your kids are very very lucky to have great parents. Gives me hope! God bless and good luck❤️🎯

[@clemp3010]

I have had my starlink for a week and I absolutely love it. Haven't snowed on it yet, buts its way faster than the dsl I have.

[@nomebear]

Above the arctic circle we use light weight food wrap loosely covering the top of a microwave dish. The air blowing causes the food wrap to flap and this keeps snow and ice from building and limiting the signal, a cheap and easy trick.

[@RogerDiotte]

LOL...Did the Red Green show need an idea...haha

[@transmaster]

You need to put RainX on the antenna that really helps with rain and snow. Learned this trick with a Dish Network antenna. You only need to apply it 2 or 3 times a year.

[@magnamic5614]

I completely agree. RainX is incredible.

[@Vo0d0o2009]

@@magnamic5614 i was actually thinking same thing while questioning myself about the fact that this dish look like heated to avoid snow build on it

[@magnamic5614]

@@Vo0d0o2009, Yep, it’s been confirmed it’s heated so that with something like RainX is pure magic lol!

[@Vo0d0o2009]

@@magnamic5614 yeah i just finished the video while he is dismanteling it , the dish is the heatsink of the electronic inside , purely genius this mr,musk

[@sampatra96]

Thanks for the update, Starlink is very intresting, I'm from India and we don't have Starlink yet but hope its lunch soon. And the what a beautiful surrounding it is. I would love to watch a snowy weather video of the surroundings, forest. Great work 🙏 All the best 👍

[@PBGBen]

Thank you for keeping us updated

[@chetankumar1160]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWSvoZhtbLR8n7M

[@RetiredPilot]

This is going to make living off grid a whole lot easier....

[@actuallyrealcover]

Absolutely. Imagine living off the grid while streaming online video games. Would be epic.

[@pooljunki1]

Nice video can’t wait to see a heavy snow....got mine yesterday

[@fredfrederick5607]

You are doing as good or better than my rural cable modem. Nice.

[@abhishekrathod246]

Starlink is breath of relief for those living in far away places

[@mattrobot8103]

The snow is awesome! Could watch a video just on that 😀 also, doggo

[@bill6390]

I'm in Raleigh NC and only get 42mbps with Spectrum internet. You're getting double that with Starlink. Amazing!

[@MaximusTBH]

AYYY nice bro. i watched ur install. good to see you pop back up

[@stevesohn5436]

Cannot wait till it gets here in Texas in February.

[@stevesohn5436]

@G No. Elon said beta will be expanding to all US states by that time. A

[@dylanschademan3445]

If the snow and ice become an issue later on, you should give this stuff a try "DuPont Teflon Snow and Ice Repellant" You can find it on Amazon.

[@mikebolton2388]

Is that glass safe?

[@jfbeam]

Maybe, with the dish mostly pointing straight up, it might not work so well. You'll need to be sure it won't block the signal.

[@mikebolton2388]

@@jfbeam wondering if I could put that stuff on my car windshield because up here in Northern US...

[@TheHuesSciTech]

Dishy is motorized, it'd be cool if it could be configured to just (briefly) point towards the horizon whenever it gets a poor signal, in order to let whatever might be blocking the signal slide off...

[@elijahdelano329]

I'm so rural starlink still isnt available to me yet.. but its coming and i am so excited.. i've had 1-3 mbps for almost 2 years now

[@kaywischkaemper4259]

Seeing the varying speed tests with weather conditions was very helpful. We don't have snow, but do have winter ice. Would like information on how the system functions during high winds, which we do have. Many thanks for the video

[@sebastianjackson2920]

I love your vids watched all of them keep up the good work

[@brettbatie]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@markjeranek9802]

Flat roof is just silly in snow country. Used to live in Houghton MI and we got over 30 feet of snow our first winter. Fun.

[@greatpix]

FYI, you don't need to mount satellite dishes on the roof. You can mount them on a post in the ground and as long as they have a clear view to the satellite you're good to go, and it's much easier to clean/repair if needed. You can even hide them behind bushes or a fence if you don't like looking at the hardware.

