Starlink unboxing and setup Christchurch, New Zealand

[@zanepye711]

Hell yeah. Waiting in australia. This is the first video I have found. Thanks for sharing

[@mooblogger]

Got my Starlink system up on the barn roof in Cust, North Canterbury. Super impressed, 195 / 45 yesterday. Great news for Kiwi rural internet.

[@9and3]

Great stuff. Are you finding it a stable connection?

[@mooblogger]

@@9and3 It drops out most nights around 9pm for a few minutes and sometimes in the mornings at about 6am otherwise it is a stable service. These outages are to be expected I guess as the service is still in beta. I've hooked up my 2degrees rural mobile broadband as a failover to cover the small outages.

[@Pete856]

It's a bit expensive compared to some of the other rural options out there, but it is faster than most. I'm also in Canterbury and I'm paying less than half of what Starlink costs for a stable 25/7 Mb connection, 200GB cap on evening peak time and unlimited midnight to 5pm. As much as I would like a faster connection at times, it's not really necessary.

[@Bonsaiant]

On outskirts of Christchurch, had mine 3 weeks now, hitting an average of 228mb, impressed so far, awaiting more updates...

[@king4b1]

I'm just in the process of ordering one now I'm actually at kairaki Beach kaiapoi what area are you in that speed you are getting is nutts

[@Bonsaiant]

@@king4b1 Lincoln/Prebbleton Area

[@king4b1]

sweet I'm going to look at it tonight soon as my neighbur gets because he asked me about it two weeks ago what i think but he's on holiday till this afternoon so we will both order to night how long did it take to arrive when she ordered it thanks mike

[@Bonsaiant]

@@king4b1 From order to arrival, took 3 weeks

[@jayzah]

Amazing! That's faster than my current fiber connection

[@kenw5104]

Whoa. I think you guys are the first to share in NZ.

[@RogerDiotte]

Exciting times! What's really cool is that I'm on the other side of the planet on the same internet! Now that's cool!

[@9and3]

You’re probably not cause we each have our own country specific ground stations - ie were still fenced off as a country to the world

[@harryprendergast7499]

I live down in Southland New Zealand, I’ve had mine for 4 days now and I’m blown away by the speeds. It’s usually 75mbs but I’ve seen it up to 180 a couple of times

[@Reason077]

@@janos1945 Unless you have fibre, no it is not. Speaking from experience 😉

[@TheBest14184]

@@janos1945 in rural part of nz it’s god awful

[@Wirmish]

It will go faster... much faster... in the next few years.

[@harryprendergast7499]

got up to 323 today

[@shaonian]

@@janos1945 NZ is #22 in the world with an average speed of 148 Mbps. I get 960/420 Mbps in a small rural town.

[@agoodtheory]

What's the ping like? Sorry if I missed it

[@richfuller5781]

In Banks Peninsula, we have never had anything better than the 4mbps. Setup Starlink top 190 / 30 yesterday, this morning an amazing 310 / 80, and then an average of 200-250 down and 30 up. Thank you Elon Musk.

[@9and3]

HI there, I've got dishy setup in Cass Bay at the moment as our primary internet (I don't need it cause I have fibre but I'm testing it). What are video calls and such 1:1 connections like for you - are you getting many micro outages that disrupt?

[@richfuller5781]

@@9and3 I haven't done any video calls, but I will give it a go in the weekend and let you know.

[@TeslaStraya]

Awesome! Great video! Hoping we see it over the ditch in the not too distant future!

[@dbxyzoo]

Excellent video thanks for posting it, one thing that did look a little disappointing was the ping at 99ms I hope thats going to get better in time.

[@benbit1]

Had StarLink for over a month now, excellent Experienced my old direct beam sucked one recommendation download the app and use it for set up get it right the first time. Truly a plug and play 20 minute set up Max ,, mounting run the wires couple hours

[@erichurst2496]

I am excited for you.

[@thaonguyen-fv5gd]

Thanks Waiting for more information NZ STARLINK

[@blen-nz]

Mine arrived in Lyttelton on the 22nd of March as well, a bloody quick delivery speed! So far so good as far as speeds go, but numerous disconnections. I have a SamKnows whitebox, which indicates a lot more disconnections than the Starlink app is reporting. I'm still connected to ADSL via 2degrees (until the contract runs out), since ADSL was all that was available to me, and on that I get about 8Mbps down and 0.9 up. I'm now averaging about 180Mbps down and 32 up, according to SamKnows. I must say I'm pretty happy!

[@9and3]

Well Done that’s awesome 😎

[@codycoopernz]

Doesn’t Lyttelton have fibre everywhere? Not sure why you’d need StarLink or be on ADSL.

[@blen-nz]

Nope, no fibre for us, and no plans for it to ever be installed@@codycoopernz

[@pokemonguy6579]

All dishes are antennas. Dish antennas are high gain. Considering from the satellite to the user distance, that's high gain, even of its size...

