WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.960 we got a starlink beta kit that's right 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:07.200 internet from the stars baby 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:13.360 now we already did an unboxing on ShortCircuit but this thing is quite 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:18.160 literally going to change the world so we felt like it merited a deeper dive 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:23.359 into how starlink works what we can expect from global broadband satellite 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:26.000 internet i mean that is some wicked heavy serious stuff 00:00:25.119 --> 00:00:31.199 and hey we're still Linus tech tips so 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:33.520 obviously we are gonna pull up a gaming 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:37.120 rig and pawn some noobs from space 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.800 and we even left space in the video for our sponsor ridge wallet ridge wallet 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.879 wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frame and rfid blocking plates 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.160 check out how they can keep your wallet bulge down and use offer code Linus to 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:52.360 save 10 and get free worldwide shipping 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.239 i think the majority of you would agree that your life would be very different 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:07.600 if your internet access disappeared or became cripplingly unreliable or 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.119 expensive if you live near a metropolitan center 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:17.200 you'll likely have a variety of speed and service options to pick from but as 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:20.479 of 2017 50 million us homes only had a 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.920 single isp option for 25 megabit service 00:01:20.479 --> 00:01:26.400 or none at all with 5 million unable to 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.680 get anything faster than 3 megabit per second which no 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:35.600 isn't enough unless the year is 2005. i mean i get it 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:42.079 building and maintaining a massive network of cables and switches and fiber 00:01:38.479 --> 00:01:44.240 isn't a small or cheap task but legal 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:48.479 hurdles and other roadblocks like exclusivity agreements for telephone 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:53.759 pole usage make what should in theory be a competitive free market not 00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:58.799 competitive or free at all i'm looking at you delta cable so no competition 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:03.280 means the prices go up and as for the service well 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:08.959 you bend over and take it because well something is better than nothing oh wait 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:12.959 we're it aren't we dang it i guess you have to deal with 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:18.319 our packages enter starlink i'm not always a fan of elon 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:24.720 musk's hyperbolic marketing but what starlink is doing is exactly as cool and 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:29.040 important as he says it is this is about bringing the next billion users online 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:33.840 people that don't have the same access to a robust and unrestricted data 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:39.040 infrastructure of course satellite internet isn't a new idea the 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:45.120 problem is that previous services relied on smaller constellations of larger more 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:51.760 cumbersome satellites with very limited capacity so speeds were low and prices 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:53.599 were very high spacex and competitors 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:58.319 like amazon's project kuiper and the uk's oneweb are taking a different 00:02:55.519 --> 00:03:03.680 approach deploying multitudes of much smaller more advanced satellites 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.680 this should allow for much faster speeds greater coverage and 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:13.280 how much are we paying for this 100 a month with no data no data cap that's no 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.800 data cap it's pricey it's not horrible it's less than what i pay for my 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:20.720 workshop that's fair all right let's get it set up first you 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:27.680 gotta protect your noggin with an LTT beanie LTT Store.com next 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:29.440 holy there it is you unpack your 500 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:35.280 starter kit and while this enormous box might look a little 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:37.120 daunting there actually isn't much in here 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:42.400 dish mast assembly tripod base wi-fi router 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.159 modem and a PoE injector to power it all that's it 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:51.680 oh and by the way this is really important guys this power supply over 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:53.200 here this is not your grandpa's 30 watt 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:57.200 PoE injector if you have an existing power over 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:01.360 Ethernet switch it wouldn't deliver nearly the 90 watts that the dish 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:06.400 requires and if for whatever reason you were to plug this adapter into other PoE 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:12.480 equipment you already own you would have a very bad time the 2c thickness of this 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.360 cable should be all you need to know about it 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:20.959 finally you'll need to set up your receiver somewhere with a clear view of 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:22.880 the sky to do that get comfortable 