[@nikke3D]

Your upload speed is my download speed haha, i need this in sweden noow! :O

[@CookingwithYarda]

Hi Raymond !! Thanks for the update !

[@adventureswithkramer]

Awesome seeing all the snow!

[@ollylewin]

So basically, Starlink is amazing? I'm mega impressed at everybodies feedback so far.

[@ronbo8512]

Definitely way faster than my cable Internet from Spectrum and I am in LA.

[@yoltsbp]

Lol what i get over 1000 with spectrum, not sure how yours is slower because they offer $50 100mbs as their standard package.....

[@cesarcarranza5440]

@@yoltsbp bruhh 1000 MPs 🙃

[@cesarcarranza5440]

@@yoltsbp I get like 118 and like 10 up

[@cesarcarranza5440]

@@yoltsbp for the standard package it’s like 65$

[@ryan-uu9lj]

@@yoltsbp Either you have the best spectrum service in the US, or you're full of it. I had the $65 package in ohio, and never got above 12mbps. Ever. Nobody around me did either. I got faster service from a 4g hotspot. Nobody I've talked to EVER got what they paid for from spectrum unless they were an employee. They just choke speeds down to make you think you need a higher package. If installers and employees didn't have NDAs, I'm pretty sure that they would have been shut down from class action lawsuits.

[@jessehernandez841]

This is perfect for folks who live in Arizona sunny year round

[@GRANDIAD]

Brett very good video, greetings from Venezuela

[@johngoodwin86]

Love the property seems peaceful

[@remk4304]

Thank-you very much, this is so cool! Only thing I have to say is when you started speed testing it showed your internet’s up address, be careful with that, you might want to blur it out.

[@Arkusthegreat]

I can't wait till it comes to Florida. I need it for my sailboat.

[@HerrmannHinz]

i strongly suggest installing an adblocker ;)

[@micspamgod2324]

I get 3Mbps Download and 700Kbps Upload with my ISP called Windstream. I live in a rural area in South Georgia United States and that's all I can get, only provider for internet and the best speeds they can offer. $60/m for it. I'd be happy just to get 10Mbps Download and 1Mbps Upload, to see these results looks very, very good especially for satellite internet when you compare other companies. My connection is DSL, like a 50 year old super brittle copper line. It's horrible, my speeds used to be almost 4Mbps a few years ago, but the line has been "fixed" up sooo many times that it gets worse and worse and worse. I get 3Mbps but speedtests I get 2.7Mbps-2.8Mbps and pay for 3Mbps. I wish Starlink could come faster, I cannot stand more years with my horrible ISP. We've had Windstream for 13 years and they've never been any good from the start, always overcharged for such crappy and unreliable service.

[@jhchooo]

This convinced me to cut my Comcast. No more do-nothing greedy internet monopoly! Comcast needs to go out of business!

[@ignacioreynoso165]

10000000% agree

[@timothymcmahon1507]

you will achieve much faster speed with comcast and as long as you renew your contract every year your bill will never go up. i have been doing it for years

[@piquat1]

This is for rural areas. If you can get Comcast, you're not going to be able to get Starlink. It's on their website. It was never meant to compete with major broadband providers. This is for people that don't have a broadband option at all.

[@timothymcmahon1507]

@@piquat1 thank you. i actually didn’t know u had to be in a rural area to get it but that’s good because then all the people that just want it because it’s “new” won’t be hogging all the bandwidth lol

[@bailey2624]

well you can thank trump for fuking up the net neutrality. that will change with bidden which will be the only good thing he will do

[@Santeri_M]

Thanks for sharing, seems really promising

[@aaron840]

When using fast.com for most accurate results go into its settings(under show more info) and change max parallel connections to 30 (its max).. EDIT: unifi/Ubiquiti also has a speedtest site speed.ui.com/

[@haskellXR]

Aaron L I like fast.com because it shows latency compared to others

[@aaron840]

@@haskellXR most show latency/ping but 1 thing they do different is the loaded/unloaded which is what ping is when network is idle and then unled stress or load which is nice so you know what worst case ping would be about. But then its always server depending aswell if you connect to poor server then your connection is poor lol.. Then speedtest is nice with the graph so you can see stability of speeds if stays high or dips for some reason over short time..