[@sewasewa6585]

I think it has a wider side view angle than normal "dishes" I.e.phase array, so might be still better on the roof of the building. Can't tell until you try.

[@markhuntingdonart]

Mine didn't unravel very well either. Took me 20 minutes to get all the tangles and knots out. Very frustrating

[@whoisvaliant]

I have been waiting for a very long time with no updates, how did you guys go about getting starlink? Cheers.

[@9and3]

Just went online and ordered. We are in the right location - that’s the main thing.

[@banditoo7]

I ordered mine in February for Taupo. Only got an email couple of days ago that it's been processed.

[@benjifrater6077]

I'm wondering if this will be usable in the Chatham Islands. Great vid, cheers.

[@9and3]

I'm sure it will work there.

[@crisdeinepomperada1711]

It will be in the whole part of the world and i cant wait to get my dishyy

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I’m wondering how fast this is compared to a carrier pigeon fired from a trebuchet

[@Jakey4000]

Trebuchet carrier pigeon would be pretty fast, but your letter would be unreadable from all the blood

[@Neojhun]

The thing that sticks out of a Sat Dish is called a Low Noise Block LNB, weird name.

[@verymert]

STOKED!

[@Ahsgsuabevajajaa]

Would starlink work in northland? On the page where you order it it says "coverage will be in your area mid to late 2021." However it says that for Christchurch too. So I'm just wondering if you'd have a clue. Thanks

[@9and3]

I would imagine absolutely yes. It works pretty much anywhere in the world but until all the satellites are in the sky coverage may not be continuous 24hrs a day with a few minutes black spots here and there. You can google coverage maps to see but they are getting better every day.

[@peterdeagrella3035]

I’m getting ready awesome

[@ThoughtfulAl]

Nice, liked and subbed, I did not realize it was available for purchase here yet. Looking forward to ipo.

[@maxazure]

HI I just got it in Invercargill its speed is abt 140Mbps to auckland.

[@9and3]

Nice, further south of NZ seems to have more / faster / better coverage.

[@maxazure]

Indeed, but unfortunately, it still often drops.

[@craigsaunders3200]

What's your official coverage meant to be? Like here in Christchurch it's something like 85% ... which it seems makes it essentially unusable, though further testing and experimentation is required, which I believe Aaron is going to be doing...

[@sushinskiy]

What with packet losses and late packets? I'm in Dunedin. Could you you test with packet loss test and write the results in comments please?

[@jayzah]

Can you take on holiday with you and have it at the batch or ob an RV temporarily or is it locked to where you order to?

[@9and3]

Not yet but apparently soon you can yes.

[@cookcharles2019]

I was a tourist in South Island round early March last year. The mobile data connections was a shock to those who takes high speed internet connection for granted. Anyway, we were on a star gazing tour one night and the guide was explaining something about the stellar phenomenon and I joked that it could be Musk's Star link. One of the touist who was a Singaporean snapped backed that it was all phooey. Well I hope he's enjoying this video now.🤣

[@howardbaldwin1226]

Good stuff! I have a friend in Garston who is about to connect. Will share their experience with you guys. Cheers.

[@honghua1659]

Very interested in ordering one myself on our farm. great reviews so far on coverage and speed, but can anyone share their experience running during bad weather? does it disconnect (lose) coverage and ultimately disconnects? And to what degree of bad weather can it start to experience latency problem (if any)? Thanks

[@gergc4871]

"Internet in a box, everywhere" License that before SpaceX does. It's the most concise way of describing Starlink.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Lol not everywhere yet. At this point no roaming outside of your cell without a lengthy phone request and a 3 day wait time for the action to actioned . But agree need to licence it

[@mahfuzsikder339]

New Zealand i's my favourite country

[@The-Organist]

If this setup was intended for a farm, how far away from its "service address" are you?

[@9and3]

as the crow bird flys 25km.. well inside our starlink 'cell'

[@ps3301]

They should make an antenna hat people can wear to replace 5g

[@magamike1800]

Dam thats cool to see. I am in Christchurch but plan to move offgrid down south. Hope to run the unit off 12V if that is what the power brick is putting out.

[@Kiwionwing]

Yes we are vaners 12v is the norm

[@blen-nz]

You'll have to use an inverter, as it's not really a "power brick". It uses POE I think, and it's 100W or so. That makes a 12V current draw of a little over 8amps, which is going to be a fairly heavy user of your precious solar power. Of course you can turn everything off when you're not using it. Starlink is looking at developing mobile units I believe.