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.240 wait for someone on your staff to haul it to the roof of your office by 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:30.000 climbing up and down the access ladder half a dozen times well you have a 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:34.960 little nap then have him or her plug it in for you 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:39.520 when that's done it'll boot up search for satellites and orient itself toward 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:42.880 the best one a little hand shaky shake takes place 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:47.360 then the satellite you connect to will in turn connect to one of dozens of 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:52.880 starlink ground stations giving you a high speed low latency link with no 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:56.639 contractors required but is it any good just want to make sure people know 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:03.120 there's no smoke no mirrors oh god this cable is well 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:08.160 whatever the people trust me it's it's starlinked this is it call and set up 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:12.479 everything up till now this is my first space internet my first space 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:15.840 web page and i think we all know where i'm going 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.560 that wasn't bad 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:30.639 that wasn't bad like we're not just talking text web pages 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:32.560 here we're talking like 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:35.759 look at these pictures loading in it says rich 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:38.639 rich multimedia well i mean it's something it's something that's freaking 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:43.280 cool i want to send a tweet let's see how long it takes me to send a tweet okay so 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:47.759 we can also connect to it because it's got like a wi-fi hotspot i can also 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:53.440 connect to it with my phone LTT starbanger really does that even mean 00:05:50.479 --> 00:05:57.840 like the witcher in space like i know what it means stop gesturing i'm 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:01.280 sending a tweet okay here we go so you guys you guys are gonna know how 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.280 long the delay is on our videos now sending this 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:08.560 from space to space and back 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:12.800 that's right that's where i went thanks elon daddy 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:19.840 elon obviously we're going pretty easy on it so far i mean pictures 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:22.319 i mean what the rich web what is this 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:26.960 okay we're going we're going video here youtube.com okay 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:31.440 okay there's a lot of thumbnails not bad now 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:37.680 that's a little slower than your hard linked broadband internet connection if 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:39.199 you got like 100 150 megabit down 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:44.639 but like it's usable you know 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:47.440 this is not impeding my experience yeah 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:52.080 i can tell i can tell the images are coming down a little slower but like 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:56.240 okay let's click on what looks like a really good video okay uh this guy's 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.960 handsome nice beard nice tube LTT Store you know 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:04.720 wow that ad have you ever noticed ads load a lot faster than the actual video 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:10.560 wow that was instant not only was playback 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:15.759 instant but we are actually getting you can actually see the video chunks loading 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:20.479 i'm at 4k imagine for a second 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:24.560 going from barely broadband or not even having broadband 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:28.880 to this kind of internet experience unreal i mean i remember this i lived 00:07:27.039 --> 00:07:33.520 out on the boondocks and like i had friends that went to my high school that 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:36.240 had broadband and could go on napster 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:39.840 and download music or whatever and for me it was like yeah we only have one 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:43.680 phone line so i can use the internet like maybe half an hour a day and like i 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:49.440 can't even get anything done in that time when we got broadband i used up my 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:54.240 own allowance money for the drop from the poll at the street because that's 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:58.400 how much it meant to me i was like 14 00:07:55.840 --> 00:08:02.560 and it it was a game changer i got a cd burner i made mixed cds for people i was 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:06.560 the cool kid just kidding about that last part but everything else up until then was true 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:14.160 yeah no pull no drop and well that's essentially what the price of the kit is 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:17.120 that's your pull draw now i i mean i got to push it 00:08:15.599 --> 00:08:21.599 i want to push it i don't want to just watch one line of tech tips video i want 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:26.800 to have the whole Linus tech tips experience you know 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.800 one Linus tech tips 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:31.520 two Linus tech tips 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.800 come on more Linus tech tips why is it recommending me anything other than 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:41.519 Linus tech tips all right ijustine we'll watch ijustine collab with Linus tech 00:08:38.959 --> 