[@TheHuesSciTech]

Out of curiosity, in what sense/how do you figure setting max conns to 30 would be 'most accurate'?Naively, I'd have thought that if a service provider required 30 parallel connections to achieve its highest speed, then your day-to-day internet applications would have to retrieve 30 parallel streams for that to be a relevant figure, but they don't. Put another way: I think most end-user applications stream using far fewer than 30 connections, so why would setting the speed test to such unrealistic settings make it 'most accurate' as opposed to just straight unrepresentative of real world use?

[@aaron840]

@@TheHuesSciTech ISP has no controll how many connections you make to the server. if you torrent think of seeders. its kinda same. ISP just gives you the connection to outside world. Like torrents the more seeders you can connect to the greater chance you will hit full speeds. Not 1 connection is usually gonna be enough test lets say 1GB, but you take 10 100M connections and bam you can test at 1000M. having it set to 30 just gives best chances test full speeds.

[@philoffhistree]

can you imagine how good this will be when there are only a few thousand up not to mention when all of them are up, i cant wait until this is in the uk

[@LOTODroneGuy]

There is a product called Never Wet that you should look into to keep your dish clean. I put it on my DTV dish 2 years ago and nothing sticks to my dish. Not even water droplets! There are videos about Never Wet on YT. Check it out and I hope it helps you.

[@LOTODroneGuy]

@Stanislav Jaracz Super Hydrophobic! :)

[@kmalerts]

there is already a dish heater built in it so,it does'nt require never wet it will affect badly

[@LOTODroneGuy]

@@kmalerts How will it affect it badly? Even with the heater, you can see the water droplets still on the dish. With Never Wet the droplets won't stay on it and I would think that might give you a better signal. I used NW on my DirecTV dish and it never affected the signal and has stayed clean for 2 years.

[@kmalerts]

@@LOTODroneGuy 👍

[@blarbdude]

I was also thinking you could use RainX, less harsh solvents on the plastic. Never wet is amazing stuff though!

[@ckfritts]

That’s pretty awesome! I’m down in Hailey and know a few people who would love to have this

[@RiggerBrew]

Neat project you can use to cleanup internet adds - PiHole. I run it in docker on my Unraid server and route through it for DNS. filters i have in place cleans up 30% traffic requests. Thank you for these videos and letting me know what I might expect once I can get it here in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado...

[@ronin7645]

Dude went sicko mode and ran on the roof and ran down the ladder. Respect lol!!

[@GabeJE]

If water on the dish does negatively affect performance I wonder if a hydrophobic coating would be safe to add to the surface of the dish so water falls right off of it?

[@RogerDiotte]

I'm thinking it doesn't as I have it and you can knock the idea that if it's cold would it hinder it. Well I can answer that one also cause right now it's minus 35 Celcius (minus 31 Farenheit) and I'm hitting 169 Down and 25 Up .... So sub zero temps (Starlink say's hold my beer)....

[@Tishers]

Your numbers will jump around a bit. As the satellite makes passes overhead the dish will track until it reaches the horizon where it is about to drop-out. Signals will usually be strongest when the satellite is at its apex (pointing straight up) and increasing or decreasing the closer to the horizon the dish gets. Then, when it drops a satellite it will take a few seconds for the dish to hunt to the next satellite. You may have a momentary drop-out for 5-15 seconds as that happens. Your "average" throughput will be good, and get better as there are more satellites in view (nearest the apex). Right now the satellite constellation is sparse, with not enough satellites to give consistently high numbers all of the time.

[@Pureignition58]

That roof is perfect for a lean-to style loft.

[@chazs6854]

Thumbs up just for the time stamps, thank you

[@TonyCheung2023]

Great testing video

[@giorgisofficial9156]

Hey on the speed test you done the reason you got 100+ms is because you were running the speed test on the other page (it was testing the upload) also one suggestion do a ping via command like and leave it without running any speedtests etc to see your downtimes etc. A great tool is MRTG you can see your ping in graphs etc. Great video 👌

[@XMguy]

You can hear the power running through the dish around 2:30. When he touches the reflector.

