wow it's really like proactive about getting lined up again
many of us in urban areas take something for granted
what is that you may ask well high speed
low latency internet but if you're not those people say
you live in the mountains somewhere or out in the boonies you might be stuck
with something else and that's called satellite internet and that might be your only
option if you've spoken to any of those people or are one of those people
you'll probably know that satellite internet is generally kind of dog
you're probably gonna contend with hundreds of milliseconds of latency
and generally really slow speeds not to mention that many of these providers
might implement data caps say only two or three hundred gigabytes
if you could even hope to download that much in a month given how slow the speeds can be and for
those who don't know or don't care to know latency is a measurement of time and in this context
we're measuring how long it takes for a signal to go from here
all the way up to the satellite and to come back fortunately our friends over
at spacex and daddy elon have invented some
fantastic new technology called starlink
it's like satellite internet except way freaking better
let's check it out
this is a pretty big box like there we go macbook for scale
we got some instructions right off the bat
i'm guessing that icon means download something on your phone
put it outside make sure it's sunny i
don't think that actually matters and then go back inside run the internet
cable into the box and plug the box in plug the box into
the other box connect to the internet there's nothing
on the back hopefully that's enough instructions for us ooh
all right all right we should be expecting sort of like you know tesla
spacex sort of style design cues so um hopefully the glass is
invincible and uh it's very flat we got what looks like
a stand here wow they actually ship everything
pre-plugged in i guess it's like uh idiot proofing so we won't have any
problems there i think this is the sort of wi-fi box oh
there's a reset button on the bottom looks like the input and auxiliary
i'm not sure if you can run two starlinks or maybe
you can hook up your other backup internet connection to that
i don't know or it might even just be
like an out port if you like have a computer you want to hardwire into this
we'll see if there's some more documentation that can tell us about that
oh man actually you know what i don't like that everything's pretty plugged in
this is a mess we got our satellite box here oh look
they carefully color-coded them so you really can't screw this up
all right what does it say on here starlink power supply
ac adapter PoE injector oh cool so this operates over PoE
yeah because i guess there's no power connection for this wi-fi box so this
must be powered by PoE and then the actual star link itself is
also just connected with like you know standard Ethernet cable so this
is total 180 watts on this whole thing pretty
beefy little guy there okay get that
put right there pay for our wi-fi box there
plug the white into the white
oh man i guess with the
understanding that you're going to put this on the roof you've got a lot of
cable i don't even want to unwind this but this is probably like
50 100 feet at least good
it doesn't look like this is 100 meters which is usually the max you can go for
like cat6a but uh it's definitely a bit
and we get the fun part the holy crap
that dish is huge
oh that's heavy too
wow that is very anti-climactic
it's sort of like a soft fabric material
it's probably radio signal transparent i imagine this
is actually sort of a dish on the inside rather than just being flat
and then we've got the mount which i believe is
motorized so we can't really tilt it ourselves
and we just stick it in there
and bam video done seal it product description
it's good to minus 30 celsius or plus 40
celsius that's pretty good power supply and router restricted to indoor use only okay so you'd want to
have these two boxes on the inside you can't
mount them outside and then you run your your big old black
cable out there cool let's plug it in look we got some
lights and another light wow and addition it's not moving okay
let me get the starling cap whoa it's probably gonna be confused
because we're not outside i bet you can actually pop this dish off the stand like i mentioned before
there is a lot of differences between starlink and traditional satellite
internet most of the 2000-ish telecom satellites
that currently orbit the earth operated around 22 000 miles above the
earth's surface these satellites actually orbit so high that they're rotating around the same
speed as the earth and they're considered geostationary meaning that they service the same area
at the same time always if you thought 2000 was a lot
well you got something else coming for you because spacex hopes to launch around 42
000 of their starling satellites with around a thousand currently in orbit and
operation for the beta period what sets starlink apart is their satellites
operate within low earth orbit at around 340 miles above
the earth's surface that is way lower than 22 000 at least
by my calculations at this altitude a starling satellite can complete a
full orbit of the earth in around one and a half to two hours which allows
them to service multiple different areas at the same time and you're never really going to have
the same starling satellite in the same position all of this contributes to starlink's main advantage which is
latency expected during the beta period to only be about 30 to 40 milliseconds
you could totally play video games on that traditional satellite providers companies like hughesnet or exede
average around 700 milliseconds of latency according to speed test
intelligence i wouldn't want to be gaming on that the starlink team is even advertising
that they expect the latency of a device like this to be around 16 to 19
milliseconds just by this summer that's that's better than some cable
internet oh it's getting warm whoa we should probably take this thing
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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
actually be ideal but we're gonna try it the dish has been doing sort of
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
at least um says plug everything in we've already done that okay i need to sign into the
network so we've made our own wi-fi name and password that's good oh it says it's
connected it says we have internet although my phone still has the lte thing in the top corner so
that's a little weird it says it's got good connection though the crown link is
still collecting data on obstructions this usually takes about 24 hours check for obstructions
so we have like a sort of ar thing
where it shows you where not to
put it i don't really know how i could use this information it's just sort of
like a black thing all the way around installer it's
nothing but sky and view i guess you're supposed to sort of put
it at the angle the starlink is i'm just gonna lay it at
the same angle okay well it says it's not necessarily
ideal but supposedly you need 24 hours to
check for obstructions but it works i have internet i'm not going
to show you guys the speed test because we're actually going to test this thing out on LTT and give a better
explanation of the technology behind it and their satellites and all that cool
stuff but for now it's pretty damn cool
apparently our latency to the fortnite oregon server is 37 milliseconds
it feels like i'm just on cellular maybe maybe better than cellular actually
since we're not showing you guys speed tests or latency just yet stay tuned for
the full LTT video for that we figured we'd load up a LTT video and
just see if it plays so i've got our latest fiber adventure video playing
1080p and 20 40 kilometers is typically working
fine and requires much more expense it doesn't look like there's a 4k
choice but this means that for our application that's pretty damn
impressive we could use single mode but that would
be really expensive and kind of stupid it looks like it's
almost struggling just a little bit it's not pre-loading too much but
it's playing without buffering so that's a pass in my books
i guess it's safe to say that this could be a serious game changer for anybody
that's out in the boonies on a mountain even if you have like an rv with a generator you
could stick this thing in the back and when you get where you're going plop it on
top and you've got full internet access currently during the beta our unit is actually location
locked they split the continent up into little cells that are like 15 or so kilometers wide
that it only sort of works there and that's where your starlink is assigned but in
the future there are plans to allow full mobility of these things so man i
just can't wait to see what the future brings so thanks for watching guys if you like
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