00:08:44.800 tips big lineus tech tips fan you know okay let's do some scrubbing scrub 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:49.040 because we ain't no scrub but we got to scrub around you know what i'm saying 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.640 okay give it a sec remember we're just hitting it pretty hard 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:57.760 that one's going that one's going that one's going this one needs a second 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.399 these are all running at 4k now you 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:05.200 might think if our internet is so fast we can do four 4k streams simultaneously 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:10.000 like that's the same as if we were watching 8k video 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:14.000 that it's weird that those thumbnails loaded in so slowly or that if we scroll 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.519 down there's this delay when we're loading the comments 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:21.040 let's do a quick speed test here and i'm gonna talk about that look wait okay 00:09:19.680 --> 00:09:25.600 we're not saying it's gonna be like perfect or anything wow we actually like do not have a 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.959 connection hold on a sec got a cloud up there right that doesn't 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:34.320 happen yeah no no that's that's not actually the thing 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:39.040 you might say we've got cloud strife if you do run into trouble 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:44.720 and powering it off and powering it back on doesn't immediately kick it back in there is a companion app and colin's 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:47.839 actually running a speed test on it now so maybe it's kicked back in let's go 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:52.160 have a look and we're back there we go spacex 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:55.120 starlink that's correct that's what we expect 00:09:53.360 --> 00:10:02.160 let's see what we get wow 138 megabit per second down and 23 up 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:06.560 wow i mean i shouldn't be surprised or anything we were playing back four 4k 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:11.440 streams at once but 27 milliseconds for ping 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:17.440 let's talk about that i mean it's not bad it's way better than dial-up but 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:20.240 compared to even adsl and especially 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:25.680 fiber you're going to notice that difference in latency because remember 00:10:21.680 --> 00:10:28.240 guys it's not 27 milliseconds for like 00:10:25.680 --> 00:10:32.560 every complete transaction it's 27 milliseconds on every transaction and 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:38.320 once you have a whole bunch of them queued up it can add up so that's why 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:42.959 loading a video no problem loading thumbnails pretty good loading something 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:46.399 like a whole page of comments you might start to run into a little bit of 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:52.480 degraded experience still though come on 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:56.800 over the air or in some cases there's no air but 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:03.440 don't worry about that to make that work spacex needs not hundreds not thousands 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:06.399 but even tens of thousands of satellites 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:10.000 currently they're approved to put 12 000 up there with an additional 30 000 in 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:15.760 discussion but with a catch the fcc has mandated that spacex get at 00:11:14.079 --> 00:11:21.120 least half of their constellation in orbit within six years with full 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:25.519 deployment inside of nine else they risk losing their dedicated radio bands 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:30.480 this first deployment of twelve thousand then will live in orbit at three 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:34.120 different shells of altitudes 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:36.720 340 550 and 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:39.839 1150 kilometers above the earth's surface with each serving a different 00:11:38.800 --> 00:11:46.480 purpose the farther away the satellite is from the earth the wider the area it can 00:11:44.079 --> 00:11:50.240 serve but it comes at a cost of increased latency you know speed of 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:55.440 light and all that starlink will fly more sats at a lower 00:11:52.959 --> 00:12:00.079 orbit then to increase bandwidth and reduce lag in areas that need it the 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:04.640 most while the high orbit sats can also act as backhaul links sending data 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.240 between satellites the most recent launch of 10 of a new version of the 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:13.279 starlink satellite on a rideshare mission also included laser links for 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:17.920 inter-satellite communication so if a ground station isn't in the ideal 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:22.240 spot data can be passed along through other better oriented sets the lower the 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:27.360 orbit the more atmospheric drag a satellite will experience though that 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:28.959 slows it down and reduces its altitude 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:32.399 this can be corrected with the same on-board thrusters that the sats used to 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:37.839 avoid collisions with other objects in space but there's a limit to that so when the 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:42.160 sat finally reaches the end of its lifetime in four to five years it'll use 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:45.440 any remaining fuel to push itself out of orbit to 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:50.320 a fiery death burning itself up completely in the earth's atmosphere 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:54.399 that last part is really key to avoiding a kessler syndrome