[@cropsyedits2156]

man if we ignore the technical stuff you are literally living in a video game simulation.. that view looks amazing..

[@minibuilder1512]

Got my dishy tonight, late , ill be checking it out probably tomorrow :D

[@Mr_Zx]

I'll keep waiting.

[@niiiiiix]

Just so you know as a fun fun fun secret trick with Starlink app. 1. Tap on the wrench icon on the bottom right of the starlink app a few times. 2. Scroll down, if you see 'developer mode' etc. 3. If you see developer mode, then click on 'statistics' You can scroll left and right and then see the whole 24 hours of service in graphs. Try showing if the dish had any connectivity issues from the app? Ping from the PC is made to look slightly better based on how the Starlink modem and router hides it and holds onto packets while the Starlink app shows exact packets from Dishy being lost etc.

[@arminb3939]

Its a moving system. These speed tests are designed for a steady connection. Maybe we can get better results by taking the mean of daily/weekly tests on different day times. Additionally it would be interesting to have statistics on weather paired up with those throughout the test samples by tapping on public APIs. I can see some possible test automation there, with interesting results.

[@rippermcguinn]

Is the dish heated? I live in rural Ontario and I'm looking forward to Starlink, but we can get a lot of snow, and it appears that the optimum dish orientation in a satellite-filled sky would be more-or-less straight up.

[@batuhanmete8665]

Yes. It is heated

[@XMguy]

It might not need it with that ERP.

[@paullyle7913]

Dish does not have a heater. There is passive heat from the electronics that heats the dish. Will be interesting to see how very cold temperatures affect ability to melt snow

[@clemp3010]

Yes, it's heated

[@PowersNinja]

Great video. Love the info on Starlink weather performance. Wanted to chime in and let you know there is a speedtest.net cli app you can get in Windows, Linux, Mac and it cuts out that browser overhead to give more accurate results.

[@TheGhungFu]

That 100 watt draw 24/7 ?? That's a lot for us off-grid folks, and maybe 40 cents per day for gridweenies.

[@Paveynator]

True. They are trying to look into a more efficient setup in the future so keep your eyes peeled!

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

Sp what's melting the snow? Is it the energy throughput of the dish it's self or is it slightly heated or what?

[@LesNewell]

The electronics in the dish use a lot of power (around100W). Most of this ends up as heat. Melting the snow is just a useful side effect. On the down side that's around 2.4kWH of energy per day if it's left on all the time. Depending on your electricity price that could be a significant extra cost.

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

@@LesNewell Christ that's... ~40p a day for us. As it would be on nearly all day every day that would soon add up, and we already struggle some months with our electricity.

[@JanVozenilek]

Thank you for the videos! Working great! Can you share any information on the monthly plan? What are the monthly data limits for downloading/uploading? Thank you

[@K7CARadio]

TU for the updates. I'm a full time RVer that boondocks in very remote areas across the Western states and this is a game changer for the nomadic crowd. You're getting as good or better than the best cell phone speeds I see. Can't wait to ditch my cell internet!!!..... I'm looking at the Starlink SAT map and see ground stations in Brewster WA and Conrad MT. Do you see what ground station you are connected to? Curious if that makes a difference and what the max footprint of each SAT is?.....Looks to be about 180 miles? The technology is absolutely amazing. Go StarLink!!!!!!

[@TheOpinionatedYouTuber]

I really like your videos on your experiences with Starlink. I wonder if anyone from Starlink watches your videos to get an idea of what's being said on social media. Keep up the great work, and if you find any nuances with using Starlink, I'd be interested in what you learn. Specifically, think about the satellites orbiting above you in Low Earth Orbit, and how your internet connection is being handed off between multiple satellites up there. Could that process be what you're seeing in the graph towards at the end of this video? Whereby, when there's miles of water between your dish and the satellites in orbit (e.g., rain/snow), the effect of your internet connection being handed off becomes worsened or more prevalent/pronounced? It's just a thought....

