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don't you just love it when you buy a product that doesn't solve the problem

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it says it's going to that was sarcasm that's what many folks are experiencing

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with starlink the satellite internet project from Elon Musk That was supposed

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to revolutionize internet access in areas with bad infrastructure but this

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past July customers were reporting speeds of less than one megabit per

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second what is this 2002 where are all the frosted tips and yes satellite

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internet has traditionally been notoriously slow especially for the

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prices you pay but starlink was touted as a solution to this as it uses a

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constellation of satellites that are much closer to Earth than the satellites

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used by Legacy providers like viasad and HughesNet starlink has advertised speeds

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between 100 and 200 megabits per second with latency as low as 20 milliseconds

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fast enough for gaming and video calls which are applications that often

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sputter to the point of being unusable over a typical satellite connection our

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own testing we did in early 2021 showed that starlink did indeed deliver a

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usable gaming experience so why are so many people now reporting problems see

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it's like this starlink currently has over 3 000 satellites in low earth orbit

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and that sounds like a lot especially when you consider ViaSat and HughesNet

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only use 12 satellites combined but

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SpaceX is planning to one day have tens of thousands of satellites in the sky

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why in the world do they need so many when their competitors make do with just

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a handful well because they're so close to the Earth their line of sight to the

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ground is much more limited than far away satellites to provide truly

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worldwide coverage starlink may need as many as 42 000 satellites at some point

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the current lack of coverage combined with the fact that these satellites

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themselves are quite small only about one-fifth the weight of a Honda Civic

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means that they simply don't have the aggregate capacity yet to deal with a

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growing customer base but just how bad has it gotten in terms of speed we'll

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quarter of 2022 download speeds for Starling customers in the United States

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dropped nearly 30 megabits per second going from about 91 down to around 63 if

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we're considering medians upload speeds and latency also suffered from more

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modest yet still noticeable performance losses several customers in rural areas

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complained that the falling speeds meant that they couldn't work effectively at

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their jobs and this is after paying 110 bucks a month for the service on top of

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a 600 charge for the initial hardware setup yikes these setback Acts were not

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only frustrating for customers but they also caught the attention of the U.S

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Federal Communications Commission which used starlink's declining performance as

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a reason to refuse to give the company a grant of nearly 900 million dollars to

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be fair Elon Musk did say that the network would have capacity limits

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initially but he indicated the issues would be primarily centered around urban

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areas not the rural ones where people have suffered from unacceptably slow

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performance however the good news is that starlink is indeed continuing to

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actively launch more satellites and does have approval from the FCC to launch up

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to a total of around 12 000 of them and it's not like starlink is unusable for

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everyone since they're still significantly faster than Legacy satellite internet services but still

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with the amount of money starlink charges every month let's hope that it

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doesn't scare too many people away before they complete their Network there's still a few spots in the upper

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atmosphere I'd hate to see them go to waste thanks for watching this video so

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