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wow it's really like proactive about getting lined up again

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many of us in urban areas take something for granted

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what is that you may ask well high speed

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low latency internet but if you're not those people say

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you live in the mountains somewhere or out in the boonies you might be stuck

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with something else and that's called satellite internet and that might be your only

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option if you've spoken to any of those people or are one of those people

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you'll probably know that satellite internet is generally kind of dog

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you're probably gonna contend with hundreds of milliseconds of latency

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and generally really slow speeds not to mention that many of these providers

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might implement data caps say only two or three hundred gigabytes

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if you could even hope to download that much in a month given how slow the speeds can be and for

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those who don't know or don't care to know latency is a measurement of time and in this context

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we're measuring how long it takes for a signal to go from here

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all the way up to the satellite and to come back fortunately our friends over

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at spacex and daddy elon have invented some

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fantastic new technology called starlink

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it's like satellite internet except way freaking better

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let's check it out

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this is a pretty big box like there we go macbook for scale

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we got some instructions right off the bat

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i'm guessing that icon means download something on your phone

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put it outside make sure it's sunny i

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don't think that actually matters and then go back inside run the internet

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cable into the box and plug the box in plug the box into

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the other box connect to the internet there's nothing

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on the back hopefully that's enough instructions for us ooh

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all right all right we should be expecting sort of like you know tesla

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spacex sort of style design cues so um hopefully the glass is

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invincible and uh it's very flat we got what looks like

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a stand here wow they actually ship everything

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pre-plugged in i guess it's like uh idiot proofing so we won't have any

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problems there i think this is the sort of wi-fi box oh

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there's a reset button on the bottom looks like the input and auxiliary

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i'm not sure if you can run two starlinks or maybe

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you can hook up your other backup internet connection to that

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i don't know or it might even just be

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like an out port if you like have a computer you want to hardwire into this

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we'll see if there's some more documentation that can tell us about that

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oh man actually you know what i don't like that everything's pretty plugged in

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this is a mess we got our satellite box here oh look

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they carefully color-coded them so you really can't screw this up

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all right what does it say on here starlink power supply

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ac adapter PoE injector oh cool so this operates over PoE

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yeah because i guess there's no power connection for this wi-fi box so this

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must be powered by PoE and then the actual star link itself is

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also just connected with like you know standard Ethernet cable so this

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is total 180 watts on this whole thing pretty

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beefy little guy there okay get that

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put right there pay for our wi-fi box there

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plug the white into the white

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oh man i guess with the

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understanding that you're going to put this on the roof you've got a lot of

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cable i don't even want to unwind this but this is probably like

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50 100 feet at least good

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it doesn't look like this is 100 meters which is usually the max you can go for

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like cat6a but uh it's definitely a bit

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and we get the fun part the holy crap

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that dish is huge

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oh that's heavy too

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wow that is very anti-climactic

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it's sort of like a soft fabric material

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it's probably radio signal transparent i imagine this

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is actually sort of a dish on the inside rather than just being flat

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and then we've got the mount which i believe is

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motorized so we can't really tilt it ourselves

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and we just stick it in there

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and bam video done seal it product description

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it's good to minus 30 celsius or plus 40

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celsius that's pretty good power supply and router restricted to indoor use only okay so you'd want to

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have these two boxes on the inside you can't

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mount them outside and then you run your your big old black

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cable out there cool let's plug it in look we got some

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lights and another light wow and addition it's not moving okay

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let me get the starling cap whoa it's probably gonna be confused

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because we're not outside i bet you can actually pop this dish off the stand like i mentioned before

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there is a lot of differences between starlink and traditional satellite

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internet most of the 2000-ish telecom satellites

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that currently orbit the earth operated around 22 000 miles above the

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earth's surface these satellites actually orbit so high that they're rotating around the same

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speed as the earth and they're considered geostationary meaning that they service the same area

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at the same time always if you thought 2000 was a lot

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well you got something else coming for you because spacex hopes to launch around 42

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000 of their starling satellites with around a thousand currently in orbit and

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operation for the beta period what sets starlink apart is their satellites

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operate within low earth orbit at around 340 miles above

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the earth's surface that is way lower than 22 000 at least

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by my calculations at this altitude a starling satellite can complete a

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full orbit of the earth in around one and a half to two hours which allows

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them to service multiple different areas at the same time and you're never really going to have

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the same starling satellite in the same position all of this contributes to starlink's main advantage which is

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latency expected during the beta period to only be about 30 to 40 milliseconds

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you could totally play video games on that traditional satellite providers companies like hughesnet or exede

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average around 700 milliseconds of latency according to speed test

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intelligence i wouldn't want to be gaming on that the starlink team is even advertising

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that they expect the latency of a device like this to be around 16 to 19

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milliseconds just by this summer that's that's better than some cable

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internet oh it's getting warm whoa we should probably take this thing

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outside before it starts yelling at us for locking it in this concrete dungeon but

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check the link in the description to learn more oh man there's a lot of obstructions out here so this might not

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actually be ideal but we're gonna try it the dish has been doing sort of

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some adjusting and i think that's what it's supposed to do but we're gonna go in the starlight gap and start the setup

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at least um says plug everything in we've already done that okay i need to sign into the

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network so we've made our own wi-fi name and password that's good oh it says it's

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connected it says we have internet although my phone still has the lte thing in the top corner so

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that's a little weird it says it's got good connection though the crown link is

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still collecting data on obstructions this usually takes about 24 hours check for obstructions

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so we have like a sort of ar thing

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where it shows you where not to

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put it i don't really know how i could use this information it's just sort of

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like a black thing all the way around installer it's

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nothing but sky and view i guess you're supposed to sort of put

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it at the angle the starlink is i'm just gonna lay it at

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the same angle okay well it says it's not necessarily

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ideal but supposedly you need 24 hours to

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check for obstructions but it works i have internet i'm not going

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to show you guys the speed test because we're actually going to test this thing out on LTT and give a better

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explanation of the technology behind it and their satellites and all that cool

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stuff but for now it's pretty damn cool

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apparently our latency to the fortnite oregon server is 37 milliseconds

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it feels like i'm just on cellular maybe maybe better than cellular actually

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since we're not showing you guys speed tests or latency just yet stay tuned for

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the full LTT video for that we figured we'd load up a LTT video and

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just see if it plays so i've got our latest fiber adventure video playing

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1080p and 20 40 kilometers is typically working

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fine and requires much more expense it doesn't look like there's a 4k

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choice but this means that for our application that's pretty damn

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impressive we could use single mode but that would

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be really expensive and kind of stupid it looks like it's

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almost struggling just a little bit it's not pre-loading too much but

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it's playing without buffering so that's a pass in my books

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i guess it's safe to say that this could be a serious game changer for anybody

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that's out in the boonies on a mountain even if you have like an rv with a generator you

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could stick this thing in the back and when you get where you're going plop it on

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top and you've got full internet access currently during the beta our unit is actually location

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locked they split the continent up into little cells that are like 15 or so kilometers wide

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that it only sort of works there and that's where your starlink is assigned but in

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the future there are plans to allow full mobility of these things so man i

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just can't wait to see what the future brings so thanks for watching guys if you like

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