event a theoretical 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:59.360 scenario where the amount of space pollution crap in low earth orbit is so 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:04.160 high that collisions between objects could create a cascading effect where 00:13:01.839 --> 00:13:08.720 one satellite smashes into another which smashes into another and then everyone's 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:13.120 having a real bad time until the entire orbital plane is too dangerous to 00:13:10.959 --> 00:13:18.079 continue to use as for how likely that is take a look at this visualization 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:22.320 courtesy of leolabs these are all the satellites currently orbiting the earth 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:26.560 if we turn on the debris layer however it becomes pretty clear that we need to 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:30.079 be very careful what we leave in orbit any one of those pieces of junk could 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.600 take out a critical piece of orbital infrastructure as of writing this video 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:39.279 there are a little over a thousand starlink sats flying around up there and 00:13:36.560 --> 00:13:42.800 they aren't in a geostationary orbit so you can actually spot them moving across 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:48.399 the sky at night you'll see them as a little train of lights flying across the 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:51.519 sky which raises the question how can 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:54.079 the dish on your roof stay stationary 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:58.240 like we saw and still acquire the satellite even as it moves at seven and 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:03.519 a half kilometers per second using the motors on the dish 00:14:00.959 --> 00:14:08.800 is a possibility but that would require much finer motor control as well as have 00:14:06.079 --> 00:14:12.800 a higher chance of failure so instead starlink uses what's called a phased 00:14:11.199 --> 00:14:17.600 array antenna instead of one big antenna there's an 00:14:15.040 --> 00:14:21.920 array of hundreds of tiny antennas across the whole surface of the dish we 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:27.199 would show you ourselves but revealing them destroys the dish so 00:14:24.079 --> 00:14:29.440 this is not designed to be disassembled 00:14:27.199 --> 00:14:32.320 this clip of ken keter's tear down is going to have to do check his video out 00:14:31.199 --> 00:14:38.320 by the way we're going to have it linked below if you want to see some more starling gore the point is that by 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:44.000 shifting the phase of each individual antenna just right the direction of the 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:48.720 stacked up radio wave can be changed which is essentially electronic antenna 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:53.199 steering this sort of tech is normally reserved for military applications or 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:56.720 companies with deep pockets due to the high development cost i mean the fact 00:14:55.040 --> 00:14:59.920 that they are producing something so technologically advanced at a mass 00:14:58.560 --> 00:15:05.199 market scale and price is nothing short of astounding 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:09.120 now thank you so much for your patience with all these technical details let's 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:14.399 see how it gains i have a simple goal 00:15:10.959 --> 00:15:15.760 i want to get one headshot from space 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:20.160 in cs go alright and 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:24.560 i'm not going to settle for bot i want to headshot a real player 00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:27.760 i want to get a head shot from space i don't want to watch your stupid 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:31.040 video watch again who would do that 00:15:29.920 --> 00:15:37.600 all right so what's our ping sixty-four million man i love how rock 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:43.360 solid this ping is like when i was a kid i would have i would have killed to game 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:45.440 at 64 milliseconds and consistency of 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:51.120 ping is in some ways more important to the experience than the actual ping 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.120 number one oh hi i see you 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:57.519 no come on i got killed by tim hortons 00:15:55.199 --> 00:16:03.199 are you serious right now are they just shooting through the door 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:08.639 okay so we're just oh okay oh it wasn't a head shot how could i miss that 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:12.880 that was a bad time to reload i really am genuinely not very good at this game 00:16:10.880 --> 00:16:16.639 anybody over here oh hi come on show me your head no 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:21.600 damn it okay i'm only going to try one more time one more time i'll try for headshot okay 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:25.440 they got like markers in this game what does that even mean 00:16:23.199 --> 00:16:28.480 i don't even know oh come on 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:35.279 you know what though it doesn't matter it is only game 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:38.320 what matters is starlink and overall i 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:39.920 am really impressed like yeah there's 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:44.800 more latency than a terrestrial connection but it's manageable 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:50.320 it's manageable and the idea of being able to get these 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:54.560 sorts of speeds anywhere on the planet someday 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:57.360 it's incredible and it's not just about 00:16:54.560 --> 00:17:03.600 youtube netflix and video games it's about access to education unrestricted 00:17:00.800 --> 00:17:07.280 uncensored communication and even remote medical services 00:17:05.120 --> 00:17:12.400 and for those that live say on a sailboat or off the grid all of a 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:16.079 sudden you can do these things and still be 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