[@lankanmon55]

Hey, just FYI, the reason that different speed tests give you different results is that they all use different servers on the other end. Depending on how far the server is from the Starlink ground station will determine the speed of the data transfer. Fast.com uses Netflix data centers and partner ones, speedtest.net has a ton of partner datacenters (so they will almost always be the closest to you -- and fastest) and Google uses almost exclusively their own datacenters. If you are looking to determine the fastest speed under those conditions, it whatever the max was that you got. The others only matter when you think about what content they provide, for example, Google will be a good indicator of your KZbin video loading speeds and Fast.com will be indicative of Netflix video loading speed etc. Just thought that info would be helpful for any future tests. Thanks for a very informative video!

I'm hoping to get it in west kentucky. Been stuck with 6mbps DSL for over 10 years 😐

[@Bill-dw5wk]

Brett Star-link is suppose to have so many satellites I'm wondering if you cut the power to it and restart it if it might not pickup on another satellite that is away from the tree and maybe even a better/faster signal? Sure don't cost anything to try. Have you tried the speed tests after changing the cities it's test to? I notice my speeds will change according to the cities I choose for the test.

[@declangallagher1448]

Can't wait until this launches in Ireland.

[@grillingwithwoos]

Have you experienced much down time? The wife works from home and I online game so consistency is key for us

[@RogerDiotte]

It's not really downtime as you think it would be, I have it and downtime is actually what feels like a moment to run and grab a coffee LOL...it does have the odd moment (3 times or whatever a day) where it stalls or drops I guess...they are 10 to 30 seconds of silence then back again...yesterday (Feb 8th 2020) I had my first day with Zero drops so crossing fingers they found a loose nut and tightened it up! Oh and gaming, yea I game like Rocket League and Rising Storm 2 Vietnam, Star Wars Battlefront II and yea there's the odd drop but if your not in a money match playing tournament level gaming where your going to win or lose 10 grand then it's perfectly fine...after the glitches are worked out you'll be just like sitting in town on cable etc... I also am taking Civil Engineering online now from College so I'm streaming 6 hours a day on MS Teams video and yea there's a few times during it that I'll get that "hold while we reconnect" that lasts for 15 to 30 seconds then it just seamlessly goes back in instantly....It's not a deal breaker at all for me....but if your DEMANDING IT to be on like your heart is on a pace maker and one glitch will send ya to the grave then don't move from the city YET. In fact you should also check where your considering moving the amount of power outages in the rural areas your considering. Some areas have pretty ugly outages where as some places "know on wood for me" have little to none! I've known some people saying they have an outage weekly which would mean more than actually Starlink would be down LOL...so.

[@2nd-place]

Speedtest.net is the only one worth paying attention to. It depends on the server. Find a good consistent server to figure out a baseline, and that will show you the max you’re capable of.

[@kondaments]

I have seen a few sites that actually map in real time where ALL the starlink satellites are. It would be interesting to see if the location of a satellite in bad weather also influences the speed. Maybe overlay the site when you do your test? Either way, thanks for your update! Now subscribed.

[@daveborchard2019]

Could you mount the dishes closer to the ground on about a 4 foot structure? Then no ladder would be needed. Would it be possible to build a plastic or glass box to house the dish? You could make the top of the plastic or glass dish housing have a steep slopes surface on the top. Then heat the enclosure to melt the snow. Then you’d just have water droplets on top of the sloped dish enclosure. Then you could mount a windshield wiper on the dish enclosure to wipe off the water droplets.

[@NMIBUBBLE]

Get ya a painter extended poll and a squeegee instead of using the ladder. Just a thought. :) cool video not bad on the upload and download times .

[@trooperz137]

Australia is getting star link soon, fair to say we are all excited. Our government screwed up with the NBN roll out cheaped out on us

[@willwaddington9686]

Hey just wondering how it's still going with starlink? I get mine on Monday. And your videos have been very helpful

[@common_c3nts]

I wonder if his roof is leaking yet from the holes he put in it.

[@jagzilla1398]

How is the streaming? It seems the ping is total BS..Is the connection smooth? Have you tried doing a live stream to test it?