[@Kiwionwing]

@@blen-nz real problem is moving in bus / truck or site business locations

[@magamike1800]

@@blen-nz Thanks for the info. I have ordered a cyber truck so i will be able to plug it into an outlet straight out of the bed/vault. If the power brick puts out 12v then it might be better to just power it off my 12 battery bank and not run any inverters. hope to have 3KW of solar so using 100w during the day will hardly be noticable.

[@blen-nz]

@@Kiwionwing There are some videos of people in the US moving their units a fair distance from their registered address, and still getting connectivity. I haven't tried it yet, although I was tempted to take it on our caravan trip to the Catlins last week. There's plenty of chatter about potential "RV" applications in the (hopefully near) future. I'll happily beta test a caravan mounted dishy!

[@Michael_st.a]

In case you haven't noticed yet on your car, the steering wheel is on the wrong side 😛 Nice greetings from Germany

[@9and3]

:) no this is NZ new

[@emilelepissier7550]

No, the steering wheel was on the RIGHT side. Obviouly the right side is the wrong side for the steering wheel in Gernany when they see UK cars driving there.

[@abecoulter8550]

Ashburton..had mine for 3months

[@Reddylion]

Interesting

[@thewhitesage]

What was the time you were without internet during a 24hr period I understand there are some outages with the BETA set up. These obviously will improve as more satellites are launched

[@9and3]

I’ve not had it on constantly for 24h to know and I’m not using the Starlink router so I don’t get their stats but I’m doing more tests this week

[@jeremyeharris]

Nice video, interesting and entertaining. Christchurch resident, been thinking about getting Starlink myself, but a bit difficult to justify living in the city. Still tempted though, just for the geek value. Is there any way to do a firm attachment to a roof, or does it just sit in that tripod stand out in the open? I'm pretty sure I've seen your car around Christchurch, mine's exactly the same, only with a black and white interior :)

[@9and3]

HI there, yes you can get a roof mount. I you're in CHCH and have fibre get that, this is really for places where fibre is not.

[@Wirmish]

It will go faster at the end of this year... much faster in the next few years.

[@olsim1730]

Interested to know the power drawn from the wall. Cheers

[@9and3]

I think there are a few other KZbin clips that measure that - I recall about 80w?

[@2cul8tr]

I hear this is only for your own address, so how far can a person take it from there and still work?

[@George_Shonia]

Up to 10 miles, (16km)

[@peterdeagrella3035]

How much did it cost please help me information

[@9and3]

Google online, its different in each country. You can just try and order it from the starlink site and it will tell you.

[@TamimLB]

Starlink: Ok, now it's time for you to set up you internet. Women: Aaaaaand skip

[@deprimat666]

After this video I bet Elon will invent a cable that can't tangle 😂

[@banditoo7]

Payment made for mine. Just waiting for email with a tracking number. Rural Taupo

[@9and3]

Fantastic let me know how it goes

[@daveadams6421]

Rather than using a WiFi repeater, which cuts your overall speed, use a WiFi Mesh network solution 😎

[@samar_timilsina]

Any update now?

[@9and3]

Yes I posted it

[@twilightgarrison3671]

I wonder if Elon will allow people to buy an entire ground station for people who can pay for it. I feel like that would be cool for private businesses or a big private property owner who wants a ground station next to their Dishy lol

[@9and3]

Great idea!

[@jmatt98]

How would you make money from a ground station?

[@unnamedchannel1237]

How do the ground stations work I thought they had to be connected back to say a fiber connection or other back bone. If that is the case the back bone would be near you so you wouldn’t have to have a dish? Or are you saying some kind of private WAN?

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Also when they launch the sats with the lasers equiped they won’t need the ground stations or as many of them so will Become obsolete?

[@johnwilson5743]

@@unnamedchannel1237 That is my understanding also. Just by listening to the information released. But it will be some time before they start replacing the sats already up there. I think they'll concentrate on just getting more and more in space first. Although they have said that the sats flying over land that cannot easily get ground stations. (Large jungle mass, North Pole/South Pole) etc. will have the laser equipped abilities to communicate directly with the other sats via laser relay. I think there plan was to progressively replace the existing ones with the new laser abilities as each is due to be replaced. Was that two or three years? I can't recall.

[@achikaru]

the speed is same as my broadband here in HK!!

[@jmatt98]

Are you behind the Chinese firewall in HK?

[@achikaru]

@@jmatt98 Not yet for the internet, but some ass clown councillor are doing self censorship already (media, art and speech), i guess it is just a matter of time, that why i am interested in getting starlink as future backup plan, tho Elon Musk is no good man neither LOL p.s. some of us are fleeing to different country, if you happen to meet one later, please bear with the trouble we might cause while we are adapting, in return we are going to contribute our best to your country

[@taroctg]

Eats tin tymes bida

[@SuperRBRBRB]

It would be better if i didn't have to hear the camera person breathing healthy in the back ground..

[@user-yj4qz5lo6k]

I don’t hear anything