[@thomasfriedl3137]

For 1080p streaming you need about 15mbits minimum and his speed is way higher so it should be more than enough

[@jagzilla1398]

@@RichardTheTurd556 Well it's not just starlink ping..Try it yourself..do a trace route and see what each individual hop time is..This never seems to add up correctly on any ISP..They some how can mangle the data packet to reflect whatever ping time they want...

[@robmagee100]

The microwave frequency cuts through the rain, snow, ice, etc. That is not affecting your speeds. The dish takes around 100 watts of power, much of which is warming Dishy McFlatface, so unless you lose power, the dish will continue to be snow/ice free. In a recent ice storm, I did lose power and my Starlink was coated with about a half inch of ice. I ran an extension cord from my car to power Starlink system, and had fast Internet in a couple minutes. It took another half hour for the ice sheet to melt and slide off, but ice or not, I didn’t notice speed degradation. What is affecting your speeds are the satellites passing overhead, and behind your tree that does happen to be in just the wrong place.

[@AvengerRVAdventure]

Tests look good! I am wondering if you could put some RainX on the dish to aid in water removal? I can't wait to be able to sign up. Not available in south Florida from what I understand. Thanks for sharing! Steve

[@meyatetana2973]

Honestly snow never bothered my internet when I had sat internets. Doubt it'll bother yours when they are even closer

[@thresh0014]

You don't know what you're talking about.

[@samljer]

I actually had an idiot on reddit convinced they dont heat up. even after the AMA saying they had heating capability

[@grekounas]

How many drops do you get caused by obstruction? That tree looks like it takes a fair amount of the window. I have mine setup and the trees are pretty far away and sometimes I might get just a bit of the top of the tree, and I noticed my obstruction downtime is anywhere from 10-15 minutes a day, but they are small little bits of connection loss 5-30 seconds. BTW, we had hurricane like rain here in Atlantic Canada a couple of days ago. Things slowed down, but did not lose connection. Other folks on satellite in the area were out a majority of the 24 hour period. And by slow down, I mean in the 40-60 range without issue on the upload.

[@rickdees251]

It may be worth the effort to look into applying a super hydrophobic coating on the dish where any tilt will shed water, instead of beading up and staying. If snow will attenuate signal strength then water will do the same to a lesser degree. That said I don't believe a coating will produce measurable results. I suspect the reduction in performance is due to weather covering between your antenna and satellite which is unavoidable.

[@patrickwalter8175]

In Germany this would be premium!

[@gamercatsz5441]

I hope they bring this to Europe soon, I’m from Belgium and I want to go more offgrid. Be less dependable of the local system.

[@Blubb340]

0,2 mb/s here in germany. total garbage.

[@guxery8901]

In rural America this would be awesome

[@k1dicarus]

In SOME rural regions in Germany, yes. But in general Starlink isn't competitive in regions like central Europe where many people live close together. I pay 55€ for Internet, TV, Telephone. 100 Mbit/s ( reality 80 Mbit/s ). Baden Württemberg, former cable infrastructure of KabelBW / Unitymedia now Vodafon. For 10€ more I could get (advertised) 500 Mbit/s, 1000 Mbit/s for 15€ more.

[@gamercatsz5441]

@@k1dicarus well, belgium is much more densly populated, but there is not enough competition on the telecom market. We pay almost 70 euro per Month for the same things you get. Starlink would be Ideal to disrupt the market.

[@efraim6960]

So there will likely be a future dish variant with no heating for areas near the equator.

[@tonygreen1067]

The internet destination can make a difference as well. Speedtest.net goes to Spokane, Google goes to Seattle.

[@scotthoskin7297]

Enjoyed the video Brett. Have you considered moving the dish to the side of the roof furthest from the tree?

[@brettbatie]

Yes, I might end up moving it. I will have to build a platform if I do as the other ledge is not wide enough.

[@mahmut123456]

Well a good entry level chain saw costs like 200$ and you can both solve your internet and heating problem with it 👍🏻

[@jetblack-km1dx]

Hi Brett. Can you make speed test on east coast servers? it would be nice to see how it's the latency outside your region. Thanks.

[@Striker9]

Man I miss having snow as often as I did when I was a kid. Seems like it snows less and less.